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SheetWI-MENOMONEE-FALLS-WI · Menomonee Falls, WI 38,963 pop · income 77th 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 Menomonee Falls
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Menomonee Falls on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Beloit · lowest
59,975
Beloit · lowest
59,975 median HH income
53.8% of the leader · rank #1
Valrico · near
98,451
Valrico · near
98,451 median HH income
88.4% of the leader · rank #2
Menomonee Fal… · this city
98,460
Menomonee Fal… · this city
98,460 median HH income
88.4% of the leader · rank #3
Hillsborough · near
98,467
Hillsborough · near
98,467 median HH income
88.4% of the leader · rank #4
University He… · near
98,474
University He… · near
98,474 median HH income
88.4% of the leader · rank #5
Plum · near
98,475
Plum · near
98,475 median HH income
88.4% of the leader · rank #6
Peachtree City · highest
111,421
Peachtree City · highest
111,421 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 Menomonee Falls 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: 38,963.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Menomonee Falls - the verdict
Nationally, Menomonee Falls sits in the 77th percentile for household income and the 81st percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
77th
percentile, household income
71st
percentile, home value
29th
percentile, median rent
81st
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: Menomonee Falls, WI
Menomonee Falls is a small city in Wisconsin, home to 38,963 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $98,460 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.6%. Menomonee Falls's housing stock carries a median value of $341,600, and the median resident age is 42.0 years. 48.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 64.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 461 residential building permits were authorized in Menomonee Falls (Building Boom), up 241% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Menomonee Falls reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 596.4 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,097 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Wisconsin run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Menomonee Falls'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 comparison shortlist to reported crime to work and mobility to housing and income to population change to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Menomonee Falls, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Menomonee Falls?
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 Wausau (39,893 residents, $61,877 income); New Berlin (40,384 residents, $97,414 income); Greenfield (37,361 residents, $69,016 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Peachtree City, GA (38,977 residents); La Vergne, TN (38,944 residents); Navarre, FL (38,988 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 can the FBI record say about safety in Menomonee Falls?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 596.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 74% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Menomonee Falls?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.6%. 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Menomonee Falls?
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 3.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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 Menomonee Falls growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,667 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 461 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
2020 estimate
38,624
2025 estimate
41,291
Period change
+6.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the education layer cover for Menomonee Falls?
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 8 public schools within the city match. 48.7% 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.
Poverty estimate
3.6%
Bachelor's degree+
48.7%
Matched public schools
8
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Wisconsin average
B+
City profile score · Menomonee Falls, 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-
48.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime B+
67 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income B+
$98,460
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B
3.6%
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.
Menomonee Falls profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 83/100 (A-) · 48.7%
Violent crime: 79/100 (B+) · 67 /100k
Household income: 76/100 (B+) · $98,460
Poverty rate: 74/100 (B) · 3.6%
Cost of living: 68/100 (B-) · 94.1 index
Where Menomonee Falls sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Menomonee Falls'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 - Menomonee Falls highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Menomonee Falls, WI (this city): home $341,600, crime 596/100k
Peachtree City, GA : home $461,000, crime 838/100k
La Vergne, TN : home $273,700, crime 2,311/100k
Owasso, OK : home $231,400, crime 1,533/100k
Keizer, OR : home $396,700, crime 2,057/100k
Roy, UT : home $350,800, crime 1,033/100k
Wausau, WI : home $155,900, crime 1,304/100k
New Berlin, WI : home $343,500, crime 1,055/100k
Greenfield, WI : home $247,800, crime 2,400/100k
Beloit, WI : home $133,500, crime 2,606/100k
Oak Creek, WI : home $305,100, crime 1,832/100k
Sun Prairie, WI : home $339,800, crime 1,594/100k
How does Menomonee Falls compare to other US cities?
Menomonee Falls measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income77% higher than other cities
Home value71% pricier than other cities
Median rent29% pricier than other cities
Safety81% 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, Menomonee Falls ranks #64 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 Menomonee Falls 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 Menomonee Falls near the bottom of Wisconsin's cities
Among the 761 Wisconsin cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Menomonee Falls ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Menomonee Falls only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#88 of 753
88th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 761
0th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Home Value
#69 of 754
91st percentile in Wisconsin
Poverty Rate
#476 of 761
37th percentile in Wisconsin
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#54 of 761
93rd 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
77th percentile nationally for median household income · 81st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Menomonee Falls's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Menomonee Falls'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 Menomonee Falls's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$341,60029th percentilemore affordable than 29% 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
#8,847 of 15,516
More affordable than 43% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,460 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.5×, Menomonee Falls sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,847 of 15,516 and #1,460 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
$98,460Menomonee Falls, WI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Menomonee Falls, 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 Menomonee Falls, WI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)48.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
38,963
Median Income
$98,460
Median Home Value
$341,600
Median Age
42.0
Poverty Rate
3.6%
Labor force participation
64.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
48.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
596.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
67.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
529.0
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
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Menomonee Falls's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
38,624 residents
2021
38,898 residents
2022
39,413 residents
2023
40,007 residents
2024
40,559 residents
2025
41,291 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
461
housing units authorized
Single-Family
157
detached homes
Multifamily
304
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
11.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
135
117
18
$44.7M
2020
230
106
124
$59.9M
2021
204
98
106
$64.0M
2022
251
79
172
$73.2M
2023
272
79
193
$69.8M
2024
461
157
304
$143.8M
Permit volume increased 241% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.6%
Carpool
7.3%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
15.5%
Other
0.8%
Based on 19,993 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 Menomonee Falls. 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 Menomonee Falls 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 Menomonee Falls sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Menomonee Falls 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.