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SheetRI-CUMBERLAND-HILL-RI · Cumberland Hill, RI 8,638 pop · income 90th 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 Cumberland Hill
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Cumberland Hill on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Aibonito zona… · lowest
18,012
Aibonito zona… · lowest
18,012 median HH income
12.1% of the leader · rank #1
Bainbridge · near
130,952
Bainbridge · near
130,952 median HH income
88.1% of the leader · rank #2
Kingsville · near
130,987
Kingsville · near
130,987 median HH income
88.1% of the leader · rank #3
Cumberland Hi… · this city
131,006
Cumberland Hi… · this city
131,006 median HH income
88.1% of the leader · rank #4
Colesville · near
131,022
Colesville · near
131,022 median HH income
88.1% of the leader · rank #5
Maple Heights… · near
131,042
Maple Heights… · near
131,042 median HH income
88.1% of the leader · rank #6
Evergreen · highest
148,665
Evergreen · highest
148,665 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 Cumberland Hill 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: 8,638.
Cumberland Hill ranks in the 90th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
90th
percentile, household income
73rd
percentile, home value
86th
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: Cumberland Hill, RI
8,638 people live in Cumberland Hill, Rhode Island - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Cumberland Hill households earn a median of $131,006 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.0%. Home values in Cumberland Hill run a median of $362,700, and the median resident age is 40.6 years. 46.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 71.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Rhode Island tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Rhode Island at 102.3 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,729 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Rhode Island run around $318, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 56.6 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Cumberland Hill'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 housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Cumberland Hill, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Cumberland Hill?
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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Cumberland Hill?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 82.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Cumberland Hill?
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 Rhode Island, the closest population matches are Greenville (8,586 residents, $94,567 income); Tiverton (8,151 residents, $91,493 income); Wakefield-Peace Dale (9,812 residents, $111,200 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Olmsted Falls, OH (8,640 residents); Livingston, MT (8,635 residents); Clarendon Hills, IL (8,642 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.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Rhode Island average
B
City profile score · Cumberland Hill, RI
72/100
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.
Household income A+
$131,006
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A
2.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A-
46.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living F
102.3 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Cumberland Hill profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 90/100 (A+) · $131,006
Poverty rate: 86/100 (A) · 2.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 81/100 (A-) · 46.8%
Cost of living: 30/100 (F) · 102.3 index
How does Cumberland Hill compare to other US cities?
Cumberland Hill measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income90% higher than other cities
Home value73% pricier than other cities
Median rent86% 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 Cumberland Hill against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Rhode Island only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Rhode Island-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Cumberland Hill near the bottom of Rhode Island's cities
Among the 36 Rhode Island cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Cumberland Hill ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Cumberland Hill only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1 of 33
97th percentile in Rhode Island
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 36
0th percentile in Rhode Island
Median Home Value
#18 of 35
49th percentile in Rhode Island
Poverty Rate
#22 of 36
39th percentile in Rhode Island
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#12 of 36
67th percentile in Rhode Island
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 Rhode Island only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
90th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Cumberland Hill's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$362,70027th percentilemore affordable than 27% 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,405 of 15,516
More affordable than 65% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,707 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.8×, Cumberland Hill sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,405 of 15,516 and #4,707 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
$131,006Cumberland Hill, RI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Cumberland Hill, RI median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Cumberland Hill, RI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)46.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)71.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,638
Median Income
$131,006
Median Home Value
$362,700
Median Age
40.6
Poverty Rate
2.0%
Labor force participation
71.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
46.8%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
82.6%
Carpool
7.4%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
8.8%
Other
0.9%
Based on 5,183 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Rhode Island statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $318
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Rhode Island at $318 (electricity about $155 , water and sewer about $58 ).
These are Rhode Island statewide averages, not a meter reading for Cumberland Hill. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Rhode Island's BEA cost-of-living index is 102.3 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Cumberland Hill is $1,729/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Rhode Island statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 56.6 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Rhode Island statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Cumberland Hill sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Cumberland Hill compares to similar-size Rhode Island 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.