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SheetID-WEISER-ID · Weiser, ID 5,803 pop · income 13th pct · 3 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 Weiser
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Weiser on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Columbia · lowest
34,328
Columbia · lowest
34,328 median HH income
29.7% of the leader · rank #1
Folkston · near
45,453
Folkston · near
45,453 median HH income
39.3% of the leader · rank #2
Frederick · near
45,459
Frederick · near
45,459 median HH income
39.3% of the leader · rank #3
Weiser · this city
45,463
Weiser · this city
45,463 median HH income
39.3% of the leader · rank #4
Freeport · near
45,464
Freeport · near
45,464 median HH income
39.3% of the leader · rank #5
Springport · near
45,469
Springport · near
45,469 median HH income
39.3% of the leader · rank #6
South Hooksett · highest
115,592
South Hooksett · highest
115,592 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 Weiser 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: 5,803.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Weiser - the verdict
Weiser ranks in the 13th percentile for household income and the 96th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
13th
percentile, household income
42nd
percentile, home value
51st
percentile, median rent
96th
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: Weiser, ID
Idaho's Weiser is a small town, with 5,803 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $45,463 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 14.4%. Home values in Weiser run a median of $196,200, and the median resident age is 37.8 years. About 14.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 45.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 137 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 706% from five years earlier. Weiser reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 177.6 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 52.3°F with 13.4 inches of precipitation per year.
Living costs in Idaho run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Idaho scores 95.5 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,173 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $170 across Idaho, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 38.5 out of 100 (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Weiser'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 climate and hazard context to work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist to reported crime to population change to schools and households to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Weiser, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Weiser?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 52.3°F, with 13.4 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Idaho is 38.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
What does the journey to work look like in Weiser?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.1%. 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 Weiser?
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 Preston (5,800 residents, $55,625 income); Rupert (6,157 residents, $54,444 income); Rigby (5,251 residents, $78,278 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Columbia, MS (5,804 residents); Patterson, LA (5,801 residents); Ephraim, UT (5,805 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.
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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Weiser?
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 4.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 14.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.3×
Home value
$196,200
Household income
$45,463
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Weiser?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 177.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 92% 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
177.6
Violent rate
129.2
Property rate
48.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +594 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +10.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 137 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
5,655
2025 estimate
6,249
Period change
+10.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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. 14.4% 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
14.4%
Bachelor's degree+
14.4%
Matched public schools
5
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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 C+
129 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Poverty rate F
14.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
14.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$45,463
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Weiser profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 64/100 (C+) · 129 /100k
Cost of living: 61/100 (C+) · 95.5 index
Poverty rate: 24/100 (F) · 14.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 18/100 (F) · 14.4%
Household income: 14/100 (F) · $45,463
Where Weiser sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Weiser'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 - Weiser highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Weiser, ID (this city): home $196,200, crime 178/100k
Patterson, LA : home $137,200, crime 811/100k
Ephraim, UT : home $405,600, crime 573/100k
Preston, ID : home $280,500, crime 446/100k
Rupert, ID : home $182,500, crime 1,391/100k
Rigby, ID : home $267,200, crime 1,355/100k
Fruitland, ID : home $286,300, crime 643/100k
Shelley, ID : home $267,200, crime 1,093/100k
Kimberly, ID : home $289,500, crime 409/100k
How does Weiser compare to other US cities?
Where Weiser sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income13% higher than other cities
Home value42% pricier than other cities
Median rent51% pricier than other cities
Safety96% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Idaho and the picture shifts: Weiser ranks #1 of 53 Idaho cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Weiser 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 Weiser near the bottom of Idaho's cities
Among the 215 Idaho cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Weiser ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Weiser only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#180 of 206
13th percentile in Idaho
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 215
0th percentile in Idaho
Median Home Value
#147 of 204
28th percentile in Idaho
Poverty Rate
#42 of 215
80th percentile in Idaho
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#145 of 215
33rd 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
13th percentile nationally for median household income · 96th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Weiser's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Weiser'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 Weiser's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$196,200Among the most affordablemore affordable than 58% 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
Weiser's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,568 of 15,516
More affordable than 25% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,913 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.3×, Weiser sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,568 of 15,516 and #8,913 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$45,463Weiser, ID median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Weiser, 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 Weiser, ID.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)14.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)14.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)45.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,803
Median Income
$45,463
Median Home Value
$196,200
Median Age
37.8
Poverty Rate
14.4%
Labor force participation
45.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
14.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
177.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
129.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
48.4
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
52.3°F
Annual Precipitation
13.4"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
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
Weiser's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,655 residents
2021
5,825 residents
2022
5,957 residents
2023
6,092 residents
2024
6,081 residents
2025
6,249 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
137
housing units authorized
Single-Family
137
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
23.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
17
13
4
$1.9M
2020
16
16
0
$1.5M
2021
24
24
0
$2.3M
2022
15
15
0
$1.4M
2023
23
19
4
$2.2M
2024
137
137
0
$6.6M
Permit volume increased 706% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
72.1%
Carpool
14.7%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
5.2%
Work from Home
3.2%
Other
4.5%
Based on 2,094 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 Weiser. 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 Weiser 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 Weiser sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Weiser 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.