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Place dossier plate
SheetWI-HOLMEN-WI · Holmen, WI 11,027 pop · income 58th 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 Holmen
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Holmen on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Guthrie · lowest
54,640
Guthrie · lowest
54,640 median HH income
36.2% of the leader · rank #1
Brandon · near
77,068
Brandon · near
77,068 median HH income
51.0% of the leader · rank #2
Bevil Oaks · near
77,073
Bevil Oaks · near
77,073 median HH income
51.0% of the leader · rank #3
Holmen · this city
77,083
Holmen · this city
77,083 median HH income
51.0% of the leader · rank #4
Clayville · near
77,083
Clayville · near
77,083 median HH income
51.0% of the leader · rank #5
Brockton · near
77,089
Brockton · near
77,089 median HH income
51.0% of the leader · rank #6
Summerfield · highest
151,131
Summerfield · highest
151,131 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 Holmen 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: 11,027.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Holmen - the verdict
Holmen ranks in the 58th percentile for household income and the 85th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
58th
percentile, household income
58th
percentile, home value
29th
percentile, median rent
85th
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: Holmen, WI
Holmen is a small town in Wisconsin, home to 11,027 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Holmen report a median income of $77,083 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 2.7%. Home values in Holmen run a median of $262,600, and the median resident age is 38.7 years. About 32.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 67.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 132 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 16% from five years earlier. Holmen reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 513.1 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: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Wisconsin at 94.1 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Below Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,097 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Wisconsin, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 59.1 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Holmen'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 work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Holmen, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
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. Population change
Is Holmen 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 +1,341 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +12.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 132 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The NCES join finds 7 public schools within the city match. 32.5% 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.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Holmen?
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 513.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 78% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Holmen?
Within Wisconsin, the closest population matches are Burlington (11,021 residents, $81,658 income); Marinette (11,060 residents, $57,461 income); DeForest (10,853 residents, $106,223 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Iowa Colony, TX (11,028 residents); Greentree, NJ (11,024 residents); Summerfield, NC (11,031 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Holmen?
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 82.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.2%
Work from home
12.7%
Drive alone
82.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 5,862 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Holmen?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.7%, 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. 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.
Household income
$77,083
Home value
$262,600
Value / income
3.4×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Wisconsin average
B
City profile score · Holmen, 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.
Violent crime A-
51 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate A-
2.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better 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.
Bachelor's+ share C+
32.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C
$77,083
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Holmen profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 84/100 (A-) · 51 /100k
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.7%
Cost of living: 68/100 (B-) · 94.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 62/100 (C+) · 32.5%
Household income: 57/100 (C) · $77,083
Where Holmen sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Holmen'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 - Holmen highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Holmen, WI (this city): home $262,600, crime 513/100k
Iowa Colony, TX : home $356,300, crime 690/100k
Guthrie, OK : home $176,200, crime 1,835/100k
Sierra Madre, CA : home $1,172,200, crime 806/100k
Burlington, WI : home $268,300, crime 1,060/100k
Marinette, WI : home $111,600, crime 1,842/100k
DeForest, WI : home $337,500, crime 893/100k
Two Rivers, WI : home $121,800, crime 700/100k
Waupun, WI : home $167,700, crime 662/100k
Oregon, WI : home $361,200, crime 321/100k
How does Holmen compare to other US cities?
Where Holmen sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income58% higher than other cities
Home value58% pricier than other cities
Median rent29% pricier than other cities
Safety85% 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, Holmen ranks #52 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 Holmen 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 Holmen near the bottom of Wisconsin's cities
Among the 761 Wisconsin cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Holmen ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Holmen only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#270 of 753
64th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 761
0th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Home Value
#169 of 754
78th percentile in Wisconsin
Poverty Rate
#537 of 761
29th percentile in Wisconsin
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#173 of 761
77th 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
58th percentile nationally for median household income · 85th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Holmen's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Holmen'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 Holmen's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$262,60042nd percentilemore affordable than 42% 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
Holmen's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,599 of 15,516
More affordable than 45% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,402 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.4×, Holmen sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,599 of 15,516 and #1,402 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
$77,083Holmen, WI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Holmen, 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 Holmen, WI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)32.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
11,027
Median Income
$77,083
Median Home Value
$262,600
Median Age
38.7
Poverty Rate
2.7%
Labor force participation
67.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
32.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
513.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
50.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
462.6
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
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Holmen's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,764 residents
2021
11,256 residents
2022
11,409 residents
2023
11,618 residents
2024
11,858 residents
2025
12,105 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
132
housing units authorized
Single-Family
116
detached homes
Multifamily
16
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
12
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
158
79
79
$27.2M
2020
110
87
23
$26.7M
2021
275
87
188
$55.1M
2022
96
74
22
$31.6M
2023
129
72
57
$40.1M
2024
132
116
16
$45.9M
Permit volume decreased 16% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
82.2%
Carpool
3.4%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
12.7%
Other
1.5%
Based on 5,862 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 Holmen. 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 Holmen 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 Holmen sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Holmen 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.