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SheetVA-BULL-RUN-MOUNTAIN-ESTATES-VA · Bull Run Mountain Estates, VA 1,582 pop · income 98th 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 Bull Run Mountain Estates
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Bull Run Mountain Estates on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Appalachia · lowest
38,942
Appalachia · lowest
38,942 median HH income
19.2% of the leader · rank #1
Bannockburn · near
195,625
Bannockburn · near
195,625 median HH income
96.4% of the leader · rank #2
Foxfield · near
195,750
Foxfield · near
195,750 median HH income
96.5% of the leader · rank #3
Bull Run Moun… · this city
195,781
Bull Run Moun… · this city
195,781 median HH income
96.5% of the leader · rank #4
East Freehold · near
195,804
East Freehold · near
195,804 median HH income
96.5% of the leader · rank #5
Green Harbor · near
195,930
Green Harbor · near
195,930 median HH income
96.6% of the leader · rank #6
Edgeworth · highest
202,917
Edgeworth · highest
202,917 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 Bull Run Mountain Estates 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: 1,582.
Bull Run Mountain Estates ranks in the 98th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
98th
percentile, household income
90th
percentile, home value
62nd
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: Bull Run Mountain Estates, VA
Virginia's Bull Run Mountain Estates is a small town, with 1,582 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Bull Run Mountain Estates brings in $195,781 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. Bull Run Mountain Estates's housing stock carries a median value of $626,700, and the median resident age is 21.4 years. About 73.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 79.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Virginia tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Virginia at 101.1 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,369 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Virginia's average monthly utility costs around $235 (state average). The average commute for Bull Run Mountain Estates workers runs 17.6 minutes, with 47.7% driving alone and 52.3% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 33.3 out of 100 (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Bull Run Mountain Estates'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 work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Bull Run Mountain Estates, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history, 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
What does the journey to work look like in Bull Run Mountain Estates?
Working from home is the largest reported mode at 52.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.6 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Bull Run Mountain Estates?
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 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Bull Run Mountain Estates?
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 Virginia, the closest population matches are Haymarket (1,591 residents, $174,306 income); Camp Barrett (1,569 residents); Coeburn (1,606 residents, $53,750 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Dimondale, MI (1,582 residents); Hillsborough, NH (1,582 residents); Edgeworth, PA (1,582 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.
Top-decile income · poverty 0.0% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
101.1 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Virginia average
A-
City profile score · Bull Run Mountain Estates, VA
84/100
4 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.
Household income A+
$195,781
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A+
0.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A+
73.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living F
101.1 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).
Bull Run Mountain Estates profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $195,781
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) · 0.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 99/100 (A+) · 73.1%
Cost of living: 35/100 (F) · 101.1 index
How does Bull Run Mountain Estates compare to other US cities?
Here's how Bull Run Mountain Estates stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income98% higher than other cities
Home value90% pricier than other cities
Median rent62% 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 Bull Run Mountain Estates against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Virginia only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Virginia-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Bull Run Mountain Estates near the bottom of Virginia's cities
Among the 619 Virginia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Bull Run Mountain Estates ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Bull Run Mountain Estates only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#35 of 558
94th percentile in Virginia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 619
0th percentile in Virginia
Median Home Value
#71 of 567
87th percentile in Virginia
Poverty Rate
#487 of 616
0th percentile in Virginia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#52 of 618
92nd percentile in Virginia
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 Virginia only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
98th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Bull Run Mountain Estates's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$626,70010th percentilemore affordable than 10% 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
Bull Run Mountain Estates's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,705 of 15,516
More affordable than 50% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,367 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.2×, Bull Run Mountain Estates sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,705 of 15,516 and #6,367 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
$195,781Bull Run Mountain Estates, VA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Bull Run Mountain Estates, VA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Bull Run Mountain Estates, VA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)73.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)79.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,582
Median Income
$195,781
Median Home Value
$626,700
Median Age
21.4
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
79.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
73.1%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.6 minutes
Drive Alone
47.7%
Carpool
0.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
52.3%
Based on 694 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Virginia statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $235
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Virginia at $235 (electricity about $115 , water and sewer about $50 ).
These are Virginia statewide averages, not a meter reading for Bull Run Mountain Estates. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Virginia's BEA cost-of-living index is 101.1 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Bull Run Mountain Estates is $1,369/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Virginia statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 33.3 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Virginia statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Bull Run Mountain Estates sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Bull Run Mountain Estates compares to similar-size Virginia 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, 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.