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SheetVT-JOHNSON-VT · Johnson, VT 1,668 pop · income 17th 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 Johnson
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Johnson on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Tsaile · lowest
40,500
Tsaile · lowest
40,500 median HH income
44.5% of the leader · rank #1
Terry · near
48,354
Terry · near
48,354 median HH income
53.2% of the leader · rank #2
Bellefontaine… · near
48,354
Bellefontaine… · near
48,354 median HH income
53.2% of the leader · rank #3
Johnson · this city
48,355
Johnson · this city
48,355 median HH income
53.2% of the leader · rank #4
Dripping Spri… · near
48,355
Dripping Spri… · near
48,355 median HH income
53.2% of the leader · rank #5
Geneva · near
48,357
Geneva · near
48,357 median HH income
53.2% of the leader · rank #6
Williamstown · highest
90,938
Williamstown · highest
90,938 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 Johnson 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: 1,668.
Nationally, Johnson sits in the 17th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
17th
percentile, household income
73rd
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: Johnson, VT
1,668 people live in Johnson, Vermont - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Johnson report a median income of $48,355 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 9.2%. The median resident age is 22.5 years. 32.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 63.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
NOAA puts Johnson's yearly average temperature at 41.6°F with 46.8 inches of precipitation per year.
Vermont tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Vermont at 98.0 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,487 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $251 across Vermont, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Johnson report an average commute of 20.3 minutes, with 54.0% driving alone and 11.6% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 36.4 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Johnson'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 schools and households to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to population change to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Johnson, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Johnson?
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 32.6% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Johnson?
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 54.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.3 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Johnson?
Within Vermont, the closest population matches are Williamstown (1,622 residents, $90,938 income); Waterbury (1,728 residents, $59,934 income); Richford (1,600 residents, $49,954 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pine Island Center, FL (1,668 residents); Grand Canyon, AZ (1,667 residents); Tsaile, AZ (1,667 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.
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -34 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.5% 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.
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 Johnson?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 41.6°F, with 46.8 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Vermont is 36.4 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
41.6°F
Annual precipitation
46.8 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
36.4
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Vermont average
D
City profile score · Johnson, VT
40/100
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 C+
32.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living D
98.0 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 D
9.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$48,355
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Johnson profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 62/100 (C+) · 32.6%
Cost of living: 48/100 (D) · 98.0 index
Poverty rate: 43/100 (D) · 9.2%
Household income: 18/100 (F) · $48,355
How does Johnson compare to other US cities?
Here's how Johnson stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income17% higher than other cities
Median rent73% 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 Johnson against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Vermont only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Vermont-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Johnson near the bottom of Vermont's cities
Among the 161 Vermont cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Johnson ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Johnson only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#125 of 149
16th percentile in Vermont
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 161
0th percentile in Vermont
Poverty Rate
#45 of 161
72nd percentile in Vermont
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#88 of 161
45th percentile in Vermont
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 Vermont only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
17th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$48,355Johnson, VT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Johnson, VT median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Johnson, VT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)32.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,668
Median Income
$48,355
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
22.5
Poverty Rate
9.2%
Labor force participation
63.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
32.6%
Climate
Avg Temperature
41.6°F
Annual Precipitation
46.8"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
1
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Johnson's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
1,360 residents
2021
1,362 residents
2022
1,351 residents
2023
1,339 residents
2024
1,328 residents
2025
1,326 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.3 minutes
Drive Alone
54.0%
Carpool
24.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
10.3%
Work from Home
11.6%
Based on 805 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Vermont statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $251
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Vermont at $251 (electricity about $105 , water and sewer about $48 ).
These are Vermont statewide averages, not a meter reading for Johnson. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Vermont's BEA cost-of-living index is 98.0 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Johnson is $1,487/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Vermont statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 36.4 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Vermont statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Johnson sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Johnson compares to similar-size Vermont 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.