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Place dossier plate
SheetFL-WISCON-FL · Wiscon, FL 535 pop · income 3rd 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 Wiscon
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Wiscon on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Woodville · lowest
31,827
Woodville · lowest
31,827 median HH income
23.3% of the leader · rank #1
Sanders · near
31,838
Sanders · near
31,838 median HH income
23.3% of the leader · rank #2
Pangburn · near
31,842
Pangburn · near
31,842 median HH income
23.3% of the leader · rank #3
Wiscon · this city
31,850
Wiscon · this city
31,850 median HH income
23.3% of the leader · rank #4
McKeesport · near
31,854
McKeesport · near
31,854 median HH income
23.3% of the leader · rank #5
Orchid · highest
136,875
Orchid · highest
136,875 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Wiscon 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: 535.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Wiscon places in the 3rd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
3rd
percentile, household income
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: Wiscon, FL
535 people live in Wiscon, Florida - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Wiscon report a median income of $31,850 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 18.3%. The median resident age is 53.4 years. 5.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 67.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 103.4 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,526 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Florida, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 75.7 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Wiscon'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 comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Wiscon, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates; 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 Wiscon?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 79.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Wiscon?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Key Colony Beach (525 residents, $94,531 income); Orchid (553 residents, $136,875 income); Lake Mystic (556 residents, $58,375 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Vallecito, CA (535 residents); Lyerly, GA (535 residents); Etna Green, IN (535 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.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 18.3% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
F
City profile score · Wiscon, FL
10/100
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.
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.
Poverty rate F
18.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$31,850
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
5.0%
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).
Wiscon profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Poverty rate: 16/100 (F) · 18.3%
Household income: 0/100 (F) · $31,850
Bachelor's+ share: 0/100 (F) · 5.0%
How does Wiscon compare to other US cities?
Wiscon measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income3% higher 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 Wiscon 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 Wiscon near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Wiscon ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Wiscon only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#891 of 903
1st percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#150 of 930
84th percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#897 of 930
4th 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
3rd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$31,850Wiscon, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Wiscon, 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 Wiscon, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)5.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)18.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
535
Median Income
$31,850
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
53.4
Poverty Rate
18.3%
Labor force participation
67.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
5.0%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
79.3%
Carpool
4.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
9.6%
Other
6.3%
Based on 270 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 Wiscon. 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 Wiscon 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 Wiscon sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Wiscon 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, 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.