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Place dossier plate
SheetWA-SPOKANE-VALLEY-WA · Spokane Valley, WA 105,460 pop · income 50th 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 Spokane Valley
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Spokane Valley on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Yakima · lowest
59,228
Yakima · lowest
59,228 median HH income
41.3% of the leader · rank #1
Lenwood · near
70,714
Lenwood · near
70,714 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #2
Spokane Valley · this city
70,722
Spokane Valley · this city
70,722 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #3
Las Vegas · near
70,723
Las Vegas · near
70,723 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #4
Hanlontown · near
70,729
Hanlontown · near
70,729 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #5
Athena · near
70,729
Athena · near
70,729 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #6
Kirkland · highest
143,533
Kirkland · highest
143,533 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 Spokane Valley 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: 105,460.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Spokane Valley - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Spokane Valley lands in the 50th percentile for household income and the 9th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
50th
percentile, household income
71st
percentile, home value
70th
percentile, median rent
9th
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: Spokane Valley, WA
Spokane Valley is a mid-sized U.S. city in Washington, home to 105,460 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Spokane Valley report a median income of $70,722 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.3%. Spokane Valley's housing stock carries a median value of $344,300, and the median resident age is 37.6 years. 24.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 60.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 474 residential building permits were authorized in Spokane Valley (Construction Slowdown), down 51% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Spokane Valley's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 3757.8 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,472 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Washington run around $188, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Spokane Valley workers runs 18.1 minutes, with 74.5% driving alone and 12.8% working from home. 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 Spokane Valley'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 housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Spokane Valley, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Spokane Valley?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.3%, 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Spokane Valley?
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 74.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.1 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Spokane Valley?
Within Washington, the closest population matches are Renton (105,279 residents, $96,626 income); Everett (111,083 residents, $81,502 income); Federal Way (99,232 residents, $82,144 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Inglewood, CA (105,575 residents); San Tan Valley, AZ (105,231 residents); Burbank, CA (105,165 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 does the education layer cover for Spokane Valley?
The NCES join finds 33 public schools within the city match. 24.8% 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.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Spokane Valley?
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 3757.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 65% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
3515.6
Violent rate
242.1
Total reported rate
3757.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Spokane Valley 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 +4,782 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 474 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
+4.6%
2025 estimate
108,405
2020 estimate
103,623
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 9.3% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.0 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Washington average
D
City profile score · Spokane Valley, WA
40/100
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.
Household income C-
$70,722
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share D
24.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
242 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Spokane Valley profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 50/100 (C-) · $70,722
Bachelor's+ share: 48/100 (D) · 24.8%
Poverty rate: 42/100 (D) · 9.3%
Violent crime: 42/100 (D) · 242 /100k
Cost of living: 15/100 (F) · 107.0 index
Where Spokane Valley sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Spokane Valley'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 - Spokane Valley highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Spokane Valley, WA (this city): home $344,300, crime 3,758/100k
Inglewood, CA : home $744,300, crime 4,289/100k
Burbank, CA : home $1,041,100, crime 3,462/100k
Brockton, MA : home $405,500, crime 1,945/100k
El Cajon, CA : home $632,800, crime 1,935/100k
Renton, WA : home $631,400, crime 3,653/100k
Everett, WA : home $532,300, crime 3,484/100k
Federal Way, WA : home $499,600, crime 4,918/100k
Yakima, WA : home $273,400, crime 2,589/100k
Bellingham, WA : home $577,400, crime 4,107/100k
Kirkland, WA : home $1,022,500, crime 2,073/100k
How does Spokane Valley compare to other US cities?
Where Spokane Valley sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income50% higher than other cities
Home value71% pricier than other cities
Median rent70% pricier than other cities
Safety9% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Washington, Spokane Valley ranks #130 of 156 Washington cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Spokane Valley 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 Spokane Valley near the bottom of Washington's cities
Among the 599 Washington cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Spokane Valley ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Spokane Valley only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#382 of 565
32nd percentile in Washington
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 599
0th percentile in Washington
Median Home Value
#349 of 565
38th percentile in Washington
Poverty Rate
#178 of 598
70th percentile in Washington
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#307 of 599
48th 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
50th percentile nationally for median household income · 9th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Spokane Valley's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Spokane Valley'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 Spokane Valley's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$344,30029th percentilemore affordable than 29% 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
Spokane Valley's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,658 of 15,516
More affordable than 18% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#435 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 4.9×, Spokane Valley sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,658 of 15,516 and #435 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$70,722Spokane Valley, WA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Spokane Valley, 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 Spokane Valley, WA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
105,460
Median Income
$70,722
Median Home Value
$344,300
Median Age
37.6
Poverty Rate
9.3%
Labor force participation
60.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3757.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
242.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3515.6
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.
Schools
Total Schools
33
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Spokane Valley's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
103,623 residents
2021
105,436 residents
2022
106,726 residents
2023
107,625 residents
2024
108,208 residents
2025
108,405 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
474
housing units authorized
Single-Family
171
detached homes
Multifamily
303
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
963
144
819
$143.1M
2020
1,110
217
893
$181.7M
2021
1,093
222
871
$189.9M
2022
1,048
212
836
$193.9M
2023
949
247
702
$190.0M
2024
474
171
303
$119.1M
Permit volume decreased 51% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.1 minutes
Drive Alone
74.5%
Carpool
8.8%
Public Transit
1.3%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
12.8%
Other
1.4%
Based on 50,162 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 Spokane Valley. 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 Spokane Valley 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 Spokane Valley sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Spokane Valley 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, 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.