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SheetID-RATHDRUM-ID · Rathdrum, ID 10,133 pop · income 68th 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 Rathdrum
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Rathdrum on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Payette · lowest
55,455
Payette · lowest
55,455 median HH income
41.2% of the leader · rank #1
Milladore · near
86,420
Milladore · near
86,420 median HH income
64.2% of the leader · rank #2
Parkers Settl… · near
86,429
Parkers Settl… · near
86,429 median HH income
64.2% of the leader · rank #3
Rathdrum · this city
86,431
Rathdrum · this city
86,431 median HH income
64.2% of the leader · rank #4
Belmont · near
86,442
Belmont · near
86,442 median HH income
64.2% of the leader · rank #5
Fredonia · near
86,442
Fredonia · near
86,442 median HH income
64.2% of the leader · rank #6
San Diego Cou… · highest
134,639
San Diego Cou… · highest
134,639 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 Rathdrum 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: 10,133.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Rathdrum - the verdict
Rathdrum ranks in the 68th percentile for household income and the 67th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
68th
percentile, household income
76th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
67th
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: Rathdrum, ID
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 10,133 residents in Rathdrum, a small town within Idaho. The typical household in Rathdrum brings in $86,431 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.3%. Typical homes in Rathdrum are valued around $381,800, and the median resident age is 35.8 years. 23.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 66.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 244 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 105% from five years earlier. Rathdrum reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 914.4 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Idaho run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Idaho at 95.5 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). 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. The average commute for Rathdrum workers runs 23.5 minutes, with 79.1% driving alone and 7.2% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 38.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Rathdrum'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 schools and households to population change to work and mobility to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Rathdrum, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
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.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Rathdrum?
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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Rathdrum?
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 Middleton (10,101 residents, $83,681 income); Hailey (9,439 residents, $83,084 income); Sandpoint (9,244 residents, $67,769 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Trumbull Center, CT (10,137 residents); Exeter, NH (10,138 residents); Lancaster, NY (10,127 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.
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 9 public schools within the city match. 23.0% 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.
Is Rathdrum growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3,938 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +42.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 244 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.
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 Rathdrum?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 79.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 23.5 minutes.
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
79.1%
Work from home
7.2%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 5,228 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Rathdrum?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 914.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 60% 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.
Total reported rate
914.4
Violent rate
64.2
Property rate
850.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 7.3% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
95.5 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Idaho average
C+
City profile score · Rathdrum, ID
61/100
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.
Violent crime A-
64 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income B-
$86,431
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
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.
Poverty rate C-
7.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share D
23.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Rathdrum profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 80/100 (A-) · 64 /100k
Household income: 66/100 (B-) · $86,431
Cost of living: 61/100 (C+) · 95.5 index
Poverty rate: 51/100 (C-) · 7.3%
Bachelor's+ share: 43/100 (D) · 23.0%
Where Rathdrum sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Rathdrum'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 - Rathdrum highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Rathdrum, ID (this city): home $381,800, crime 914/100k
Exeter, NH : home $349,300, crime 580/100k
Clinton, TN : home $204,700, crime 2,598/100k
Hackettstown, NJ : home $337,100, crime 525/100k
Middleton, ID : home $348,900, crime 727/100k
Hailey, ID : home $574,500, crime 657/100k
Sandpoint, ID : home $449,500, crime 1,086/100k
Payette, ID : home $247,700, crime 1,286/100k
Emmett, ID : home $299,000, crime 753/100k
How does Rathdrum compare to other US cities?
Where Rathdrum sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income68% higher than other cities
Home value76% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety67% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Idaho alone, Rathdrum ranks #30 of 53 Idaho cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Rathdrum 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 Rathdrum near the bottom of Idaho's cities
Among the 215 Idaho cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Rathdrum ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Rathdrum only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#26 of 206
87th percentile in Idaho
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 215
0th percentile in Idaho
Median Home Value
#33 of 204
84th percentile in Idaho
Poverty Rate
#119 of 215
45th percentile in Idaho
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#82 of 215
62nd 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
68th percentile nationally for median household income · 67th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Rathdrum's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Rathdrum'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 Rathdrum's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$381,80024th percentilemore affordable than 24% 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
Rathdrum's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,814 of 15,516
More affordable than 24% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,298 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.4×, Rathdrum sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,814 of 15,516 and #2,298 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
$86,431Rathdrum, ID median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Rathdrum, 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 Rathdrum, ID.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,133
Median Income
$86,431
Median Home Value
$381,800
Median Age
35.8
Poverty Rate
7.3%
Labor force participation
66.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
914.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
64.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
850.2
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
9
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Rathdrum's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,289 residents
2021
10,221 residents
2022
10,641 residents
2023
11,582 residents
2024
12,614 residents
2025
13,227 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
244
housing units authorized
Single-Family
238
detached homes
Multifamily
6
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
24.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
119
119
0
$30.5M
2020
352
288
64
$81.3M
2021
211
189
22
$54.8M
2022
440
168
272
$111.9M
2023
447
249
198
$130.5M
2024
244
238
6
$86.6M
Permit volume increased 105% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
23.5 minutes
Drive Alone
79.1%
Carpool
7.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.5%
Work from Home
7.2%
Other
2.3%
Based on 5,228 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 Rathdrum. 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 Rathdrum 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 Rathdrum sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Rathdrum 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.