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SheetKS-IUKA-KS · Iuka, KS 226 pop · income 8th 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 Iuka
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Iuka on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bardolph · lowest
26,111
Bardolph · lowest
26,111 median HH income
10.4% of the leader · rank #1
Cooper · near
40,189
Cooper · near
40,189 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #2
Iuka · this city
40,192
Iuka · this city
40,192 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #3
Cornelia · near
40,192
Cornelia · near
40,192 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #4
South Carroll… · near
40,192
South Carroll… · near
40,192 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #5
Clayton · near
40,192
Clayton · near
40,192 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #6
Maryhill Esta… · highest
250,001
Maryhill Esta… · highest
250,001 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Iuka 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: 226.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Iuka lands in the 8th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
8th
percentile, household income
10th
percentile, home value
6th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Iuka, KS
Iuka is a small town in Kansas, home to 226 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Iuka brings in $40,192 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.9%. Home values in Iuka run a median of $100,000, and the median resident age is 56.5 years. Educational attainment runs 38.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 38.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Living costs in Kansas run below the national norm: the state registers 90.1 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $947 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $217 across Kansas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Iuka report an average commute of 13.4 minutes, with 81.6% driving alone and 5.3% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 29.9 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Iuka'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 population change to work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Iuka, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is Iuka growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population was unchanged by +0 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.0% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 13.4 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Iuka?
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 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Iuka?
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 Kansas, the closest population matches are Rush Center (226 residents, $76,250 income); Beattie (227 residents, $54,375 income); Geneseo (224 residents, $36,607 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Winkelman, AZ (226 residents); Peetz, CO (226 residents); Bardolph, IL (226 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.
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 A
1.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living A
90.1 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share B
38.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$40,192
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Iuka profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 86/100 (A) · 1.9%
Cost of living: 85/100 (A) · 90.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 72/100 (B) · 38.0%
Household income: 7/100 (F) · $40,192
How does Iuka compare to other US cities?
Here's how Iuka stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income8% higher than other cities
Home value10% pricier than other cities
Median rent6% 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 Iuka against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Kansas only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Kansas-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Iuka near the bottom of Kansas's cities
Among the 552 Kansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Iuka ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Iuka only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#488 of 527
7th percentile in Kansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 552
0th percentile in Kansas
Median Home Value
#240 of 527
54th percentile in Kansas
Poverty Rate
#451 of 552
18th percentile in Kansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#48 of 552
91st percentile in Kansas
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 Kansas only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
8th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Iuka's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$100,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 90% 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
Iuka's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,940 of 15,516
More affordable than 75% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,554 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.5×, Iuka sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,940 of 15,516 and #3,554 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
$40,192Iuka, KS median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Iuka, KS median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Iuka, KS.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)38.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)38.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
226
Median Income
$40,192
Median Home Value
$100,000
Median Age
56.5
Poverty Rate
1.9%
Labor force participation
38.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
38.0%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Iuka's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
151 residents
2021
152 residents
2022
150 residents
2023
150 residents
2024
151 residents
2025
151 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
13.4 minutes
Drive Alone
81.6%
Carpool
13.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
5.3%
Based on 76 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Kansas statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $217
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Kansas at $217 (electricity about $110 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are Kansas statewide averages, not a meter reading for Iuka. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Kansas's BEA cost-of-living index is 90.1 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Iuka is $947/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Kansas statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 29.9 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Kansas statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Iuka sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Iuka compares to similar-size Kansas 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.