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SheetVA-FLOYD-VA · Floyd, VA 510 pop · income 39th pct · 5 tracts
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 Floyd
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Floyd on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Seven Mile Fo… · lowest
27,716
Seven Mile Fo… · lowest
27,716 median HH income
19.1% of the leader · rank #1
Floyd · this city
62,283
Floyd · this city
62,283 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #2
Paton · near
62,292
Paton · near
62,292 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #3
Grantsboro · near
62,292
Grantsboro · near
62,292 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #4
New Washington · near
62,292
New Washington · near
62,292 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #5
Athens · near
62,292
Athens · near
62,292 median HH income
42.9% of the leader · rank #6
Irvington · highest
145,333
Irvington · highest
145,333 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 Floyd 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: 510.
Nationally, Floyd sits in the 39th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
39th
percentile, household income
53rd
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: Floyd, VA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 510 residents in Floyd, a small town within Virginia. Floyd households earn a median of $62,283 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 18.3%. Home values in Floyd run a median of $239,800, and the median resident age is 55.2 years. Educational attainment runs 36.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 52.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 51.4°F.
Virginia tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 101.1 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,369 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Virginia's average monthly utility costs around $235 (state average). Commute times here average 11.1 minutes, with 69.1% driving alone and 8.6% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 33.3 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Floyd'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 housing and income to population change to climate and hazard context to comparison shortlist to within-city variation to schools and households to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Floyd, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Floyd?
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 18.3%, 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. 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.
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 +5 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.1% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Floyd?
Within Virginia, the closest population matches are Mallow (511 residents, $51,979 income); Irvington (503 residents, $145,333 income); Gasburg (501 residents). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Tull, AR (510 residents); Calhan, CO (510 residents); Bismarck, IL (510 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.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Floyd?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 51.4°F. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Virginia is 33.3 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.
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.
Mean temperature
51.4°F
FEMA risk index (state avg)
33.3
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 36.8% 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.
Matched public schools
2
Bachelor's degree+
36.8%
Poverty estimate
18.3%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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 69.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 11.1 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
8.6%
Drive alone
69.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 233 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 18.3% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
101.1 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Virginia average
F
City profile score · Floyd, VA
38/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share B
36.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$62,283
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
18.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Floyd profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 70/100 (B) · 36.8%
Household income: 38/100 (F) · $62,283
Cost of living: 35/100 (F) · 101.1 index
Poverty rate: 16/100 (F) · 18.3%
How does Floyd compare to other US cities?
Here's how Floyd stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income39% higher than other cities
Home value53% 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 Floyd 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 Floyd near the bottom of Virginia's cities
Among the 619 Virginia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Floyd ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Floyd only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#340 of 558
39th percentile in Virginia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 619
0th percentile in Virginia
Median Home Value
#308 of 567
46th percentile in Virginia
Poverty Rate
#83 of 616
87th percentile in Virginia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#213 of 618
65th 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
39th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Floyd's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$239,80047th percentilemore affordable than 47% 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
Floyd'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
#10,224 of 15,516
More affordable than 34% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,060 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.9×, Floyd sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,224 of 15,516 and #8,060 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
$62,283Floyd, VA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Floyd, 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 Floyd, VA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)36.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)18.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
510
Median Income
$62,283
Median Home Value
$239,800
Median Age
55.2
Poverty Rate
18.3%
Labor force participation
52.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
36.8%
Climate
Avg Temperature
51.4°F
Annual Precipitation
N/A
Annual Snowfall
N/A
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
Floyd's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
453 residents
2021
454 residents
2022
455 residents
2023
459 residents
2024
457 residents
2025
458 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
11.1 minutes
Drive Alone
69.1%
Carpool
5.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
16.7%
Work from Home
8.6%
Based on 233 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 Floyd. 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 Floyd 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 Floyd sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Floyd 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, 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.