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SheetVT-MIDDLEBURY-VT · Middlebury, VT 7,145 pop · income 56th pct · 10 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 Middlebury
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Middlebury on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Rayne · lowest
41,603
Rayne · lowest
41,603 median HH income
34.7% of the leader · rank #1
Middlebury · this city
74,900
Middlebury · this city
74,900 median HH income
62.5% of the leader · rank #2
Dacula · near
74,900
Dacula · near
74,900 median HH income
62.5% of the leader · rank #3
Midland · near
74,906
Midland · near
74,906 median HH income
62.5% of the leader · rank #4
Kenai · near
74,907
Kenai · near
74,907 median HH income
62.5% of the leader · rank #5
Lake City · near
74,909
Lake City · near
74,909 median HH income
62.5% of the leader · rank #6
Northlake · highest
119,803
Northlake · highest
119,803 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 Middlebury 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: 7,145.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Middlebury - the verdict
Middlebury ranks in the 56th percentile for household income and the 47th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
56th
percentile, household income
76th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
47th
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: Middlebury, VT
7,145 people live in Middlebury, Vermont - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Middlebury households earn a median of $74,900 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.5%. Home values in Middlebury run a median of $388,100, and the median resident age is 23.5 years. 63.1% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 46.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Middlebury reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1471.6 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Vermont tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Vermont scores 98.0 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,487 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Vermont's average monthly utility costs around $251 (state average). Workers in Middlebury report an average commute of 12.1 minutes, with 40.0% driving alone and 19.9% 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 Middlebury'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 within-city variation to work and mobility to housing and income to schools and households to comparison shortlist to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Middlebury, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Within-city variation
What can 10 Census tracts reveal inside Middlebury?
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.
PlainCities matches 10 Census tracts to this city.
What does the journey to work look like in Middlebury?
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 40.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 12.1 minutes.
How far does income reach against housing in Middlebury?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.5%, 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Middlebury?
Within Vermont, the closest population matches are St. Albans (6,910 residents, $53,370 income); Brattleboro (7,793 residents, $46,972 income); Shelburne (6,292 residents, $106,187 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Clarkston Heights-Vineland, WA (7,144 residents); Rayne, LA (7,147 residents); Piñon Hills, CA (7,149 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Middlebury?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 63.1% 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.
Matched public schools
4
Bachelor's degree+
63.1%
Poverty estimate
8.5%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Middlebury?
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 1471.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 35% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1329.8
Violent rate
141.7
Total reported rate
1471.6
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 8.5% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
98.0 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Vermont average
C
City profile score · Middlebury, VT
58/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
63.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime C+
142 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income C-
$74,900
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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
8.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Middlebury profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 93/100 (A+) · 63.1%
Violent crime: 60/100 (C+) · 142 /100k
Household income: 54/100 (C-) · $74,900
Cost of living: 48/100 (D) · 98.0 index
Poverty rate: 46/100 (D) · 8.5%
Where Middlebury sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Middlebury'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 - Middlebury highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Middlebury, VT (this city): home $388,100, crime 1,472/100k
Rayne, LA : home $151,900, crime 955/100k
Millsboro, DE : home $297,000, crime 2,778/100k
Northlake, TX : home $482,700, crime 1,585/100k
St. Albans, VT : home $245,600, crime 13,395/100k
Brattleboro, VT : home $239,500, crime 4,681/100k
Shelburne, VT : home $496,700, crime 1,389/100k
Montpelier, VT : home $349,200, crime 2,298/100k
Winooski, VT : home $350,700, crime 2,944/100k
St. Johnsbury, VT : home $171,900, crime 2,276/100k
How does Middlebury compare to other US cities?
Middlebury measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income56% higher than other cities
Home value76% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety47% 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 Vermont alone, Middlebury ranks #17 of 30 Vermont 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 Middlebury 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 Middlebury near the bottom of Vermont's cities
Among the 161 Vermont cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Middlebury ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Middlebury only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#52 of 149
65th percentile in Vermont
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 161
0th percentile in Vermont
Median Home Value
#16 of 152
89th percentile in Vermont
Poverty Rate
#50 of 161
68th percentile in Vermont
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#17 of 161
89th 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
56th percentile nationally for median household income · 47th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Middlebury's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Middlebury'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 Middlebury's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$388,10024th percentilemore affordable than 24% 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
Middlebury's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,160 of 15,516
More affordable than 15% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#9,912 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.2×, Middlebury sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,160 of 15,516 and #9,912 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$74,900Middlebury, VT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Middlebury, 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 Middlebury, VT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)63.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)46.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,145
Median Income
$74,900
Median Home Value
$388,100
Median Age
23.5
Poverty Rate
8.5%
Labor force participation
46.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
63.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1471.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
141.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1329.8
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
4
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
12.1 minutes
Drive Alone
40.0%
Carpool
7.8%
Public Transit
0.6%
Walk
29.4%
Work from Home
19.9%
Other
2.3%
Based on 3,006 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 Middlebury. 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 Middlebury 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 Middlebury sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Middlebury 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, FBI UCR, 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.