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Place dossier plate
SheetKY-CORBIN-KY · Corbin, KY 8,430 pop · income 22nd 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 Corbin
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Corbin on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Maysville · lowest
41,923
Maysville · lowest
41,923 median HH income
16.8% of the leader · rank #1
Corbin · this city
51,795
Corbin · this city
51,795 median HH income
20.7% of the leader · rank #2
Wahneta · near
51,795
Wahneta · near
51,795 median HH income
20.7% of the leader · rank #3
Rose Bud · near
51,797
Rose Bud · near
51,797 median HH income
20.7% of the leader · rank #4
Moran · near
51,797
Moran · near
51,797 median HH income
20.7% of the leader · rank #5
North Troy · near
51,797
North Troy · near
51,797 median HH income
20.7% of the leader · rank #6
Villanova · highest
250,001
Villanova · 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Corbin 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: 8,430.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Corbin - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Corbin places in the 22nd percentile for household income and the 53rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
22nd
percentile, household income
31st
percentile, home value
10th
percentile, median rent
53rd
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: Corbin, KY
Corbin is a small town in Kentucky, home to 8,430 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Corbin households earn a median of $51,795 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 15.9%. Corbin's housing stock carries a median value of $162,600, and the median resident age is 39.8 years. About 27.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 45.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 36 residential building permits were authorized in Corbin (Building Boom), up 300% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Corbin reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1275.0 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Kentucky run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Kentucky scores 90.2 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $984 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Kentucky run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 44.2 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Corbin'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 population change to schools and households to within-city variation to housing and income to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Corbin, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Corbin?
Within Kentucky, the closest population matches are Edgewood (8,429 residents, $121,045 income); Fort Mitchell (8,676 residents, $80,814 income); Fort Knox (8,715 residents, $74,224 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Villanova, PA (8,431 residents); Brook Highland, AL (8,428 residents); Northfield, NJ (8,427 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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
What does the journey to work look like in Corbin?
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 80.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +82 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 36 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
PlainCities matches 12 Census tracts to this city.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Corbin?
The NCES join finds 13 public schools within the city match. 27.2% 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.
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.
Matched public schools
13
Bachelor's degree+
27.2%
Poverty estimate
15.9%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Corbin?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 15.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Household income
$51,795
Home value
$162,600
Value / income
3.1×
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 Corbin?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1275.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 44% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1083.8
Violent rate
191.3
Total reported rate
1275.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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.
Bachelor's+ share C-
27.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime D
191 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$51,795
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
15.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Corbin profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 85/100 (A) · 90.2 index
Bachelor's+ share: 53/100 (C-) · 27.2%
Violent crime: 49/100 (D) · 191 /100k
Household income: 23/100 (F) · $51,795
Poverty rate: 21/100 (F) · 15.9%
Where Corbin sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Corbin'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 - Corbin highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Corbin, KY (this city): home $162,600, crime 1,275/100k
Northfield, NJ : home $275,900, crime 1,080/100k
Guadalupe, CA : home $452,100, crime 582/100k
Edgewood, KY : home $289,700, crime 477/100k
Fort Mitchell, KY : home $354,700, crime 812/100k
Hillview, KY : home $180,300, crime 1,464/100k
Maysville, KY : home $152,100, crime 2,551/100k
Oak Grove, KY : home $143,500, crime 2,768/100k
How does Corbin compare to other US cities?
Here's how Corbin stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income22% higher than other cities
Home value31% pricier than other cities
Median rent10% pricier than other cities
Safety53% 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 Kentucky alone, Corbin ranks #128 of 181 Kentucky 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 Corbin 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 Corbin near the bottom of Kentucky's cities
Among the 520 Kentucky cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Corbin ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Corbin only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#273 of 485
44th percentile in Kentucky
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 520
0th percentile in Kentucky
Median Home Value
#202 of 484
58th percentile in Kentucky
Poverty Rate
#197 of 519
62nd percentile in Kentucky
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#167 of 520
68th 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
22nd percentile nationally for median household income · 53rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Corbin's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Corbin'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 Corbin's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$162,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 69% 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
Corbin's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,392 of 15,516
More affordable than 52% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,145 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.1×, Corbin sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,392 of 15,516 and #6,145 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
$51,795Corbin, KY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Corbin, 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 Corbin, KY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)27.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)15.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)45.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,430
Median Income
$51,795
Median Home Value
$162,600
Median Age
39.8
Poverty Rate
15.9%
Labor force participation
45.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
27.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1275.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
191.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1083.8
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.
Schools
Total Schools
13
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Corbin's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
7,829 residents
2021
7,817 residents
2022
7,828 residents
2023
7,820 residents
2024
7,891 residents
2025
7,911 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
36
housing units authorized
Single-Family
14
detached homes
Multifamily
22
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
9
3
6
$0.7M
2020
7
3
4
$0.6M
2021
40
6
34
$3.4M
2022
23
5
18
$2.2M
2023
33
3
30
$3.0M
2024
36
14
22
$3.3M
Permit volume increased 300% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
80.4%
Carpool
10.8%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
6.3%
Other
1.1%
Based on 2,984 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 Corbin. 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 Corbin 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 Corbin sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Corbin 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, FBI UCR, 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.