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SheetKS-PITTSBURG-KS · Pittsburg, KS 20,606 pop · income 8th pct · 12 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 Pittsburg
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Pittsburg on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Kansas · lowest
40,208
Kansas · lowest
40,208 median HH income
37.3% of the leader · rank #1
Pittsburg · this city
40,220
Pittsburg · this city
40,220 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #2
Altamont · near
40,221
Altamont · near
40,221 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #3
Cantua Creek · near
40,222
Cantua Creek · near
40,222 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #4
Roy · near
40,227
Roy · near
40,227 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #5
East Pittsbur… · near
40,227
East Pittsbur… · near
40,227 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #6
Prairie · highest
107,664
Prairie · highest
107,664 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 Pittsburg 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: 20,606.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Pittsburg - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Pittsburg places in the 8th percentile for household income and the 8th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
8th
percentile, household income
13th
percentile, home value
6th
percentile, median rent
8th
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: Pittsburg, KS
Kansas's Pittsburg is a small city, with 20,606 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Pittsburg report a median income of $40,220 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 22.3%. Home values in Pittsburg run a median of $110,800, and the median resident age is 26.0 years. 33.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 62.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 23 residential building permits were authorized in Pittsburg (Stable), down 4% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Pittsburg's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 3860.2 crimes per 100,000 residents, above the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 57.5°F with 47.9 inches of precipitation per year and 9.5 inches of snowfall.
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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $947 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Kansas's average monthly utility costs around $217 (state average). The average commute for Pittsburg workers runs 14.0 minutes, with 77.5% driving alone and 5.1% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 29.9 out of 100 (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Pittsburg'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 housing and income to work and mobility to reported crime to schools and households to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Pittsburg, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Is Pittsburg growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -72 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 23 housing units authorized in 2024. 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Pittsburg?
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 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 22.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can 12 Census tracts reveal inside Pittsburg?
PlainCities matches 12 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Pittsburg?
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 Kansas, the closest population matches are Hays (21,078 residents, $56,861 income); Liberal (19,107 residents, $61,875 income); Junction City (22,431 residents, $60,317 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bethany, OK (20,606 residents); Pleasantville, NJ (20,604 residents); Arlington, WA (20,599 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Pittsburg?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 14.0 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
77.5%
Work from home
5.1%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 10,018 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Pittsburg?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3860.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 69% 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
3860.2
Violent rate
366.5
Property rate
3493.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Pittsburg?
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 6 public schools within the city match. 33.9% 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
22.3%
Bachelor's degree+
33.9%
Matched public schools
6
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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 57.5°F, with 47.9 inches of precipitation and 9.5 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Kansas is 29.9 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
29.9
Annual precipitation
47.9 in
Mean temperature
57.5°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 22.3% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.1 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Kansas average
F
City profile score · Pittsburg, KS
35/100
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.
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-
33.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
367 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
22.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$40,220
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Pittsburg profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 85/100 (A) · 90.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 65/100 (B-) · 33.9%
Violent crime: 24/100 (F) · 367 /100k
Poverty rate: 9/100 (F) · 22.3%
Household income: 7/100 (F) · $40,220
Where Pittsburg sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Pittsburg'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 - Pittsburg highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Pittsburg, KS (this city): home $110,800, crime 3,860/100k
Bethany, OK : home $161,500, crime 1,741/100k
Pleasantville, NJ : home $177,700, crime 1,877/100k
Arlington, WA : home $492,600, crime 2,559/100k
Parma Heights, OH : home $165,800, crime 361/100k
Shafter, CA : home $306,800, crime 1,644/100k
Altoona, IA : home $257,300, crime 2,154/100k
Hays, KS : home $220,100, crime 1,694/100k
Liberal, KS : home $134,500, crime 1,397/100k
Junction City, KS : home $162,500, crime 3,083/100k
Newton, KS : home $151,800, crime 2,287/100k
Gardner, KS : home $276,000, crime 1,017/100k
How does Pittsburg compare to other US cities?
Here's how Pittsburg 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 value13% pricier than other cities
Median rent6% pricier than other cities
Safety8% 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 Kansas alone, Pittsburg ranks #101 of 109 Kansas 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 Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg near the bottom of Kansas's cities
Among the 552 Kansas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Pittsburg ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Pittsburg only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#487 of 527
8th percentile in Kansas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 552
0th percentile in Kansas
Median Home Value
#209 of 527
60th percentile in Kansas
Poverty Rate
#38 of 552
93rd percentile in Kansas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#73 of 552
86th 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 · 8th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Pittsburg's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Pittsburg'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 Pittsburg's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$110,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 87% 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
Pittsburg's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,332 of 15,516
More affordable than 66% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#610 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.8×, Pittsburg sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,332 of 15,516 and #610 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$40,220Pittsburg, KS median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Pittsburg, 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 Pittsburg, KS.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)22.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
20,606
Median Income
$40,220
Median Home Value
$110,800
Median Age
26.0
Poverty Rate
22.3%
Labor force participation
62.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
33.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3860.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
366.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3493.8
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
57.5°F
Annual Precipitation
47.9"
Annual Snowfall
9.5"
Schools
Total Schools
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Pittsburg's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
20,641 residents
2021
20,624 residents
2022
20,735 residents
2023
20,610 residents
2024
20,570 residents
2025
20,569 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
23
housing units authorized
Single-Family
21
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
24
24
0
$2.9M
2020
25
23
2
$4.1M
2021
63
35
28
$14.1M
2022
55
33
22
$8.5M
2023
7
7
0
$1.2M
2024
23
21
2
$6.6M
Permit volume decreased 4% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
14.0 minutes
Drive Alone
77.5%
Carpool
11.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.6%
Work from Home
5.1%
Other
2.6%
Based on 10,018 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 Pittsburg. 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 Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Pittsburg 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, 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.