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SheetMI-TECUMSEH-MI · Tecumseh, MI 8,655 pop · income 41st 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 Tecumseh
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Tecumseh on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Highland Park · lowest
27,582
Highland Park · lowest
27,582 median HH income
18.6% of the leader · rank #1
Delaware Wate… · near
64,083
Delaware Wate… · near
64,083 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #2
Tecumseh · this city
64,086
Tecumseh · this city
64,086 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #3
Atlanta · near
64,091
Atlanta · near
64,091 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #4
Hillsdale · near
64,091
Hillsdale · near
64,091 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #5
Council Bluffs · near
64,092
Council Bluffs · near
64,092 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #6
Evergreen · highest
148,665
Evergreen · highest
148,665 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 Tecumseh 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: 8,655.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Tecumseh - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Tecumseh places in the 41st percentile for household income and the 87th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
41st
percentile, household income
41st
percentile, home value
32nd
percentile, median rent
87th
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: Tecumseh, MI
Michigan's Tecumseh is a small town, with 8,655 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $64,086 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 2.2%. Typical homes in Tecumseh are valued around $193,600, and the median resident age is 39.6 years. 22.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 60.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 11 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 35% from five years earlier. Tecumseh reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 455.0 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). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 48.6°F with 36.0 inches of precipitation per year.
Living costs in Michigan run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Michigan at 96.2 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,113 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Michigan's average monthly utility costs around $238 (state average). On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 49.6 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Tecumseh'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to housing and income to population change to climate and hazard context to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Tecumseh, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits.
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 journey to work look like in Tecumseh?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Tecumseh?
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 Michigan, the closest population matches are Highland Park (8,798 residents, $27,582 income); Beecher (8,507 residents, $35,582 income); Temperance (8,495 residents, $76,069 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Cheviot, OH (8,655 residents); Bel Aire, KS (8,654 residents); South Lockport, NY (8,660 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.
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 3 public schools within the city match. 22.9% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Tecumseh?
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 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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 Tecumseh growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -58 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 11 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
2020 estimate
8,666
2025 estimate
8,608
Period change
-0.7%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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 48.6°F, with 36.0 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Michigan is 49.6 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)
49.6
Annual precipitation
36.0 in
Mean temperature
48.6°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Tecumseh?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 455.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 80% 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.
Total reported rate
455.0
Violent rate
116.7
Property rate
338.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Michigan average
C
City profile score · Tecumseh, MI
58/100
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.
Poverty rate A-
2.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B-
117 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Bachelor's+ share D
22.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$64,086
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Tecumseh profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 84/100 (A-) · 2.2%
Violent crime: 67/100 (B-) · 117 /100k
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.2 index
Bachelor's+ share: 43/100 (D) · 22.9%
Household income: 41/100 (D) · $64,086
Where Tecumseh sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Tecumseh'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 - Tecumseh highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Tecumseh, MI (this city): home $193,600, crime 455/100k
Cheviot, OH : home $137,900, crime 2,387/100k
Bel Aire, KS : home $213,500, crime 791/100k
Bryan, OH : home $132,000, crime 805/100k
Park Hills, MO : home $121,100, crime 2,213/100k
Highland Park, MI : home $75,800, crime 7,307/100k
Center Line, MI : home $145,300, crime 1,916/100k
Greenville, MI : home $160,600, crime 2,929/100k
Menominee, MI : home $97,800, crime 1,391/100k
How does Tecumseh compare to other US cities?
Here's how Tecumseh stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income41% higher than other cities
Home value41% pricier than other cities
Median rent32% pricier than other cities
Safety87% 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: Tecumseh ranks #32 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 Tecumseh 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 Tecumseh near the bottom of Michigan's cities
Among the 727 Michigan cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Tecumseh ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Tecumseh only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#299 of 718
58th percentile in Michigan
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 727
0th percentile in Michigan
Median Home Value
#234 of 721
67th percentile in Michigan
Poverty Rate
#604 of 727
16th percentile in Michigan
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#300 of 727
58th 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
41st percentile nationally for median household income · 87th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Tecumseh's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Tecumseh'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 Tecumseh's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$193,600Among 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
Tecumseh's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#6,804 of 15,516
More affordable than 56% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,736 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.0×, Tecumseh sits in the moderate band:
national rank #6,804 of 15,516 and #5,736 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
$64,086Tecumseh, MI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Tecumseh, 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 Tecumseh, MI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)22.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,655
Median Income
$64,086
Median Home Value
$193,600
Median Age
39.6
Poverty Rate
2.2%
Labor force participation
60.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
22.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
455.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
116.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
338.4
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
48.6°F
Annual Precipitation
36.0"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Tecumseh's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,666 residents
2021
8,662 residents
2022
8,630 residents
2023
8,618 residents
2024
8,617 residents
2025
8,608 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
11
housing units authorized
Single-Family
11
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
17
17
0
$2.8M
2020
22
22
0
$3.3M
2021
25
25
0
$3.8M
2022
8
8
0
$2.6M
2023
8
8
0
$1.9M
2024
11
11
0
$2.9M
Permit volume decreased 35% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.7%
Carpool
4.5%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
3.4%
Work from Home
13.0%
Based on 4,081 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 Tecumseh. 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 Tecumseh 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 Tecumseh sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Tecumseh 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, 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.