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Place dossier plate
SheetNH-EPPING-NH · Epping, NH 2,808 pop · income 62nd 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 Epping
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Epping on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Rafael Gonzál… · lowest
21,237
Rafael Gonzál… · lowest
21,237 median HH income
15.9% of the leader · rank #1
Dillsburg · near
80,977
Dillsburg · near
80,977 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #2
Epping · this city
80,987
Epping · this city
80,987 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #3
Tontitown · near
80,987
Tontitown · near
80,987 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #4
Euless · near
80,987
Euless · near
80,987 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #5
Milford · near
80,997
Milford · near
80,997 median HH income
60.6% of the leader · rank #6
Goffstown · highest
133,657
Goffstown · highest
133,657 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 Epping 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: 2,808.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Epping - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Epping places in the 62nd percentile for household income and the 33rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
62nd
percentile, household income
70th
percentile, home value
86th
percentile, median rent
33rd
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: Epping, NH
Epping is a small town in New Hampshire, home to 2,808 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Epping households earn a median of $80,987 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.7%. Epping's housing stock carries a median value of $334,700, and the median resident age is 42.8 years. About 31.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 66.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1976.1 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 47.4°F with 46.3 inches of precipitation per year and 56.6 inches of snowfall.
New Hampshire carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, New Hampshire scores 104.2 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,894 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $307 across New Hampshire, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 69.9 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Epping'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 climate and hazard context to reported crime to comparison shortlist to housing and income to schools and households to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Epping, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What physical conditions frame life in Epping?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 47.4°F, with 46.3 inches of precipitation and 56.6 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for New Hampshire is 69.9 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.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Epping?
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 1976.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 13% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Epping?
Within New Hampshire, the closest population matches are Henniker (2,880 residents, $73,339 income); Jaffrey (2,885 residents, $95,600 income); Meredith (2,887 residents, $52,083 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are South Bloomfield, OH (2,808 residents); Windsor, VA (2,808 residents); Spearman, TX (2,809 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Epping?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.7%, 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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Epping?
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 31.5% 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.
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.
Matched public schools
3
Bachelor's degree+
31.5%
Poverty estimate
5.7%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Epping?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
12.2%
Drive alone
76.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,581 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 5.7% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
104.2 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New Hampshire average
C
City profile score · Epping, NH
55/100
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 B
104 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C+
5.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
31.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C+
$80,987
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cost of living F
104.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Epping profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 70/100 (B) · 104 /100k
Poverty rate: 61/100 (C+) · 5.7%
Bachelor's+ share: 61/100 (C+) · 31.5%
Household income: 60/100 (C+) · $80,987
Cost of living: 23/100 (F) · 104.2 index
Where Epping sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Epping'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 - Epping highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Epping, NH (this city): home $334,700, crime 1,976/100k
South Bloomfield, OH : home $205,200, crime 525/100k
Windsor, VA : home $248,200, crime 881/100k
Moline Acres, MO : home $76,500, crime 3,659/100k
Henniker, NH : home $267,500, crime 529/100k
Jaffrey, NH : home $219,200, crime 1,223/100k
Meredith, NH : home $415,800, crime 617/100k
Goffstown, NH : home $385,000, crime 497/100k
How does Epping compare to other US cities?
Here's how Epping stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income62% higher than other cities
Home value70% pricier than other cities
Median rent86% pricier than other cities
Safety33% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just New Hampshire and the picture shifts: Epping ranks #44 of 53 New Hampshire cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Epping against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to New Hampshire only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
New Hampshire-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Epping near the bottom of New Hampshire's cities
Among the 100 New Hampshire cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Epping ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Epping only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#37 of 92
60th percentile in New Hampshire
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 100
0th percentile in New Hampshire
Median Home Value
#34 of 94
64th percentile in New Hampshire
Poverty Rate
#32 of 99
67th percentile in New Hampshire
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#52 of 100
48th percentile in New Hampshire
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 New Hampshire only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
62nd percentile nationally for median household income · 33rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Epping's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Epping'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 Epping's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$334,70030th percentilemore affordable than 30% 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
Epping's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,066 of 15,516
More affordable than 29% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,602 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.1×, Epping sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,066 of 15,516 and #8,602 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
$80,987Epping, NH median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Epping, NH median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Epping, NH.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)31.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,808
Median Income
$80,987
Median Home Value
$334,700
Median Age
42.8
Poverty Rate
5.7%
Labor force participation
66.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
31.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1976.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
104.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1872.1
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
47.4°F
Annual Precipitation
46.3"
Annual Snowfall
56.6"
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.7%
Carpool
4.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.7%
Work from Home
12.2%
Other
3.4%
Based on 1,581 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
New Hampshire statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $307
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across New Hampshire at $307 (electricity about $150 , water and sewer about $52 ).
These are New Hampshire statewide averages, not a meter reading for Epping. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
New Hampshire's BEA cost-of-living index is 104.2 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Epping is $1,894/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to New Hampshire statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 69.9 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a New Hampshire statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Epping sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Epping compares to similar-size New Hampshire 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.