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SheetNY-WHEATLEY-HEIGHTS-NY · Wheatley Heights, NY 5,266 pop · income 89th 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 Wheatley Heights
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Wheatley Heights on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mechanicville · lowest
47,331
Mechanicville · lowest
47,331 median HH income
18.9% of the leader · rank #1
Grandview · near
127,537
Grandview · near
127,537 median HH income
51.0% of the leader · rank #2
Fort Mill · near
127,537
Fort Mill · near
127,537 median HH income
51.0% of the leader · rank #3
Cherry Grove · near
127,558
Cherry Grove · near
127,558 median HH income
51.0% of the leader · rank #4
Wheatley Heig… · this city
127,589
Wheatley Heig… · this city
127,589 median HH income
51.0% of the leader · rank #5
Amboy · near
127,639
Amboy · near
127,639 median HH income
51.1% of the leader · rank #6
Fox Chapel · highest
250,001
Fox Chapel · 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 Wheatley Heights 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: 5,266.
Nationally, Wheatley Heights sits in the 89th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
89th
percentile, household income
85th
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: Wheatley Heights, NY
5,266 people live in Wheatley Heights, New York - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Wheatley Heights report a median income of $127,589 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.2%. Wheatley Heights's housing stock carries a median value of $500,900, and the median resident age is 38.1 years. Educational attainment runs 34.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 64.7% 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,579 per month. 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 Wheatley Heights'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 Wheatley Heights, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Wheatley Heights?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 53.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in Wheatley Heights?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Wheatley Heights?
Within New York, the closest population matches are Firthcliffe (5,268 residents, $98,801 income); Westvale (5,293 residents, $101,326 income); Islip Terrace (5,223 residents, $155,741 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are La Crescent, MN (5,266 residents); Peppermill, MD (5,268 residents); Fox Chapel, PA (5,264 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.
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.
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
$127,589
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B-
34.7%
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).
Wheatley Heights profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 89/100 (A) · $127,589
Poverty rate: 84/100 (A-) · 2.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 66/100 (B-) · 34.7%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Wheatley Heights compare to other US cities?
Wheatley Heights measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income89% higher than other cities
Home value85% 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 Wheatley Heights 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 Wheatley Heights near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Wheatley Heights ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Wheatley Heights only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#282 of 1,205
77th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#311 of 1,202
74th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#858 of 1,246
30th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#591 of 1,254
53rd 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
89th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Wheatley Heights's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$500,90015th percentilemore affordable than 15% 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,478 of 15,516
More affordable than 32% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,221 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.9×, Wheatley Heights sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,478 of 15,516 and #8,221 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$127,589Wheatley Heights, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Wheatley Heights, 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 Wheatley Heights, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,266
Median Income
$127,589
Median Home Value
$500,900
Median Age
38.1
Poverty Rate
2.2%
Labor force participation
64.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.7%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
53.2%
Carpool
10.2%
Public Transit
15.9%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
14.0%
Other
6.7%
Based on 2,579 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 Wheatley Heights. 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 Wheatley Heights 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 Wheatley Heights sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Wheatley Heights 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.