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SheetMI-WOODLAND-BEACH-MI · Woodland Beach, MI 2,509 pop · income 50th 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 Woodland Beach
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Woodland Beach on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lavonia · lowest
34,526
Lavonia · lowest
34,526 median HH income
19.0% of the leader · rank #1
Woodland Beach · this city
70,330
Woodland Beach · this city
70,330 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #2
Port Royal · near
70,330
Port Royal · near
70,330 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #3
Lake Mills · near
70,333
Lake Mills · near
70,333 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #4
Hide-A-Way La… · near
70,333
Hide-A-Way La… · near
70,333 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #5
Tremont · near
70,333
Tremont · near
70,333 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #6
Village of Gr… · highest
182,000
Village of Gr… · highest
182,000 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Woodland Beach on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 2,509.
Nationally, Woodland Beach sits in the 50th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
50th
percentile, household income
30th
percentile, home value
32nd
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Woodland Beach, MI
Michigan's Woodland Beach is a small town, with 2,509 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Woodland Beach brings in $70,330 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 30.6%. Woodland Beach's housing stock carries a median value of $159,300, and the median resident age is 33.8 years. About 23.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 52.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Living costs in Michigan run below the national norm: the state registers 96.2 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,113 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Michigan run around $238, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Woodland Beach workers runs 27.8 minutes, with 77.3% driving alone and 2.6% working from home. 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 Woodland Beach'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Woodland Beach, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, 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 Woodland Beach?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 27.8 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Woodland Beach?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 30.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Woodland Beach?
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.
Within Michigan, the closest population matches are Reed City (2,505 residents, $48,646 income); Spring Lake (2,530 residents, $75,000 income); Newaygo (2,486 residents, $41,934 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Hazen, ND (2,509 residents); Lavonia, GA (2,508 residents); Carthage, IL (2,508 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.
Below median income · poverty 30.6% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
96.2 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Michigan average
F
City profile score · Woodland Beach, MI
38/100
4 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 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.
Household income C-
$70,330
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share D
23.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
30.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Woodland Beach profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 57/100 (C) · 96.2 index
Household income: 50/100 (C-) · $70,330
Bachelor's+ share: 44/100 (D) · 23.5%
Poverty rate: 0/100 (F) · 30.6%
How does Woodland Beach compare to other US cities?
Woodland Beach measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income50% higher than other cities
Home value30% pricier than other cities
Median rent32% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Woodland Beach 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 Woodland Beach near the bottom of Michigan's cities
Among the 727 Michigan cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Woodland Beach ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Woodland Beach only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#228 of 718
68th percentile in Michigan
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 727
0th percentile in Michigan
Median Home Value
#334 of 721
54th percentile in Michigan
Poverty Rate
#22 of 727
97th percentile in Michigan
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#292 of 727
60th 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
50th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Woodland Beach's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$159,300Among the most affordablemore affordable than 70% 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
Woodland Beach's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,789 of 15,516
More affordable than 82% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,586 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.3×, Woodland Beach sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,789 of 15,516 and #2,586 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$70,330Woodland Beach, MI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Woodland Beach, 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 Woodland Beach, MI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)30.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,509
Median Income
$70,330
Median Home Value
$159,300
Median Age
33.8
Poverty Rate
30.6%
Labor force participation
52.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.5%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
27.8 minutes
Drive Alone
77.3%
Carpool
20.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
2.6%
Based on 1,096 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 Woodland Beach. 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 Woodland Beach 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 Woodland Beach sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Woodland Beach 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, 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.