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Place dossier plate
SheetIA-KEOKUK-IA · Keokuk, IA 9,748 pop · income 18th 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 Keokuk
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Keokuk on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Washington · lowest
41,723
Washington · lowest
41,723 median HH income
27.0% of the leader · rank #1
Brazil · near
49,331
Brazil · near
49,331 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #2
Crow Agency · near
49,333
Crow Agency · near
49,333 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #3
Monte Vista · near
49,339
Monte Vista · near
49,339 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #4
Keokuk · this city
49,340
Keokuk · this city
49,340 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #5
Astoria · near
49,345
Astoria · near
49,345 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #6
Mount Airy · highest
154,514
Mount Airy · highest
154,514 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 Keokuk 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: 9,748.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Keokuk - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Keokuk lands in the 18th percentile for household income and the 35th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
18th
percentile, household income
7th
percentile, home value
11th
percentile, median rent
35th
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: Keokuk, IA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 9,748 residents in Keokuk, a small town within Iowa. The typical household in Keokuk brings in $49,340 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 13.0%. Keokuk's housing stock carries a median value of $93,700, and the median resident age is 40.3 years. Educational attainment runs 17.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 53.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 44 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Low Activity). Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1873.9 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Iowa run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Iowa scores 87.8 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $989 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $212 across Iowa, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 39.7 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Keokuk'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 population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Keokuk, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
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.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Keokuk?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 85.1%. 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. 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -375 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 44 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 downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Keokuk?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1873.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 18% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Keokuk?
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.
Within Iowa, the closest population matches are Grinnell (9,527 residents, $64,426 income); Fairfield (9,438 residents, $48,302 income); Fort Madison (10,221 residents, $49,359 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Mount Airy, MD (9,746 residents); Fairview, TN (9,751 residents); Fultondale, AL (9,753 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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Keokuk?
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 5 public schools within the city match. 17.4% 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.
Poverty estimate
13.0%
Bachelor's degree+
17.4%
Matched public schools
5
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Keokuk?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 1.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 13.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
1.9×
Home value
$93,700
Household income
$49,340
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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+
87.8 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 F
288 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
13.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$49,340
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Keokuk profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Violent crime: 35/100 (F) · 288 /100k
Poverty rate: 28/100 (F) · 13.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 27/100 (F) · 17.4%
Household income: 19/100 (F) · $49,340
Where Keokuk sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Keokuk'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 - Keokuk highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Keokuk, IA (this city): home $93,700, crime 1,874/100k
Mount Airy, MD : home $474,800, crime 1,345/100k
Fairview, TN : home $354,900, crime 591/100k
Fultondale, AL : home $181,900, crime 3,011/100k
Washington, NC : home $193,800, crime 3,900/100k
Mahomet, IL : home $293,200, crime 437/100k
Morrisville, PA : home $275,100, crime 3,328/100k
Grinnell, IA : home $191,700, crime 1,407/100k
Fairfield, IA : home $152,900, crime 627/100k
Fort Madison, IA : home $95,900, crime 1,987/100k
Carroll, IA : home $184,100, crime 1,018/100k
Mount Pleasant, IA : home $145,600, crime 1,111/100k
Waverly, IA : home $215,200, crime 1,027/100k
How does Keokuk compare to other US cities?
Keokuk measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income18% higher than other cities
Home value7% pricier than other cities
Median rent11% pricier than other cities
Safety35% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Iowa and the picture shifts: Keokuk ranks #111 of 141 Iowa cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Keokuk against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Iowa only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Iowa-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Keokuk near the bottom of Iowa's cities
Among the 858 Iowa cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Keokuk ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Keokuk only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#760 of 845
10th percentile in Iowa
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 858
0th percentile in Iowa
Median Home Value
#584 of 849
31st percentile in Iowa
Poverty Rate
#128 of 858
85th percentile in Iowa
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#453 of 858
47th percentile in Iowa
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 Iowa only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
18th percentile nationally for median household income · 35th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Keokuk's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Keokuk'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 Keokuk's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$93,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 93% 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
Keokuk's home-value-to-income ratio: 1.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#1,303 of 15,516
More affordable than 92% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,257 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 1.9×, Keokuk sits in the affordable band:
national rank #1,303 of 15,516 and #1,257 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
$49,340Keokuk, IA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Keokuk, IA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Keokuk, IA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)13.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,748
Median Income
$49,340
Median Home Value
$93,700
Median Age
40.3
Poverty Rate
13.0%
Labor force participation
53.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1873.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
287.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1586.5
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
Keokuk's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,885 residents
2021
9,780 residents
2022
9,579 residents
2023
9,513 residents
2024
9,516 residents
2025
9,510 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Low Activity
Total Permits (2024)
44
housing units authorized
Single-Family
2
detached homes
Multifamily
42
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
0
0
0
-
2020
2
2
0
$0.2M
2021
3
3
0
$0.5M
2022
1
1
0
$0.1M
2023
2
2
0
$0.3M
2024
44
2
42
$8.6M
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
85.1%
Carpool
4.7%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
1.9%
Work from Home
5.5%
Other
2.7%
Based on 4,077 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Iowa statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $212
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Iowa at $212 (electricity about $95 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are Iowa statewide averages, not a meter reading for Keokuk. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Iowa's BEA cost-of-living index is 87.8 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Keokuk is $989/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Iowa statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 39.7 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Iowa statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Keokuk sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Keokuk compares to similar-size Iowa 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.