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SheetRI-WARWICK-RI · Warwick, RI 82,871 pop · income 69th pct · 11 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 Warwick
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Warwick on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Central Falls · lowest
45,921
Central Falls · lowest
45,921 median HH income
39.8% of the leader · rank #1
Magna metro t… · near
87,516
Magna metro t… · near
87,516 median HH income
75.8% of the leader · rank #2
Warwick · this city
87,536
Warwick · this city
87,536 median HH income
75.8% of the leader · rank #3
Lake Wildwood · near
87,552
Lake Wildwood · near
87,552 median HH income
75.8% of the leader · rank #4
Carteret · near
87,553
Carteret · near
87,553 median HH income
75.8% of the leader · rank #5
Sioux Center · near
87,555
Sioux Center · near
87,555 median HH income
75.8% of the leader · rank #6
Waldorf · highest
115,453
Waldorf · highest
115,453 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 Warwick 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: 82,871.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Warwick - the verdict
Warwick ranks in the 69th percentile for household income and the 55th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
69th
percentile, household income
68th
percentile, home value
86th
percentile, median rent
55th
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: Warwick, RI
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 82,871 residents in Warwick, a small city within Rhode Island. Warwick households earn a median of $87,536 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 3.6%. Warwick's housing stock carries a median value of $322,000, and the median resident age is 44.6 years. About 33.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 62.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 317 residential building permits were authorized in Warwick (Building Boom), up 230% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Warwick reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1226.6 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Rhode Island tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Rhode Island at 102.3 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,729 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Rhode Island run around $318, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Warwick report an average commute of 22.2 minutes, with 79.3% driving alone and 11.1% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 56.6 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Warwick'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 housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Warwick, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Within-city variation
What can 11 Census tracts reveal inside Warwick?
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.
PlainCities matches 11 Census tracts to this city.
How far does income reach against housing in Warwick?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.6%, 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. 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Warwick?
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 79.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.2 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Warwick?
Within Rhode Island, the closest population matches are Cranston (82,632 residents, $87,716 income); Pawtucket (75,280 residents, $67,436 income); East Providence (46,970 residents, $79,660 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Longview, TX (82,765 residents); Buena Park, CA (83,052 residents); Waldorf, MD (82,541 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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Warwick?
The NCES join finds 18 public schools within the city match. 33.2% 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.
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.
Matched public schools
18
Bachelor's degree+
33.2%
Poverty estimate
3.6%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Warwick?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1226.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 46% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1147.1
Violent rate
79.5
Total reported rate
1226.6
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,327 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 317 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+1.6%
2025 estimate
84,187
2020 estimate
82,860
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 3.6% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
102.3 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Rhode Island average
C+
City profile score · Warwick, RI
62/100
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 B+
80 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate B
3.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income B-
$87,536
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C+
33.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living F
102.3 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Warwick profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 76/100 (B+) · 80 /100k
Poverty rate: 74/100 (B) · 3.6%
Household income: 67/100 (B-) · $87,536
Bachelor's+ share: 63/100 (C+) · 33.2%
Cost of living: 30/100 (F) · 102.3 index
Where Warwick sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Warwick'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 - Warwick highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Warwick, RI (this city): home $322,000, crime 1,227/100k
Longview, TX : home $182,700, crime 2,690/100k
Buena Park, CA : home $771,900, crime 2,613/100k
Cicero, IL : home $236,000, crime 1,581/100k
Layton, UT : home $437,400, crime 1,476/100k
Cranston, RI : home $348,800, crime 1,145/100k
Pawtucket, RI : home $286,200, crime 1,819/100k
East Providence, RI : home $322,100, crime 755/100k
Woonsocket, RI : home $268,000, crime 1,891/100k
Newport, RI : home $669,500, crime 1,667/100k
Central Falls, RI : home $300,500, crime 1,329/100k
How does Warwick compare to other US cities?
Where Warwick sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income69% higher than other cities
Home value68% pricier than other cities
Median rent86% pricier than other cities
Safety55% 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 Rhode Island, Warwick ranks #6 of 11 Rhode Island 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 Warwick against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Rhode Island only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Rhode Island-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Warwick near the bottom of Rhode Island's cities
Among the 36 Rhode Island cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Warwick ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Warwick only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#21 of 33
36th percentile in Rhode Island
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 36
0th percentile in Rhode Island
Median Home Value
#28 of 35
20th percentile in Rhode Island
Poverty Rate
#19 of 36
47th percentile in Rhode Island
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#24 of 36
33rd percentile in Rhode Island
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 Rhode Island only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
69th percentile nationally for median household income · 55th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Warwick's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Warwick'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 Warwick's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$322,00032nd percentilemore affordable than 32% 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
Warwick's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,646 of 15,516
More affordable than 38% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#262 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.7×, Warwick sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,646 of 15,516 and #262 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$87,536Warwick, RI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Warwick, RI median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Warwick, RI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
82,871
Median Income
$87,536
Median Home Value
$322,000
Median Age
44.6
Poverty Rate
3.6%
Labor force participation
62.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
33.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1226.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
79.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1147.1
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
18
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Warwick's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
82,860 residents
2021
83,052 residents
2022
83,050 residents
2023
83,101 residents
2024
83,422 residents
2025
84,187 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
317
housing units authorized
Single-Family
68
detached homes
Multifamily
249
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
96
39
57
$9.8M
2020
60
32
28
$12.2M
2021
80
40
40
$9.1M
2022
72
62
10
$13.5M
2023
102
64
38
$14.5M
2024
317
68
249
$43.2M
Permit volume increased 230% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.2 minutes
Drive Alone
79.3%
Carpool
6.6%
Public Transit
1.1%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
11.1%
Other
0.8%
Based on 42,441 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Rhode Island statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $318
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Rhode Island at $318 (electricity about $155 , water and sewer about $58 ).
These are Rhode Island statewide averages, not a meter reading for Warwick. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Rhode Island's BEA cost-of-living index is 102.3 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Warwick is $1,729/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Rhode Island statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 56.6 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Rhode Island statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Warwick sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Warwick compares to similar-size Rhode Island 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.