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Place dossier plate
SheetWA-LAKE-STICKNEY-WA · Lake Stickney, WA 15,514 pop · income 67th 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 Stickney
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lake Stickney on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Carthage · lowest
50,849
Carthage · lowest
50,849 median HH income
42.7% of the leader · rank #1
Rio Rancho · near
85,755
Rio Rancho · near
85,755 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #2
New Windsor · near
85,755
New Windsor · near
85,755 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #3
Conesus Lake · near
85,761
Conesus Lake · near
85,761 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #4
Lake Stickney · this city
85,762
Lake Stickney · this city
85,762 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #5
Dove Valley · near
85,772
Dove Valley · near
85,772 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #6
Tanque Verde · highest
119,212
Tanque Verde · highest
119,212 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Lake Stickney 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: 15,514.
Nationally, Lake Stickney sits in the 67th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
67th
percentile, household income
89th
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 Stickney, WA
Washington's Lake Stickney is a small town, with 15,514 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $85,762 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.5%. Home values in Lake Stickney run a median of $598,400, and the median resident age is 34.6 years. 34.4% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 67.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Washington carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 107.0 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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. Commute times here average 25.7 minutes, with 63.7% driving alone and 20.3% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 70.0 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Lake Stickney'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lake Stickney, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Lake Stickney?
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 Ferndale (15,447 residents, $83,839 income); White Center (15,017 residents, $82,500 income); Lynden (16,025 residents, $94,869 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Carthage, MO (15,513 residents); Andover, KS (15,508 residents); Yulee, FL (15,521 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 Lake Stickney?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 63.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 25.7 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. 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Lake Stickney?
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 7.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Above median income · poverty 8.5% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.0 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Washington average
D
City profile score · Lake Stickney, WA
48/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share B-
34.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B-
$85,762
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.5%
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 Stickney profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 66/100 (B-) · 34.4%
Household income: 65/100 (B-) · $85,762
Poverty rate: 46/100 (D) · 8.5%
Cost of living: 15/100 (F) · 107.0 index
How does Lake Stickney compare to other US cities?
Where Lake Stickney sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income67% higher than other cities
Home value89% 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 Stickney 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 Stickney near the bottom of Washington's cities
Among the 599 Washington cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lake Stickney ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lake Stickney only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#272 of 565
52nd percentile in Washington
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 599
0th percentile in Washington
Median Home Value
#135 of 565
76th percentile in Washington
Poverty Rate
#199 of 598
67th percentile in Washington
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#179 of 599
70th 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
67th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Lake Stickney's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$598,40011th percentilemore affordable than 11% 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 Stickney's home-value-to-income ratio: 7.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,661 of 15,516
More affordable than 6% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,106 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 7.0×, Lake Stickney sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,661 of 15,516 and #3,106 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
$85,762Lake Stickney, WA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lake Stickney, 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 Stickney, WA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
15,514
Median Income
$85,762
Median Home Value
$598,400
Median Age
34.6
Poverty Rate
8.5%
Labor force participation
67.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.4%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
25.7 minutes
Drive Alone
63.7%
Carpool
8.6%
Public Transit
3.9%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
20.3%
Other
2.8%
Based on 7,869 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 Stickney. 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 Stickney 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 Stickney sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lake Stickney 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.