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SheetNY-EAST-KINGSTON-NY · East Kingston, NY 219 pop · income 49th 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 East Kingston
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest East Kingston on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Huetter · lowest
36,719
Huetter · lowest
36,719 median HH income
22.7% of the leader · rank #1
East Kingston · this city
69,306
East Kingston · this city
69,306 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #2
Mauriceville · near
69,306
Mauriceville · near
69,306 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #3
Kulm · near
69,318
Kulm · near
69,318 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #4
Glenwood · near
69,320
Glenwood · near
69,320 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #5
Carroll · near
69,323
Carroll · near
69,323 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #6
Thousand Isla… · highest
161,500
Thousand Isla… · highest
161,500 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 East Kingston 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: 219.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, East Kingston lands in the 49th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
49th
percentile, household income
41st
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: East Kingston, NY
East Kingston is a small town in New York, home to 219 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. East Kingston households earn a median of $69,306 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 17.5%. East Kingston's housing stock carries a median value of $192,900, and the median resident age is 40.4 years. Educational attainment runs 16.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 82.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,579 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $285 across New York, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 East Kingston'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 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 East Kingston, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in East Kingston?
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 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 17.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in East Kingston?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 86.5%. 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. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Which cities make useful reference points for East Kingston?
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 South Lima (219 residents, $78,750 income); Altmar (222 residents, $44,583 income); Glen Aubrey (216 residents, $71,250 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Vandervoort, AR (219 residents); Axson, GA (219 residents); Huetter, ID (219 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.
Below median income · poverty 17.5% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.9 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New York average
F
City profile score · East Kingston, NY
27/100
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 D
$69,306
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
16.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
17.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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).
East Kingston profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 48/100 (D) · $69,306
Bachelor's+ share: 25/100 (F) · 16.8%
Poverty rate: 18/100 (F) · 17.5%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does East Kingston compare to other US cities?
Where East Kingston sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income49% higher than other cities
Home value41% 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 East Kingston 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 East Kingston near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, East Kingston ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares East Kingston only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#781 of 1,205
35th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#689 of 1,202
43rd percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#126 of 1,246
90th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,090 of 1,254
13th 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
49th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How East Kingston's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$192,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 59% 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
East Kingston's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,495 of 15,516
More affordable than 65% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,782 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.8×, East Kingston sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,495 of 15,516 and #4,782 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$69,306East Kingston, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context East Kingston, 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 East Kingston, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)16.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)17.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)82.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
219
Median Income
$69,306
Median Home Value
$192,900
Median Age
40.4
Poverty Rate
17.5%
Labor force participation
82.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
16.8%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
86.5%
Carpool
6.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
7.4%
Based on 148 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 East Kingston. 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 East Kingston 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 East Kingston sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How East Kingston 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, 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.