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SheetKY-BRECKINRIDGE-CENTER-KY · Breckinridge Center, KY 1,592 pop · income 39th 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 Breckinridge Center
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Breckinridge Center on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
South Shore · lowest
29,000
South Shore · lowest
29,000 median HH income
24.1% of the leader · rank #1
Belmont · near
62,266
Belmont · near
62,266 median HH income
51.7% of the leader · rank #2
Ellwood City · near
62,266
Ellwood City · near
62,266 median HH income
51.7% of the leader · rank #3
Breckinridge… · this city
62,269
Breckinridge… · this city
62,269 median HH income
51.7% of the leader · rank #4
Algoma · near
62,269
Algoma · near
62,269 median HH income
51.7% of the leader · rank #5
Livermore · near
62,273
Livermore · near
62,273 median HH income
51.7% of the leader · rank #6
Naval Academy · highest
120,347
Naval Academy · highest
120,347 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 Breckinridge Center 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: 1,592.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Breckinridge Center lands in the 39th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
39th
percentile, household income
10th
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: Breckinridge Center, KY
Kentucky's Breckinridge Center is a small town, with 1,592 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $62,269 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 19.4%. The median resident age is 22.7 years. Educational attainment runs 5.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 38.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Living costs in Kentucky run below the national norm: the state registers 90.2 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 $984 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Kentucky, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 44.2 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Breckinridge Center'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 work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Breckinridge Center, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Breckinridge Center?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 62.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Breckinridge Center?
Within Kentucky, the closest population matches are Owenton (1,600 residents, $52,121 income); Jenkins (1,569 residents, $34,400 income); Taylorsville (1,566 residents, $41,917 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Somonauk, IL (1,592 residents); Naval Academy, MD (1,592 residents); Elgin, OR (1,592 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.
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.
Below median income · poverty 19.4% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.2 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Kentucky average
F
City profile score · Breckinridge Center, KY
37/100
4 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
90.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Household income F
$62,269
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
19.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
5.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Breckinridge Center profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 85/100 (A) · 90.2 index
Household income: 38/100 (F) · $62,269
Poverty rate: 14/100 (F) · 19.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 0/100 (F) · 5.6%
How does Breckinridge Center compare to other US cities?
Here's how Breckinridge Center stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income39% higher than other cities
Median rent10% 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 Breckinridge Center against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Kentucky only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Kentucky-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Breckinridge Center near the bottom of Kentucky's cities
Among the 520 Kentucky cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Breckinridge Center ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Breckinridge Center only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#195 of 485
60th percentile in Kentucky
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 520
0th percentile in Kentucky
Poverty Rate
#153 of 519
70th percentile in Kentucky
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#456 of 520
12th percentile in Kentucky
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 Kentucky only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
39th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$62,269Breckinridge Center, KY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Breckinridge Center, KY median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Breckinridge Center, KY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)5.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)19.4%
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
1,592
Median Income
$62,269
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
22.7
Poverty Rate
19.4%
Labor force participation
38.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
5.6%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
62.1%
Carpool
17.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
5.8%
Work from Home
1.6%
Other
13.3%
Based on 551 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Kentucky statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Kentucky at $225 (electricity about $115 , water and sewer about $40 ).
These are Kentucky statewide averages, not a meter reading for Breckinridge Center. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Kentucky's BEA cost-of-living index is 90.2 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Breckinridge Center is $984/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Kentucky statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 44.2 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Kentucky statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Breckinridge Center sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Breckinridge Center compares to similar-size Kentucky 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.