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SheetPA-BEECH-MOUNTAIN-LAKES-PA · Beech Mountain Lakes, PA 1,920 pop · income 88th 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 Beech Mountain Lakes
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Beech Mountain Lakes on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Sesser · lowest
52,326
Sesser · lowest
52,326 median HH income
43.2% of the leader · rank #1
Rossville · near
121,116
Rossville · near
121,116 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #2
Crozet · near
121,153
Crozet · near
121,153 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #3
Beech Mountai… · this city
121,154
Beech Mountai… · this city
121,154 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Sunnyside-Tah… · near
121,154
Sunnyside-Tah… · near
121,154 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Ballwin · highest
121,170
Ballwin · highest
121,170 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Beech Mountain Lakes 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: 1,920.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Beech Mountain Lakes places in the 88th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
88th
percentile, household income
47th
percentile, home value
54th
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: Beech Mountain Lakes, PA
1,920 people live in Beech Mountain Lakes, Pennsylvania - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Beech Mountain Lakes report a median income of $121,154 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.6%. Typical homes in Beech Mountain Lakes are valued around $214,900, and the median resident age is 45.5 years. About 40.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 70.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Pennsylvania tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Pennsylvania scores 97.6 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,225 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Pennsylvania's average monthly utility costs around $260 (state average). On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 67.4 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Beech Mountain Lakes'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 work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Beech Mountain Lakes, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Beech Mountain Lakes?
Within Pennsylvania, the closest population matches are West Hamburg (1,920 residents, $73,712 income); Ben Avon (1,919 residents, $100,353 income); Southwest Greensburg (1,927 residents, $63,125 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pinckney, MI (1,920 residents); Port Dickinson, NY (1,920 residents); Sesser, IL (1,919 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Beech Mountain Lakes?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 1.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.6%, 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. 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Beech Mountain Lakes?
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 83.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Pennsylvania average
B-
City profile score · Beech Mountain Lakes, PA
69/100
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
$121,154
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
40.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living C-
97.6 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).
Beech Mountain Lakes profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 86/100 (A) · $121,154
Bachelor's+ share: 76/100 (B+) · 40.8%
Poverty rate: 62/100 (C+) · 5.6%
Cost of living: 50/100 (C-) · 97.6 index
How does Beech Mountain Lakes compare to other US cities?
Where Beech Mountain Lakes sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income88% higher than other cities
Home value47% pricier than other cities
Median rent54% 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 Beech Mountain Lakes against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Pennsylvania only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Pennsylvania-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Beech Mountain Lakes near the bottom of Pennsylvania's cities
Among the 1,865 Pennsylvania cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Beech Mountain Lakes ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Beech Mountain Lakes only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#108 of 1,765
94th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,865
0th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Home Value
#555 of 1,790
69th percentile in Pennsylvania
Poverty Rate
#934 of 1,856
49th percentile in Pennsylvania
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#279 of 1,861
85th percentile in Pennsylvania
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 Pennsylvania only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
88th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Beech Mountain Lakes's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$214,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 53% 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
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#935 of 15,516
More affordable than 94% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#906 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 1.8×, Beech Mountain Lakes sits in the affordable band:
national rank #935 of 15,516 and #906 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$121,154Beech Mountain Lakes, PA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Beech Mountain Lakes, PA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Beech Mountain Lakes, PA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)40.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)70.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,920
Median Income
$121,154
Median Home Value
$214,900
Median Age
45.5
Poverty Rate
5.6%
Labor force participation
70.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
40.8%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
83.0%
Carpool
11.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
4.4%
Other
1.6%
Based on 1,024 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Pennsylvania statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $260
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Pennsylvania at $260 (electricity about $120 , water and sewer about $52 ).
These are Pennsylvania statewide averages, not a meter reading for Beech Mountain Lakes. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Pennsylvania's BEA cost-of-living index is 97.6 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Beech Mountain Lakes is $1,225/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Pennsylvania statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 67.4 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Pennsylvania statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Beech Mountain Lakes sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Beech Mountain Lakes compares to similar-size Pennsylvania 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.