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Place dossier plate
SheetWA-PORT-ANGELES-WA · Port Angeles, WA 20,087 pop · income 38th pct · 11 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 Port Angeles
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Port Angeles on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Morrow · lowest
61,635
Morrow · lowest
61,635 median HH income
27.8% of the leader · rank #1
Port Angeles · this city
61,640
Port Angeles · this city
61,640 median HH income
27.8% of the leader · rank #2
Sandborn · near
61,641
Sandborn · near
61,641 median HH income
27.8% of the leader · rank #3
Willoughby Hi… · near
61,641
Willoughby Hi… · near
61,641 median HH income
27.8% of the leader · rank #4
Sapulpa · near
61,644
Sapulpa · near
61,644 median HH income
27.8% of the leader · rank #5
La Cañada Fli… · highest
221,451
La Cañada Fli… · highest
221,451 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Port Angeles 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: 20,087.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Port Angeles - the verdict
Port Angeles ranks in the 38th percentile for household income and the 15th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
38th
percentile, household income
68th
percentile, home value
70th
percentile, median rent
15th
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: Port Angeles, WA
Port Angeles is a small city in Washington, home to 20,087 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Port Angeles brings in $61,640 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.9%. Typical homes in Port Angeles are valued around $324,800, and the median resident age is 41.5 years. Educational attainment runs 31.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 51.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 39 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 32% from five years earlier. Port Angeles's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 3049.7 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, above the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 48.5°F with 29.4 inches of precipitation per year.
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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Washington's average monthly utility costs around $188 (state average). Commute times here average 16.8 minutes, with 72.7% driving alone and 8.6% 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 Port Angeles'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 schools and households to housing and income to climate and hazard context to reported crime to comparison shortlist to population change to within-city variation to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Port Angeles, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Port Angeles?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 31.4% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Port Angeles?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.9%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Port Angeles?
Within Washington, the closest population matches are Monroe (19,696 residents, $107,556 income); Salmon Creek (19,594 residents, $100,534 income); Arlington (20,599 residents, $84,919 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Woodbridge, NJ (20,086 residents); Nanuet, NY (20,089 residents); Mayfield Heights, OH (20,082 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.
What can 11 Census tracts reveal inside Port Angeles?
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.
PlainCities matches 11 Census tracts to this city.
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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Port Angeles?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 48.5°F, with 29.4 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
48.5°F
Annual precipitation
29.4 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Port Angeles?
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 3049.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 34% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2483.5
Violent rate
566.2
Total reported rate
3049.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Port Angeles growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +149 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 39 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
+0.7%
2025 estimate
20,146
2020 estimate
19,997
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Port Angeles?
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 72.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 16.8 minutes.
Public transit
2.5%
Work from home
8.6%
Drive alone
72.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 8,731 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 5.9% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.0 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Washington average
F
City profile score · Port Angeles, WA
36/100
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.
Poverty rate C+
5.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
31.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$61,640
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.
Violent crime F
566 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Port Angeles profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 60/100 (C+) · 5.9%
Bachelor's+ share: 60/100 (C+) · 31.4%
Household income: 37/100 (F) · $61,640
Cost of living: 15/100 (F) · 107.0 index
Violent crime: 12/100 (F) · 566 /100k
Where Port Angeles sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Port Angeles'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 - Port Angeles highlighted among 26 peers.Read the chart values
Port Angeles, WA (this city): home $324,800, crime 3,050/100k
Mayfield Heights, OH : home $187,600, crime 318/100k
Monroe, WA : home $594,300, crime 2,010/100k
Arlington, WA : home $492,600, crime 2,559/100k
Mill Creek, WA : home $836,300, crime 1,958/100k
Covington, WA : home $590,100, crime 3,285/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Port Angeles compare to other US cities?
Where Port Angeles sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income38% higher than other cities
Home value68% pricier than other cities
Median rent70% pricier than other cities
Safety15% 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, Port Angeles ranks #113 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 Port Angeles 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 Port Angeles near the bottom of Washington's cities
Among the 599 Washington cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Port Angeles ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Port Angeles only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#435 of 565
23rd percentile in Washington
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 599
0th percentile in Washington
Median Home Value
#381 of 565
33rd percentile in Washington
Poverty Rate
#285 of 598
52nd percentile in Washington
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#217 of 599
63rd 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
38th percentile nationally for median household income · 15th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Port Angeles's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Port Angeles'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 Port Angeles's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$324,80032nd percentilemore affordable than 32% 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
Port Angeles's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,276 of 15,516
More affordable than 14% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,728 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.3×, Port Angeles sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,276 of 15,516 and #2,728 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
$61,640Port Angeles, WA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Port Angeles, 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 Port Angeles, WA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)31.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
20,087
Median Income
$61,640
Median Home Value
$324,800
Median Age
41.5
Poverty Rate
5.9%
Labor force participation
51.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
31.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3049.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
566.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2483.5
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
48.5°F
Annual Precipitation
29.4"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Port Angeles's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
19,997 residents
2021
20,281 residents
2022
20,125 residents
2023
20,043 residents
2024
20,090 residents
2025
20,146 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
39
housing units authorized
Single-Family
17
detached homes
Multifamily
22
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
57
45
12
$7.9M
2020
33
29
4
$5.7M
2021
46
44
2
$9.9M
2022
42
42
0
$8.9M
2023
58
25
33
$9.0M
2024
39
17
22
$6.5M
Permit volume decreased 32% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
16.8 minutes
Drive Alone
72.7%
Carpool
10.2%
Public Transit
2.5%
Walk
4.3%
Work from Home
8.6%
Other
1.7%
Based on 8,731 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 Port Angeles. 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 Port Angeles 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 Port Angeles sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Port Angeles 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.