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Place dossier plate
SheetVT-SPRINGFIELD-VT · Springfield, VT 3,882 pop · income 12th pct · 19 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 Springfield
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Springfield on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Springfield · this city · lowest
44,375
Springfield · this city · lowest
44,375 median HH income
17.7% of the leader · rank #1
Larsen Bay · near
44,375
Larsen Bay · near
44,375 median HH income
17.7% of the leader · rank #2
Humnoke · near
44,375
Humnoke · near
44,375 median HH income
17.7% of the leader · rank #3
Fairmead · near
44,375
Fairmead · near
44,375 median HH income
17.7% of the leader · rank #4
Taylorsville · near
44,375
Taylorsville · near
44,375 median HH income
17.7% of the leader · rank #5
Loyola · highest
250,001
Loyola · highest
250,001 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 Springfield 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: 3,882.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Springfield - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Springfield places in the 12th percentile for household income and the 53rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
12th
percentile, household income
23rd
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
53rd
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: Springfield, VT
Springfield is a small town in Vermont, home to 3,882 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $44,375 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 8.6%. Typical homes in Springfield are valued around $138,400, and the median resident age is 42.5 years. Educational attainment runs 22.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 47.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Springfield reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1289.8 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Vermont tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 98.0 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,487 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $251 across Vermont, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Springfield'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 schools and households to comparison shortlist to housing and income to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Springfield, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Within-city variation
What can 19 Census tracts reveal inside Springfield?
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 19 Census tracts to this city.
What does the journey to work look like in Springfield?
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 79.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What does the education layer cover for Springfield?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 22.4% 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.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Springfield?
Within Vermont, the closest population matches are Northfield (4,165 residents, $50,417 income); Milton (3,510 residents, $82,750 income); Wilder (3,394 residents, $69,063 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Loyola, CA (3,883 residents); Raymond, NH (3,881 residents); South Blooming Grove, NY (3,880 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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Springfield?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.6%, 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. 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.
Household income
$44,375
Home value
$138,400
Value / income
3.1×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Springfield?
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 1289.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 43% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1168.6
Violent rate
121.3
Total reported rate
1289.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Vermont average
D
City profile score · Springfield, VT
41/100
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 B-
121 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Poverty rate D
8.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share D
22.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$44,375
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Springfield profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 65/100 (B-) · 121 /100k
Cost of living: 48/100 (D) · 98.0 index
Poverty rate: 45/100 (D) · 8.6%
Bachelor's+ share: 41/100 (D) · 22.4%
Household income: 13/100 (F) · $44,375
Where Springfield sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Springfield'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 - Springfield highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Springfield, VT (this city): home $138,400, crime 1,290/100k
Raymond, NH : home $292,200, crime 362/100k
Weston, WV : home $88,000, crime 1,048/100k
Woodlawn, OH : home $177,600, crime 3,089/100k
Northfield, VT : home $233,700, crime 101/100k
Milton, VT : home $309,000, crime 857/100k
Newport, VT : home $179,000, crime 2,674/100k
Bellows Falls, VT : home $176,000, crime 905/100k
How does Springfield compare to other US cities?
Here's how Springfield stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income12% higher than other cities
Home value23% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety53% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Vermont, Springfield ranks #14 of 30 Vermont cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Springfield 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 Springfield near the bottom of Vermont's cities
Among the 161 Vermont cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Springfield ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Springfield only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#132 of 149
11th percentile in Vermont
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 161
0th percentile in Vermont
Median Home Value
#142 of 152
7th percentile in Vermont
Poverty Rate
#49 of 161
70th percentile in Vermont
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#122 of 161
24th 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
12th percentile nationally for median household income · 53rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Springfield's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Springfield'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 Springfield's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$138,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 77% 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
Springfield's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,277 of 15,516
More affordable than 53% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,059 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.1×, Springfield sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,277 of 15,516 and #6,059 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
$44,375Springfield, VT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Springfield, 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 Springfield, VT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)22.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)47.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,882
Median Income
$44,375
Median Home Value
$138,400
Median Age
42.5
Poverty Rate
8.6%
Labor force participation
47.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
22.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1289.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
121.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1168.6
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
Drive Alone
79.7%
Carpool
9.7%
Public Transit
0.9%
Walk
3.3%
Work from Home
2.9%
Other
3.5%
Based on 1,505 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 Springfield. 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 Springfield 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 Springfield sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Springfield 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.