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Place dossier plate
SheetFL-NEWBERRY-FL · Newberry, FL 7,608 pop · income 78th pct · 5 tracts
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 Newberry
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Newberry on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Arcadia · lowest
38,388
Arcadia · lowest
38,388 median HH income
24.4% of the leader · rank #1
Hamilton · near
100,503
Hamilton · near
100,503 median HH income
63.9% of the leader · rank #2
East Dennis · near
100,504
East Dennis · near
100,504 median HH income
63.9% of the leader · rank #3
Newberry · this city
100,513
Newberry · this city
100,513 median HH income
63.9% of the leader · rank #4
Juneau · near
100,513
Juneau · near
100,513 median HH income
63.9% of the leader · rank #5
El Jebel · near
100,518
El Jebel · near
100,518 median HH income
63.9% of the leader · rank #6
Southwest Ran… · highest
157,390
Southwest Ran… · highest
157,390 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 Newberry 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: 7,608.
Newberry ranks in the 78th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
78th
percentile, household income
59th
percentile, home value
73rd
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: Newberry, FL
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 7,608 residents in Newberry, a small town within Florida. Median household income here is $100,513 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.0%. Typical homes in Newberry are valued around $268,800, and the median resident age is 34.4 years. About 34.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 61.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 192 residential building permits were authorized in Newberry (Building Boom), up 131% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data.
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Florida scores 103.4 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,526 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Florida run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 75.7 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Newberry'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 population change to schools and households to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Newberry, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is Newberry growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,241 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +16.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 192 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
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.
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 34.5% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Newberry?
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 Florida, the closest population matches are Beacon Square (7,643 residents, $52,598 income); Arcadia (7,571 residents, $38,388 income); Dade City (7,570 residents, $63,041 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Albion, MI (7,608 residents); Kenton, OH (7,607 residents); Port Jefferson Station, NY (7,605 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.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Newberry?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.4%. 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.
Drive alone
75.4%
Work from home
10.2%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 3,509 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Newberry?
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 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.7×
Home value
$268,800
Household income
$100,513
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
C+
City profile score · Newberry, FL
61/100
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 B+
$100,513
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B
4.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B-
34.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living F
103.4 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).
Newberry profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 77/100 (B+) · $100,513
Poverty rate: 72/100 (B) · 4.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 66/100 (B-) · 34.5%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does Newberry compare to other US cities?
Newberry measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income78% higher than other cities
Home value59% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% 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 Newberry against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Florida only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Florida-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Newberry near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Newberry ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Newberry only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#149 of 903
83rd percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#520 of 894
42nd percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#696 of 930
24th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#335 of 930
64th percentile in Florida
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 Florida only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
78th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Newberry's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$268,80041st percentilemore affordable than 41% 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
Newberry's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,892 of 15,516
More affordable than 68% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,309 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.7×, Newberry sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,892 of 15,516 and #4,309 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
$100,513Newberry, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Newberry, FL median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Newberry, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,608
Median Income
$100,513
Median Home Value
$268,800
Median Age
34.4
Poverty Rate
4.0%
Labor force participation
61.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.5%
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Newberry's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
7,377 residents
2021
7,575 residents
2022
7,850 residents
2023
8,030 residents
2024
8,226 residents
2025
8,618 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
192
housing units authorized
Single-Family
192
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
25.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
83
83
0
$26.0M
2020
105
105
0
$32.9M
2021
121
121
0
$37.9M
2022
108
108
0
$33.8M
2023
100
100
0
$31.3M
2024
192
192
0
$74.3M
Permit volume increased 131% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.4%
Carpool
12.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
10.2%
Other
1.0%
Based on 3,509 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Florida statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Florida at $225 (electricity about $145 , water and sewer about $55 ).
These are Florida statewide averages, not a meter reading for Newberry. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Florida's BEA cost-of-living index is 103.4 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Newberry is $1,526/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Florida statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 75.7 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Florida statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Newberry sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Newberry compares to similar-size Florida 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, 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.