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SheetNY-JOHNSON-CITY-NY · Johnson City, NY 15,130 pop · income 22nd 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 Johnson City
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Johnson City on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lebanon · lowest
42,157
Lebanon · lowest
42,157 median HH income
39.6% of the leader · rank #1
Johnson City · this city
51,667
Johnson City · this city
51,667 median HH income
48.5% of the leader · rank #2
Allerton · near
51,667
Allerton · near
51,667 median HH income
48.5% of the leader · rank #3
Roodhouse · near
51,667
Roodhouse · near
51,667 median HH income
48.5% of the leader · rank #4
Farmersburg · near
51,667
Farmersburg · near
51,667 median HH income
48.5% of the leader · rank #5
Plainville · near
51,667
Plainville · near
51,667 median HH income
48.5% 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 Johnson City 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: 15,130.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Johnson City lands in the 22nd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
22nd
percentile, household income
13th
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: Johnson City, NY
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 15,130 residents in Johnson City, a small town within New York. The typical household in Johnson City brings in $51,667 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 8.6%. Johnson City's housing stock carries a median value of $110,600, and the median resident age is 41.3 years. Educational attainment runs 29.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 53.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 1 residential building permits were authorized in Johnson City (Low Activity), per Census BPS data.
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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,579 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts New York's average monthly utility costs around $285 (state average). The average commute for Johnson City workers runs 14.3 minutes, with 68.2% driving alone and 8.2% 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 Johnson City'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income to schools and households to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Johnson City, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, 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.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Johnson City?
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 Kenmore (15,097 residents, $75,768 income); Riverhead (15,073 residents, $83,521 income); Depew (15,065 residents, $75,226 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Mineral Wells, TX (15,130 residents); Belmont, NC (15,140 residents); Glasgow, KY (15,141 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Johnson City?
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 2.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the education layer cover for Johnson City?
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. 29.3% 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.
Is Johnson City growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -570 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1 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.
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 Johnson City?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 68.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 14.3 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
68.2%
Work from home
8.2%
Public transit
2.8%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 6,740 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.
Bachelor's+ share C
29.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$51,667
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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Johnson City profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 57/100 (C) · 29.3%
Poverty rate: 45/100 (D) · 8.6%
Household income: 23/100 (F) · $51,667
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Johnson City compare to other US cities?
Here's how Johnson City stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income22% higher than other cities
Home value13% 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 Johnson City 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 Johnson City near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Johnson City ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Johnson City only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,064 of 1,205
12th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#1,061 of 1,202
12th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#370 of 1,246
70th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#709 of 1,254
43rd 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
22nd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Johnson City's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$110,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 87% 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
Johnson City's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,181 of 15,516
More affordable than 86% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#113 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.1×, Johnson City sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,181 of 15,516 and #113 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
$51,667Johnson City, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Johnson City, 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 Johnson City, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)29.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
15,130
Median Income
$51,667
Median Home Value
$110,600
Median Age
41.3
Poverty Rate
8.6%
Labor force participation
53.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
29.3%
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
Johnson City's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
15,150 residents
2021
15,091 residents
2022
14,936 residents
2023
14,734 residents
2024
14,658 residents
2025
14,580 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Low Activity
Total Permits (2024)
1
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
1
1
0
$1.3M
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
14.3 minutes
Drive Alone
68.2%
Carpool
12.0%
Public Transit
2.8%
Walk
4.5%
Work from Home
8.2%
Other
4.3%
Based on 6,740 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 Johnson City. 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 Johnson City 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 Johnson City sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Johnson City 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.