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Place dossier plate
SheetNV-WEST-WENDOVER-NV · West Wendover, NV 4,507 pop · income 16th 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 West Wendover
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest West Wendover on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Austin · lowest
47,386
Austin · lowest
47,386 median HH income
23.9% of the leader · rank #1
West Wendover · this city
47,394
West Wendover · this city
47,394 median HH income
23.9% of the leader · rank #2
Hansen · near
47,396
Hansen · near
47,396 median HH income
23.9% of the leader · rank #3
Ashdown · near
47,398
Ashdown · near
47,398 median HH income
23.9% of the leader · rank #4
George West · near
47,402
George West · near
47,402 median HH income
23.9% of the leader · rank #5
Cross Mountain · highest
198,623
Cross Mountain · highest
198,623 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 West Wendover 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: 4,507.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
West Wendover - the verdict
West Wendover ranks in the 16th percentile for household income and the 25th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
16th
percentile, household income
67th
percentile, median rent
25th
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: West Wendover, NV
Nevada's West Wendover is a small town, with 4,507 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in West Wendover brings in $47,394 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 10.4%. The median resident age is 36.2 years. 8.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 81.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 2 residential building permits were authorized in West Wendover (Construction Slowdown), down 67% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2381.0 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,428 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Nevada run around $190, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 46.2 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of West Wendover'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 population change to schools and households to work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For West Wendover, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
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.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in West Wendover?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2381.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 4% higher 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.
Is West Wendover growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +52 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2 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.
What does the education layer cover for West Wendover?
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. 8.8% 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 West Wendover?
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 Nevada, the closest population matches are Lemmon Valley (4,385 residents, $91,132 income); Nellis AFB (4,755 residents, $67,036 income); Battle Mountain (3,957 residents, $78,149 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Jessup, PA (4,506 residents); Phoenix Lake, CA (4,505 residents); Stone Park, IL (4,504 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.
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 West Wendover?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.1%. 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
75.1%
Work from home
4.7%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,666 workers age 16+.
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 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
10.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$47,394
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
8.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
846 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
West Wendover profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 40/100 (D) · 100.0 index
Poverty rate: 38/100 (F) · 10.4%
Household income: 17/100 (F) · $47,394
Bachelor's+ share: 3/100 (F) · 8.8%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 846 /100k
How does West Wendover compare to other US cities?
Where West Wendover sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income16% higher than other cities
Median rent67% pricier than other cities
Safety25% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Nevada and the picture shifts: West Wendover ranks #8 of 10 Nevada cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares West Wendover 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 West Wendover near the bottom of Nevada's cities
Among the 111 Nevada cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, West Wendover ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares West Wendover only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#88 of 101
13th percentile in Nevada
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 111
0th percentile in Nevada
Poverty Rate
#27 of 111
76th percentile in Nevada
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#98 of 111
11th 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
16th percentile nationally for median household income · 25th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
West Wendover's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
West Wendover'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.
Income distribution context
$47,394West Wendover, NV median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context West Wendover, 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 West Wendover, NV.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)8.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)81.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,507
Median Income
$47,394
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
36.2
Poverty Rate
10.4%
Labor force participation
81.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
8.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2381.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
845.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1535.4
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
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
West Wendover's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,524 residents
2021
4,525 residents
2022
4,531 residents
2023
4,560 residents
2024
4,569 residents
2025
4,576 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
2
housing units authorized
Single-Family
2
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
6
6
0
$1.3M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
1
1
0
$0.3M
2022
3
3
0
$1.2M
2023
1
1
0
$0.4M
2024
2
2
0
$0.7M
Permit volume decreased 67% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.1%
Carpool
16.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.7%
Work from Home
4.7%
Based on 2,666 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 West Wendover. 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 West Wendover 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 West Wendover sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How West Wendover 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, 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.