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SheetNE-PLATTSMOUTH-NE · Plattsmouth, NE 6,680 pop · income 42nd 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 Plattsmouth
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Plattsmouth on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Sidney · lowest
51,704
Sidney · lowest
51,704 median HH income
27.1% of the leader · rank #1
Andrew · near
64,292
Andrew · near
64,292 median HH income
33.7% of the leader · rank #2
Woodruff · near
64,292
Woodruff · near
64,292 median HH income
33.7% of the leader · rank #3
Plattsmouth · this city
64,296
Plattsmouth · this city
64,296 median HH income
33.7% of the leader · rank #4
Sheffield · near
64,297
Sheffield · near
64,297 median HH income
33.7% of the leader · rank #5
Wellsboro · near
64,297
Wellsboro · near
64,297 median HH income
33.7% of the leader · rank #6
Cochituate · highest
190,938
Cochituate · highest
190,938 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 Plattsmouth 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: 6,680.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Plattsmouth - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Plattsmouth lands in the 42nd percentile for household income and the 74th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
42nd
percentile, household income
34th
percentile, home value
15th
percentile, median rent
74th
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: Plattsmouth, NE
Nebraska's Plattsmouth is a small town, with 6,680 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $64,296 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.4%. Typical homes in Plattsmouth are valued around $171,900, and the median resident age is 37.5 years. About 26.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 68.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 35 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 119% from five years earlier. Plattsmouth reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 770.5 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Nebraska run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Nebraska at 90.1 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,001 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Nebraska's average monthly utility costs around $207 (state average). Commute times here average 26.6 minutes, with 81.6% driving alone and 5.2% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 25.8 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Plattsmouth'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 schools and households to comparison shortlist to population change to housing and income to reported crime to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Plattsmouth, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, 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. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Plattsmouth?
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 4 public schools within the city match. 26.0% 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 Plattsmouth?
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 Nebraska, the closest population matches are Schuyler (6,517 residents, $78,380 income); Ralston (6,445 residents, $65,557 income); Sidney (6,396 residents, $51,704 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Boonville, IN (6,681 residents); Steilacoom, WA (6,683 residents); Cochituate, MA (6,688 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.
Is Plattsmouth growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +362 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 35 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Plattsmouth?
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 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.4%, 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Plattsmouth?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 770.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 66% 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
770.5
Violent rate
14.5
Property rate
755.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Plattsmouth?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 26.6 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.
Drive alone
81.6%
Work from home
5.2%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 3,631 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 4.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
90.1 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Nebraska average
B-
City profile score · Plattsmouth, NE
67/100
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.
Violent crime A+
15 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Cost of living A
90.1 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate B-
4.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C-
26.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$64,296
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Plattsmouth profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 93/100 (A+) · 15 /100k
Cost of living: 85/100 (A) · 90.1 index
Poverty rate: 69/100 (B-) · 4.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 51/100 (C-) · 26.0%
Household income: 41/100 (D) · $64,296
Where Plattsmouth sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Plattsmouth'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 - Plattsmouth highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Plattsmouth, NE (this city): home $171,900, crime 771/100k
Boonville, IN : home $143,100, crime 2,081/100k
Steilacoom, WA : home $594,600, crime 868/100k
Schuyler, NE : home $129,600, crime 460/100k
Ralston, NE : home $215,800, crime 1,318/100k
Sidney, NE : home $137,300, crime 1,613/100k
Nebraska City, NE : home $147,800, crime 1,123/100k
Wayne, NE : home $198,600, crime 674/100k
McCook, NE : home $137,400, crime 1,083/100k
How does Plattsmouth compare to other US cities?
Where Plattsmouth sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income42% higher than other cities
Home value34% pricier than other cities
Median rent15% pricier than other cities
Safety74% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Nebraska, Plattsmouth ranks #15 of 44 Nebraska cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Plattsmouth against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Nebraska only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Nebraska-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Plattsmouth near the bottom of Nebraska's cities
Among the 450 Nebraska cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Plattsmouth ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Plattsmouth only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#223 of 439
49th percentile in Nebraska
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 450
0th percentile in Nebraska
Median Home Value
#92 of 438
79th percentile in Nebraska
Poverty Rate
#267 of 450
40th percentile in Nebraska
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#116 of 450
74th percentile in Nebraska
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 Nebraska only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
42nd percentile nationally for median household income · 74th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Plattsmouth's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Plattsmouth'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 Plattsmouth's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$171,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 66% 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
Plattsmouth's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,889 of 15,516
More affordable than 68% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,306 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.7×, Plattsmouth sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,889 of 15,516 and #4,306 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
$64,296Plattsmouth, NE median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Plattsmouth, NE median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Plattsmouth, NE.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)26.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,680
Median Income
$64,296
Median Home Value
$171,900
Median Age
37.5
Poverty Rate
4.4%
Labor force participation
68.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
26.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
770.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
14.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
755.9
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Plattsmouth's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,593 residents
2021
6,693 residents
2022
6,706 residents
2023
6,809 residents
2024
6,885 residents
2025
6,955 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
35
housing units authorized
Single-Family
5
detached homes
Multifamily
30
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
16
16
0
$3.9M
2020
28
28
0
$8.3M
2021
23
23
0
$5.7M
2022
49
8
41
$8.4M
2023
65
5
60
$8.1M
2024
35
5
30
$5.3M
Permit volume increased 119% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
26.6 minutes
Drive Alone
81.6%
Carpool
10.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.4%
Work from Home
5.2%
Other
0.9%
Based on 3,631 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Nebraska statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $207
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Nebraska at $207 (electricity about $100 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are Nebraska statewide averages, not a meter reading for Plattsmouth. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Nebraska's BEA cost-of-living index is 90.1 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Plattsmouth is $1,001/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Nebraska statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 25.8 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Nebraska statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Plattsmouth sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Plattsmouth compares to similar-size Nebraska 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.