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SheetVA-SOUTHAMPTON-MEADOWS-VA · Southampton Meadows, VA 255 pop · income 24th 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 Southampton Meadows
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Southampton Meadows on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Pleasant Grove · lowest
21,953
Pleasant Grove · lowest
21,953 median HH income
12.5% of the leader · rank #1
Russellville · near
52,529
Russellville · near
52,529 median HH income
30.0% of the leader · rank #2
Southampton M… · this city
52,535
Southampton M… · this city
52,535 median HH income
30.0% of the leader · rank #3
Peabody · near
52,539
Peabody · near
52,539 median HH income
30.0% of the leader · rank #4
Algona · near
52,542
Algona · near
52,542 median HH income
30.0% of the leader · rank #5
Beaver Dam · near
52,546
Beaver Dam · near
52,546 median HH income
30.0% of the leader · rank #6
Jamestown · highest
175,125
Jamestown · highest
175,125 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 Southampton Meadows 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: 255.
Southampton Meadows ranks in the 24th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
24th
percentile, household income
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: Southampton Meadows, VA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 255 residents in Southampton Meadows, a small town within Virginia. Median household income here is $52,535 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 22.5%. The median resident age is 31.5 years. About 9.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 26.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $235 across Virginia, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Southampton Meadows'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 comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Southampton Meadows, 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 Southampton Meadows?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 0.0%. 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Southampton Meadows?
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 Ivor (254 residents, $52,500 income); Savage (254 residents); Buckingham Courthouse (253 residents, $106,684 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pleasant Grove, AR (255 residents); Jamestown, CO (255 residents); Victoria, IL (255 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.
Low income · poverty 22.5% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
101.1 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Virginia average
F
City profile score · Southampton Meadows, VA
20/100
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.
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.
Household income F
$52,535
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
22.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
9.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Southampton Meadows profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 35/100 (F) · 101.1 index
Household income: 24/100 (F) · $52,535
Poverty rate: 9/100 (F) · 22.5%
Bachelor's+ share: 6/100 (F) · 9.9%
How does Southampton Meadows compare to other US cities?
Here's how Southampton Meadows stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income24% higher 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 Southampton Meadows 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 Southampton Meadows near the bottom of Virginia's cities
Among the 619 Virginia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Southampton Meadows ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Southampton Meadows only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#415 of 558
26th percentile in Virginia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 619
0th percentile in Virginia
Poverty Rate
#55 of 616
91st percentile in Virginia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#527 of 618
15th 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
24th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$52,535Southampton Meadows, VA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Southampton Meadows, 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 Southampton Meadows, VA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)9.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)22.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)26.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
255
Median Income
$52,535
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
31.5
Poverty Rate
22.5%
Labor force participation
26.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
9.9%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
0.0%
Carpool
100.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
0.0%
Based on 42 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 Southampton Meadows. 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 Southampton Meadows 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 Southampton Meadows sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Southampton Meadows 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.