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SheetWA-FOBES-HILL-WA · Fobes Hill, WA 2,683 pop · income 91st 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 Fobes Hill
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fobes Hill on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Summit · lowest
33,983
Summit · lowest
33,983 median HH income
25.7% of the leader · rank #1
Short Pump · near
132,194
Short Pump · near
132,194 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Westport · near
132,206
Westport · near
132,206 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Wading River · near
132,213
Wading River · near
132,213 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Fobes Hill · this city
132,250
Fobes Hill · this city
132,250 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Bonadelle Ran… · highest
132,292
Bonadelle Ran… · highest
132,292 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Fobes Hill on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 2,683.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Fobes Hill places in the 91st percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
91st
percentile, household income
94th
percentile, home value
70th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Fobes Hill, WA
Washington's Fobes Hill is a small town, with 2,683 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $132,250 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.6%. Home values in Fobes Hill run a median of $777,100, and the median resident age is 42.8 years. Educational attainment runs 45.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 65.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Washington carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Washington at 107.0 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,472 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Washington run around $188, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Fobes Hill'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Fobes Hill, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Fobes Hill?
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 72.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in Fobes Hill?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.6%, 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Fobes Hill?
Within Washington, the closest population matches are Friday Harbor (2,685 residents, $69,954 income); Leavenworth (2,676 residents, $74,653 income); Dayton (2,695 residents, $71,687 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Plainsboro Center, NJ (2,683 residents); Colwyn, PA (2,683 residents); Arcadia, LA (2,682 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.
Top-decile income · poverty 4.6% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.0 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Washington average
C+
City profile score · Fobes Hill, WA
64/100
4 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.
Household income A+
$132,250
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
45.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B-
4.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Fobes Hill profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 91/100 (A+) · $132,250
Bachelor's+ share: 79/100 (B+) · 45.0%
Poverty rate: 68/100 (B-) · 4.6%
Cost of living: 15/100 (F) · 107.0 index
How does Fobes Hill compare to other US cities?
Where Fobes Hill sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income91% higher than other cities
Home value94% pricier than other cities
Median rent70% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Fobes Hill 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 Fobes Hill near the bottom of Washington's cities
Among the 599 Washington cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fobes Hill ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fobes Hill only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#74 of 565
87th percentile in Washington
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 599
0th percentile in Washington
Median Home Value
#58 of 565
90th percentile in Washington
Poverty Rate
#336 of 598
43rd percentile in Washington
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#104 of 599
82nd 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
91st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Fobes Hill's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$777,1006th percentilemore affordable than 6% 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
Fobes Hill's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,001 of 15,516
More affordable than 10% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,404 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.9×, Fobes Hill sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,001 of 15,516 and #10,404 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$132,250Fobes Hill, WA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fobes Hill, 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 Fobes Hill, WA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)45.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,683
Median Income
$132,250
Median Home Value
$777,100
Median Age
42.8
Poverty Rate
4.6%
Labor force participation
65.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
45.0%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
72.7%
Carpool
10.1%
Public Transit
4.9%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
11.4%
Based on 1,422 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 Fobes Hill. 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 Fobes Hill 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 Fobes Hill sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fobes Hill 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, 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.