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Place dossier plate
SheetVT-ST-ALBANS-VT · St. Albans, VT 6,910 pop · income 25th pct · 11 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 St. Albans
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest St. Albans on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Brattleboro · lowest
46,972
Brattleboro · lowest
46,972 median HH income
39.9% of the leader · rank #1
Stonefort · near
53,365
Stonefort · near
53,365 median HH income
45.3% of the leader · rank #2
Dewart · near
53,365
Dewart · near
53,365 median HH income
45.3% of the leader · rank #3
St. Albans · this city
53,370
St. Albans · this city
53,370 median HH income
45.3% of the leader · rank #4
Danville · near
53,370
Danville · near
53,370 median HH income
45.3% of the leader · rank #5
West Point · near
53,375
West Point · near
53,375 median HH income
45.3% of the leader · rank #6
Kirtland · highest
117,794
Kirtland · highest
117,794 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 St. Albans 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: 6,910.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
St. Albans - the verdict
St. Albans ranks in the 25th percentile for household income and the 0th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
25th
percentile, household income
55th
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
0th
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: St. Albans, VT
6,910 people live in St. Albans, Vermont - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. St. Albans households earn a median of $53,370 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 15.4%. Typical homes in St. Albans are valued around $245,600, and the median resident age is 38.3 years. Educational attainment runs 28.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 55.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 2 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 100% from five years earlier. St. Albans's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 13394.7 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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. 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. Workers in St. Albans report an average commute of 20.8 minutes, with 67.9% driving alone and 8.7% working from home. 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 St. Albans'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 population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist to housing and income to work and mobility to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For St. Albans, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Population change
Is St. Albans growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +107 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can the FBI record say about safety in St. Albans?
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 13394.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 487% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for St. Albans?
Within Vermont, the closest population matches are Middlebury (7,145 residents, $74,900 income); Shelburne (6,292 residents, $106,187 income); Brattleboro (7,793 residents, $46,972 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Catalina, AZ (6,908 residents); Clinton, MA (6,908 residents); Ambridge, PA (6,912 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.
What can 11 Census tracts reveal inside St. Albans?
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 11 Census tracts to this city.
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 St. Albans?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 15.4%, 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.
Household income
$53,370
Home value
$245,600
Value / income
4.6×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in St. Albans?
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 67.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.8 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
8.7%
Drive alone
67.9%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 3,142 workers age 16+.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Vermont average
F
City profile score · St. Albans, VT
29/100
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 C
28.9%
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.
Household income F
$53,370
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
15.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
992 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
St. Albans profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 56/100 (C) · 28.9%
Cost of living: 48/100 (D) · 98.0 index
Household income: 25/100 (F) · $53,370
Poverty rate: 22/100 (F) · 15.4%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 992 /100k
Where St. Albans sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
St. Albans'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 - St. Albans highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
St. Albans, VT (this city): home $245,600, crime 13,395/100k
Clinton, MA : home $328,600, crime 101/100k
Ambridge, PA : home $94,000, crime 2,686/100k
Hamilton, AL : home $103,500, crime 1,925/100k
Connellsville, PA : home $117,200, crime 3,133/100k
Middlebury, VT : home $388,100, crime 1,472/100k
Shelburne, VT : home $496,700, crime 1,389/100k
Brattleboro, VT : home $239,500, crime 4,681/100k
St. Johnsbury, VT : home $171,900, crime 2,276/100k
Montpelier, VT : home $349,200, crime 2,298/100k
Winooski, VT : home $350,700, crime 2,944/100k
How does St. Albans compare to other US cities?
Here's how St. Albans stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income25% higher than other cities
Home value55% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety0% 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, St. Albans ranks #30 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 St. Albans 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 St. Albans near the bottom of Vermont's cities
Among the 161 Vermont cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, St. Albans ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares St. Albans only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#115 of 149
23rd percentile in Vermont
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 161
0th percentile in Vermont
Median Home Value
#69 of 152
55th percentile in Vermont
Poverty Rate
#21 of 161
87th percentile in Vermont
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#102 of 161
36th 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
25th percentile nationally for median household income · 0th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
St. Albans's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
St. Albans'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 St. Albans's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$245,60045th percentilemore affordable than 45% 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
St. Albans's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,185 of 15,516
More affordable than 21% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#9,304 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.6×, St. Albans sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,185 of 15,516 and #9,304 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
$53,370St. Albans, VT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context St. Albans, 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 St. Albans, VT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)28.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)15.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,910
Median Income
$53,370
Median Home Value
$245,600
Median Age
38.3
Poverty Rate
15.4%
Labor force participation
55.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
28.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
13394.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
991.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
12403.0
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
St. Albans's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,832 residents
2021
6,917 residents
2022
6,905 residents
2023
6,878 residents
2024
6,993 residents
2025
6,939 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
2
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1
1
0
$0.0M
2020
46
9
37
$4.2M
2021
1
1
0
$0.2M
2022
2
2
0
$0.6M
2023
74
2
72
$14.5M
2024
2
0
2
$0.3M
Permit volume increased 100% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.8 minutes
Drive Alone
67.9%
Carpool
18.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.1%
Work from Home
8.7%
Other
1.9%
Based on 3,142 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 St. Albans. 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 St. Albans 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 St. Albans sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How St. Albans 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, Census BPS 2024, 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.