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SheetWA-SUNDAY-LAKE-WA · Sunday Lake, WA 1,209 pop · income 83rd 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 Sunday Lake
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sunday Lake on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lake Secession · lowest
46,933
Lake Secession · lowest
46,933 median HH income
18.8% of the leader · rank #1
Essex · near
110,469
Essex · near
110,469 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #2
Sunday Lake · this city
110,491
Sunday Lake · this city
110,491 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #3
San Lorenzo · near
110,495
San Lorenzo · near
110,495 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #4
Leopold · near
110,507
Leopold · near
110,507 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #5
Oakleaf Plant… · near
110,521
Oakleaf Plant… · near
110,521 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #6
Yarrow Point · highest
250,001
Yarrow Point · highest
250,001 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 Sunday Lake 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: 1,209.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Sunday Lake places in the 83rd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
83rd
percentile, household income
93rd
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: Sunday Lake, WA
Washington's Sunday Lake is a small town, with 1,209 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Sunday Lake brings in $110,491 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 13.9%. Home values in Sunday Lake run a median of $696,700, and the median resident age is 41.0 years. 22.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 57.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,472 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $188 across Washington, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Sunday Lake report an average commute of 21.7 minutes, with 75.8% driving alone and 16.1% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 70.0 out of 100 (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Sunday Lake'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Sunday Lake, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Sunday Lake?
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 6.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 13.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Sunday Lake?
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 Purdy (1,222 residents, $83,902 income); Yarrow Point (1,192 residents, $250,000+ income); Kittitas (1,186 residents, $66,150 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Wauregan, CT (1,209 residents); Newport, DE (1,209 residents); Toledo, IL (1,209 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 Sunday Lake?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.7 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.
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 A-
$110,491
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share D
22.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
13.9%
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).
Sunday Lake profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 82/100 (A-) · $110,491
Bachelor's+ share: 41/100 (D) · 22.2%
Poverty rate: 25/100 (F) · 13.9%
Cost of living: 15/100 (F) · 107.0 index
How does Sunday Lake compare to other US cities?
Sunday Lake measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income83% higher than other cities
Home value93% 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 Sunday Lake 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 Sunday Lake near the bottom of Washington's cities
Among the 599 Washington cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sunday Lake ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sunday Lake only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#143 of 565
75th percentile in Washington
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 599
0th percentile in Washington
Median Home Value
#83 of 565
85th percentile in Washington
Poverty Rate
#94 of 598
84th percentile in Washington
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#356 of 599
40th 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
83rd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Sunday Lake's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$696,7007th percentilemore affordable than 7% 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
Sunday Lake's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,331 of 15,516
More affordable than 8% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,598 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 6.3×, Sunday Lake sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,331 of 15,516 and #10,598 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
$110,491Sunday Lake, WA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sunday Lake, 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 Sunday Lake, WA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)22.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)13.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,209
Median Income
$110,491
Median Home Value
$696,700
Median Age
41.0
Poverty Rate
13.9%
Labor force participation
57.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
22.2%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.7 minutes
Drive Alone
75.8%
Carpool
8.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
16.1%
Based on 529 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 Sunday Lake. 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 Sunday Lake 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 Sunday Lake sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sunday Lake 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.