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SheetUT-NIBLEY-UT · Nibley, UT 7,651 pop · income 81st 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 Nibley
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Nibley on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Woodlake · lowest
46,607
Woodlake · lowest
46,607 median HH income
33.2% of the leader · rank #1
East Pasadena · near
105,714
East Pasadena · near
105,714 median HH income
75.2% of the leader · rank #2
Denmark · near
105,714
Denmark · near
105,714 median HH income
75.2% of the leader · rank #3
Sedan · near
105,714
Sedan · near
105,714 median HH income
75.2% of the leader · rank #4
Nibley · this city
105,726
Nibley · this city
105,726 median HH income
75.2% of the leader · rank #5
Point Arena · near
105,726
Point Arena · near
105,726 median HH income
75.2% of the leader · rank #6
Oak Ridge · highest
140,583
Oak Ridge · highest
140,583 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Nibley 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: 7,651.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Nibley lands in the 81st percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
81st
percentile, household income
77th
percentile, home value
60th
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: Nibley, UT
Nibley is a small town in Utah, home to 7,651 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Nibley households earn a median of $105,726 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.1%. Typical homes in Nibley are valued around $399,100, and the median resident age is 27.3 years. Educational attainment runs 41.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 72.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 148 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 190% from five years earlier.
Utah tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Utah scores 98.9 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,313 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Utah's average monthly utility costs around $178 (state average). On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 36.2 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Nibley'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 population change to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Nibley, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for 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
Is Nibley growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,634 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +22.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 148 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Nibley?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.8%. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Nibley?
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.
Within Utah, the closest population matches are Enoch (7,856 residents, $81,767 income); Farr West (7,881 residents, $111,875 income); Santa Clara (7,891 residents, $93,083 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Woodlake, CA (7,651 residents); Canfield, OH (7,651 residents); Collinsville, VA (7,645 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Nibley?
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 3.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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 Nibley?
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. 41.2% 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.
Poverty estimate
5.1%
Bachelor's degree+
41.2%
Matched public schools
3
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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 B+
$105,726
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
41.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B-
5.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living D
98.9 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).
Nibley profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 79/100 (B+) · $105,726
Bachelor's+ share: 76/100 (B+) · 41.2%
Poverty rate: 65/100 (B-) · 5.1%
Cost of living: 44/100 (D) · 98.9 index
How does Nibley compare to other US cities?
Nibley measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income81% higher than other cities
Home value77% pricier than other cities
Median rent60% 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 Nibley against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Utah only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Utah-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Nibley near the bottom of Utah's cities
Among the 310 Utah cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Nibley ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Nibley only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#70 of 293
76th percentile in Utah
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 310
0th percentile in Utah
Median Home Value
#144 of 301
52nd percentile in Utah
Poverty Rate
#126 of 310
58th percentile in Utah
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#69 of 310
78th percentile in Utah
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 Utah only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
81st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Nibley's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$399,10023rd percentilemore affordable than 23% 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
Nibley's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,974 of 15,516
More affordable than 36% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,895 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.8×, Nibley sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,974 of 15,516 and #7,895 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$105,726Nibley, UT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Nibley, UT median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Nibley, UT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)41.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)72.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,651
Median Income
$105,726
Median Home Value
$399,100
Median Age
27.3
Poverty Rate
5.1%
Labor force participation
72.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
41.2%
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
Nibley's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
7,341 residents
2021
7,540 residents
2022
7,940 residents
2023
8,307 residents
2024
8,562 residents
2025
8,975 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
148
housing units authorized
Single-Family
118
detached homes
Multifamily
30
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
19.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
51
51
0
$8.5M
2020
62
62
0
$20.2M
2021
128
128
0
$32.3M
2022
126
116
10
$27.0M
2023
100
70
30
$22.2M
2024
148
118
30
$31.2M
Permit volume increased 190% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.8%
Carpool
11.3%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
0.3%
Work from Home
11.8%
Other
0.6%
Based on 3,463 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Utah statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $178
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Utah at $178 (electricity about $85 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Utah statewide averages, not a meter reading for Nibley. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Utah's BEA cost-of-living index is 98.9 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Nibley is $1,313/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Utah statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 36.2 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Utah statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Nibley sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Nibley compares to similar-size Utah 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, 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.