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Place dossier plate
SheetID-CHUBBUCK-ID · Chubbuck, ID 15,900 pop · income 60th pct · 10 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 Chubbuck
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Chubbuck on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Humacao zona… · lowest
21,366
Humacao zona… · lowest
21,366 median HH income
15.8% of the leader · rank #1
Aspen · near
78,636
Aspen · near
78,636 median HH income
58.1% of the leader · rank #2
Cartersville · near
78,640
Cartersville · near
78,640 median HH income
58.1% of the leader · rank #3
Chubbuck · this city
78,646
Chubbuck · this city
78,646 median HH income
58.1% of the leader · rank #4
Congerville · near
78,649
Congerville · near
78,649 median HH income
58.1% of the leader · rank #5
Mulliken · near
78,654
Mulliken · near
78,654 median HH income
58.1% of the leader · rank #6
Frederick · highest
135,316
Frederick · highest
135,316 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 Chubbuck 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: 15,900.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Chubbuck - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Chubbuck lands in the 60th percentile for household income and the 16th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
60th
percentile, household income
67th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
16th
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: Chubbuck, ID
15,900 people live in Chubbuck, Idaho - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Chubbuck brings in $78,646 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.4%. Home values in Chubbuck run a median of $313,700, and the median resident age is 35.7 years. Educational attainment runs 26.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 62.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 101 residential building permits were authorized in Chubbuck (Slowing), down 13% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Chubbuck's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2951.8 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Idaho run below the national norm: the state registers 95.5 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,173 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Idaho run around $170, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 38.5 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Chubbuck'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 within-city variation to housing and income to work and mobility to reported crime to schools and households to comparison shortlist to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Chubbuck, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can 10 Census tracts reveal inside Chubbuck?
PlainCities matches 10 Census tracts to this city.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Chubbuck?
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 4.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Chubbuck?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.1%. 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Chubbuck?
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 Idaho, the closest population matches are Hayden (16,021 residents, $77,534 income); Mountain Home (16,265 residents, $58,486 income); Ammon (18,496 residents, $84,154 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Rendon, TX (15,894 residents); Frederick, CO (15,893 residents); Humacao zona urbana, PR (15,893 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Chubbuck?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2951.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 29% higher 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.
Total reported rate
2951.8
Violent rate
265.1
Property rate
2686.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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 3 public schools within the city match. 26.0% 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
4.4%
Bachelor's degree+
26.0%
Matched public schools
3
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Chubbuck growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,146 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +7.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 101 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.
2020 estimate
15,677
2025 estimate
16,823
Period change
+7.3%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 4.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
95.5 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Idaho average
C
City profile score · Chubbuck, ID
56/100
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.
Poverty rate B-
4.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living C+
95.5 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Household income C
$78,646
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C-
26.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
265 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Chubbuck profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 69/100 (B-) · 4.4%
Cost of living: 61/100 (C+) · 95.5 index
Household income: 58/100 (C) · $78,646
Bachelor's+ share: 51/100 (C-) · 26.0%
Violent crime: 38/100 (F) · 265 /100k
Where Chubbuck sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Chubbuck'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 - Chubbuck highlighted among 27 peers.Read the chart values
Chubbuck, ID (this city): home $313,700, crime 2,952/100k
Frederick, CO : home $529,800, crime 703/100k
Red Oak, TX : home $318,200, crime 2,276/100k
Americus, GA : home $113,500, crime 5,585/100k
Mountain Home, ID : home $270,700, crime 727/100k
Jerome, ID : home $214,900, crime 806/100k
Blackfoot, ID : home $225,900, crime 1,197/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Chubbuck compare to other US cities?
Where Chubbuck sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income60% higher than other cities
Home value67% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety16% 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 Idaho, Chubbuck ranks #53 of 53 Idaho 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 Chubbuck against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Idaho only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Idaho-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Chubbuck near the bottom of Idaho's cities
Among the 215 Idaho cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Chubbuck ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Chubbuck only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#42 of 206
80th percentile in Idaho
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 215
0th percentile in Idaho
Median Home Value
#53 of 204
74th percentile in Idaho
Poverty Rate
#153 of 215
28th percentile in Idaho
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#68 of 215
68th percentile in Idaho
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 Idaho only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
60th percentile nationally for median household income · 16th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Chubbuck's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Chubbuck'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 Chubbuck's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$313,70033rd percentilemore affordable than 33% 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
Chubbuck's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,675 of 15,516
More affordable than 31% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,979 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.0×, Chubbuck sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,675 of 15,516 and #1,979 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$78,646Chubbuck, ID median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Chubbuck, ID median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Chubbuck, ID.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)26.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
15,900
Median Income
$78,646
Median Home Value
$313,700
Median Age
35.7
Poverty Rate
4.4%
Labor force participation
62.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
26.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2951.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
265.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2686.7
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
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Chubbuck's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
15,677 residents
2021
15,821 residents
2022
16,224 residents
2023
16,394 residents
2024
16,584 residents
2025
16,823 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
101
housing units authorized
Single-Family
81
detached homes
Multifamily
20
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
6.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
116
96
20
$10.7M
2020
96
91
5
$9.7M
2021
143
96
47
$14.9M
2022
106
79
27
$11.0M
2023
99
73
26
$10.2M
2024
101
81
20
$10.4M
Permit volume decreased 13% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.1%
Carpool
11.5%
Public Transit
1.8%
Walk
0.3%
Work from Home
10.4%
Other
0.9%
Based on 7,327 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Idaho statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $170
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Idaho at $170 (electricity about $80 , water and sewer about $40 ).
These are Idaho statewide averages, not a meter reading for Chubbuck. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Idaho's BEA cost-of-living index is 95.5 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Chubbuck is $1,173/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Idaho statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 38.5 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Idaho statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Chubbuck sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Chubbuck compares to similar-size Idaho 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.