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SheetVT-SHELBURNE-VT · Shelburne, VT 6,292 pop · income 81st 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 Shelburne
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Shelburne on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Brattleboro · lowest
46,972
Brattleboro · lowest
46,972 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #1
Nottingham · near
106,151
Nottingham · near
106,151 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Waipio · near
106,164
Waipio · near
106,164 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Lisle · near
106,173
Lisle · near
106,173 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Shelburne · this city
106,187
Shelburne · this city
106,187 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
DeForest · highest
106,223
DeForest · highest
106,223 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Shelburne 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: 6,292.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Shelburne - the verdict
Nationally, Shelburne sits in the 81st percentile for household income and the 50th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
81st
percentile, household income
85th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
50th
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: Shelburne, VT
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 6,292 residents in Shelburne, a small town within Vermont. Households in Shelburne report a median income of $106,187 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.7%. Typical homes in Shelburne are valued around $496,700, and the median resident age is 51.9 years. 69.3% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 58.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Shelburne reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1389.1 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: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Vermont at 98.0 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,487 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Vermont run around $251, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 16.1 minutes, with 70.1% driving alone and 22.2% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 36.4 out of 100 (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Shelburne'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 schools and households to housing and income 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 Shelburne, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, local building permits, 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 Shelburne?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 16.1 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. 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.
What does the education layer cover for Shelburne?
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.
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 69.3% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Shelburne?
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 4.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Shelburne?
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 Vermont, the closest population matches are St. Johnsbury (5,945 residents, $49,033 income); St. Albans (6,910 residents, $53,370 income); Middlebury (7,145 residents, $74,900 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Yarmouth, ME (6,293 residents); Obetz, OH (6,293 residents); Countryside, IL (6,294 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Shelburne?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1389.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 39% lower 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
1389.1
Violent rate
62.6
Property rate
1326.5
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Vermont average
B
City profile score · Shelburne, VT
74/100
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+
69.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A-
$106,187
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime A-
63 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate B-
4.7%
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.
Shelburne profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 97/100 (A+) · 69.3%
Household income: 80/100 (A-) · $106,187
Violent crime: 80/100 (A-) · 63 /100k
Poverty rate: 67/100 (B-) · 4.7%
Cost of living: 48/100 (D) · 98.0 index
Where Shelburne sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Shelburne'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 - Shelburne highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Shelburne, VT (this city): home $496,700, crime 1,389/100k
Yarmouth, ME : home $506,300, crime 509/100k
Obetz, OH : home $191,700, crime 1,207/100k
Countryside, IL : home $330,700, crime 2,606/100k
Warrenton, OR : home $386,500, crime 4,868/100k
Gladewater, TX : home $162,400, crime 1,742/100k
Cold Spring, KY : home $235,200, crime 1,976/100k
St. Johnsbury, VT : home $171,900, crime 2,276/100k
St. Albans, VT : home $245,600, crime 13,395/100k
Middlebury, VT : home $388,100, crime 1,472/100k
Brattleboro, VT : home $239,500, crime 4,681/100k
Montpelier, VT : home $349,200, crime 2,298/100k
Newport, VT : home $179,000, crime 2,674/100k
How does Shelburne compare to other US cities?
Shelburne measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income81% higher than other cities
Home value85% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety50% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Vermont and the picture shifts: Shelburne ranks #16 of 30 Vermont cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Shelburne 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 Shelburne near the bottom of Vermont's cities
Among the 161 Vermont cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Shelburne ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Shelburne only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#12 of 149
92nd percentile in Vermont
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 161
0th percentile in Vermont
Median Home Value
#4 of 152
97th percentile in Vermont
Poverty Rate
#73 of 161
55th percentile in Vermont
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#11 of 161
93rd 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
81st percentile nationally for median household income · 50th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Shelburne's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Shelburne'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 Shelburne's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$496,70015th percentilemore affordable than 15% 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
Shelburne's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,339 of 15,516
More affordable than 20% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#9,406 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.7×, Shelburne sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,339 of 15,516 and #9,406 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
$106,187Shelburne, VT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Shelburne, 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 Shelburne, VT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)69.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,292
Median Income
$106,187
Median Home Value
$496,700
Median Age
51.9
Poverty Rate
4.7%
Labor force participation
58.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
69.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1389.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
62.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1326.5
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
1
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
16.1 minutes
Drive Alone
70.1%
Carpool
4.3%
Public Transit
1.7%
Walk
1.8%
Work from Home
22.2%
Based on 3,022 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 Shelburne. 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 Shelburne 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 Shelburne sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Shelburne 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.