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Place dossier plate
SheetID-ROCKFORD-BAY-ID ยท Rockford Bay, ID 308 pop ยท income 89th 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 Rockford Bay
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Rockford Bay on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
St. Charles ยท lowest
40,000
St. Charles ยท lowest
40,000 median HH income
31.8% of the leader ยท rank #1
Ko Olina ยท near
125,577
Ko Olina ยท near
125,577 median HH income
99.9% of the leader ยท rank #2
Dumont ยท near
125,585
Dumont ยท near
125,585 median HH income
99.9% of the leader ยท rank #3
West Hartford ยท near
125,616
West Hartford ยท near
125,616 median HH income
100.0% of the leader ยท rank #4
Rockford Bay ยท this city
125,625
Rockford Bay ยท this city
125,625 median HH income
100.0% of the leader ยท rank #5
Driftwood ยท near
125,667
Driftwood ยท near
125,667 median HH income
100.0% of the leader ยท rank #6
Mercerville ยท highest
125,678
Mercerville ยท highest
125,678 median HH income
100.0% of the leader ยท 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 Rockford Bay 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: 308.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Rockford Bay lands in the 89th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
89th
percentile, household income
97th
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
๐ 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: Rockford Bay, ID
308 people live in Rockford Bay, Idaho - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Rockford Bay brings in $125,625 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 12.6%. Typical homes in Rockford Bay are valued around $981,300, and the median resident age is 56.7 years. 57.1% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 38.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. Commute times here average 17.9 minutes, with 65.6% driving alone and 34.4% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Rockford Bay'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Rockford Bay, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Rockford Bay?
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 Idaho, the closest population matches are Onaway (306 residents, $73,571 income); New Meadows (311 residents, $65,250 income); Rockford (305 residents, $85,804 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bieber, CA (308 residents); Manlius, IL (308 residents); Mongo, IN (308 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Rockford Bay?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 65.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.9 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. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
How far does income reach against housing in Rockford Bay?
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 7.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 12.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
High income ยท poverty 12.6% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
95.5 (US=100)
Near national cost ยท BEA RPP 2024, Idaho average
B-
City profile score ยท Rockford Bay, ID
67/100
4 published dimensions ยท 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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
57.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A
$125,625
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop โฅ1,000); ACS.
Cost of living C+
95.5 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 โ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate F
12.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Rockford Bay profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 90/100 (A+) ยท 57.1%
Household income: 88/100 (A) ยท $125,625
Cost of living: 61/100 (C+) ยท 95.5 index
Poverty rate: 29/100 (F) ยท 12.6%
How does Rockford Bay compare to other US cities?
Rockford Bay measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income89% higher than other cities
Home value97% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% 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 Rockford Bay 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 Rockford Bay near the bottom of Idaho's cities
Among the 215 Idaho cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Rockford Bay ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Rockford Bay only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#2 of 206
99th percentile in Idaho
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 215
0th percentile in Idaho
Median Home Value
#1 of 204
100th percentile in Idaho
Poverty Rate
#57 of 215
73rd percentile in Idaho
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#7 of 215
97th 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
89th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Rockford Bay's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$981,3003rd percentilemore affordable than 3% 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 ยท 2023
Rockford Bay's home-value-to-income ratio: 7.8ร
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0ร
National rank
#14,960 of 15,516
More affordable than 4% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,976 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 7.8ร, Rockford Bay sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,960 of 15,516 and #10,976 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value รท median household income for cities with both fields and population โฅ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0โ5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$125,625Rockford Bay, ID median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Rockford Bay, 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 Rockford Bay, ID.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)57.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)12.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)38.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
308
Median Income
$125,625
Median Home Value
$981,300
Median Age
56.7
Poverty Rate
12.6%
Labor force participation
38.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
57.1%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.9 minutes
Drive Alone
65.6%
Carpool
0.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
34.4%
Based on 93 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 Rockford Bay. 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 Rockford Bay 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 Rockford Bay sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Rockford Bay 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, 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.