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Silver Springs, NV

Silver Springs's Census ACS profile: residents, income, housing, and the joined public-record layers available for this place.

5,523
Residents
$53,105
Median income
$238,100
Median home
$1,428
Median rent (state)
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Sheet NV-SILVER-SPRINGS-NV · Silver Springs, NV 5,523 pop · income 24th pct

POP-TOWN · INC-MID · COL-PAR · SAFE-UNK · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · HOME-MID · BOOK-UNK

  • POP-TOWN 5,523
  • INC-MID $53,105
  • COL-PAR 100.0
  • SAFE-UNK Safety pending
  • RANK-LOWER 24th
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Smackover
  • HOME-MID $238,100
  • BOOK-UNK Tracts pending

Nearest income peer: Smackover, AR (+ $0 income $)

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 Silver Springs

Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Silver Springs on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.

median HH income

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.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-08

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Nationwide peers by population, income

Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Silver Springs 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: 5,523.

4 peers

Similar household income

Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS median household income. This city: $53,105. Population peers are excluded.

4 peers

Silver Springs - the verdict

Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Silver Springs places in the 24th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.

24th
percentile, household income
53rd
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: Silver Springs, NV

Census ACS 2023 estimates count 5,523 residents in Silver Springs, a small town within Nevada. Median household income here is $53,105 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 7.7%. Typical homes in Silver Springs are valued around $238,100, and the median resident age is 52.8 years. Educational attainment runs 13.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 42.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.

The city is served by 4 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.

Nevada tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Nevada scores 100.0 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,428 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $190 across Nevada, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 46.2 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).

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Useful questions to ask of Silver Springs'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 work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.

For Silver Springs, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares. No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, 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 Silver Springs?

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. 13.5% 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.

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Question 2

What does the journey to work look like in Silver Springs?

Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.5%. 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.

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3. Comparison shortlist

Which cities make useful reference points for Silver Springs?

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 Indian Hills (5,772 residents, $77,881 income); Gardnerville (5,811 residents, $67,878 income); Nellis AFB (4,755 residents, $67,036 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Berlin, WI (5,523 residents); Noroton, CT (5,522 residents); Gray, LA (5,524 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.

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4. Housing and income

How far does income reach against housing in Silver Springs?

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 7.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.

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Population

5,523 residents

Micro place (under 10k)

Median Household Income

$53,105 /yr

Low income · poverty 7.7% (Above-median poverty)

Cost of Living Index (state)

100.0 (US=100)

Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Nevada average

City profile score · Silver Springs, NV

33/100

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.

Poverty rate D
7.7%

Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.

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.

Household income F
$53,105

Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.

Bachelor's+ share F
13.5%

Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.

Violent crime N/A
N/A

No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).

Silver Springs profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions) 4-axis radar comparing 1 series across Poverty rate, Cost of living, Household income, Bachelor's+ share. Poverty rateCost of livingHousehold incomeBachelor's+ share 33 F
Silver Springs profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)
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  • Poverty rate: 49/100 (D) · 7.7%
  • Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
  • Household income: 24/100 (F) · $53,105
  • Bachelor's+ share: 16/100 (F) · 13.5%

How does Silver Springs compare to other US cities?

Silver Springs measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.

Household income 24% higher than other cities
Home value 53% pricier than other cities
Median rent 67% 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 Silver Springs 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 Silver Springs near the bottom of Nevada's cities

Among the 111 Nevada cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Silver Springs ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Silver Springs only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.

Median Household Income
#84 of 101
17th percentile in Nevada
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 111
0th percentile in Nevada
Median Home Value
#68 of 97
30th percentile in Nevada
Poverty Rate
#39 of 111
65th percentile in Nevada
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#75 of 111
32nd 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.

24thIncome percentile
Gauge source note

24th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.

