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Place dossier plate
SheetAL-WETUMPKA-AL · Wetumpka, AL 7,182 pop · income 27th 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 Wetumpka
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Wetumpka on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Greenville · lowest
40,744
Greenville · lowest
40,744 median HH income
30.0% of the leader · rank #1
Lyons · near
54,940
Lyons · near
54,940 median HH income
40.5% of the leader · rank #2
Burlington · near
54,941
Burlington · near
54,941 median HH income
40.5% of the leader · rank #3
Wetumpka · this city
54,945
Wetumpka · this city
54,945 median HH income
40.5% of the leader · rank #4
La Pine · near
54,946
La Pine · near
54,946 median HH income
40.5% of the leader · rank #5
Eagle Pass · near
54,952
Eagle Pass · near
54,952 median HH income
40.5% of the leader · rank #6
Pike Creek · highest
135,703
Pike Creek · highest
135,703 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Wetumpka on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 7,182.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Wetumpka - the verdict
Wetumpka ranks in the 27th percentile for household income and the 47th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
27th
percentile, household income
38th
percentile, home value
1st
percentile, median rent
47th
percentile, safety
📝 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: Wetumpka, AL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 7,182 residents in Wetumpka, a small town within Alabama. Median household income here is $54,945 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.4%. Wetumpka's housing stock carries a median value of $184,100, and the median resident age is 35.2 years. About 21.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 52.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 7 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 71% from five years earlier. Wetumpka reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1476.1 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Alabama run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Alabama at 88.8 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $936 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Alabama run around $245, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Wetumpka workers runs 25.0 minutes, with 90.8% driving alone and 6.9% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 61.5 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Wetumpka'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 to population change to reported crime to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Wetumpka, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Wetumpka?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 90.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 25.0 minutes.
How far does income reach against housing in Wetumpka?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Wetumpka?
Within Alabama, the closest population matches are Greenville (7,229 residents, $40,744 income); Lincoln (7,135 residents, $60,793 income); Demopolis (7,010 residents, $41,457 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Gonzales, TX (7,180 residents); Mead, WA (7,184 residents); Pike Creek, DE (7,185 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.
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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Is Wetumpka growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +221 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 7 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Wetumpka?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1476.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 35% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1310.5
Violent rate
165.5
Total reported rate
1476.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 21.5% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Matched public schools
5
Bachelor's degree+
21.5%
Poverty estimate
7.4%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 7.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
88.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Alabama average
C-
City profile score · Wetumpka, AL
52/100
5 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.
Cost of living A+
88.8 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 C
166 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C-
7.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
21.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$54,945
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Wetumpka profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 90/100 (A+) · 88.8 index
Violent crime: 55/100 (C) · 166 /100k
Poverty rate: 50/100 (C-) · 7.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 39/100 (F) · 21.5%
Household income: 27/100 (F) · $54,945
Where Wetumpka sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Wetumpka's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Wetumpka highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Wetumpka, AL (this city): home $184,100, crime 1,476/100k
Gonzales, TX : home $184,600, crime 3,384/100k
Hiawatha, IA : home $210,200, crime 1,342/100k
Greenville, AL : home $117,800, crime 4,420/100k
Lincoln, AL : home $181,900, crime 2,667/100k
Demopolis, AL : home $198,900, crime 3,683/100k
Robertsdale, AL : home $198,200, crime 2,912/100k
Oneonta, AL : home $195,600, crime 3,465/100k
Montevallo, AL : home $210,400, crime 1,130/100k
How does Wetumpka compare to other US cities?
Here's how Wetumpka stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income27% higher than other cities
Home value38% pricier than other cities
Median rent1% pricier than other cities
Safety47% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Alabama, Wetumpka ranks #84 of 222 Alabama cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Wetumpka against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Alabama only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Alabama-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Wetumpka near the bottom of Alabama's cities
Among the 556 Alabama cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Wetumpka ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Wetumpka only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#249 of 530
53rd percentile in Alabama
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 556
0th percentile in Alabama
Median Home Value
#151 of 517
71st percentile in Alabama
Poverty Rate
#383 of 556
30th percentile in Alabama
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#168 of 556
70th percentile in Alabama
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 Alabama only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
27th percentile nationally for median household income · 47th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Wetumpka's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Wetumpka's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Wetumpka's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$184,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 62% 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
Wetumpka's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,341 of 15,516
More affordable than 46% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,800 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.4×, Wetumpka sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,341 of 15,516 and #6,800 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$54,945Wetumpka, AL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Wetumpka, AL median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Wetumpka, AL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,182
Median Income
$54,945
Median Home Value
$184,100
Median Age
35.2
Poverty Rate
7.4%
Labor force participation
52.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1476.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
165.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1310.5
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Wetumpka's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
7,314 residents
2021
7,293 residents
2022
7,534 residents
2023
7,395 residents
2024
7,660 residents
2025
7,535 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
7
housing units authorized
Single-Family
7
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
24
24
0
$2.5M
2020
36
36
0
$3.8M
2021
26
26
0
$3.1M
2022
15
15
0
$2.0M
2023
10
10
0
$1.7M
2024
7
7
0
$2.5M
Permit volume decreased 71% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
25.0 minutes
Drive Alone
90.8%
Carpool
2.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
6.9%
Based on 2,826 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Alabama statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $245
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Alabama at $245 (electricity about $138 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Alabama statewide averages, not a meter reading for Wetumpka. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Alabama's BEA cost-of-living index is 88.8 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Wetumpka is $936/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Alabama statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 61.5 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Alabama statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Wetumpka sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Wetumpka compares to similar-size Alabama 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, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, 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.