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SheetWA-MATTAWA-WA · Mattawa, WA 3,553 pop · income 9th 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 Mattawa
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Mattawa on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mattawa · this city · lowest
41,250
Mattawa · this city · lowest
41,250 median HH income
30.7% of the leader · rank #1
Gu-Win · near
41,250
Gu-Win · near
41,250 median HH income
30.7% of the leader · rank #2
Mount Vernon · near
41,250
Mount Vernon · near
41,250 median HH income
30.7% of the leader · rank #3
Kaltag · near
41,250
Kaltag · near
41,250 median HH income
30.7% of the leader · rank #4
Cave City · near
41,250
Cave City · near
41,250 median HH income
30.7% of the leader · rank #5
Stanhope · highest
134,583
Stanhope · highest
134,583 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 Mattawa 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: 3,553.
Mattawa ranks in the 9th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
9th
percentile, household income
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: Mattawa, WA
Washington's Mattawa is a small town, with 3,553 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Mattawa report a median income of $41,250 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 23.0%. The median resident age is 22.5 years. About 0.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 58.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 0 residential building permits were authorized in Mattawa (No Permits), down 100% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data.
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. 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. Commute times here average 21.8 minutes, with 67.1% driving alone and 7.7% 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 Mattawa'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; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Mattawa, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Population change
Is Mattawa growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +519 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +15.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 0 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Mattawa?
Within Washington, the closest population matches are Canyon Creek (3,556 residents, $67,295 income); Benton City (3,559 residents, $52,581 income); Marietta-Alderwood (3,569 residents, $62,243 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ozark, AR (3,555 residents); Ketchum, ID (3,551 residents); Stanhope, NJ (3,551 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Mattawa?
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 67.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.8 minutes.
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 0.7% 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.
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.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 23.0% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.0 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Washington average
F
City profile score · Mattawa, WA
9/100
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.
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.
Poverty rate F
23.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$41,250
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
0.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Mattawa profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 15/100 (F) · 107.0 index
Poverty rate: 9/100 (F) · 23.0%
Household income: 8/100 (F) · $41,250
Bachelor's+ share: 0/100 (F) · 0.7%
How does Mattawa compare to other US cities?
Mattawa measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income9% higher 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 Mattawa 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 Mattawa near the bottom of Washington's cities
Among the 599 Washington cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Mattawa ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Mattawa only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#548 of 565
3rd percentile in Washington
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 599
0th percentile in Washington
Poverty Rate
#30 of 598
94th percentile in Washington
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#590 of 599
2nd 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
9th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$41,250Mattawa, WA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Mattawa, 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 Mattawa, WA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)0.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)23.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,553
Median Income
$41,250
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
22.5
Poverty Rate
23.0%
Labor force participation
58.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
0.7%
Schools
Total Schools
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Mattawa's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
3,355 residents
2021
3,497 residents
2022
3,695 residents
2023
3,772 residents
2024
3,795 residents
2025
3,874 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
Total Permits (2024)
0
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
3
1
2
$0.5M
2020
72
0
72
$28.8M
2021
98
0
98
$39.2M
2022
22
0
22
$8.8M
2023
28
0
28
$11.2M
2024
0
0
0
-
Permit volume decreased 100% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.8 minutes
Drive Alone
67.1%
Carpool
20.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
4.4%
Work from Home
7.7%
Based on 1,290 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 Mattawa. 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 Mattawa 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 Mattawa sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Mattawa 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, 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.