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SheetWA-LAKE-MARCEL-STILLWATER-WA · Lake Marcel-Stillwater, WA 1,463 pop · income 98th 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 Lake Marcel-Stillwater
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lake Marcel-Stillwater on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Pomeroy · lowest
50,197
Pomeroy · lowest
50,197 median HH income
25.7% of the leader · rank #1
Glen Echo · near
195,000
Glen Echo · near
195,000 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Lido Beach · near
195,045
Lido Beach · near
195,045 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Lake Marcel-S… · this city
195,063
Lake Marcel-S… · this city
195,063 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Lookout Mount… · near
195,063
Lookout Mount… · near
195,063 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #5
Steiner Ranch · highest
195,181
Steiner Ranch · highest
195,181 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 Lake Marcel-Stillwater 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: 1,463.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Lake Marcel-Stillwater places in the 98th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
98th
percentile, household income
92nd
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: Lake Marcel-Stillwater, WA
Lake Marcel-Stillwater is a small town in Washington, home to 1,463 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Lake Marcel-Stillwater households earn a median of $195,063 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.8%. Typical homes in Lake Marcel-Stillwater are valued around $690,800, and the median resident age is 39.4 years. About 55.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 69.8% 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. 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 Lake Marcel-Stillwater'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lake Marcel-Stillwater, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count; 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 Lake Marcel-Stillwater?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 50.6%. 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. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lake Marcel-Stillwater?
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.
Within Washington, the closest population matches are Coulee Dam (1,457 residents, $67,868 income); Dallesport (1,434 residents, $67,500 income); Pomeroy (1,423 residents, $50,197 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Saticoy, CA (1,463 residents); Granville, IL (1,463 residents); Wathena, KS (1,463 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Lake Marcel-Stillwater?
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 3.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Top-decile income · poverty 3.8% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.0 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Washington average
B
City profile score · Lake Marcel-Stillwater, WA
70/100
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+
$195,063
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A
55.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B
3.8%
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).
Lake Marcel-Stillwater profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $195,063
Bachelor's+ share: 89/100 (A) · 55.9%
Poverty rate: 73/100 (B) · 3.8%
Cost of living: 15/100 (F) · 107.0 index
How does Lake Marcel-Stillwater compare to other US cities?
Here's how Lake Marcel-Stillwater stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income98% higher than other cities
Home value92% 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 Lake Marcel-Stillwater 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 Lake Marcel-Stillwater near the bottom of Washington's cities
Among the 599 Washington cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lake Marcel-Stillwater ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lake Marcel-Stillwater only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#12 of 565
98th percentile in Washington
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 599
0th percentile in Washington
Median Home Value
#86 of 565
85th percentile in Washington
Poverty Rate
#372 of 598
38th percentile in Washington
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#45 of 599
92nd 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
98th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Lake Marcel-Stillwater's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$690,8008th percentilemore affordable than 8% 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
Lake Marcel-Stillwater's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,147 of 15,516
More affordable than 41% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,367 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.5×, Lake Marcel-Stillwater sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,147 of 15,516 and #7,367 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
$195,063Lake Marcel-Stillwater, WA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lake Marcel-Stillwater, 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 Lake Marcel-Stillwater, WA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)55.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,463
Median Income
$195,063
Median Home Value
$690,800
Median Age
39.4
Poverty Rate
3.8%
Labor force participation
69.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
55.9%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
50.6%
Carpool
5.5%
Public Transit
2.8%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
41.0%
Based on 739 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 Lake Marcel-Stillwater. 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 Lake Marcel-Stillwater 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 Lake Marcel-Stillwater sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lake Marcel-Stillwater 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.