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SheetVA-WYTHEVILLE-VA · Wytheville, VA 8,224 pop · income 11th pct · 8 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 Wytheville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Wytheville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Prairie View · lowest
19,106
Prairie View · lowest
19,106 median HH income
16.9% of the leader · rank #1
Lorimor · near
43,281
Lorimor · near
43,281 median HH income
38.3% of the leader · rank #2
Motley · near
43,281
Motley · near
43,281 median HH income
38.3% of the leader · rank #3
Shell Valley · near
43,281
Shell Valley · near
43,281 median HH income
38.3% of the leader · rank #4
Ringwood · near
43,281
Ringwood · near
43,281 median HH income
38.3% of the leader · rank #5
Wytheville · this city
43,283
Wytheville · this city
43,283 median HH income
38.3% of the leader · rank #6
Lake of the W… · highest
112,917
Lake of the W… · highest
112,917 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Wytheville 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: 8,224.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Wytheville - the verdict
Nationally, Wytheville sits in the 11th percentile for household income and the 18th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
11th
percentile, household income
41st
percentile, home value
62nd
percentile, median rent
18th
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: Wytheville, VA
Virginia's Wytheville is a small town, with 8,224 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $43,283 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 14.5%. Typical homes in Wytheville are valued around $193,000, and the median resident age is 45.8 years. 24.4% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 51.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 37 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 236% from five years earlier. Wytheville's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2789.4 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 52.6°F with 41.7 inches of precipitation per year and 18.4 inches of snowfall.
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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,369 per month statewide. 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 Wytheville'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 climate and hazard context to reported crime to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Wytheville, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Wytheville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.7%. 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Wytheville?
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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 14.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can 8 Census tracts reveal inside Wytheville?
PlainCities matches 8 Census tracts to this city.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Wytheville?
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 Franklin (8,212 residents, $65,125 income); Lake of the Woods (8,165 residents, $112,917 income); Fort Lee (8,318 residents, $81,105 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Helena Valley West Central, MT (8,224 residents); Stayton, OR (8,223 residents); Auburn, GA (8,222 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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Wytheville?
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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 52.6°F, with 41.7 inches of precipitation and 18.4 inches of annual snowfall. 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
33.3
Annual precipitation
41.7 in
Mean temperature
52.6°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Wytheville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2789.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 22% higher 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.
Total reported rate
2789.4
Violent rate
61.4
Property rate
2727.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Wytheville?
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 4 public schools within the city match. 24.4% 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.
Poverty estimate
14.5%
Bachelor's degree+
24.4%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Wytheville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -142 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 37 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 downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
2020 estimate
8,270
2025 estimate
8,128
Period change
-1.7%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Virginia average
F
City profile score · Wytheville, VA
38/100
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 A-
61 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share D
24.4%
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.
Poverty rate F
14.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$43,283
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Wytheville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 81/100 (A-) · 61 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 47/100 (D) · 24.4%
Cost of living: 35/100 (F) · 101.1 index
Poverty rate: 24/100 (F) · 14.5%
Household income: 11/100 (F) · $43,283
Where Wytheville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Wytheville'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 - Wytheville highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Wytheville, VA (this city): home $193,000, crime 2,789/100k
Stayton, OR : home $395,400, crime 2,262/100k
Auburn, GA : home $232,000, crime 532/100k
Wynne, AR : home $125,300, crime 4,470/100k
Prairie View, TX : home $171,900, crime 921/100k
Hatboro, PA : home $340,100, crime 581/100k
Franklin, VA : home $227,200, crime 2,999/100k
Abingdon, VA : home $217,700, crime 1,697/100k
How does Wytheville compare to other US cities?
Where Wytheville sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income11% higher than other cities
Home value41% pricier than other cities
Median rent62% pricier than other cities
Safety18% 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: Wytheville ranks #88 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 Wytheville 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 Wytheville near the bottom of Virginia's cities
Among the 619 Virginia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Wytheville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Wytheville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#481 of 558
14th percentile in Virginia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 619
0th percentile in Virginia
Median Home Value
#368 of 567
35th percentile in Virginia
Poverty Rate
#127 of 616
79th percentile in Virginia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#341 of 618
44th 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
11th percentile nationally for median household income · 18th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Wytheville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Wytheville'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 Wytheville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$193,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 59% 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
Wytheville's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,893 of 15,516
More affordable than 23% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#9,124 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.5×, Wytheville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,893 of 15,516 and #9,124 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
$43,283Wytheville, VA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Wytheville, 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 Wytheville, VA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)14.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,224
Median Income
$43,283
Median Home Value
$193,000
Median Age
45.8
Poverty Rate
14.5%
Labor force participation
51.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2789.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
61.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2727.9
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
52.6°F
Annual Precipitation
41.7"
Annual Snowfall
18.4"
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Wytheville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,270 residents
2021
8,227 residents
2022
8,194 residents
2023
8,194 residents
2024
8,150 residents
2025
8,128 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
37
housing units authorized
Single-Family
17
detached homes
Multifamily
20
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
11
9
2
$1.7M
2020
9
9
0
$1.4M
2021
8
8
0
$1.1M
2022
12
12
0
$2.1M
2023
9
9
0
$1.6M
2024
37
17
20
$6.2M
Permit volume increased 236% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.7%
Carpool
12.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
9.0%
Other
1.7%
Based on 3,409 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 Wytheville. 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 Wytheville 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 Wytheville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Wytheville 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.