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SheetAZ-EAST-VERDE-ESTATES-AZ · East Verde Estates, AZ 182 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 East Verde Estates
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest East Verde Estates on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Jakes Corner · lowest
43,333
Jakes Corner · lowest
43,333 median HH income
33.1% of the leader · rank #1
Montgomeryvil… · near
130,769
Montgomeryvil… · near
130,769 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
East Verde Es… · this city
130,789
East Verde Es… · this city
130,789 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #3
Fair Lakes · near
130,789
Fair Lakes · near
130,789 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Long Beach · near
130,795
Long Beach · near
130,795 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Coral Gables · near
130,803
Coral Gables · near
130,803 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Sachse · highest
130,839
Sachse · highest
130,839 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 East Verde Estates 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: 182.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, East Verde Estates lands in the 90th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
90th
percentile, household income
79th
percentile, home value
64th
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: East Verde Estates, AZ
East Verde Estates is a small town in Arizona, home to 182 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in East Verde Estates brings in $130,789 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. Typical homes in East Verde Estates are valued around $425,000, and the median resident age is 55.5 years. 11.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 52.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Arizona tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Arizona at 100.7 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,419 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $215 across Arizona, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 84.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of East Verde Estates'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For East Verde Estates, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in East Verde Estates?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.0%, 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 East Verde Estates?
Within Arizona, the closest population matches are Clacks Canyon (182 residents, $111,365 income); Wet Camp (179 residents); Shumway (178 residents, $54,705 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Paint Rock, AL (182 residents); Leipsic, DE (182 residents); Girard, GA (182 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.
What does the journey to work look like in East Verde Estates?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Working from home is the largest reported mode at 20.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Top-decile income · poverty 0.0% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.7 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Arizona average
C+
City profile score · East Verde Estates, AZ
64/100
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+
$130,789
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cost of living F
100.7 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 F
11.0%
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).
East Verde Estates profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) · 0.0%
Household income: 90/100 (A+) · $130,789
Cost of living: 37/100 (F) · 100.7 index
Bachelor's+ share: 9/100 (F) · 11.0%
How does East Verde Estates compare to other US cities?
Where East Verde Estates sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income90% higher than other cities
Home value79% pricier than other cities
Median rent64% 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 East Verde Estates against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Arizona only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Arizona-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places East Verde Estates near the bottom of Arizona's cities
Among the 394 Arizona cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, East Verde Estates ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares East Verde Estates only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#10 of 333
97th percentile in Arizona
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 394
0th percentile in Arizona
Median Home Value
#42 of 327
87th percentile in Arizona
Poverty Rate
#310 of 393
0th percentile in Arizona
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#240 of 394
39th percentile in Arizona
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 Arizona 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 East Verde Estates's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$425,00021st percentilemore affordable than 21% 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
East Verde Estates's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,912 of 15,516
More affordable than 49% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,504 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.2×, East Verde Estates sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,912 of 15,516 and #6,504 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
$130,789East Verde Estates, AZ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context East Verde Estates, AZ median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for East Verde Estates, AZ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)11.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
182
Median Income
$130,789
Median Home Value
$425,000
Median Age
55.5
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
52.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
11.0%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
5.3%
Carpool
74.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
20.0%
Based on 95 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Arizona statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $215
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Arizona at $215 (electricity about $131 , water and sewer about $50 ).
These are Arizona statewide averages, not a meter reading for East Verde Estates. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Arizona's BEA cost-of-living index is 100.7 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around East Verde Estates is $1,419/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Arizona statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 84.5 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Arizona statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county East Verde Estates sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How East Verde Estates compares to similar-size Arizona 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.