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Place dossier plate
SheetMA-BEVERLY-MA · Beverly, MA 42,408 pop · income 80th 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 Beverly
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Beverly on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Danville · lowest
42,778
Danville · lowest
42,778 median HH income
32.3% of the leader · rank #1
Beverly · this city
103,739
Beverly · this city
103,739 median HH income
78.2% of the leader · rank #2
Grantfork · near
103,750
Grantfork · near
103,750 median HH income
78.2% of the leader · rank #3
Donahue · near
103,750
Donahue · near
103,750 median HH income
78.2% of the leader · rank #4
Alexandria · near
103,750
Alexandria · near
103,750 median HH income
78.2% of the leader · rank #5
Farley · near
103,750
Farley · near
103,750 median HH income
78.2% of the leader · rank #6
French Valley · highest
132,605
French Valley · highest
132,605 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 Beverly 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: 42,408.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Beverly - the verdict
Nationally, Beverly sits in the 80th percentile for household income and the 82nd percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
80th
percentile, household income
90th
percentile, home value
98th
percentile, median rent
82nd
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: Beverly, MA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 42,408 residents in Beverly, a small city within Massachusetts. Households in Beverly report a median income of $103,739 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.8%. Typical homes in Beverly are valued around $621,900, and the median resident age is 39.5 years. About 52.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 66.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 74 residential building permits were authorized in Beverly (Building Boom), up 469% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Beverly reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 578.7 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Beverly's yearly average temperature at 48.3°F with 48.0 inches of precipitation per year and 51.4 inches of snowfall.
Massachusetts carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 105.8 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $2,261 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $330 across Massachusetts, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 24.2 minutes, with 62.2% driving alone and 19.0% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 78.8 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Beverly'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 climate and hazard context to reported crime to population change to comparison shortlist to schools and households to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Beverly, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
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 physical conditions frame life in Beverly?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 48.3°F, with 48.0 inches of precipitation and 51.4 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Massachusetts is 78.8 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.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Beverly?
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 578.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 75% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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 +796 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 74 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Beverly?
Within Massachusetts, the closest population matches are Fitchburg (41,633 residents, $70,659 income); Marlborough (41,398 residents, $95,047 income); Pittsfield (43,559 residents, $68,386 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Mableton, GA (42,403 residents); Midland, MI (42,461 residents); University CDP (Orange County), FL (42,481 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Beverly?
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 52.3% 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
8
Bachelor's degree+
52.3%
Poverty estimate
6.8%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Beverly?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 6.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.8%, 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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
Household income
$103,739
Home value
$621,900
Value / income
6.0×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Beverly?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 62.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 24.2 minutes.
Public transit
7.1%
Work from home
19.0%
Drive alone
62.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 22,805 workers age 16+.
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.
Bachelor's+ share A
52.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$103,739
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C-
6.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C-
167 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Cost of living F
105.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Beverly profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 86/100 (A) · 52.3%
Household income: 79/100 (B+) · $103,739
Poverty rate: 54/100 (C-) · 6.8%
Violent crime: 54/100 (C-) · 167 /100k
Cost of living: 18/100 (F) · 105.8 index
Where Beverly sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Beverly'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 - Beverly highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Beverly, MA (this city): home $621,900, crime 579/100k
Midland, MI : home $192,400, crime 777/100k
Jefferson City, MO : home $208,000, crime 2,373/100k
Danville, VA : home $110,200, crime 3,199/100k
Fitchburg, MA : home $295,500, crime 1,831/100k
Marlborough, MA : home $485,400, crime 1,458/100k
Pittsfield, MA : home $233,700, crime 1,751/100k
Woburn, MA : home $641,800, crime 1,142/100k
Leominster, MA : home $345,000, crime 1,799/100k
Westfield, MA : home $295,500, crime 998/100k
How does Beverly compare to other US cities?
Beverly measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income80% higher than other cities
Home value90% pricier than other cities
Median rent98% pricier than other cities
Safety82% 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 Massachusetts alone, Beverly ranks #39 of 149 Massachusetts 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 Beverly against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Massachusetts only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Massachusetts-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Beverly near the bottom of Massachusetts's cities
Among the 247 Massachusetts cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Beverly ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Beverly only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#102 of 233
56th percentile in Massachusetts
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 247
0th percentile in Massachusetts
Median Home Value
#74 of 240
69th percentile in Massachusetts
Poverty Rate
#71 of 247
71st percentile in Massachusetts
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#88 of 247
64th percentile in Massachusetts
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 Massachusetts only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
80th percentile nationally for median household income · 82nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Beverly's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Beverly'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 Beverly's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$621,90010th percentilemore affordable than 10% 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
Beverly's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,092 of 15,516
More affordable than 9% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,962 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 6.0×, Beverly sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,092 of 15,516 and #2,962 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$103,739Beverly, MA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Beverly, MA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Beverly, MA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)52.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
42,408
Median Income
$103,739
Median Home Value
$621,900
Median Age
39.5
Poverty Rate
6.8%
Labor force participation
66.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
52.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
578.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
167.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
411.4
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
48.3°F
Annual Precipitation
48.0"
Annual Snowfall
51.4"
Schools
Total Schools
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Beverly's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
42,567 residents
2021
42,385 residents
2022
42,495 residents
2023
42,819 residents
2024
43,276 residents
2025
43,363 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
74
housing units authorized
Single-Family
15
detached homes
Multifamily
59
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
13
13
0
$4.7M
2020
20
20
0
$11.8M
2021
25
17
8
$7.7M
2022
7
7
0
$5.6M
2023
114
10
104
$46.3M
2024
74
15
59
$23.6M
Permit volume increased 469% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
24.2 minutes
Drive Alone
62.2%
Carpool
4.2%
Public Transit
7.1%
Walk
5.1%
Work from Home
19.0%
Other
2.4%
Based on 22,805 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Massachusetts statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $330
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Massachusetts at $330 (electricity about $160 , water and sewer about $60 ).
These are Massachusetts statewide averages, not a meter reading for Beverly. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Massachusetts's BEA cost-of-living index is 105.8 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Beverly is $2,261/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Massachusetts statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 78.8 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Massachusetts statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Beverly sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Beverly compares to similar-size Massachusetts 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.