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SheetWA-EAST-WENATCHEE-WA · East Wenatchee, WA 14,114 pop · income 62nd 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 East Wenatchee
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest East Wenatchee on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Grass Valley · lowest
48,850
Grass Valley · lowest
48,850 median HH income
24.7% of the leader · rank #1
Libertyville · near
81,042
Libertyville · near
81,042 median HH income
41.0% of the leader · rank #2
Griffin · near
81,042
Griffin · near
81,042 median HH income
41.0% of the leader · rank #3
Milford · near
81,042
Milford · near
81,042 median HH income
41.0% of the leader · rank #4
Wilton · near
81,042
Wilton · near
81,042 median HH income
41.0% of the leader · rank #5
East Wenatchee · this city
81,050
East Wenatchee · this city
81,050 median HH income
41.0% of the leader · rank #6
Snoqualmie · highest
197,531
Snoqualmie · highest
197,531 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 East Wenatchee 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: 14,114.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
East Wenatchee - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, East Wenatchee lands in the 62nd percentile for household income and the 27th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
62nd
percentile, household income
79th
percentile, home value
70th
percentile, median rent
27th
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: East Wenatchee, WA
East Wenatchee is a small town in Washington, home to 14,114 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in East Wenatchee brings in $81,050 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.8%. Typical homes in East Wenatchee are valued around $414,000, and the median resident age is 35.4 years. Educational attainment runs 20.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 63.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 6 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 40% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2234.5 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,472 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Washington's average monthly utility costs around $188 (state average). The average commute for East Wenatchee workers runs 18.6 minutes, with 80.9% driving alone and 8.0% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 70.0 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of East Wenatchee'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 comparison shortlist to reported crime to housing and income to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For East Wenatchee, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history.
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.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in East Wenatchee?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 80.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.6 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.
What does the education layer cover for East Wenatchee?
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 10 public schools within the city match. 20.0% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for East Wenatchee?
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 Artondale (14,051 residents, $156,908 income); Fort Lewis (13,983 residents, $54,902 income); Elk Plain (13,863 residents, $101,250 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Jericho, NY (14,117 residents); Shiloh, IL (14,109 residents); Dunmore, PA (14,123 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 the FBI record say about safety in East Wenatchee?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2234.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 2% 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.
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 East Wenatchee?
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 5.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
5.1×
Home value
$414,000
Household income
$81,050
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is East Wenatchee growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +288 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 6 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
14,126
2025 estimate
14,414
Period change
+2.0%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 4.8% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.0 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Washington average
D
City profile score · East Wenatchee, WA
46/100
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.
Poverty rate B-
4.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income C+
$81,050
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime D
192 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
20.0%
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.
East Wenatchee profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 67/100 (B-) · 4.8%
Household income: 60/100 (C+) · $81,050
Violent crime: 49/100 (D) · 192 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 34/100 (F) · 20.0%
Cost of living: 15/100 (F) · 107.0 index
Where East Wenatchee sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
East Wenatchee'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 - East Wenatchee highlighted among 26 peers.Read the chart values
East Wenatchee, WA (this city): home $414,000, crime 2,235/100k
Shiloh, IL : home $276,900, crime 809/100k
Grass Valley, CA : home $458,400, crime 2,687/100k
Lone Tree, CO : home $819,800, crime 11,414/100k
McFarland, CA : home $245,500, crime 1,199/100k
Snoqualmie, WA : home $919,300, crime 1,116/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does East Wenatchee compare to other US cities?
Where East Wenatchee sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income62% higher than other cities
Home value79% pricier than other cities
Median rent70% pricier than other cities
Safety27% 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 Washington alone, East Wenatchee ranks #87 of 156 Washington 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 East Wenatchee 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 East Wenatchee near the bottom of Washington's cities
Among the 599 Washington cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, East Wenatchee ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares East Wenatchee only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#309 of 565
45th percentile in Washington
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 599
0th percentile in Washington
Median Home Value
#290 of 565
49th percentile in Washington
Poverty Rate
#326 of 598
45th percentile in Washington
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#399 of 599
33rd 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
62nd percentile nationally for median household income · 27th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
East Wenatchee's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
East Wenatchee'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 East Wenatchee's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$414,00021st percentilemore affordable than 21% 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
East Wenatchee's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,083 of 15,516
More affordable than 16% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,673 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.1×, East Wenatchee sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,083 of 15,516 and #2,673 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$81,050East Wenatchee, WA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context East Wenatchee, 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 East Wenatchee, WA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)20.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
14,114
Median Income
$81,050
Median Home Value
$414,000
Median Age
35.4
Poverty Rate
4.8%
Labor force participation
63.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
20.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2234.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
191.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2043.0
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.
Schools
Total Schools
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
East Wenatchee's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
14,126 residents
2021
14,226 residents
2022
14,089 residents
2023
14,171 residents
2024
14,244 residents
2025
14,414 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
6
housing units authorized
Single-Family
4
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
10
1
9
$1.5M
2020
14
4
10
$3.2M
2021
6
4
2
$1.8M
2022
23
1
22
$4.3M
2023
48
0
48
$4.0M
2024
6
4
2
$2.2M
Permit volume decreased 40% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.6 minutes
Drive Alone
80.9%
Carpool
6.2%
Public Transit
1.2%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
8.0%
Other
3.1%
Based on 6,666 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 East Wenatchee. 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 East Wenatchee 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 East Wenatchee sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How East Wenatchee 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, 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.