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Place dossier plate
SheetOK-NEWCASTLE-OK · Newcastle, OK 12,238 pop · income 76th pct · 9 tracts
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 Newcastle
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Newcastle on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Miami · lowest
45,900
Miami · lowest
45,900 median HH income
32.8% of the leader · rank #1
Fairview Beach · near
97,308
Fairview Beach · near
97,308 median HH income
69.5% of the leader · rank #2
Idamay · near
97,311
Idamay · near
97,311 median HH income
69.5% of the leader · rank #3
Newcastle · this city
97,315
Newcastle · this city
97,315 median HH income
69.5% of the leader · rank #4
Markleeville · near
97,321
Markleeville · near
97,321 median HH income
69.5% of the leader · rank #5
Telluride · near
97,330
Telluride · near
97,330 median HH income
69.5% of the leader · rank #6
East Renton H… · highest
140,048
East Renton H… · highest
140,048 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Newcastle on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 12,238.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Newcastle - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Newcastle lands in the 76th percentile for household income and the 66th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
76th
percentile, household income
57th
percentile, home value
14th
percentile, median rent
66th
percentile, safety
📝 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: Newcastle, OK
Oklahoma's Newcastle is a small town, with 12,238 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Newcastle brings in $97,315 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.7%. Newcastle's housing stock carries a median value of $255,100, and the median resident age is 40.1 years. Educational attainment runs 34.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 63.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 160 residential building permits were authorized in Newcastle (Construction Slowdown), down 52% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Newcastle reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 960.5 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Oklahoma run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Oklahoma scores 87.8 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $995 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Oklahoma's average monthly utility costs around $205 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 55.5 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Newcastle'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 within-city variation to reported crime to schools and households to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Newcastle, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can 9 Census tracts reveal inside Newcastle?
PlainCities matches 9 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Newcastle?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 960.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 58% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
What does the education layer cover for Newcastle?
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. 34.6% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Newcastle?
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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Oklahoma, the closest population matches are Choctaw (12,208 residents, $96,446 income); Weatherford (12,014 residents, $50,250 income); Woodward (11,976 residents, $60,720 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pennsville, NJ (12,238 residents); Maili, HI (12,236 residents); East Renton Highlands, WA (12,241 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.
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 Newcastle?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.8%. 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.
Drive alone
81.8%
Work from home
11.2%
Public transit
0.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 6,174 workers age 16+.
Is Newcastle growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +4,027 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +36.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 160 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 upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
11,171
2025 estimate
15,198
Period change
+36.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Newcastle?
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 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.6×
Home value
$255,100
Household income
$97,315
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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.
Cost of living A+
87.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate A
1.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income B+
$97,315
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B-
34.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime C+
126 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Newcastle profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Poverty rate: 88/100 (A) · 1.7%
Household income: 76/100 (B+) · $97,315
Bachelor's+ share: 66/100 (B-) · 34.6%
Violent crime: 64/100 (C+) · 126 /100k
Where Newcastle sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Newcastle's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Newcastle highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Newcastle, OK (this city): home $255,100, crime 961/100k
Beatrice, NE : home $152,900, crime 905/100k
Leeds, AL : home $220,400, crime 2,909/100k
El Campo, TX : home $183,400, crime 2,314/100k
Choctaw, OK : home $223,900, crime 1,379/100k
Weatherford, OK : home $233,700, crime 450/100k
Woodward, OK : home $164,200, crime 1,701/100k
Guymon, OK : home $171,800, crime 1,216/100k
Miami, OK : home $102,600, crime 3,381/100k
Elk City, OK : home $165,300, crime 1,259/100k
How does Newcastle compare to other US cities?
Here's how Newcastle stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income76% higher than other cities
Home value57% pricier than other cities
Median rent14% pricier than other cities
Safety66% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Oklahoma, Newcastle ranks #57 of 203 Oklahoma cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Newcastle against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Oklahoma only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Oklahoma-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Newcastle near the bottom of Oklahoma's cities
Among the 671 Oklahoma cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Newcastle ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Newcastle only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#30 of 639
95th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 671
0th percentile in Oklahoma
Median Home Value
#22 of 628
96th percentile in Oklahoma
Poverty Rate
#599 of 671
11th percentile in Oklahoma
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#54 of 671
92nd percentile in Oklahoma
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 Oklahoma only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
76th percentile nationally for median household income · 66th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Newcastle's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Newcastle's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Newcastle's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$255,10043rd percentilemore affordable than 43% 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
Newcastle's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,626 of 15,516
More affordable than 70% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#469 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.6×, Newcastle sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,626 of 15,516 and #469 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
$97,315Newcastle, OK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Newcastle, OK median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Newcastle, OK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
12,238
Median Income
$97,315
Median Home Value
$255,100
Median Age
40.1
Poverty Rate
1.7%
Labor force participation
63.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
960.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
125.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
834.7
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
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
Newcastle's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
11,171 residents
2021
12,159 residents
2022
13,075 residents
2023
13,985 residents
2024
14,698 residents
2025
15,198 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
160
housing units authorized
Single-Family
152
detached homes
Multifamily
8
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
13.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
332
328
4
$57.7M
2020
382
327
55
$67.3M
2021
320
312
8
$77.3M
2022
320
266
54
$68.1M
2023
251
217
34
$50.2M
2024
160
152
8
$42.8M
Permit volume decreased 52% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.8%
Carpool
6.2%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
0.1%
Work from Home
11.2%
Based on 6,174 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Oklahoma statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $205
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Oklahoma at $205 (electricity about $115 , water and sewer about $40 ).
These are Oklahoma statewide averages, not a meter reading for Newcastle. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Oklahoma's BEA cost-of-living index is 87.8 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Newcastle is $995/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Oklahoma statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 55.5 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Oklahoma statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Newcastle sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Newcastle compares to similar-size Oklahoma 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, FBI UCR, 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.