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SheetKY-RADCLIFF-KY · Radcliff, KY 22,967 pop · income 37th 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 Radcliff
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Radcliff on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Hopewell · lowest
48,681
Hopewell · lowest
48,681 median HH income
26.9% of the leader · rank #1
Groveland · near
60,972
Groveland · near
60,972 median HH income
33.7% of the leader · rank #2
Modoc · near
60,972
Modoc · near
60,972 median HH income
33.7% of the leader · rank #3
Radcliff · this city
60,976
Radcliff · this city
60,976 median HH income
33.7% of the leader · rank #4
Lake Worth Be… · near
60,978
Lake Worth Be… · near
60,978 median HH income
33.7% of the leader · rank #5
Miami Gardens · near
60,979
Miami Gardens · near
60,979 median HH income
33.7% of the leader · rank #6
Hudson · highest
180,931
Hudson · highest
180,931 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 Radcliff 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: 22,967.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Radcliff - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Radcliff places in the 37th percentile for household income and the 28th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
37th
percentile, household income
31st
percentile, home value
10th
percentile, median rent
28th
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: Radcliff, KY
Kentucky's Radcliff is a small city, with 22,967 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Radcliff report a median income of $60,976 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.7%. Home values in Radcliff run a median of $163,300, and the median resident age is 36.0 years. Educational attainment runs 16.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 54.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 73 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 204% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2171.4 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $984 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Kentucky's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 44.2 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Radcliff'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 schools and households to work and mobility to reported crime to comparison shortlist to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Radcliff, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Radcliff?
The NCES join finds 7 public schools within the city match. 16.6% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Radcliff?
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 75.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Radcliff?
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 2171.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 5% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Radcliff?
Within Kentucky, the closest population matches are Ashland (21,405 residents, $52,199 income); Erlanger (19,677 residents, $78,420 income); Madisonville (19,442 residents, $56,902 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Stoneham, MA (22,986 residents); Hopewell, VA (22,944 residents); Prairie, KS (22,937 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.
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.
Population change
Is Radcliff growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -445 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 73 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-1.9%
2025 estimate
22,576
2020 estimate
23,021
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Radcliff?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.7%, 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
$60,976
Home value
$163,300
Value / income
2.7×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 9.7% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.2 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Kentucky average
D
City profile score · Radcliff, KY
48/100
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
90.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime C-
172 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate D
9.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$60,976
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
16.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Radcliff profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 85/100 (A) · 90.2 index
Violent crime: 53/100 (C-) · 172 /100k
Poverty rate: 41/100 (D) · 9.7%
Household income: 36/100 (F) · $60,976
Bachelor's+ share: 24/100 (F) · 16.6%
Where Radcliff sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Radcliff'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 - Radcliff highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Radcliff, KY (this city): home $163,300, crime 2,171/100k
Stoneham, MA : home $629,000, crime 764/100k
Hopewell, VA : home $165,100, crime 2,421/100k
Hudson, OH : home $444,800, crime 510/100k
Keene, NH : home $232,500, crime 2,352/100k
Ashland, KY : home $125,300, crime 2,703/100k
Erlanger, KY : home $189,400, crime 595/100k
Madisonville, KY : home $152,300, crime 679/100k
Winchester, KY : home $180,400, crime 2,961/100k
Paducah, KY : home $164,600, crime 3,065/100k
Mount Washington, KY : home $253,700, crime 590/100k
How does Radcliff compare to other US cities?
Where Radcliff sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income37% higher than other cities
Home value31% pricier than other cities
Median rent10% pricier than other cities
Safety28% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Kentucky and the picture shifts: Radcliff ranks #159 of 181 Kentucky cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Radcliff 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 Radcliff near the bottom of Kentucky's cities
Among the 520 Kentucky cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Radcliff ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Radcliff only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#203 of 485
58th percentile in Kentucky
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 520
0th percentile in Kentucky
Median Home Value
#199 of 484
59th percentile in Kentucky
Poverty Rate
#283 of 519
45th percentile in Kentucky
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#285 of 520
45th 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
37th percentile nationally for median household income · 28th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Radcliff's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Radcliff'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 Radcliff's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$163,300Among 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
Radcliff's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,908 of 15,516
More affordable than 68% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#524 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.7×, Radcliff sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,908 of 15,516 and #524 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
$60,976Radcliff, KY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Radcliff, 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 Radcliff, KY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)16.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
22,967
Median Income
$60,976
Median Home Value
$163,300
Median Age
36.0
Poverty Rate
9.7%
Labor force participation
54.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
16.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2171.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
172.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1999.3
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
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Radcliff's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
23,021 residents
2021
23,025 residents
2022
22,892 residents
2023
22,706 residents
2024
22,641 residents
2025
22,576 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
73
housing units authorized
Single-Family
73
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
24
24
0
$3.7M
2020
34
34
0
$5.1M
2021
30
30
0
$4.7M
2022
60
60
0
$11.1M
2023
268
48
220
$29.1M
2024
73
73
0
$15.2M
Permit volume increased 204% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.3%
Carpool
13.3%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
1.9%
Work from Home
8.2%
Other
1.2%
Based on 9,854 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 Radcliff. 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 Radcliff 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 Radcliff sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Radcliff 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.