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Place dossier plate
SheetNC-NEWPORT-NC · Newport, NC 4,428 pop · income 57th 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 Newport
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Newport on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
North Wilkesb… · lowest
39,288
North Wilkesb… · lowest
39,288 median HH income
34.4% of the leader · rank #1
Newport · this city
76,091
Newport · this city
76,091 median HH income
66.6% of the leader · rank #2
Kawela Bay · near
76,094
Kawela Bay · near
76,094 median HH income
66.6% of the leader · rank #3
Albert City · near
76,094
Albert City · near
76,094 median HH income
66.6% of the leader · rank #4
Mizpah · near
76,094
Mizpah · near
76,094 median HH income
66.6% of the leader · rank #5
Tully · near
76,094
Tully · near
76,094 median HH income
66.6% of the leader · rank #6
Unalaska · highest
114,286
Unalaska · highest
114,286 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 Newport 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: 4,428.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Newport - the verdict
Nationally, Newport sits in the 57th percentile for household income and the 39th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
57th
percentile, household income
55th
percentile, home value
48th
percentile, median rent
39th
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: Newport, NC
North Carolina's Newport is a small town, with 4,428 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $76,091 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 2.3%. Typical homes in Newport are valued around $245,300, and the median resident age is 43.2 years. About 21.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 47.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 26 residential building permits were authorized in Newport (Construction Slowdown), down 41% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Newport reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1741.6 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in North Carolina run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts North Carolina at 94.3 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,161 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts North Carolina's average monthly utility costs around $215 (state average). Workers in Newport report an average commute of 18.9 minutes, with 85.7% driving alone and 11.5% 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 Newport'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 schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to population change to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Newport, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, 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. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Newport?
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 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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 5 public schools within the city match. 21.5% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Newport?
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 North Carolina, the closest population matches are Canton (4,417 residents, $64,034 income); Shallotte (4,465 residents, $75,642 income); Edenton (4,480 residents, $42,721 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Dewey-Humboldt, AZ (4,428 residents); Lafayette, OR (4,428 residents); La Verkin, UT (4,429 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Newport?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 85.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.9 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. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
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 Newport growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +156 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 26 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.
2020 estimate
4,344
2025 estimate
4,500
Period change
+3.6%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Newport?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1741.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 24% 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
1741.6
Violent rate
286.6
Property rate
1455.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, North Carolina average
C
City profile score · Newport, NC
57/100
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-
2.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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.
Household income C
$76,091
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
21.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
287 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Newport profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 84/100 (A-) · 2.3%
Cost of living: 67/100 (B-) · 94.3 index
Household income: 56/100 (C) · $76,091
Bachelor's+ share: 39/100 (F) · 21.5%
Violent crime: 35/100 (F) · 287 /100k
Where Newport sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Newport'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 - Newport highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Newport, NC (this city): home $245,300, crime 1,742/100k
La Verkin, UT : home $366,500, crime 2,059/100k
Unalaska, AK : home $448,700, crime 214/100k
Devine, TX : home $145,600, crime 1,608/100k
Canton, NC : home $226,400, crime 2,038/100k
Shallotte, NC : home $301,300, crime 4,524/100k
Edenton, NC : home $226,800, crime 2,291/100k
China Grove, NC : home $207,500, crime 1,258/100k
Farmville, NC : home $184,900, crime 3,475/100k
North Wilkesboro, NC : home $231,400, crime 2,313/100k
How does Newport compare to other US cities?
Newport measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income57% higher than other cities
Home value55% pricier than other cities
Median rent48% pricier than other cities
Safety39% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just North Carolina and the picture shifts: Newport ranks #61 of 195 North Carolina cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Newport 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 Newport near the bottom of North Carolina's cities
Among the 746 North Carolina cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Newport ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Newport only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#183 of 700
74th percentile in North Carolina
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 746
0th percentile in North Carolina
Median Home Value
#228 of 708
68th percentile in North Carolina
Poverty Rate
#608 of 746
18th percentile in North Carolina
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#374 of 746
49th 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
57th percentile nationally for median household income · 39th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Newport's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Newport'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 Newport's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$245,30045th percentilemore affordable than 45% 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
Newport'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
#7,794 of 15,516
More affordable than 50% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,422 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.2×, Newport sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,794 of 15,516 and #6,422 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
$76,091Newport, NC median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Newport, 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 Newport, NC.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.3%
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
4,428
Median Income
$76,091
Median Home Value
$245,300
Median Age
43.2
Poverty Rate
2.3%
Labor force participation
47.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1741.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
286.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1455.0
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
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Newport's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,344 residents
2021
4,419 residents
2022
4,487 residents
2023
4,485 residents
2024
4,510 residents
2025
4,500 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
26
housing units authorized
Single-Family
10
detached homes
Multifamily
16
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
44
44
0
$6.7M
2020
49
49
0
$7.4M
2021
25
25
0
$3.7M
2022
14
14
0
$1.9M
2023
14
14
0
$1.9M
2024
26
10
16
$5.3M
Permit volume decreased 41% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.9 minutes
Drive Alone
85.7%
Carpool
2.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
11.5%
Based on 1,901 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 Newport. 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 Newport 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 Newport sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Newport 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, 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.