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Place dossier plate
SheetWI-DE-PERE-WI · De Pere, WI 25,368 pop · income 62nd 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 De Pere
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest De Pere on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Corsicana · lowest
51,240
Corsicana · lowest
51,240 median HH income
34.8% of the leader · rank #1
Topsham · near
80,545
Topsham · near
80,545 median HH income
54.6% of the leader · rank #2
Garden Grove · near
80,547
Garden Grove · near
80,547 median HH income
54.6% of the leader · rank #3
Byrnedale · near
80,547
Byrnedale · near
80,547 median HH income
54.6% of the leader · rank #4
De Pere · this city
80,550
De Pere · this city
80,550 median HH income
54.7% of the leader · rank #5
Marathon · near
80,556
Marathon · near
80,556 median HH income
54.7% of the leader · rank #6
Mequon · highest
147,391
Mequon · highest
147,391 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 De Pere 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: 25,368.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
De Pere - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, De Pere lands in the 62nd percentile for household income and the 79th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
62nd
percentile, household income
56th
percentile, home value
29th
percentile, median rent
79th
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: De Pere, WI
De Pere is a small city in Wisconsin, home to 25,368 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $80,550 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 3.1%. Typical homes in De Pere are valued around $253,900, and the median resident age is 36.2 years. Educational attainment runs 36.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 66.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 134 residential building permits were authorized in De Pere (Rapid Growth), up 40% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. De Pere reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 643.8 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Wisconsin run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Wisconsin scores 94.1 (Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,097 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Wisconsin, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 59.1 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of De Pere'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 population change to schools and households to reported crime to 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 De Pere, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits.
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
Is De Pere growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +185 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 134 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
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.
The NCES join finds 12 public schools within the city match. 36.5% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in De Pere?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 643.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 72% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for De Pere?
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.
Within Wisconsin, the closest population matches are Caledonia (25,292 residents, $91,053 income); Mequon (25,259 residents, $147,391 income); Stevens Point (25,497 residents, $56,218 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ottumwa, IA (25,352 residents); Brandon, MS (25,352 residents); Denison, TX (25,347 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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in De Pere?
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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.2×
Home value
$253,900
Household income
$80,550
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in De Pere?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Drive alone
75.3%
Work from home
10.7%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 13,536 workers age 16+.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Wisconsin average
B
City profile score · De Pere, WI
70/100
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 B+
3.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B+
75 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B-
36.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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+
$80,550
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
De Pere profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 78/100 (B+) · 3.1%
Violent crime: 77/100 (B+) · 75 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 69/100 (B-) · 36.5%
Cost of living: 68/100 (B-) · 94.1 index
Household income: 60/100 (C+) · $80,550
Where De Pere sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
De Pere'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 - De Pere highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
De Pere, WI (this city): home $253,900, crime 644/100k
Ottumwa, IA : home $92,400, crime 3,014/100k
Brandon, MS : home $255,900, crime 463/100k
Denison, TX : home $167,800, crime 990/100k
Corsicana, TX : home $161,400, crime 2,727/100k
Alton, IL : home $99,500, crime 3,632/100k
Caledonia, WI : home $279,400, crime 533/100k
Mequon, WI : home $485,300, crime 598/100k
Stevens Point, WI : home $189,700, crime 783/100k
Muskego, WI : home $390,900, crime 1,544/100k
Superior, WI : home $168,500, crime 2,425/100k
Neenah, WI : home $194,700, crime 1,299/100k
How does De Pere compare to other US cities?
Here's how De Pere stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income62% higher than other cities
Home value56% pricier than other cities
Median rent29% pricier than other cities
Safety79% 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 Wisconsin, De Pere ranks #71 of 202 Wisconsin 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 De Pere 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 De Pere near the bottom of Wisconsin's cities
Among the 761 Wisconsin cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, De Pere ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares De Pere only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#230 of 753
69th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 761
0th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Home Value
#186 of 754
75th percentile in Wisconsin
Poverty Rate
#510 of 761
32nd percentile in Wisconsin
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#136 of 761
82nd 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
62nd percentile nationally for median household income · 79th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
De Pere's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
De Pere'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 De Pere's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$253,90044th percentilemore affordable than 44% 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
De Pere's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,448 of 15,516
More affordable than 52% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,108 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.2×, De Pere sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,448 of 15,516 and #1,108 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
$80,550De Pere, WI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context De Pere, 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 De Pere, WI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)36.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
25,368
Median Income
$80,550
Median Home Value
$253,900
Median Age
36.2
Poverty Rate
3.1%
Labor force participation
66.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
36.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
643.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
75.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
568.7
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
12
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
De Pere's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
25,405 residents
2021
25,165 residents
2022
25,217 residents
2023
25,314 residents
2024
25,475 residents
2025
25,590 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
134
housing units authorized
Single-Family
68
detached homes
Multifamily
66
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
96
32
64
$14.1M
2020
100
60
40
$18.2M
2021
52
44
8
$15.1M
2022
35
25
10
$10.3M
2023
74
56
18
$22.7M
2024
134
68
66
$36.8M
Permit volume increased 40% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.3%
Carpool
8.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.7%
Work from Home
10.7%
Other
1.7%
Based on 13,536 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 De Pere. 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 De Pere 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 De Pere sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How De Pere 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.