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Place dossier plate
SheetVA-HAYMARKET-VA · Haymarket, VA 1,591 pop · income 97th 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 Haymarket
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Haymarket on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Ferrum · lowest
31,750
Ferrum · lowest
31,750 median HH income
16.2% of the leader · rank #1
Woodmoor · near
174,138
Woodmoor · near
174,138 median HH income
88.9% of the leader · rank #2
Green Valley · near
174,221
Green Valley · near
174,221 median HH income
89.0% of the leader · rank #3
Weatogue · near
174,286
Weatogue · near
174,286 median HH income
89.0% of the leader · rank #4
Haymarket · this city
174,306
Haymarket · this city
174,306 median HH income
89.0% of the leader · rank #5
East · near
174,415
East · near
174,415 median HH income
89.1% of the leader · rank #6
Bull Run Moun… · highest
195,781
Bull Run Moun… · highest
195,781 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 Haymarket 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: 1,591.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Haymarket - the verdict
Haymarket ranks in the 97th percentile for household income and the 74th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
97th
percentile, household income
88th
percentile, home value
62nd
percentile, median rent
74th
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: Haymarket, VA
Virginia's Haymarket is a small town, with 1,591 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Haymarket report a median income of $174,306 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.1%. Home values in Haymarket run a median of $563,600, and the median resident age is 38.2 years. Educational attainment runs 53.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 79.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 0 residential units authorized here in 2024 (No Permits). Haymarket reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 760.5 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. 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). On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 33.3 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Haymarket'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 housing and income to schools and households to population change to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Haymarket, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count, 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. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Haymarket?
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 760.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 67% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
How far does income reach against housing in Haymarket?
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 2.1%, 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.
What does the education layer cover for Haymarket?
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 53.5% 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 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Haymarket?
Within Virginia, the closest population matches are Bull Run Mountain Estates (1,582 residents, $195,781 income); Coeburn (1,606 residents, $53,750 income); Appalachia (1,612 residents, $38,942 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Woodmont, CT (1,591 residents); Centreville, MI (1,591 residents); Milan, OH (1,591 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.
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 Haymarket 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 +65 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 0 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+4.2%
2025 estimate
1,602
2020 estimate
1,537
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Haymarket?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.5%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.7%
Work from home
15.9%
Drive alone
74.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 943 workers age 16+.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Virginia average
B+
City profile score · Haymarket, VA
78/100
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.
Household income A+
$174,306
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A
53.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
2.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime A-
63 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
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.
Haymarket profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $174,306
Bachelor's+ share: 87/100 (A) · 53.5%
Poverty rate: 85/100 (A) · 2.1%
Violent crime: 80/100 (A-) · 63 /100k
Cost of living: 35/100 (F) · 101.1 index
Where Haymarket sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Haymarket'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 - Haymarket highlighted among 23 peers.Read the chart values
Haymarket, VA (this city): home $563,600, crime 761/100k
Coeburn, VA : home $107,800, crime 2,776/100k
Rural Retreat, VA : home $167,900, crime 328/100k
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 Haymarket compare to other US cities?
Here's how Haymarket stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income97% higher than other cities
Home value88% pricier than other cities
Median rent62% pricier than other cities
Safety74% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Virginia alone, Haymarket ranks #13 of 117 Virginia cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Haymarket 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 Haymarket near the bottom of Virginia's cities
Among the 619 Virginia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Haymarket ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Haymarket only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#47 of 558
92nd percentile in Virginia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 619
0th percentile in Virginia
Median Home Value
#105 of 567
81st percentile in Virginia
Poverty Rate
#426 of 616
30th percentile in Virginia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#124 of 618
80th 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
97th percentile nationally for median household income · 74th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Haymarket's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Haymarket'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 Haymarket's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$563,60012th percentilemore affordable than 12% 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
Haymarket'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
#7,844 of 15,516
More affordable than 49% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,457 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.2×, Haymarket sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,844 of 15,516 and #6,457 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
$174,306Haymarket, VA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Haymarket, 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 Haymarket, VA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)53.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)79.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,591
Median Income
$174,306
Median Home Value
$563,600
Median Age
38.2
Poverty Rate
2.1%
Labor force participation
79.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
53.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
760.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
63.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
697.1
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Haymarket's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
1,537 residents
2021
1,546 residents
2022
1,553 residents
2023
1,564 residents
2024
1,586 residents
2025
1,602 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
Total Permits (2024)
0
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.5%
Carpool
7.4%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
15.9%
Based on 943 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 Haymarket. 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 Haymarket 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 Haymarket sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Haymarket 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.