How Silver Springs's home value compares nationally

Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)

$238,100 47th percentile more affordable than 47% of 15,600 US cities

Show national distribution $0–$25,000: 5 US cities (0%). Below this entry. $25,000–$50,000: 54 US cities (0%). Below this entry. $50,000–$75,000: 352 US cities (2%). Below this entry. $75,000–$100,000: 1,086 US cities (7%). Below this entry. $100,000–$125,000: 1,516 US cities (10%). Below this entry. $125,000–$150,000: 1,170 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $150,000–$175,000: 1,278 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $175,000–$200,000: 1,229 US cities (8%). Below this entry. $200,000–$225,000: 1,035 US cities (7%). Below this entry. $225,000–$250,000: 976 US cities (6%). This entry sits in this band. $250,000–$275,000: 754 US cities (5%). Above this entry. $275,000–$300,000: 712 US cities (5%). Above this entry. $300,000–$325,000: 521 US cities (3%). Above this entry. $325,000–$350,000: 526 US cities (3%). Above this entry. $350,000–$375,000: 465 US cities (3%). Above this entry. $375,000–$400,000: 393 US cities (3%). Above this entry. $400,000–$425,000: 317 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $425,000–$450,000: 300 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $450,000–$475,000: 307 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $475,000–$500,000: 250 US cities (2%). Above this entry. $500,000–$525,000: 160 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $525,000–$550,000: 156 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $550,000–$575,000: 172 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $575,000–$600,000: 172 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $600,000–$625,000: 163 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $625,000–$650,000: 167 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $650,000–$675,000: 135 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $675,000–$700,000: 101 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $700,000–$725,000: 95 US cities (1%). Above this entry. $725,000–$750,000: 71 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $750,000–$775,000: 65 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $775,000–$800,000: 70 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $800,000–$825,000: 57 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $825,000–$850,000: 67 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $850,000–$875,000: 60 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $875,000–$900,000: 58 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $900,000–$925,000: 47 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $925,000–$950,000: 37 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $950,000–$975,000: 31 US cities (0%). Above this entry. $975,000–$1,000,000: 470 US cities (3%). Above this entry. $1,000,000–$1,025,000: 0 US cities (0%). Above this entry. Silver Springs $0 $1,025,000 every US city, bucketed by value

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

Silver Springs'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
#11,935 of 15,516
More affordable than 23% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#9,154 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)

At 4.5×, Silver Springs sits in the moderate band: national rank #11,935 of 15,516 and #9,154 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

$53,105 Silver Springs, NV median household income (Census ACS)

Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Household income distribution - Silver Springs, NV Silver Springs, NV's median household income ($53,105) against the U.S. national quintile-share pattern. The Lorenz curve and quintile bars are national context, not Silver Springs, NV-specific shares. $ Household Income Distribution Silver Springs, NV median $53,105/yr, vs. U.S. national quintile pattern QUINTILE SHARE OF AGGREGATE INCOME Lowest 20% 3.4% Second 20% 9.2% Middle 20% 15.1% Fourth 20% 23.2% Top 20% 49.1% LORENZ CURVE cumulative income vs. population 100% 0% 100% pop. 0%
Silver Springs, 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 Silver Springs, NV.

Key socioeconomic indicators

Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+) 13.5%

Census ACS S1501, educational attainment

Poverty rate (households below FPL) 7.7%

Census ACS S1701, poverty status

Labor force participation (adults 16+) 42.2%

Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force

Population
5,523
Median Income
$53,105
Median Home Value
$238,100
Median Age
52.8
Poverty Rate
7.7%
Labor force participation
42.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
13.5%

Schools

Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city

Commute Patterns

Commute source

How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023

Drive Alone
73.5%
Carpool
20.5%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
4.6%
Other
1.0%

Based on 1,911 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 Silver Springs. 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 Silver Springs 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 Silver Springs sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.

How Silver Springs 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.

City Population Median Household Income
Silver Springs (this city) 5,523 $53,105
Indian Hills 5,772 $77,881
Gardnerville 5,811 $67,878
Nellis AFB 4,755 $67,036
NCES CCD
Primary sources on this page

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.

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Citation & verification links Data sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCities

Primary sources: Census ACS, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES. Joins use OMB Bulletin 23-01 / FIPS keys.

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