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SheetVT-MORRISVILLE-VT · Morrisville, VT 2,527 pop · income 45th pct · 7 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 Morrisville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Morrisville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
West Brattleb… · lowest
39,555
West Brattleb… · lowest
39,555 median HH income
34.7% of the leader · rank #1
Stoutsville · near
66,786
Stoutsville · near
66,786 median HH income
58.6% of the leader · rank #2
Clarksville · near
66,786
Clarksville · near
66,786 median HH income
58.6% of the leader · rank #3
Morrisville · this city
66,792
Morrisville · this city
66,792 median HH income
58.6% of the leader · rank #4
Pembroke · near
66,797
Pembroke · near
66,797 median HH income
58.6% of the leader · rank #5
Prophetstown · near
66,797
Prophetstown · near
66,797 median HH income
58.6% of the leader · rank #6
Norton Center · highest
114,051
Norton Center · highest
114,051 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 Morrisville 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: 2,527.
Morrisville ranks in the 45th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
45th
percentile, household income
57th
percentile, home value
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: Morrisville, VT
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 2,527 residents in Morrisville, a small town within Vermont. Median household income here is $66,792 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.0%. Home values in Morrisville run a median of $258,800, and the median resident age is 40.5 years. 32.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 65.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 40.8°F.
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. The average commute for Morrisville workers runs 20.4 minutes, with 76.2% driving alone and 8.0% 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 Morrisville'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 comparison shortlist to within-city variation to population change to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to schools and households to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Morrisville, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Morrisville?
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 Vermont, the closest population matches are Vergennes (2,571 residents, $85,417 income); West Brattleboro (2,614 residents, $39,555 income); Fair Haven (2,435 residents, $65,898 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lewiston, NY (2,527 residents); Meeker, CO (2,528 residents); Dalton Gardens, ID (2,526 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.
What can 7 Census tracts reveal inside Morrisville?
PlainCities matches 7 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.
Is Morrisville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +265 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +12.4% 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.
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.
What physical conditions frame life in Morrisville?
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 40.8°F. 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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Morrisville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.4 minutes.
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.
Drive alone
76.2%
Work from home
8.0%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,397 workers age 16+.
What does the education layer cover for Morrisville?
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 3 public schools 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.
Poverty estimate
6.0%
Bachelor's degree+
32.6%
Matched public schools
3
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Morrisville?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.9×
Home value
$258,800
Household income
$66,792
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 6.0% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
98.0 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Vermont average
C-
City profile score · Morrisville, VT
52/100
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.
Poverty rate C
6.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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.
Household income D
$66,792
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).
Morrisville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 62/100 (C+) · 32.6%
Poverty rate: 59/100 (C) · 6.0%
Cost of living: 48/100 (D) · 98.0 index
Household income: 45/100 (D) · $66,792
How does Morrisville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Morrisville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income45% higher than other cities
Home value57% pricier 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 Morrisville 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 Morrisville near the bottom of Vermont's cities
Among the 161 Vermont cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Morrisville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Morrisville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#73 of 149
51st percentile in Vermont
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 161
0th percentile in Vermont
Median Home Value
#58 of 152
62nd percentile in Vermont
Poverty Rate
#63 of 161
61st 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
45th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Morrisville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$258,80043rd percentilemore affordable than 43% 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
Morrisville's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,306 of 15,516
More affordable than 34% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,111 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.9×, Morrisville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,306 of 15,516 and #8,111 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
$66,792Morrisville, VT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Morrisville, 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 Morrisville, VT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)32.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,527
Median Income
$66,792
Median Home Value
$258,800
Median Age
40.5
Poverty Rate
6.0%
Labor force participation
65.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
32.6%
Climate
Avg Temperature
40.8°F
Annual Precipitation
N/A
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Morrisville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,139 residents
2021
2,175 residents
2022
2,232 residents
2023
2,309 residents
2024
2,378 residents
2025
2,404 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.4 minutes
Drive Alone
76.2%
Carpool
5.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
7.0%
Work from Home
8.0%
Other
2.9%
Based on 1,397 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 Morrisville. 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 Morrisville 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 Morrisville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Morrisville 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.