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SheetNY-LAWRENCE-NY · Lawrence, NY 6,771 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 Lawrence
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lawrence on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bonne Terre · lowest
39,767
Bonne Terre · lowest
39,767 median HH income
18.1% of the leader · rank #1
Ocoee · near
174,773
Ocoee · near
174,773 median HH income
79.7% of the leader · rank #2
Lawrence · this city
174,787
Lawrence · this city
174,787 median HH income
79.7% of the leader · rank #3
Norbourne Est… · near
174,844
Norbourne Est… · near
174,844 median HH income
79.8% of the leader · rank #4
Mettawa · near
175,074
Mettawa · near
175,074 median HH income
79.9% of the leader · rank #5
Palm Beach · near
175,078
Palm Beach · near
175,078 median HH income
79.9% of the leader · rank #6
Belle Mead · highest
219,215
Belle Mead · highest
219,215 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 Lawrence 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: 6,771.
Lawrence ranks in the 97th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
97th
percentile, household income
98th
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: Lawrence, NY
6,771 people live in Lawrence, New York - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Lawrence report a median income of $174,787 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. Lawrence's housing stock carries a median value of $1,231,800, and the median resident age is 34.8 years. About 73.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 46.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 6 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 33% from five years earlier.
New York carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, New York scores 107.9 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,579 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in New York run around $285, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Lawrence'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 schools and households to work and mobility to housing and income to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lawrence, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Lawrence?
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 University at Buffalo (6,776 residents); Bayville (6,744 residents, $143,571 income); South Hill (6,805 residents, $112,437 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are South Monroe, MI (6,771 residents); Belle Mead, NJ (6,772 residents); Atlantic, IA (6,773 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.
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 73.6% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Lawrence?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 60.8%. 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 Lawrence?
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 7.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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 Lawrence growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +54 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 6 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
2020 estimate
6,793
2025 estimate
6,847
Period change
+0.8%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Top-decile income · poverty 0.0% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.9 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New York average
B+
City profile score · Lawrence, NY
78/100
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 A+
$174,787
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A+
0.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A+
73.6%
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).
Lawrence profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $174,787
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) · 0.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 73.6%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Lawrence compare to other US cities?
Where Lawrence sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income97% higher than other cities
Home value98% 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lawrence ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lawrence only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#102 of 1,205
92nd percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#55 of 1,202
95th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#1,032 of 1,246
0th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#74 of 1,254
94th 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 Lawrence's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$1,231,8002nd percentilemore affordable than 2% 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
Lawrence's home-value-to-income ratio: 7.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,690 of 15,516
More affordable than 5% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,813 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 7.0×, Lawrence sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,690 of 15,516 and #10,813 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$174,787Lawrence, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lawrence, 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 Lawrence, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)73.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)46.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,771
Median Income
$174,787
Median Home Value
$1,231,800
Median Age
34.8
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
46.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
73.6%
Schools
Total Schools
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lawrence's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,793 residents
2021
6,792 residents
2022
6,772 residents
2023
6,785 residents
2024
6,836 residents
2025
6,847 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
6
housing units authorized
Single-Family
6
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
9
9
0
$11.7M
2020
6
6
0
$8.1M
2021
7
7
0
$9.8M
2022
8
8
0
$11.1M
2023
9
9
0
$34.1M
2024
6
6
0
$4.4M
Permit volume decreased 33% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
60.8%
Carpool
9.2%
Public Transit
14.3%
Walk
2.5%
Work from Home
10.4%
Other
2.8%
Based on 2,262 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 Lawrence. 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lawrence 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.