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Place dossier plate
SheetNM-MILAN-NM · Milan, NM 2,473 pop · income 6th 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 Milan
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Milan on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Abbeville · lowest
32,778
Abbeville · lowest
32,778 median HH income
19.1% of the leader · rank #1
West Blocton · near
37,537
West Blocton · near
37,537 median HH income
21.9% of the leader · rank #2
Milan · this city
37,551
Milan · this city
37,551 median HH income
21.9% of the leader · rank #3
Brundidge · near
37,555
Brundidge · near
37,555 median HH income
21.9% of the leader · rank #4
Arcadia · near
37,574
Arcadia · near
37,574 median HH income
21.9% of the leader · rank #5
Felicity · near
37,586
Felicity · near
37,586 median HH income
22.0% of the leader · rank #6
Owings · highest
171,194
Owings · highest
171,194 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 Milan 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: 2,473.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Milan - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Milan lands in the 6th percentile for household income and the 58th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
6th
percentile, household income
2nd
percentile, home value
39th
percentile, median rent
58th
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: Milan, NM
2,473 people live in Milan, New Mexico - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Milan brings in $37,551 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 20.4%. Home values in Milan run a median of $71,300, and the median resident age is 39.6 years. 9.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 31.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Milan reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1140.1 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Living costs in New Mexico run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts New Mexico at 92.2 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,129 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts New Mexico's average monthly utility costs around $167 (state average). Commute times here average 22.3 minutes, with 91.9% driving alone and 2.0% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 58.9 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Milan'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 reported crime to housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Milan, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Milan?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1140.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 50% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Milan?
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 1.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 20.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Milan?
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 New Mexico, the closest population matches are Santa Rosa (2,447 residents, $41,995 income); West Hammond (2,519 residents, $49,795 income); La Mesilla (2,531 residents, $74,385 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Darlington, WI (2,473 residents); Hebron, OH (2,474 residents); Denmark, WI (2,472 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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 91.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.3 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Milan?
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 9.6% 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.
Poverty estimate
20.4%
Bachelor's degree+
9.6%
Matched public schools
1
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +16 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.7% 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.
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.
2020 estimate
2,452
2025 estimate
2,468
Period change
+0.7%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 20.4% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
92.2 (US=100)
Affordable · BEA RPP 2024, New Mexico average
F
City profile score · Milan, NM
29/100
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+
92.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime D
204 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
20.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
9.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$37,551
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Milan profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 77/100 (B+) · 92.2 index
Violent crime: 47/100 (D) · 204 /100k
Poverty rate: 13/100 (F) · 20.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 5/100 (F) · 9.6%
Household income: 3/100 (F) · $37,551
Where Milan sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Milan'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 - Milan highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Milan, NM (this city): home $71,300, crime 1,140/100k
Darlington, WI : home $134,300, crime 396/100k
Hebron, OH : home $168,500, crime 1,124/100k
Abbeville, AL : home $98,000, crime 1,928/100k
Superior, AZ : home $136,700, crime 3,396/100k
Santa Rosa, NM : home $101,800, crime 1,385/100k
Bayard, NM : home $118,100, crime 2,493/100k
Tularosa, NM : home $117,600, crime 497/100k
How does Milan compare to other US cities?
Here's how Milan stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income6% higher than other cities
Home value2% pricier than other cities
Median rent39% pricier than other cities
Safety58% 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 New Mexico alone, Milan ranks #12 of 42 New Mexico 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 Milan against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to New Mexico only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
New Mexico-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Milan near the bottom of New Mexico's cities
Among the 409 New Mexico cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Milan ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Milan only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#263 of 324
19th percentile in New Mexico
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 409
0th percentile in New Mexico
Median Home Value
#288 of 324
11th percentile in New Mexico
Poverty Rate
#139 of 408
66th percentile in New Mexico
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#285 of 409
30th percentile in New Mexico
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 Mexico only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
6th percentile nationally for median household income · 58th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Milan's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Milan'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 Milan's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$71,300Among the most affordablemore affordable than 98% 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
Milan's home-value-to-income ratio: 1.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#1,301 of 15,516
More affordable than 92% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,255 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 1.9×, Milan sits in the affordable band:
national rank #1,301 of 15,516 and #1,255 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
$37,551Milan, NM median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Milan, NM median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Milan, NM.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)9.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)20.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)31.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,473
Median Income
$37,551
Median Home Value
$71,300
Median Age
39.6
Poverty Rate
20.4%
Labor force participation
31.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
9.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1140.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
203.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
936.5
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
1
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Milan's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,452 residents
2021
2,461 residents
2022
2,451 residents
2023
2,455 residents
2024
2,459 residents
2025
2,468 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.3 minutes
Drive Alone
91.9%
Carpool
6.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
2.0%
Based on 656 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
New Mexico statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $167
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across New Mexico at $167 (electricity about $85 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are New Mexico statewide averages, not a meter reading for Milan. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
New Mexico's BEA cost-of-living index is 92.2 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Milan is $1,129/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to New Mexico statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 58.9 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a New Mexico statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Milan sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Milan compares to similar-size New Mexico 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.