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SheetNV-PANACA-NV · Panaca, NV 1,272 pop · income 38th pct · 2 tracts
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 Panaca
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Panaca on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
María Antonia… · lowest
23,083
María Antonia… · lowest
23,083 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #1
Oshkosh · near
61,929
Oshkosh · near
61,929 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #2
Caryville · near
61,932
Caryville · near
61,932 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #3
Juda · near
61,932
Juda · near
61,932 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #4
Panaca · this city
61,935
Panaca · this city
61,935 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #5
Winburne · near
61,940
Winburne · near
61,940 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #6
Nashotah · highest
143,750
Nashotah · highest
143,750 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Panaca on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 1,272.
Nationally, Panaca sits in the 38th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
38th
percentile, household income
61st
percentile, home value
67th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Panaca, NV
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 1,272 residents in Panaca, a small town within Nevada. Households in Panaca report a median income of $61,935 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 10.1%. Home values in Panaca run a median of $277,800, and the median resident age is 31.2 years. About 31.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 49.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 3 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
Nevada tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Nevada at 100.0 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,428 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Nevada run around $190, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 46.2 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Panaca'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 housing and income to within-city variation to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Panaca, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates; 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 Panaca?
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 3 public schools within the city match. 31.3% 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 Panaca?
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.
Within Nevada, the closest population matches are Fallon Station (1,250 residents); Genoa (1,231 residents, $125,952 income); Grass Valley (1,216 residents, $95,852 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Griggsville, IL (1,272 residents); Mayville, NY (1,272 residents); Nashotah, WI (1,272 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Panaca?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
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 Panaca?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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
70.3%
Work from home
3.2%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 401 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 10.1% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.0 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Nevada average
D
City profile score · Panaca, NV
43/100
4 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.
Bachelor's+ share C+
31.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living D
100.0 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 F
10.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$61,935
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Panaca profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 60/100 (C+) · 31.3%
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Poverty rate: 39/100 (F) · 10.1%
Household income: 37/100 (F) · $61,935
How does Panaca compare to other US cities?
Where Panaca sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income38% higher than other cities
Home value61% pricier than other cities
Median rent67% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Panaca against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Nevada only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Nevada-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Panaca near the bottom of Nevada's cities
Among the 111 Nevada cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Panaca ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Panaca only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#72 of 101
29th percentile in Nevada
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 111
0th percentile in Nevada
Median Home Value
#61 of 97
36th percentile in Nevada
Poverty Rate
#29 of 111
74th percentile in Nevada
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#30 of 111
73rd percentile in Nevada
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 Nevada only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
38th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Panaca's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$277,80039th percentilemore affordable than 39% 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
Panaca's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,939 of 15,516
More affordable than 23% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#9,156 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.5×, Panaca sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,939 of 15,516 and #9,156 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
$61,935Panaca, NV median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Panaca, NV median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Panaca, NV.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)31.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)49.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,272
Median Income
$61,935
Median Home Value
$277,800
Median Age
31.2
Poverty Rate
10.1%
Labor force participation
49.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
31.3%
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
70.3%
Carpool
26.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
3.2%
Based on 401 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Nevada statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $190
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Nevada at $190 (electricity about $105 , water and sewer about $55 ).
These are Nevada statewide averages, not a meter reading for Panaca. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Nevada's BEA cost-of-living index is 100.0 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Panaca is $1,428/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Nevada statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 46.2 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Nevada statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Panaca sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Panaca compares to similar-size Nevada 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, 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.