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SheetWI-LAUDERDALE-LAKES-WI · Lauderdale Lakes, WI 1,337 pop · income 65th 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 Lauderdale Lakes
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lauderdale Lakes on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Naples · lowest
42,500
Naples · lowest
42,500 median HH income
23.5% of the leader · rank #1
Eyota · near
83,684
Eyota · near
83,684 median HH income
46.2% of the leader · rank #2
De Graff · near
83,693
De Graff · near
83,693 median HH income
46.2% of the leader · rank #3
Lauderdale La… · this city
83,698
Lauderdale La… · this city
83,698 median HH income
46.2% of the leader · rank #4
Concord · near
83,701
Concord · near
83,701 median HH income
46.3% of the leader · rank #5
Thruston · near
83,707
Thruston · near
83,707 median HH income
46.3% of the leader · rank #6
Maple Bluff · highest
180,972
Maple Bluff · highest
180,972 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 Lauderdale Lakes 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: 1,337.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Lauderdale Lakes places in the 65th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
65th
percentile, household income
67th
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: Lauderdale Lakes, WI
Wisconsin's Lauderdale Lakes is a small town, with 1,337 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Lauderdale Lakes report a median income of $83,698 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 3.4%. Lauderdale Lakes's housing stock carries a median value of $313,800, and the median resident age is 57.7 years. About 41.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 51.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. 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. 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 Lauderdale Lakes'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 Lauderdale Lakes, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; 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 Lauderdale Lakes?
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 3.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lauderdale Lakes?
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 Wisconsin, the closest population matches are Gillett (1,333 residents, $55,323 income); Cornell (1,331 residents, $60,667 income); Colfax (1,344 residents, $59,842 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ellicott, CO (1,337 residents); West Chatham, MA (1,337 residents); Naples, TX (1,337 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 Lauderdale Lakes?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 68.6%. 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. 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.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Wisconsin average
B
City profile score · Lauderdale Lakes, 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+
3.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B+
41.5%
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+
$83,698
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Lauderdale Lakes profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 76/100 (B+) · 3.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 76/100 (B+) · 41.5%
Cost of living: 68/100 (B-) · 94.1 index
Household income: 63/100 (C+) · $83,698
How does Lauderdale Lakes compare to other US cities?
Lauderdale Lakes measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income65% higher than other cities
Home value67% 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 Lauderdale Lakes 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 Lauderdale Lakes near the bottom of Wisconsin's cities
Among the 761 Wisconsin cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lauderdale Lakes ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lauderdale Lakes only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#196 of 753
74th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 761
0th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Home Value
#94 of 754
88th percentile in Wisconsin
Poverty Rate
#485 of 761
35th percentile in Wisconsin
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#94 of 761
88th 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
65th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Lauderdale Lakes's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$313,80033rd percentilemore affordable than 33% 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,872 of 15,516
More affordable than 36% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,826 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.7×, Lauderdale Lakes sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,872 of 15,516 and #7,826 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
$83,698Lauderdale Lakes, WI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lauderdale Lakes, 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 Lauderdale Lakes, WI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)41.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,337
Median Income
$83,698
Median Home Value
$313,800
Median Age
57.7
Poverty Rate
3.4%
Labor force participation
51.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
41.5%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
68.6%
Carpool
8.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
21.1%
Other
1.1%
Based on 574 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 Lauderdale Lakes. 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 Lauderdale Lakes 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 Lauderdale Lakes sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lauderdale Lakes 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.