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SheetNY-FORT-SALONGA-NY · Fort Salonga, NY 10,203 pop · income 97th 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 Fort Salonga
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fort Salonga on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Cedartown · lowest
32,064
Cedartown · lowest
32,064 median HH income
12.8% of the leader · rank #1
Village of Gr… · near
182,000
Village of Gr… · near
182,000 median HH income
72.8% of the leader · rank #2
Briarcliffe A… · near
182,083
Briarcliffe A… · near
182,083 median HH income
72.8% of the leader · rank #3
Fort Salonga · this city
182,165
Fort Salonga · this city
182,165 median HH income
72.9% of the leader · rank #4
Sunol · near
182,250
Sunol · near
182,250 median HH income
72.9% of the leader · rank #5
Mirrormont · near
182,283
Mirrormont · near
182,283 median HH income
72.9% of the leader · rank #6
Difficult Run · highest
250,001
Difficult Run · highest
250,001 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 Fort Salonga 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: 10,203.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Fort Salonga lands in the 97th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
97th
percentile, household income
95th
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: Fort Salonga, NY
New York's Fort Salonga is a small town, with 10,203 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Fort Salonga households earn a median of $182,165 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.7%. Fort Salonga's housing stock carries a median value of $843,000, and the median resident age is 45.4 years. Educational attainment runs 59.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 60.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
New York carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts New York at 107.9 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). 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. 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 Fort Salonga'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 work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Fort Salonga, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Fort Salonga?
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Fort Salonga?
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 4.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Fort Salonga?
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 New Hyde Park (10,208 residents, $146,571 income); Massena (10,234 residents, $48,810 income); Oneida (10,240 residents, $60,380 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Hillcrest, CA (10,203 residents); Difficult Run, VA (10,202 residents); Rolesville, NC (10,200 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.
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 A+
$182,165
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
59.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
1.7%
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).
Fort Salonga profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $182,165
Bachelor's+ share: 91/100 (A+) · 59.6%
Poverty rate: 88/100 (A) · 1.7%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Fort Salonga compare to other US cities?
Here's how Fort Salonga stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income97% higher than other cities
Home value95% 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 Fort Salonga 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 Fort Salonga near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fort Salonga ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fort Salonga only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#80 of 1,205
93rd percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#118 of 1,202
90th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#924 of 1,246
25th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#199 of 1,254
84th 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
97th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Fort Salonga's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$843,0005th percentilemore affordable than 5% 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
Fort Salonga's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,239 of 15,516
More affordable than 21% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,424 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.6×, Fort Salonga sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,239 of 15,516 and #2,424 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$182,165Fort Salonga, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fort Salonga, 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 Fort Salonga, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)59.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,203
Median Income
$182,165
Median Home Value
$843,000
Median Age
45.4
Poverty Rate
1.7%
Labor force participation
60.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
59.6%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.1%
Carpool
3.3%
Public Transit
4.3%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
14.6%
Other
1.9%
Based on 4,871 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 Fort Salonga. 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 Fort Salonga 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 Fort Salonga sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fort Salonga 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.