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SheetUT-PERRY-UT · Perry, UT 5,708 pop · income 77th 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 Perry
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Perry on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
McKenzie · lowest
35,988
McKenzie · lowest
35,988 median HH income
16.6% of the leader · rank #1
Perkasie · near
99,474
Perkasie · near
99,474 median HH income
45.9% of the leader · rank #2
Scappoose · near
99,475
Scappoose · near
99,475 median HH income
45.9% of the leader · rank #3
Perry · this city
99,478
Perry · this city
99,478 median HH income
45.9% of the leader · rank #4
Sugar Hill · near
99,479
Sugar Hill · near
99,479 median HH income
45.9% of the leader · rank #5
Presquille · near
99,479
Presquille · near
99,479 median HH income
45.9% of the leader · rank #6
Poolesville · highest
216,653
Poolesville · highest
216,653 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 Perry 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: 5,708.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Perry - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Perry places in the 77th percentile for household income and the 46th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
77th
percentile, household income
77th
percentile, home value
60th
percentile, median rent
46th
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: Perry, UT
Perry is a small town in Utah, home to 5,708 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Perry report a median income of $99,478 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.4%. Typical homes in Perry are valued around $399,400, and the median resident age is 35.0 years. Educational attainment runs 34.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 65.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 40 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Stable), down 2% from five years earlier. Perry reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1502.4 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).
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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,313 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Utah's average monthly utility costs around $178 (state average). The average commute for Perry workers runs 21.3 minutes, with 82.3% driving alone and 10.2% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 36.2 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Perry'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to housing and income to reported crime to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Perry, 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. Population change
Is Perry growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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 +640 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +11.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 40 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Perry?
Within Utah, the closest population matches are Ephraim (5,805 residents, $71,661 income); White City metro township (5,568 residents, $98,603 income); Sunset (5,567 residents, $74,250 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are McKenzie, TN (5,706 residents); Poolesville, MD (5,704 residents); Dayton, KY (5,703 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.
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 34.1% 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.
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
How far does income reach against housing in Perry?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.4%, 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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Perry?
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 1502.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 34% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1205.2
Violent rate
297.2
Total reported rate
1502.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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 82.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.3 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
10.2%
Drive alone
82.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,746 workers age 16+.
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.
Poverty rate A-
2.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income B+
$99,478
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B-
34.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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 F
297 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Perry profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 83/100 (A-) · 2.4%
Household income: 77/100 (B+) · $99,478
Bachelor's+ share: 65/100 (B-) · 34.1%
Cost of living: 44/100 (D) · 98.9 index
Violent crime: 33/100 (F) · 297 /100k
Where Perry sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Perry'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 - Perry highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Perry, UT (this city): home $399,400, crime 1,502/100k
McKenzie, TN : home $140,200, crime 1,000/100k
Dayton, KY : home $144,100, crime 977/100k
Hutchins, TX : home $95,500, crime 3,975/100k
Glencoe, MN : home $213,100, crime 602/100k
Berryville, AR : home $153,500, crime 2,750/100k
Ephraim, UT : home $405,600, crime 573/100k
Sunset, UT : home $296,900, crime 1,522/100k
West Bountiful, UT : home $530,500, crime 1,561/100k
How does Perry compare to other US cities?
Perry measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income77% higher than other cities
Home value77% pricier than other cities
Median rent60% pricier than other cities
Safety46% 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 Utah, Perry ranks #47 of 67 Utah 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 Perry 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 Perry near the bottom of Utah's cities
Among the 310 Utah cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Perry ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Perry only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#84 of 293
71st percentile in Utah
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 310
0th percentile in Utah
Median Home Value
#143 of 301
52nd percentile in Utah
Poverty Rate
#213 of 310
31st percentile in Utah
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#119 of 310
61st 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
77th percentile nationally for median household income · 46th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Perry's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Perry'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 Perry's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$399,40023rd 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
Perry's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,750 of 15,516
More affordable than 31% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,399 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.0×, Perry sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,750 of 15,516 and #8,399 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
$99,478Perry, UT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Perry, 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 Perry, UT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,708
Median Income
$99,478
Median Home Value
$399,400
Median Age
35.0
Poverty Rate
2.4%
Labor force participation
65.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1502.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
297.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1205.2
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
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Perry's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,586 residents
2021
5,752 residents
2022
5,836 residents
2023
5,951 residents
2024
6,103 residents
2025
6,226 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
40
housing units authorized
Single-Family
40
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
41
41
0
$10.4M
2020
45
45
0
$11.4M
2021
49
49
0
$12.4M
2022
41
41
0
$10.4M
2023
36
36
0
$9.1M
2024
40
40
0
$10.1M
Permit volume decreased 2% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.3 minutes
Drive Alone
82.3%
Carpool
6.5%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
10.2%
Based on 2,746 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 Perry. 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 Perry 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 Perry sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Perry 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, 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.