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SheetWA-BATTLE-GROUND-WA · Battle Ground, WA 21,293 pop · income 78th 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 Battle Ground
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Battle Ground on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Candler-McAfee · lowest
62,299
Candler-McAfee · lowest
62,299 median HH income
42.6% of the leader · rank #1
Scandia · near
100,179
Scandia · near
100,179 median HH income
68.4% of the leader · rank #2
Valley View · near
100,179
Valley View · near
100,179 median HH income
68.4% of the leader · rank #3
Battle Ground · this city
100,185
Battle Ground · this city
100,185 median HH income
68.4% of the leader · rank #4
Destrehan · near
100,189
Destrehan · near
100,189 median HH income
68.4% of the leader · rank #5
Websters Cros… · near
100,192
Websters Cros… · near
100,192 median HH income
68.4% of the leader · rank #6
Stevenson Ran… · highest
146,404
Stevenson Ran… · highest
146,404 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 Battle Ground 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: 21,293.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Battle Ground - the verdict
Nationally, Battle Ground sits in the 78th percentile for household income and the 59th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
78th
percentile, household income
82nd
percentile, home value
70th
percentile, median rent
59th
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: Battle Ground, WA
Washington's Battle Ground is a small city, with 21,293 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Battle Ground report a median income of $100,185 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.2%. Typical homes in Battle Ground are valued around $452,000, and the median resident age is 33.7 years. About 24.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 60.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 291 residential building permits were authorized in Battle Ground (Rapid Growth), up 34% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Battle Ground reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1115.0 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). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 50.9°F with 52.4 inches of precipitation per year and 1.4 inches of snowfall.
Washington carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Washington scores 107.0 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,472 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $188 across Washington, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 25.3 minutes, with 76.1% driving alone and 12.4% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 70.0 out of 100 (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Battle Ground'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 schools and households to work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist to reported crime to population change to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Battle Ground, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Battle Ground?
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 5 public schools within the city match. 24.5% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Battle Ground?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 25.3 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Battle Ground?
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 4.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Battle Ground?
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 Washington, the closest population matches are Mukilteo (21,312 residents, $122,612 income); Mountlake Terrace (21,419 residents, $101,404 income); Five Corners (21,444 residents, $102,423 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Mustang, OK (21,290 residents); Geneva, IL (21,299 residents); Elmwood Park, NJ (21,287 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 Battle Ground?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1115.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 51% 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
1115.0
Violent rate
79.0
Property rate
1036.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Battle Ground growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,643 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +12.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 291 housing units authorized in 2024. 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.
2020 estimate
20,870
2025 estimate
23,513
Period change
+12.7%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What physical conditions frame life in Battle Ground?
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 50.9°F, with 52.4 inches of precipitation and 1.4 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Washington is 70.0 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
70.0
Annual precipitation
52.4 in
Mean temperature
50.9°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
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.
Household income B+
$100,185
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B+
79 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C+
5.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share D
24.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living F
107.0 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Battle Ground profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 77/100 (B+) · $100,185
Violent crime: 76/100 (B+) · 79 /100k
Poverty rate: 64/100 (C+) · 5.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 47/100 (D) · 24.5%
Cost of living: 15/100 (F) · 107.0 index
Where Battle Ground sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Battle Ground'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 - Battle Ground highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Battle Ground, WA (this city): home $452,000, crime 1,115/100k
Mustang, OK : home $227,800, crime 807/100k
Geneva, IL : home $415,800, crime 584/100k
Elmwood Park, NJ : home $456,000, crime 2,468/100k
Mesquite, NV : home $374,400, crime 1,129/100k
Mukilteo, WA : home $830,000, crime 1,823/100k
Mountlake Terrace, WA : home $606,100, crime 2,385/100k
Tukwila, WA : home $462,800, crime 16,171/100k
How does Battle Ground compare to other US cities?
Where Battle Ground sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income78% higher than other cities
Home value82% pricier than other cities
Median rent70% pricier than other cities
Safety59% 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 Washington, Battle Ground ranks #40 of 156 Washington 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 Battle Ground against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Washington only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Washington-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Battle Ground near the bottom of Washington's cities
Among the 599 Washington cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Battle Ground ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Battle Ground only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#191 of 565
66th percentile in Washington
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 599
0th percentile in Washington
Median Home Value
#244 of 565
57th percentile in Washington
Poverty Rate
#306 of 598
47th percentile in Washington
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#316 of 599
47th percentile in Washington
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 Washington only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
78th percentile nationally for median household income · 59th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Battle Ground's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Battle Ground'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 Battle Ground's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$452,00018th percentilemore affordable than 18% 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
Battle Ground's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,998 of 15,516
More affordable than 23% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,349 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.5×, Battle Ground sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,998 of 15,516 and #2,349 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$100,185Battle Ground, WA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Battle Ground, WA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Battle Ground, WA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
21,293
Median Income
$100,185
Median Home Value
$452,000
Median Age
33.7
Poverty Rate
5.2%
Labor force participation
60.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1115.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
79.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1036.0
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
50.9°F
Annual Precipitation
52.4"
Annual Snowfall
1.4"
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Battle Ground's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
20,870 residents
2021
21,289 residents
2022
21,765 residents
2023
22,500 residents
2024
22,912 residents
2025
23,513 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
291
housing units authorized
Single-Family
291
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
13.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
217
207
10
$52.5M
2020
196
179
17
$48.3M
2021
320
287
33
$81.5M
2022
342
234
108
$72.5M
2023
220
193
27
$54.6M
2024
291
291
0
$106.4M
Permit volume increased 34% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
25.3 minutes
Drive Alone
76.1%
Carpool
7.4%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
2.7%
Work from Home
12.4%
Other
1.1%
Based on 9,803 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Washington statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $188
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Washington at $188 (electricity about $85 , water and sewer about $55 ).
These are Washington statewide averages, not a meter reading for Battle Ground. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Washington's BEA cost-of-living index is 107.0 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Battle Ground is $1,472/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Washington statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 70.0 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Washington statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Battle Ground sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Battle Ground compares to similar-size Washington 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, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, 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.