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Place dossier plate
SheetNY-DEPEW-NY · Depew, NY 15,065 pop · income 56th 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 Depew
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Depew on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Laurinburg · lowest
39,258
Laurinburg · lowest
39,258 median HH income
36.9% of the leader · rank #1
Mulberry · near
75,223
Mulberry · near
75,223 median HH income
70.6% of the leader · rank #2
Depew · this city
75,226
Depew · this city
75,226 median HH income
70.6% of the leader · rank #3
Hi-Nella · near
75,227
Hi-Nella · near
75,227 median HH income
70.6% of the leader · rank #4
Winnie · near
75,227
Winnie · near
75,227 median HH income
70.6% of the leader · rank #5
Castle · near
75,230
Castle · near
75,230 median HH income
70.6% of the leader · rank #6
Mastic · highest
106,491
Mastic · highest
106,491 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 Depew 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: 15,065.
Depew ranks in the 56th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
56th
percentile, household income
37th
percentile, home value
78th
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: Depew, NY
New York's Depew is a small town, with 15,065 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Depew households earn a median of $75,226 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.1%. Depew's housing stock carries a median value of $180,800, and the median resident age is 41.4 years. About 24.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 64.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 0 residential units were authorized in 2024 (No Permits), down 100% from five years earlier.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $285 across New York, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 17.8 minutes, with 83.2% driving alone and 7.2% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 69.4 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Depew'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 population change to schools and households to housing and income 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 Depew, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is Depew growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -346 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 0 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.
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. 24.4% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Depew?
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 2.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Depew?
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 New York, the closest population matches are Riverhead (15,073 residents, $83,521 income); Tonawanda (15,044 residents, $61,619 income); Kenmore (15,097 residents, $75,768 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Gantt, SC (15,057 residents); West Park, FL (15,076 residents); Laurinburg, NC (15,079 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 Depew?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 83.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.8 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.
Drive alone
83.2%
Work from home
7.2%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 7,742 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 7.1% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.9 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New York average
D
City profile score · Depew, NY
42/100
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.
Household income C
$75,226
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C-
7.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share D
24.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Depew profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 55/100 (C) · $75,226
Poverty rate: 52/100 (C-) · 7.1%
Bachelor's+ share: 47/100 (D) · 24.4%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Depew compare to other US cities?
Depew measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income56% higher than other cities
Home value37% pricier than other cities
Median rent78% 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 Depew 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 Depew near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Depew ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Depew only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#696 of 1,205
42nd percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#747 of 1,202
38th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#449 of 1,246
64th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#862 of 1,254
31st 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
56th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Depew's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$180,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 63% 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
Depew's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,502 of 15,516
More affordable than 77% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#286 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.4×, Depew sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,502 of 15,516 and #286 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
$75,226Depew, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Depew, 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 Depew, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
15,065
Median Income
$75,226
Median Home Value
$180,800
Median Age
41.4
Poverty Rate
7.1%
Labor force participation
64.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.4%
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Depew's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
15,147 residents
2021
15,089 residents
2022
14,973 residents
2023
14,893 residents
2024
14,855 residents
2025
14,801 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
Total Permits (2024)
0
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
3
1
2
$0.5M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
0
0
0
-
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
2
0
2
$0.3M
2024
0
0
0
-
Permit volume decreased 100% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.8 minutes
Drive Alone
83.2%
Carpool
7.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
7.2%
Other
1.3%
Based on 7,742 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 Depew. 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 Depew 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 Depew sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Depew 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, 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.