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SheetNE-BUCCANEER-BAY-NE · Buccaneer Bay, NE 1,361 pop · income 92nd pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Buccaneer Bay
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Buccaneer Bay on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Ravenna · lowest
64,844
Ravenna · lowest
64,844 median HH income
42.8% of the leader · rank #1
Cooper Landing · near
140,500
Cooper Landing · near
140,500 median HH income
92.7% of the leader · rank #2
Crossgate · near
140,500
Crossgate · near
140,500 median HH income
92.7% of the leader · rank #3
Weston · near
140,501
Weston · near
140,501 median HH income
92.7% of the leader · rank #4
Laguna Beach · near
140,508
Laguna Beach · near
140,508 median HH income
92.7% of the leader · rank #5
Buccaneer Bay · this city
140,517
Buccaneer Bay · this city
140,517 median HH income
92.7% of the leader · rank #6
Tonka Bay · highest
151,563
Tonka Bay · highest
151,563 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Buccaneer Bay on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 1,361.
Nationally, Buccaneer Bay sits in the 92nd percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
92nd
percentile, household income
67th
percentile, home value
15th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Buccaneer Bay, NE
1,361 people live in Buccaneer Bay, Nebraska - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $140,517 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. Buccaneer Bay's housing stock carries a median value of $316,000, and the median resident age is 48.4 years. About 34.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 68.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Living costs in Nebraska run below the national norm: the state registers 90.1 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,001 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $207 across Nebraska, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Buccaneer Bay workers runs 27.9 minutes, with 76.8% driving alone and 7.0% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 25.8 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Buccaneer Bay's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Buccaneer Bay, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Buccaneer Bay?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 27.9 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
How far does income reach against housing in Buccaneer Bay?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Buccaneer Bay?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Within Nebraska, the closest population matches are Ceresco (1,355 residents, $103,906 income); Shelton (1,354 residents, $75,781 income); Ravenna (1,352 residents, $64,844 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sutton-Alpine, AK (1,361 residents); Kaumakani, HI (1,361 residents); Carbondale, KS (1,361 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Top-decile income · poverty 0.0% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.1 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Nebraska average
A
City profile score · Buccaneer Bay, NE
88/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Poverty rate A+
0.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income A+
$140,517
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cost of living A
90.1 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share B-
34.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Buccaneer Bay profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) · 0.0%
Household income: 93/100 (A+) · $140,517
Cost of living: 85/100 (A) · 90.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 66/100 (B-) · 34.7%
How does Buccaneer Bay compare to other US cities?
Where Buccaneer Bay sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income92% higher than other cities
Home value67% pricier than other cities
Median rent15% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Buccaneer Bay against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Nebraska only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Nebraska-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Buccaneer Bay near the bottom of Nebraska's cities
Among the 450 Nebraska cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Buccaneer Bay ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Buccaneer Bay only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1 of 439
100th percentile in Nebraska
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 450
0th percentile in Nebraska
Median Home Value
#10 of 438
98th percentile in Nebraska
Poverty Rate
#388 of 450
0th percentile in Nebraska
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#37 of 450
92nd percentile in Nebraska
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Nebraska only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
92nd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Buccaneer Bay's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$316,00033rd percentilemore affordable than 33% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Buccaneer Bay's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,701 of 15,516
More affordable than 83% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,512 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.2×, Buccaneer Bay sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,701 of 15,516 and #2,512 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$140,517Buccaneer Bay, NE median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Buccaneer Bay, NE median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Buccaneer Bay, NE.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,361
Median Income
$140,517
Median Home Value
$316,000
Median Age
48.4
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
68.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.7%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
27.9 minutes
Drive Alone
76.8%
Carpool
16.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
7.0%
Based on 826 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Nebraska statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $207
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Nebraska at $207 (electricity about $100 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are Nebraska statewide averages, not a meter reading for Buccaneer Bay. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Nebraska's BEA cost-of-living index is 90.1 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Buccaneer Bay is $1,001/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Nebraska statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 25.8 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Nebraska statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Buccaneer Bay sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Buccaneer Bay compares to similar-size Nebraska cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.