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SheetVA-DUMFRIES-VA · Dumfries, VA 5,749 pop · income 60th 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 Dumfries
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Dumfries on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Marion · lowest
37,357
Marion · lowest
37,357 median HH income
31.5% of the leader · rank #1
Dumfries · this city
78,373
Dumfries · this city
78,373 median HH income
66.0% of the leader · rank #2
New Smyrna Be… · near
78,373
New Smyrna Be… · near
78,373 median HH income
66.0% of the leader · rank #3
Georgetown · near
78,373
Georgetown · near
78,373 median HH income
66.0% of the leader · rank #4
Welby · near
78,375
Welby · near
78,375 median HH income
66.0% of the leader · rank #5
Schuyler · near
78,380
Schuyler · near
78,380 median HH income
66.0% of the leader · rank #6
Rutgers Unive… · highest
118,750
Rutgers Unive… · highest
118,750 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 Dumfries 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: 5,749.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Dumfries - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Dumfries lands in the 60th percentile for household income and the 55th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
60th
percentile, household income
66th
percentile, home value
62nd
percentile, median rent
55th
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: Dumfries, VA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 5,749 residents in Dumfries, a small town within Virginia. Households in Dumfries report a median income of $78,373 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.7%. Typical homes in Dumfries are valued around $303,700, and the median resident age is 31.3 years. Educational attainment runs 18.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 68.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 125 residential building permits were authorized in Dumfries (Building Boom), up 105% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Dumfries reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1236.4 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Virginia tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Virginia scores 101.1 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,369 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Virginia run around $235, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Dumfries'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 schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Dumfries, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, 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.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Dumfries?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1236.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 46% 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.
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 10 public schools within the city match. 18.0% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Dumfries?
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 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Dumfries?
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 Virginia, the closest population matches are Ettrick (5,760 residents, $54,857 income); Stafford Courthouse (5,780 residents, $97,030 income); Marion (5,694 residents, $37,357 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Homer, AK (5,750 residents); Cottleville, MO (5,750 residents); Rutgers University-Busch Campus, NJ (5,747 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.
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.
Population change
Is Dumfries growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +688 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +12.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 125 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.
2020 estimate
5,717
2025 estimate
6,405
Period change
+12.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Dumfries?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 61.5%. 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. 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
61.5%
Work from home
16.1%
Public transit
1.9%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,969 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 11.7% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
101.1 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Virginia average
D
City profile score · Dumfries, VA
45/100
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+
134 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income C
$78,373
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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.
Poverty rate F
11.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
18.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Dumfries profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 62/100 (C+) · 134 /100k
Household income: 58/100 (C) · $78,373
Cost of living: 35/100 (F) · 101.1 index
Poverty rate: 33/100 (F) · 11.7%
Bachelor's+ share: 28/100 (F) · 18.0%
Where Dumfries sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Dumfries'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 - Dumfries highlighted among 26 peers.Read the chart values
Dumfries, VA (this city): home $303,700, crime 1,236/100k
Homer, AK : home $363,700, crime 1,465/100k
Cottleville, MO : home $381,900, crime 65/100k
Marion, VA : home $160,600, crime 2,618/100k
Covington, VA : home $80,200, crime 1,467/100k
Woodstock, VA : home $248,300, crime 1,989/100k
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 Dumfries compare to other US cities?
Here's how Dumfries stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income60% higher than other cities
Home value66% pricier than other cities
Median rent62% pricier than other cities
Safety55% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Virginia and the picture shifts: Dumfries ranks #34 of 117 Virginia cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Dumfries 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 Dumfries near the bottom of Virginia's cities
Among the 619 Virginia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Dumfries ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Dumfries only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#254 of 558
54th percentile in Virginia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 619
0th percentile in Virginia
Median Home Value
#225 of 567
60th percentile in Virginia
Poverty Rate
#161 of 616
73rd percentile in Virginia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#416 of 618
33rd 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
60th percentile nationally for median household income · 55th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Dumfries's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Dumfries'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 Dumfries's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$303,70034th percentilemore affordable than 34% 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
Dumfries's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,307 of 15,516
More affordable than 34% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,112 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.9×, Dumfries sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,307 of 15,516 and #8,112 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
$78,373Dumfries, VA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Dumfries, 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 Dumfries, VA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)18.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,749
Median Income
$78,373
Median Home Value
$303,700
Median Age
31.3
Poverty Rate
11.7%
Labor force participation
68.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
18.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1236.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
133.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1102.8
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.
Schools
Total Schools
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Dumfries's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,717 residents
2021
5,700 residents
2022
5,762 residents
2023
5,938 residents
2024
5,997 residents
2025
6,405 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
125
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
125
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
21.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
61
0
61
$6.9M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
36
36
0
$24.3M
2022
59
59
0
$15.1M
2023
9
9
0
$2.3M
2024
125
0
125
$17.9M
Permit volume increased 105% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
61.5%
Carpool
18.4%
Public Transit
1.9%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
16.1%
Other
1.3%
Based on 2,969 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 Dumfries. 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 Dumfries 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 Dumfries sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Dumfries 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, 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.