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Place dossier plate
SheetNC-MAGGIE-VALLEY-NC · Maggie Valley, NC 2,311 pop · income 47th 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 Maggie Valley
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Maggie Valley on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Fairmont · lowest
36,493
Fairmont · lowest
36,493 median HH income
18.2% of the leader · rank #1
Marysville · near
67,670
Marysville · near
67,670 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #2
Mattydale · near
67,672
Mattydale · near
67,672 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #3
Start · near
67,673
Start · near
67,673 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #4
Maggie Valley · this city
67,674
Maggie Valley · this city
67,674 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #5
Bartonville · near
67,674
Bartonville · near
67,674 median HH income
33.8% of the leader · rank #6
Warson Woods · highest
200,104
Warson Woods · highest
200,104 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 Maggie Valley 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: 2,311.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Maggie Valley - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Maggie Valley places in the 47th percentile for household income and the 3rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
47th
percentile, household income
67th
percentile, home value
48th
percentile, median rent
3rd
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: Maggie Valley, NC
Maggie Valley is a small town in North Carolina, home to 2,311 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Maggie Valley brings in $67,674 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.8%. Typical homes in Maggie Valley are valued around $312,200, and the median resident age is 52.0 years. 31.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 47.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Maggie Valley's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 5539.7 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in North Carolina run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, North Carolina scores 94.3 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,161 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in North Carolina run around $215, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Maggie Valley report an average commute of 22.9 minutes, with 65.0% driving alone and 15.4% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 66.7 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Maggie Valley'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 housing and income to reported crime to population change to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Maggie Valley, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Maggie Valley?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.8%, 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Maggie Valley?
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 5539.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 143% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Is Maggie Valley growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +17 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.0% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. 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 Maggie Valley?
Within North Carolina, the closest population matches are Dudley (2,320 residents, $46,389 income); Kure Beach (2,323 residents, $102,292 income); Fairmont (2,326 residents, $36,493 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Neodesha, KS (2,311 residents); Bar Harbor, ME (2,311 residents); Center, CO (2,312 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Maggie Valley?
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 65.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.9 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
15.4%
Drive alone
65.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 899 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 8.8% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
94.3 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, North Carolina average
D
City profile score · Maggie Valley, NC
47/100
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.
Cost of living B-
94.3 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 C+
31.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$67,674
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
457 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Maggie Valley profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 67/100 (B-) · 94.3 index
Bachelor's+ share: 61/100 (C+) · 31.7%
Household income: 46/100 (D) · $67,674
Poverty rate: 44/100 (D) · 8.8%
Violent crime: 19/100 (F) · 457 /100k
Where Maggie Valley sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Maggie Valley'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 - Maggie Valley highlighted among 26 peers.Read the chart values
Maggie Valley, NC (this city): home $312,200, crime 5,540/100k
Bar Harbor, ME : home $479,600, crime 504/100k
Center, CO : home $115,600, crime 416/100k
Hartford, MI : home $95,200, crime 1,500/100k
Warson Woods, MO : home $573,600, crime 457/100k
Fairmont, NC : home $88,500, crime 5,525/100k
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 Maggie Valley compare to other US cities?
Where Maggie Valley sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income47% higher than other cities
Home value67% pricier than other cities
Median rent48% pricier than other cities
Safety3% 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 North Carolina alone, Maggie Valley ranks #179 of 195 North Carolina 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 Maggie Valley against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to North Carolina only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
North Carolina-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Maggie Valley near the bottom of North Carolina's cities
Among the 746 North Carolina cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Maggie Valley ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Maggie Valley only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#252 of 700
64th percentile in North Carolina
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 746
0th percentile in North Carolina
Median Home Value
#149 of 708
79th percentile in North Carolina
Poverty Rate
#386 of 746
48th percentile in North Carolina
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#216 of 746
71st percentile in North Carolina
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 North Carolina only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
47th percentile nationally for median household income · 3rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Maggie Valley's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Maggie Valley'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 Maggie Valley's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$312,20033rd percentilemore affordable than 33% 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
Maggie Valley's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,203 of 15,516
More affordable than 21% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#9,317 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.6×, Maggie Valley sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,203 of 15,516 and #9,317 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
$67,674Maggie Valley, NC median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Maggie Valley, NC median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Maggie Valley, NC.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)31.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)47.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,311
Median Income
$67,674
Median Home Value
$312,200
Median Age
52.0
Poverty Rate
8.8%
Labor force participation
47.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
31.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
5539.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
456.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
5082.8
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Maggie Valley's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
1,731 residents
2021
1,742 residents
2022
1,735 residents
2023
1,746 residents
2024
1,750 residents
2025
1,748 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.9 minutes
Drive Alone
65.0%
Carpool
17.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.9%
Work from Home
15.4%
Based on 899 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
North Carolina statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $215
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across North Carolina at $215 (electricity about $115 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are North Carolina statewide averages, not a meter reading for Maggie Valley. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
North Carolina's BEA cost-of-living index is 94.3 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Maggie Valley is $1,161/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to North Carolina statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 66.7 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a North Carolina statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Maggie Valley sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Maggie Valley compares to similar-size North Carolina 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, 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.