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SheetMI-NORTHVILLE-MI · Northville, MI 6,080 pop · income 93rd 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 Northville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Northville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Blackwell · lowest
50,104
Blackwell · lowest
50,104 median HH income
28.6% of the leader · rank #1
Lake Barcroft · near
143,796
Lake Barcroft · near
143,796 median HH income
82.0% of the leader · rank #2
Poway · near
143,825
Poway · near
143,825 median HH income
82.0% of the leader · rank #3
Babylon · near
143,856
Babylon · near
143,856 median HH income
82.0% of the leader · rank #4
Northville · this city
143,875
Northville · this city
143,875 median HH income
82.0% of the leader · rank #5
Weston Lakes · near
143,940
Weston Lakes · near
143,940 median HH income
82.1% of the leader · rank #6
Newtown Grant · highest
175,403
Newtown Grant · highest
175,403 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 Northville 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: 6,080.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Northville - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Northville places in the 93rd percentile for household income and the 80th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
93rd
percentile, household income
82nd
percentile, home value
32nd
percentile, median rent
80th
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: Northville, MI
Michigan's Northville is a small town, with 6,080 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Northville report a median income of $143,875 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.6%. Home values in Northville run a median of $455,100, and the median resident age is 46.1 years. About 67.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 64.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 198 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 3200% from five years earlier. Northville reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 623.7 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Michigan run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Michigan scores 96.2 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,113 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Michigan's average monthly utility costs around $238 (state average). Natural-hazard exposure scores 49.6 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Northville'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 population change to comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Northville, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, 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.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Northville?
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 58.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Is Northville 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 -111 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 198 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 Northville?
Within Michigan, the closest population matches are Milan (6,070 residents, $93,016 income); Rockford (6,162 residents, $100,156 income); Lake Fenton (6,168 residents, $112,676 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are De Queen, AR (6,077 residents); Mount Zion, IL (6,076 residents); Briar Chapel, NC (6,084 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 education layer cover for Northville?
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 67.4% 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 matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Northville?
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 623.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 73% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
606.9
Violent rate
16.9
Total reported rate
623.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Northville?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.6%, 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
$143,875
Home value
$455,100
Value / income
3.2×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Michigan average
A
City profile score · Northville, MI
86/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
67.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A+
$143,875
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime A+
17 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate A
1.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living C
96.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Northville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 96/100 (A+) · 67.4%
Household income: 94/100 (A+) · $143,875
Violent crime: 93/100 (A+) · 17 /100k
Poverty rate: 89/100 (A) · 1.6%
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.2 index
Where Northville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Northville'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 - Northville highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Northville, MI (this city): home $455,100, crime 624/100k
De Queen, AR : home $108,500, crime 1,934/100k
Mount Zion, IL : home $200,300, crime 566/100k
Blackwell, OK : home $77,000, crime 2,585/100k
Milan, MI : home $233,700, crime 868/100k
Rockford, MI : home $294,800, crime 890/100k
Ishpeming, MI : home $109,200, crime 1,082/100k
Holly, MI : home $174,900, crime 642/100k
Belding, MI : home $152,700, crime 953/100k
How does Northville compare to other US cities?
Where Northville sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income93% higher than other cities
Home value82% pricier than other cities
Median rent32% pricier than other cities
Safety80% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Michigan and the picture shifts: Northville ranks #52 of 254 Michigan cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Northville against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Michigan only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Michigan-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Northville near the bottom of Michigan's cities
Among the 727 Michigan cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Northville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Northville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#19 of 718
97th percentile in Michigan
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 727
0th percentile in Michigan
Median Home Value
#27 of 721
96th percentile in Michigan
Poverty Rate
#629 of 727
13th percentile in Michigan
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#27 of 727
96th percentile in Michigan
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 Michigan only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
93rd percentile nationally for median household income · 80th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Northville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Northville'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 Northville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$455,10018th percentilemore affordable than 18% 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
Northville's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,505 of 15,516
More affordable than 52% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,214 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.2×, Northville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,505 of 15,516 and #6,214 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
$143,875Northville, MI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Northville, MI median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Northville, MI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)67.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,080
Median Income
$143,875
Median Home Value
$455,100
Median Age
46.1
Poverty Rate
1.6%
Labor force participation
64.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
67.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
623.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
16.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
606.9
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
1
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Northville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,124 residents
2021
6,083 residents
2022
6,018 residents
2023
5,985 residents
2024
5,994 residents
2025
6,013 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
198
housing units authorized
Single-Family
20
detached homes
Multifamily
178
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
32.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
6
6
0
$4.2M
2020
9
9
0
$5.0M
2021
1
1
0
$0.2M
2022
2
2
0
$1.3M
2023
5
5
0
$3.6M
2024
198
20
178
$52.8M
Permit volume increased 3200% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
58.3%
Carpool
2.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.9%
Work from Home
34.8%
Other
0.9%
Based on 3,191 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Michigan statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $238
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Michigan at $238 (electricity about $105 , water and sewer about $48 ).
These are Michigan statewide averages, not a meter reading for Northville. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Michigan's BEA cost-of-living index is 96.2 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Northville is $1,113/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Michigan statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 49.6 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Michigan statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Northville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Northville compares to similar-size Michigan 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.