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SheetWA-NEWPORT-WA · Newport, WA 2,269 pop · income 9th pct · 5 tracts
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 Newport
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Newport on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Jasonville · lowest
36,607
Jasonville · lowest
36,607 median HH income
41.7% of the leader · rank #1
Alva · near
41,728
Alva · near
41,728 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #2
Montvale · near
41,732
Montvale · near
41,732 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #3
Newport · this city
41,733
Newport · this city
41,733 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #4
Anthoston · near
41,734
Anthoston · near
41,734 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #5
Garden City · near
41,735
Garden City · near
41,735 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #6
Walla Walla E… · highest
87,723
Walla Walla E… · highest
87,723 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 Newport 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: 2,269.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Newport - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Newport places in the 9th percentile for household income and the 18th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
9th
percentile, household income
51st
percentile, home value
70th
percentile, median rent
18th
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: Newport, WA
Newport is a small town in Washington, home to 2,269 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Newport households earn a median of $41,733 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 22.5%. Typical homes in Newport are valued around $230,500, and the median resident age is 35.3 years. 15.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 45.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 3 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Stable), up 0% from five years earlier. Newport's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2802.5 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Newport's yearly average temperature at 46.2°F with 27.5 inches of precipitation per year.
Washington carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Washington scores 107.0 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,472 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Washington's average monthly utility costs around $188 (state average). Commute times here average 24.0 minutes, with 75.5% driving alone and 7.6% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Newport'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 reported crime to schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to population change to climate and hazard context to within-city variation to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Newport, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Newport?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2802.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 23% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 15.5% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Newport?
Within Washington, the closest population matches are Walla Walla East (2,264 residents, $87,723 income); McCleary (2,262 residents, $75,652 income); Whidbey Island Station (2,284 residents, $42,143 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Eureka Springs, AR (2,269 residents); Jasonville, IN (2,269 residents); Marceline, MO (2,269 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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Newport?
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 75.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 24.0 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
7.6%
Drive alone
75.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 791 workers age 16+.
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 +95 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 3 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+4.4%
2025 estimate
2,242
2020 estimate
2,147
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 46.2°F, with 27.5 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Washington is 70.0 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
46.2°F
Annual precipitation
27.5 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
70.0
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
How far does income reach against housing in Newport?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 22.5%, 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.
Household income
$41,733
Home value
$230,500
Value / income
5.5×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 22.5% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.0 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Washington average
F
City profile score · Newport, WA
25/100
5 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.
Violent crime B
89 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
15.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Household income F
$41,733
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
22.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Newport profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 73/100 (B) · 89 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 21/100 (F) · 15.5%
Cost of living: 15/100 (F) · 107.0 index
Household income: 9/100 (F) · $41,733
Poverty rate: 9/100 (F) · 22.5%
Where Newport sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Newport'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 - Newport highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Newport, WA (this city): home $230,500, crime 2,803/100k
Eureka Springs, AR : home $246,900, crime 2,135/100k
Jasonville, IN : home $66,400, crime 943/100k
Marceline, MO : home $96,000, crime 808/100k
Ault, CO : home $330,200, crime 1,444/100k
Mangonia Park, FL : home $309,900, crime 6,134/100k
McCleary, WA : home $327,100, crime 538/100k
Castle Rock, WA : home $301,000, crime 1,069/100k
How does Newport compare to other US cities?
Newport 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
Home value51% pricier than other cities
Median rent70% pricier than other cities
Safety18% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Washington alone, Newport ranks #105 of 156 Washington cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Newport 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 Newport near the bottom of Washington's cities
Among the 599 Washington cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Newport ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Newport only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#546 of 565
3rd percentile in Washington
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 599
0th percentile in Washington
Median Home Value
#467 of 565
17th percentile in Washington
Poverty Rate
#34 of 598
94th percentile in Washington
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#475 of 599
20th 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 · 18th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Newport's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Newport'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 Newport's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$230,50049th percentilemore affordable than 49% 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
Newport's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,610 of 15,516
More affordable than 12% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,174 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.5×, Newport sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,610 of 15,516 and #10,174 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
$41,733Newport, WA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Newport, 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 Newport, WA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)22.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)45.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,269
Median Income
$41,733
Median Home Value
$230,500
Median Age
35.3
Poverty Rate
22.5%
Labor force participation
45.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2802.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
89.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2713.5
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
46.2°F
Annual Precipitation
27.5"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Newport's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,147 residents
2021
2,206 residents
2022
2,237 residents
2023
2,254 residents
2024
2,238 residents
2025
2,242 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
3
housing units authorized
Single-Family
3
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
3
3
0
$0.7M
2020
4
4
0
$1.0M
2021
2
2
0
$0.5M
2022
3
3
0
$0.9M
2023
3
3
0
$0.4M
2024
3
3
0
$0.9M
Permit volume increased 0% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
24.0 minutes
Drive Alone
75.5%
Carpool
11.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
5.3%
Work from Home
7.6%
Based on 791 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 Newport. 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 Newport 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 Newport sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Newport 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.