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Place dossier plate
SheetPA-WAYNESBORO-PA · Waynesboro, PA 11,044 pop · income 33rd 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 Waynesboro
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Waynesboro on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Darby · lowest
45,128
Darby · lowest
45,128 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #1
Warrington · near
58,309
Warrington · near
58,309 median HH income
38.7% of the leader · rank #2
Jonesboro · near
58,309
Jonesboro · near
58,309 median HH income
38.7% of the leader · rank #3
Waynesboro · this city
58,311
Waynesboro · this city
58,311 median HH income
38.7% of the leader · rank #4
Munday · near
58,311
Munday · near
58,311 median HH income
38.7% of the leader · rank #5
Lockesburg · near
58,313
Lockesburg · near
58,313 median HH income
38.7% of the leader · rank #6
Barrington · highest
150,714
Barrington · highest
150,714 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 Waynesboro 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: 11,044.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Waynesboro - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Waynesboro lands in the 33rd percentile for household income and the 58th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
33rd
percentile, household income
37th
percentile, home value
54th
percentile, median rent
58th
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: Waynesboro, PA
Pennsylvania's Waynesboro is a small town, with 11,044 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Waynesboro report a median income of $58,311 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.8%. Home values in Waynesboro run a median of $180,400, and the median resident age is 36.8 years. About 17.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 63.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 59 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 269% from five years earlier. Waynesboro reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1146.4 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Pennsylvania tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Pennsylvania at 97.6 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,225 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $260 across Pennsylvania, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Waynesboro report an average commute of 22.5 minutes, with 84.6% driving alone and 5.7% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 67.4 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Waynesboro'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 schools and households to population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Waynesboro, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Waynesboro?
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 6 public schools within the city match. 17.9% 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 Waynesboro growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +174 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 59 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Waynesboro?
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 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Waynesboro?
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 Pennsylvania, the closest population matches are Lansdowne (11,064 residents, $69,261 income); Shiloh (11,022 residents, $82,205 income); Wyomissing (11,100 residents, $88,214 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Belle Chasse, LA (11,046 residents); Grandview, WA (11,042 residents); Union City, TN (11,040 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 Waynesboro?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 84.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.5 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
84.6%
Work from home
5.7%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 5,327 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Waynesboro?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1146.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 50% 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.
Total reported rate
1146.4
Violent rate
135.4
Property rate
1011.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Below median income · poverty 5.8% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.6 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Pennsylvania average
D
City profile score · Waynesboro, PA
47/100
5 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.
Violent crime C+
135 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C+
5.8%
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.
Household income F
$58,311
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Waynesboro profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 62/100 (C+) · 135 /100k
Poverty rate: 60/100 (C+) · 5.8%
Cost of living: 50/100 (C-) · 97.6 index
Household income: 32/100 (F) · $58,311
Bachelor's+ share: 28/100 (F) · 17.9%
Where Waynesboro sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Waynesboro'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 - Waynesboro highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Waynesboro, PA (this city): home $180,400, crime 1,146/100k
Grandview, WA : home $232,500, crime 2,328/100k
Union City, TN : home $138,400, crime 3,123/100k
Barrington, IL : home $580,900, crime 923/100k
Danville, IN : home $269,400, crime 812/100k
Lansdowne, PA : home $199,200, crime 1,743/100k
Wyomissing, PA : home $326,800, crime 1,867/100k
Darby, PA : home $101,900, crime 3,457/100k
How does Waynesboro compare to other US cities?
Here's how Waynesboro stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income33% higher than other cities
Home value37% pricier than other cities
Median rent54% pricier than other cities
Safety58% 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 Pennsylvania, Waynesboro ranks #253 of 402 Pennsylvania 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 Waynesboro 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 Waynesboro near the bottom of Pennsylvania's cities
Among the 1,865 Pennsylvania cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Waynesboro ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Waynesboro only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,173 of 1,765
34th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,865
0th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Home Value
#799 of 1,790
55th percentile in Pennsylvania
Poverty Rate
#913 of 1,856
50th percentile in Pennsylvania
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,158 of 1,861
38th 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
33rd percentile nationally for median household income · 58th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Waynesboro's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Waynesboro'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 Waynesboro's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$180,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 63% 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
Waynesboro's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,158 of 15,516
More affordable than 54% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,037 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.1×, Waynesboro sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,158 of 15,516 and #1,037 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$58,311Waynesboro, PA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Waynesboro, 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 Waynesboro, PA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
11,044
Median Income
$58,311
Median Home Value
$180,400
Median Age
36.8
Poverty Rate
5.8%
Labor force participation
63.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1146.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
135.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1011.0
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Waynesboro's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
11,016 residents
2021
11,028 residents
2022
11,017 residents
2023
11,062 residents
2024
11,092 residents
2025
11,190 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
59
housing units authorized
Single-Family
52
detached homes
Multifamily
7
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
16
14
2
$4.0M
2020
20
16
4
$4.8M
2021
12
12
0
$3.2M
2022
20
20
0
$5.6M
2023
27
27
0
$8.9M
2024
59
52
7
$18.7M
Permit volume increased 269% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.5 minutes
Drive Alone
84.6%
Carpool
4.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
4.1%
Work from Home
5.7%
Other
1.0%
Based on 5,327 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 Waynesboro. 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 Waynesboro 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 Waynesboro sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Waynesboro 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, 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.