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Place dossier plate
SheetSC-DENMARK-SC · Denmark, SC 3,141 pop · income 4th pct · 6 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 Denmark
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Denmark on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
East Gaffney · lowest
26,314
East Gaffney · lowest
26,314 median HH income
15.1% of the leader · rank #1
Denmark · this city
33,100
Denmark · this city
33,100 median HH income
19.1% of the leader · rank #2
San Antonio c… · near
33,103
San Antonio c… · near
33,103 median HH income
19.1% of the leader · rank #3
Atmore · near
33,104
Atmore · near
33,104 median HH income
19.1% of the leader · rank #4
Clifton Forge · near
33,107
Clifton Forge · near
33,107 median HH income
19.1% of the leader · rank #5
Aliceville · near
33,125
Aliceville · near
33,125 median HH income
19.1% of the leader · rank #6
Hopkinton · highest
173,750
Hopkinton · highest
173,750 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 Denmark 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: 3,141.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Denmark - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Denmark lands in the 4th percentile for household income and the 10th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
4th
percentile, household income
2nd
percentile, home value
46th
percentile, median rent
10th
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: Denmark, SC
South Carolina's Denmark is a small town, with 3,141 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Denmark brings in $33,100 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 24.8%. Denmark's housing stock carries a median value of $73,000, and the median resident age is 27.3 years. About 15.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 34.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Denmark's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3542.4 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in South Carolina run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts South Carolina at 93.7 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,155 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $224 across South Carolina, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 70.7 out of 100 (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Denmark'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 reported crime to comparison shortlist to population change to schools and households to within-city variation to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Denmark, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Denmark?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3542.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 55% higher 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Denmark?
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 South Carolina, the closest population matches are Cherryvale (3,136 residents, $41,563 income); Lakewood (3,154 residents, $49,255 income); Clearwater (3,124 residents, $50,669 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Beloit, KS (3,141 residents); Port Aransas, TX (3,141 residents); Bucksport, ME (3,140 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -108 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.4% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
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.
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 Denmark?
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 3 public schools within the city match. 15.1% 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.
Poverty estimate
24.8%
Bachelor's degree+
15.1%
Matched public schools
3
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Denmark?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.3%. 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
69.3%
Work from home
3.2%
Public transit
9.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 871 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Denmark?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 24.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.2×
Home value
$73,000
Household income
$33,100
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 24.8% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
93.7 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, South Carolina average
F
City profile score · Denmark, SC
20/100
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.
Cost of living B
93.7 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share F
15.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
650 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
24.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$33,100
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Denmark profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 70/100 (B) · 93.7 index
Bachelor's+ share: 20/100 (F) · 15.1%
Violent crime: 8/100 (F) · 650 /100k
Poverty rate: 6/100 (F) · 24.8%
Household income: 0/100 (F) · $33,100
Where Denmark sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Denmark'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 - Denmark highlighted among 27 peers.Read the chart values
Denmark, SC (this city): home $73,000, crime 3,542/100k
Beloit, KS : home $99,100, crime 1,106/100k
Port Aransas, TX : home $490,200, crime 5,386/100k
Bucksport, ME : home $193,800, crime 595/100k
Hopkinton, MA : home $601,900, crime 327/100k
Kingstree, SC : home $127,300, crime 8,772/100k
Saluda, SC : home $81,500, crime 1,866/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Denmark compare to other US cities?
Where Denmark sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income4% higher than other cities
Home value2% pricier than other cities
Median rent46% pricier than other cities
Safety10% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to South Carolina alone, Denmark ranks #71 of 127 South Carolina cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Denmark against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to South Carolina only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
South Carolina-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Denmark near the bottom of South Carolina's cities
Among the 441 South Carolina cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Denmark ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Denmark only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#358 of 403
11th percentile in South Carolina
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 441
0th percentile in South Carolina
Median Home Value
#373 of 404
8th percentile in South Carolina
Poverty Rate
#92 of 439
79th percentile in South Carolina
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#278 of 441
37th percentile in South Carolina
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 South Carolina only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
4th percentile nationally for median household income · 10th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Denmark's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Denmark'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 Denmark's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$73,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 98% 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
Denmark's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,483 of 15,516
More affordable than 84% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,330 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.2×, Denmark sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,483 of 15,516 and #2,330 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
$33,100Denmark, SC median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Denmark, SC median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Denmark, SC.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)24.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)34.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,141
Median Income
$33,100
Median Home Value
$73,000
Median Age
27.3
Poverty Rate
24.8%
Labor force participation
34.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3542.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
650.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2892.4
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
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Denmark's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
3,167 residents
2021
3,121 residents
2022
3,094 residents
2023
3,097 residents
2024
3,071 residents
2025
3,059 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
69.3%
Carpool
4.8%
Public Transit
9.2%
Walk
13.4%
Work from Home
3.2%
Based on 871 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
South Carolina statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $224
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across South Carolina at $224 (electricity about $130 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are South Carolina statewide averages, not a meter reading for Denmark. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
South Carolina's BEA cost-of-living index is 93.7 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Denmark is $1,155/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to South Carolina statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 70.7 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a South Carolina statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Denmark sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Denmark compares to similar-size South Carolina 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.