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SheetUT-WELLINGTON-UT · Wellington, UT 1,526 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 Wellington
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Wellington on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mound Bayou · lowest
23,194
Mound Bayou · lowest
23,194 median HH income
9.9% of the leader · rank #1
Edgewater · near
58,805
Edgewater · near
58,805 median HH income
25.0% of the leader · rank #2
Wellington · this city
58,807
Wellington · this city
58,807 median HH income
25.0% of the leader · rank #3
Glasco · near
58,808
Glasco · near
58,808 median HH income
25.0% of the leader · rank #4
Loudon · near
58,810
Loudon · near
58,810 median HH income
25.0% of the leader · rank #5
Hallowell · near
58,811
Hallowell · near
58,811 median HH income
25.0% of the leader · rank #6
Silver Summit · highest
235,329
Silver Summit · highest
235,329 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 Wellington 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: 1,526.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Wellington - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Wellington lands in the 33rd percentile for household income and the 75th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
33rd
percentile, household income
34th
percentile, home value
60th
percentile, median rent
75th
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: Wellington, UT
Utah's Wellington is a small town, with 1,526 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Wellington brings in $58,807 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 14.1%. Typical homes in Wellington are valued around $173,100, and the median resident age is 34.1 years. About 13.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 48.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Wellington reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 734.4 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). NOAA puts Wellington's yearly average temperature at 47.0°F with 9.1 inches of precipitation per year and 21.5 inches of snowfall.
Utah tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 98.9 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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). Workers in Wellington report an average commute of 12.3 minutes, with 72.1% driving alone and 15.1% 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 Wellington'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to population change to reported crime to work and mobility to housing and income to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Wellington, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Wellington?
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 Utah, the closest population matches are Fountain Green (1,539 residents, $70,402 income); Silver Summit (1,574 residents, $235,329 income); East Carbon (1,476 residents, $40,114 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Harristown, IL (1,526 residents); Thomson, IL (1,526 residents); Mound Bayou, MS (1,526 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.
What does the education layer cover for Wellington?
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.
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 13.2% 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.
Is Wellington growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +15 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.9% 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.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Wellington?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 734.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 68% 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.
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 Wellington?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 12.3 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. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Drive alone
72.1%
Work from home
15.1%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 581 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Wellington?
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 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 14.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.9×
Home value
$173,100
Household income
$58,807
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What physical conditions frame life in Wellington?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 47.0°F, with 9.1 inches of precipitation and 21.5 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Utah is 36.2 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
36.2
Annual precipitation
9.1 in
Mean temperature
47.0°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Below median income · poverty 14.1% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
98.9 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Utah average
F
City profile score · Wellington, UT
34/100
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-
184 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Household income F
$58,807
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
14.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
13.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Wellington profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 50/100 (C-) · 184 /100k
Cost of living: 44/100 (D) · 98.9 index
Household income: 33/100 (F) · $58,807
Poverty rate: 24/100 (F) · 14.1%
Bachelor's+ share: 15/100 (F) · 13.2%
Where Wellington sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Wellington'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 - Wellington highlighted among 23 peers.Read the chart values
Wellington, UT (this city): home $173,100, crime 734/100k
Ferndale, CA : home $496,000, crime 1,154/100k
Tioga, ND : home $196,800, crime 922/100k
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 Wellington compare to other US cities?
Here's how Wellington 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 value34% pricier than other cities
Median rent60% pricier than other cities
Safety75% 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, Wellington ranks #17 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 Wellington 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 Wellington near the bottom of Utah's cities
Among the 310 Utah cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Wellington ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Wellington only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#261 of 293
11th percentile in Utah
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 310
0th percentile in Utah
Median Home Value
#288 of 301
4th percentile in Utah
Poverty Rate
#36 of 310
88th percentile in Utah
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#266 of 310
14th 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
33rd percentile nationally for median household income · 75th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Wellington's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Wellington'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 Wellington's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$173,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 66% 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
Wellington's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,391 of 15,516
More affordable than 59% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,447 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.9×, Wellington sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,391 of 15,516 and #5,447 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
$58,807Wellington, UT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Wellington, 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 Wellington, UT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)13.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)14.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)48.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,526
Median Income
$58,807
Median Home Value
$173,100
Median Age
34.1
Poverty Rate
14.1%
Labor force participation
48.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
13.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
734.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
183.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
550.8
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
47.0°F
Annual Precipitation
9.1"
Annual Snowfall
21.5"
Schools
Total Schools
1
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Wellington's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
1,591 residents
2021
1,582 residents
2022
1,598 residents
2023
1,604 residents
2024
1,602 residents
2025
1,606 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
12.3 minutes
Drive Alone
72.1%
Carpool
10.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
15.1%
Other
2.5%
Based on 581 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 Wellington. 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 Wellington 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 Wellington sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Wellington 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.