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SheetNY-BINGHAMTON-NY · Binghamton, NY 47,357 pop · income 12th pct · 57 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 Binghamton
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Binghamton on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Monroe · lowest
36,521
Monroe · lowest
36,521 median HH income
24.7% of the leader · rank #1
Anderson · near
44,321
Anderson · near
44,321 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #2
Tifton · near
44,324
Tifton · near
44,324 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #3
Binghamton · this city
44,331
Binghamton · this city
44,331 median HH income
30.0% of the leader · rank #4
Lauderdale La… · near
44,333
Lauderdale La… · near
44,333 median HH income
30.0% of the leader · rank #5
Noma · near
44,333
Noma · near
44,333 median HH income
30.0% of the leader · rank #6
Hicksville · highest
148,008
Hicksville · highest
148,008 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 Binghamton 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: 47,357.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Binghamton - the verdict
Nationally, Binghamton sits in the 12th percentile for household income and the 8th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
12th
percentile, household income
16th
percentile, home value
78th
percentile, median rent
8th
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: Binghamton, NY
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 47,357 residents in Binghamton, a small city within New York. Households in Binghamton report a median income of $44,331 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 21.8%. Typical homes in Binghamton are valued around $117,400, and the median resident age is 35.1 years. 30.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 50.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 65 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Growing), up 5% from five years earlier. Binghamton's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 3945.8 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Binghamton's yearly average temperature at 46.3°F with 42.0 inches of precipitation per year and 86.5 inches of snowfall.
New York carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 107.9 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,579 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in New York run around $285, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Binghamton workers runs 18.1 minutes, with 63.8% driving alone and 8.0% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 69.4 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Binghamton'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 work and mobility to comparison shortlist to population change to schools and households to climate and hazard context to housing and income to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Binghamton, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Binghamton?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3945.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 73% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Binghamton?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 63.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.1 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Binghamton?
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 York, the closest population matches are Niagara Falls (48,198 residents, $48,535 income); West Seneca (45,329 residents, $75,465 income); Irondequoit (50,438 residents, $76,871 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Brea, CA (47,337 residents); Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (47,257 residents); Monroe, LA (47,241 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.
What can 57 Census tracts reveal inside Binghamton?
PlainCities matches 57 Census tracts to this city.
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.
Population change
Is Binghamton growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -1,322 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 65 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 downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
2020 estimate
47,740
2025 estimate
46,418
Period change
-2.8%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the education layer cover for Binghamton?
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 20 public schools within the city match. 30.8% 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.
Poverty estimate
21.8%
Bachelor's degree+
30.8%
Matched public schools
20
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What physical conditions frame life in Binghamton?
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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 46.3°F, with 42.0 inches of precipitation and 86.5 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for New York is 69.4 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
69.4
Annual precipitation
42.0 in
Mean temperature
46.3°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
How far does income reach against housing in Binghamton?
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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 21.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.6×
Home value
$117,400
Household income
$44,331
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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
30.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
533 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$44,331
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cost of living F
107.9 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
21.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Binghamton profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 59/100 (C) · 30.8%
Violent crime: 14/100 (F) · 533 /100k
Household income: 13/100 (F) · $44,331
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
Poverty rate: 10/100 (F) · 21.8%
Where Binghamton sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Binghamton'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 - Binghamton highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Binghamton, NY (this city): home $117,400, crime 3,946/100k
Brea, CA : home $874,300, crime 3,076/100k
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA : home $907,900, crime 605/100k
Monroe, LA : home $174,800, crime 7,626/100k
Roseville, MI : home $142,700, crime 3,833/100k
Mentor, OH : home $229,500, crime 1,473/100k
Niagara Falls, NY : home $104,400, crime 3,309/100k
Troy, NY : home $192,500, crime 3,244/100k
How does Binghamton compare to other US cities?
Here's how Binghamton stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income12% higher than other cities
Home value16% pricier than other cities
Median rent78% pricier than other cities
Safety8% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just New York and the picture shifts: Binghamton ranks #49 of 55 New York cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Binghamton against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to New York only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
New York-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Binghamton near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Binghamton ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Binghamton only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,155 of 1,205
4th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#1,025 of 1,202
15th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#66 of 1,246
95th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#674 of 1,254
46th percentile in New York
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 York only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
12th percentile nationally for median household income · 8th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Binghamton's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Binghamton'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 Binghamton's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$117,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 84% 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
Binghamton's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,752 of 15,516
More affordable than 69% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#492 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.6×, Binghamton sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,752 of 15,516 and #492 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$44,331Binghamton, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Binghamton, NY median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Binghamton, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)30.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)21.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)50.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
47,357
Median Income
$44,331
Median Home Value
$117,400
Median Age
35.1
Poverty Rate
21.8%
Labor force participation
50.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
30.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3945.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
532.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3413.3
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
46.3°F
Annual Precipitation
42.0"
Annual Snowfall
86.5"
Schools
Total Schools
20
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Binghamton's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
47,740 residents
2021
47,409 residents
2022
46,939 residents
2023
46,568 residents
2024
46,529 residents
2025
46,418 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
65
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
65
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
62
0
62
$11.6M
2020
50
0
50
$9.4M
2021
65
0
65
$12.2M
2022
59
0
59
$11.1M
2023
55
0
55
$10.3M
2024
65
0
65
$12.2M
Permit volume increased 5% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.1 minutes
Drive Alone
63.8%
Carpool
9.7%
Public Transit
7.8%
Walk
6.6%
Work from Home
8.0%
Other
4.1%
Based on 19,543 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
New York statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $285
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across New York at $285 (electricity about $130 , water and sewer about $65 ).
These are New York statewide averages, not a meter reading for Binghamton. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
New York's BEA cost-of-living index is 107.9 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Binghamton is $1,579/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to New York statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 69.4 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a New York statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Binghamton sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Binghamton compares to similar-size New York 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 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.