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SheetWA-HOQUIAM-WA · Hoquiam, WA 8,792 pop · income 22nd 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 Hoquiam
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hoquiam on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Hernando · lowest
41,564
Hernando · lowest
41,564 median HH income
30.2% of the leader · rank #1
Genoa · near
51,750
Genoa · near
51,750 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #2
Siler City · near
51,751
Siler City · near
51,751 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #3
Hoquiam · this city
51,754
Hoquiam · this city
51,754 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #4
Shakertowne · near
51,756
Shakertowne · near
51,756 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #5
Ainaloa · near
51,757
Ainaloa · near
51,757 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #6
Paloma Creek… · highest
137,585
Paloma Creek… · highest
137,585 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 Hoquiam 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: 8,792.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Hoquiam - the verdict
Hoquiam ranks in the 22nd percentile for household income and the 35th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
22nd
percentile, household income
42nd
percentile, home value
70th
percentile, median rent
35th
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: Hoquiam, WA
8,792 people live in Hoquiam, Washington - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Hoquiam households earn a median of $51,754 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 11.9%. Hoquiam's housing stock carries a median value of $196,400, and the median resident age is 40.4 years. About 18.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 46.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 1 residential building permits were authorized in Hoquiam (Low Activity), per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1876.9 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,472 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $188 across Washington, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Hoquiam'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households 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 Hoquiam, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
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
Is Hoquiam growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -72 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Which cities make useful reference points for Hoquiam?
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 Milton (8,747 residents, $89,804 income); Toppenish (8,746 residents, $67,766 income); Othello (8,699 residents, $65,757 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Fort Irwin, CA (8,791 residents); Monmouth, IL (8,794 residents); Whitehouse, TX (8,794 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 does the journey to work look like in Hoquiam?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
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 6 public schools within the city match. 18.7% 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.
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 Hoquiam?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.8×
Home value
$196,400
Household income
$51,754
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 Hoquiam?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1876.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 18% 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
1876.9
Violent rate
204.8
Property rate
1672.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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 D
205 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
11.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
18.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$51,754
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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.
Hoquiam profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 47/100 (D) · 205 /100k
Poverty rate: 32/100 (F) · 11.9%
Bachelor's+ share: 31/100 (F) · 18.7%
Household income: 23/100 (F) · $51,754
Cost of living: 15/100 (F) · 107.0 index
Where Hoquiam sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Hoquiam'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 - Hoquiam highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Hoquiam, WA (this city): home $196,400, crime 1,877/100k
Monmouth, IL : home $88,100, crime 1,738/100k
Whitehouse, TX : home $216,000, crime 449/100k
Hope, AR : home $87,800, crime 3,908/100k
Milton, WA : home $511,000, crime 3,015/100k
Toppenish, WA : home $214,200, crime 4,562/100k
Othello, WA : home $278,600, crime 2,592/100k
Orting, WA : home $452,800, crime 1,210/100k
How does Hoquiam compare to other US cities?
Where Hoquiam sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income22% higher than other cities
Home value42% pricier than other cities
Median rent70% pricier than other cities
Safety35% 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, Hoquiam ranks #71 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 Hoquiam 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 Hoquiam near the bottom of Washington's cities
Among the 599 Washington cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hoquiam ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hoquiam only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#504 of 565
11th percentile in Washington
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 599
0th percentile in Washington
Median Home Value
#513 of 565
9th percentile in Washington
Poverty Rate
#123 of 598
79th percentile in Washington
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#417 of 599
30th 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
22nd percentile nationally for median household income · 35th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Hoquiam's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Hoquiam'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 Hoquiam's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$196,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 58% 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
Hoquiam's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,040 of 15,516
More affordable than 35% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,935 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.8×, Hoquiam sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,040 of 15,516 and #7,935 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
$51,754Hoquiam, WA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hoquiam, 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 Hoquiam, WA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)18.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)46.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,792
Median Income
$51,754
Median Home Value
$196,400
Median Age
40.4
Poverty Rate
11.9%
Labor force participation
46.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
18.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1876.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
204.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1672.2
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Hoquiam's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,782 residents
2021
8,862 residents
2022
8,811 residents
2023
8,786 residents
2024
8,771 residents
2025
8,710 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Low Activity
Total Permits (2024)
1
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
0
0
0
-
2020
1
1
0
$0.1M
2021
1
1
0
$0.1M
2022
1
1
0
$0.1M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
1
1
0
$0.2M
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.8%
Carpool
7.4%
Public Transit
3.0%
Walk
3.2%
Work from Home
4.4%
Based on 3,340 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 Hoquiam. 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 Hoquiam 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 Hoquiam sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hoquiam 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.