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SheetMD-SNOW-HILL-MD · Snow Hill, MD 2,545 pop · income 19th 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 Snow Hill
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Snow Hill on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Cave City · lowest
33,672
Cave City · lowest
33,672 median HH income
19.0% of the leader · rank #1
Snow Hill · this city
49,583
Snow Hill · this city
49,583 median HH income
28.1% of the leader · rank #2
Standard City · near
49,583
Standard City · near
49,583 median HH income
28.1% of the leader · rank #3
Baldwin · near
49,583
Baldwin · near
49,583 median HH income
28.1% of the leader · rank #4
Barnum · near
49,583
Barnum · near
49,583 median HH income
28.1% of the leader · rank #5
Laddonia · near
49,583
Laddonia · near
49,583 median HH income
28.1% of the leader · rank #6
Croom · highest
176,758
Croom · highest
176,758 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 Snow Hill 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: 2,545.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Snow Hill - the verdict
Snow Hill ranks in the 19th percentile for household income and the 59th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
19th
percentile, household income
41st
percentile, home value
84th
percentile, median rent
59th
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: Snow Hill, MD
Maryland's Snow Hill is a small town, with 2,545 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Snow Hill report a median income of $49,583 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 17.6%. Typical homes in Snow Hill are valued around $194,300, and the median resident age is 38.3 years. Educational attainment runs 23.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 57.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 1 residential building permits were authorized in Snow Hill (Construction Slowdown), down 75% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Snow Hill reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1123.1 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Snow Hill's yearly average temperature at 59.3°F with 47.4 inches of precipitation per year and 10.2 inches of snowfall.
Maryland carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Maryland scores 105.0 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,657 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $255 across Maryland, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 18.5 minutes, with 70.0% driving alone and 5.2% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 60.2 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Snow Hill'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 reported crime to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Snow Hill, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, 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
Is Snow Hill growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +93 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Snow Hill?
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 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 17.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Snow Hill?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1123.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 51% lower 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Snow Hill?
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 Maryland, the closest population matches are Greensboro (2,563 residents, $44,934 income); Croom (2,519 residents, $176,758 income); Herald Harbor (2,507 residents, $139,877 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bald Knob, AR (2,545 residents); Cave City, KY (2,545 residents); Dupont, PA (2,545 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 Snow Hill?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.5 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
70.0%
Work from home
5.2%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,125 workers age 16+.
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 59.3°F, with 47.4 inches of precipitation and 10.2 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Maryland is 60.2 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)
60.2
Annual precipitation
47.4 in
Mean temperature
59.3°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the education layer cover for Snow Hill?
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 4 public schools within the city match. 23.3% 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.
Poverty estimate
17.6%
Bachelor's degree+
23.3%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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.
Violent crime D
216 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share D
23.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living F
105.0 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
$49,583
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
17.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Snow Hill profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 45/100 (D) · 216 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 44/100 (D) · 23.3%
Cost of living: 21/100 (F) · 105.0 index
Household income: 20/100 (F) · $49,583
Poverty rate: 18/100 (F) · 17.6%
Where Snow Hill sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Snow Hill'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 - Snow Hill highlighted among 27 peers.Read the chart values
Snow Hill, MD (this city): home $194,300, crime 1,123/100k
Bald Knob, AR : home $136,500, crime 2,352/100k
Cave City, KY : home $108,100, crime 297/100k
Dupont, PA : home $142,100, crime 975/100k
Morris, AL : home $233,600, crime 491/100k
Greensboro, MD : home $230,600, crime 986/100k
Forest Heights, MD : home $346,800, crime 1,749/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Snow Hill compare to other US cities?
Snow Hill measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income19% higher than other cities
Home value41% pricier than other cities
Median rent84% pricier than other cities
Safety59% 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 Maryland alone, Snow Hill ranks #22 of 70 Maryland 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 Snow Hill against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Maryland only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Maryland-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Snow Hill near the bottom of Maryland's cities
Among the 479 Maryland cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Snow Hill ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Snow Hill only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#421 of 445
5th percentile in Maryland
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 479
0th percentile in Maryland
Median Home Value
#402 of 450
11th percentile in Maryland
Poverty Rate
#46 of 479
90th percentile in Maryland
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#326 of 479
32nd percentile in Maryland
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 Maryland only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
19th percentile nationally for median household income · 59th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Snow Hill's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Snow Hill'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 Snow Hill's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$194,300Among the most affordablemore affordable than 59% 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
Snow Hill's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,454 of 15,516
More affordable than 33% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,204 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.9×, Snow Hill sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,454 of 15,516 and #8,204 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
$49,583Snow Hill, MD median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Snow Hill, MD median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Snow Hill, MD.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)17.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,545
Median Income
$49,583
Median Home Value
$194,300
Median Age
38.3
Poverty Rate
17.6%
Labor force participation
57.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1123.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
216.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
907.1
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
59.3°F
Annual Precipitation
47.4"
Annual Snowfall
10.2"
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Snow Hill's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,144 residents
2021
2,162 residents
2022
2,274 residents
2023
2,271 residents
2024
2,257 residents
2025
2,237 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
1
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
4
4
0
$0.3M
2020
2
2
0
$0.3M
2021
56
54
2
$6.8M
2022
3
3
0
$0.4M
2023
3
3
0
$0.5M
2024
1
1
0
$0.1M
Permit volume decreased 75% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.5 minutes
Drive Alone
70.0%
Carpool
17.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
5.2%
Work from Home
5.2%
Other
1.7%
Based on 1,125 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Maryland statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $255
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Maryland at $255 (electricity about $120 , water and sewer about $55 ).
These are Maryland statewide averages, not a meter reading for Snow Hill. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Maryland's BEA cost-of-living index is 105.0 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Snow Hill is $1,657/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Maryland statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 60.2 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Maryland statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Snow Hill sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Snow Hill compares to similar-size Maryland 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.