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SheetWI-LAKE-KOSHKONONG-WI · Lake Koshkonong, WI 983 pop · income 73rd 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 Lake Koshkonong
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lake Koshkonong on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Port Orford · lowest
34,122
Port Orford · lowest
34,122 median HH income
27.6% of the leader · rank #1
Lake Koshkono… · this city
93,125
Lake Koshkono… · this city
93,125 median HH income
75.3% of the leader · rank #2
Prince's Lakes · near
93,125
Prince's Lakes · near
93,125 median HH income
75.3% of the leader · rank #3
San Lorenzo · near
93,125
San Lorenzo · near
93,125 median HH income
75.3% of the leader · rank #4
Minoa · near
93,125
Minoa · near
93,125 median HH income
75.3% of the leader · rank #5
Alexandria · near
93,125
Alexandria · near
93,125 median HH income
75.3% of the leader · rank #6
Vernon Valley · highest
123,707
Vernon Valley · highest
123,707 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 Lake Koshkonong 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: 983.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Lake Koshkonong places in the 73rd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
73rd
percentile, household income
70th
percentile, home value
29th
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: Lake Koshkonong, WI
Lake Koshkonong is a small town in Wisconsin, home to 983 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Lake Koshkonong brings in $93,125 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 3.1%. Typical homes in Lake Koshkonong are valued around $334,300, and the median resident age is 56.6 years. 28.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 59.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,097 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Wisconsin run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Lake Koshkonong report an average commute of 22.6 minutes, with 75.7% driving alone and 15.9% working from home. 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 Lake Koshkonong'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lake Koshkonong, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history; 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 Lake Koshkonong?
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 75.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.6 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lake Koshkonong?
Within Wisconsin, the closest population matches are Kekoskee (987 residents, $88,500 income); Wittenberg (992 residents, $51,875 income); Rosendale (973 residents, $91,844 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Santa Susana, CA (983 residents); Worden, IL (983 residents); Painted Hills, IN (983 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Lake Koshkonong?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.1%, 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.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Wisconsin average
B
City profile score · Lake Koshkonong, WI
70/100
4 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.
Household income B
$93,125
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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.
Bachelor's+ share C
28.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Lake Koshkonong profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 78/100 (B+) · 3.1%
Household income: 72/100 (B) · $93,125
Cost of living: 68/100 (B-) · 94.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 56/100 (C) · 28.6%
How does Lake Koshkonong compare to other US cities?
Lake Koshkonong measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income73% higher than other cities
Home value70% pricier than other cities
Median rent29% 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 Lake Koshkonong 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 Lake Koshkonong near the bottom of Wisconsin's cities
Among the 761 Wisconsin cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lake Koshkonong ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lake Koshkonong only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#115 of 753
85th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 761
0th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Home Value
#82 of 754
89th percentile in Wisconsin
Poverty Rate
#510 of 761
32nd percentile in Wisconsin
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#227 of 761
70th 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
73rd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Lake Koshkonong's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$334,30030th percentilemore affordable than 30% 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
Lake Koshkonong's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,326 of 15,516
More affordable than 40% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,486 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.6×, Lake Koshkonong sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,326 of 15,516 and #7,486 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$93,125Lake Koshkonong, WI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lake Koshkonong, 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 Lake Koshkonong, WI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)28.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
983
Median Income
$93,125
Median Home Value
$334,300
Median Age
56.6
Poverty Rate
3.1%
Labor force participation
59.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
28.6%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.6 minutes
Drive Alone
75.7%
Carpool
8.5%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
15.9%
Based on 497 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 Lake Koshkonong. 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 Lake Koshkonong 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 Lake Koshkonong sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lake Koshkonong 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, 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.