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SheetWI-CEDARBURG-WI · Cedarburg, WI 12,317 pop · income 64th 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 Cedarburg
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Cedarburg on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Río Grande zo… · lowest
22,033
Río Grande zo… · lowest
22,033 median HH income
18.7% of the leader · rank #1
Camino · near
82,098
Camino · near
82,098 median HH income
69.9% of the leader · rank #2
La Crescent · near
82,109
La Crescent · near
82,109 median HH income
69.9% of the leader · rank #3
Cedarburg · this city
82,110
Cedarburg · this city
82,110 median HH income
69.9% of the leader · rank #4
Lake Junaluska · near
82,115
Lake Junaluska · near
82,115 median HH income
69.9% of the leader · rank #5
Mont Clare · near
82,115
Mont Clare · near
82,115 median HH income
69.9% of the leader · rank #6
Jefferson Hil… · highest
117,518
Jefferson Hil… · highest
117,518 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 Cedarburg 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: 12,317.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Cedarburg - the verdict
Cedarburg ranks in the 64th percentile for household income and the 88th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
64th
percentile, household income
76th
percentile, home value
29th
percentile, median rent
88th
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: Cedarburg, WI
Cedarburg is a small town in Wisconsin, home to 12,317 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Cedarburg report a median income of $82,110 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 1.8%. Cedarburg's housing stock carries a median value of $386,400, and the median resident age is 42.1 years. 56.3% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 63.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 36 residential building permits were authorized in Cedarburg (Construction Slowdown), down 65% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Cedarburg reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 442.7 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Wisconsin run below the national norm: the state registers 94.1 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,097 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Wisconsin, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 59.1 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Cedarburg'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 work and mobility to schools and households to housing and income to population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Cedarburg, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
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.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Cedarburg?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What does the education layer cover for Cedarburg?
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 56.3% 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 Cedarburg?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.8%, 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 Cedarburg?
Within Wisconsin, the closest population matches are Grafton (12,274 residents, $88,634 income); Fort Atkinson (12,490 residents, $75,350 income); Baraboo (12,506 residents, $73,515 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Jefferson Hills, PA (12,313 residents); Baker, LA (12,322 residents); Río Grande zona urbana, PR (12,325 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.
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.
Population change
Is Cedarburg 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 +718 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 36 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
+5.9%
2025 estimate
12,916
2020 estimate
12,198
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Cedarburg?
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 442.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 81% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
395.3
Violent rate
47.4
Total reported rate
442.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Wisconsin average
B+
City profile score · Cedarburg, WI
76/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A
56.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
1.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime A-
47 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Cost of living B-
94.1 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 C+
$82,110
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cedarburg profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 89/100 (A) · 56.3%
Poverty rate: 87/100 (A) · 1.8%
Violent crime: 84/100 (A-) · 47 /100k
Cost of living: 68/100 (B-) · 94.1 index
Household income: 61/100 (C+) · $82,110
Where Cedarburg sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Cedarburg'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 - Cedarburg highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Cedarburg, WI (this city): home $386,400, crime 443/100k
Baker, LA : home $146,700, crime 2,145/100k
Londonderry, NH : home $433,100, crime 486/100k
Webster, MA : home $303,900, crime 1,438/100k
Newman, CA : home $381,900, crime 543/100k
Grafton, WI : home $301,300, crime 696/100k
Fort Atkinson, WI : home $198,600, crime 994/100k
Port Washington, WI : home $276,000, crime 605/100k
Brown Deer, WI : home $221,100, crime 2,960/100k
How does Cedarburg compare to other US cities?
Where Cedarburg sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income64% higher than other cities
Home value76% pricier than other cities
Median rent29% pricier than other cities
Safety88% 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 Wisconsin alone, Cedarburg ranks #38 of 202 Wisconsin 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 Cedarburg against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Wisconsin only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Wisconsin-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Cedarburg near the bottom of Wisconsin's cities
Among the 761 Wisconsin cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Cedarburg ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Cedarburg only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#211 of 753
72nd percentile in Wisconsin
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 761
0th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Home Value
#42 of 754
94th percentile in Wisconsin
Poverty Rate
#602 of 761
20th percentile in Wisconsin
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#39 of 761
95th percentile in Wisconsin
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 Wisconsin only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
64th percentile nationally for median household income · 88th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Cedarburg's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Cedarburg'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 Cedarburg's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$386,40024th percentilemore affordable than 24% 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
Cedarburg's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,389 of 15,516
More affordable than 20% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,466 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.7×, Cedarburg sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,389 of 15,516 and #2,466 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$82,110Cedarburg, WI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Cedarburg, WI median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Cedarburg, WI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)56.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
12,317
Median Income
$82,110
Median Home Value
$386,400
Median Age
42.1
Poverty Rate
1.8%
Labor force participation
63.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
56.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
442.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
47.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
395.3
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Cedarburg's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
12,198 residents
2021
12,298 residents
2022
12,697 residents
2023
12,821 residents
2024
12,951 residents
2025
12,916 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
36
housing units authorized
Single-Family
24
detached homes
Multifamily
12
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
103
39
64
$22.3M
2020
104
36
68
$27.0M
2021
32
24
8
$14.0M
2022
67
49
18
$21.1M
2023
88
42
46
$20.3M
2024
36
24
12
$9.9M
Permit volume decreased 65% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.8%
Carpool
6.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.5%
Work from Home
15.9%
Other
0.7%
Based on 6,197 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Wisconsin statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Wisconsin at $225 (electricity about $100 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Wisconsin statewide averages, not a meter reading for Cedarburg. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Wisconsin's BEA cost-of-living index is 94.1 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Cedarburg is $1,097/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Wisconsin statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 59.1 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Wisconsin statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Cedarburg sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Cedarburg compares to similar-size Wisconsin 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.