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SheetWI-MENOMONIE-WI · Menomonie, WI 16,548 pop · income 27th pct · 9 tracts
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 Menomonie
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Menomonie on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Ada · lowest
51,792
Ada · lowest
51,792 median HH income
45.0% of the leader · rank #1
Godley · near
54,583
Godley · near
54,583 median HH income
47.4% of the leader · rank #2
Sibley · near
54,583
Sibley · near
54,583 median HH income
47.4% of the leader · rank #3
Wolcottville · near
54,583
Wolcottville · near
54,583 median HH income
47.4% of the leader · rank #4
Menomonie · this city
54,587
Menomonie · this city
54,587 median HH income
47.4% of the leader · rank #5
Martinsburg · near
54,590
Martinsburg · near
54,590 median HH income
47.4% of the leader · rank #6
Glenmont · highest
115,058
Glenmont · highest
115,058 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 Menomonie 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: 16,548.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Menomonie - the verdict
Menomonie ranks in the 27th percentile for household income and the 51st percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
27th
percentile, household income
44th
percentile, home value
29th
percentile, median rent
51st
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: Menomonie, WI
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 16,548 residents in Menomonie, a small town within Wisconsin. Menomonie households earn a median of $54,587 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.8%. Home values in Menomonie run a median of $203,800, and the median resident age is 25.3 years. 38.1% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 62.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 23 residential building permits were authorized in Menomonie (Slowing), down 8% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Menomonie reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1343.8 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). NOAA puts Menomonie's yearly average temperature at 44.2°F with 34.2 inches of precipitation per year and 40.9 inches of snowfall.
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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,097 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $225 across Wisconsin, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Menomonie report an average commute of 15.9 minutes, with 75.9% driving alone and 6.9% 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 Menomonie'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 within-city variation to comparison shortlist to population change to reported crime to work and mobility to schools and households to climate and hazard context to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Menomonie, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Within-city variation
What can 9 Census tracts reveal inside Menomonie?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Menomonie?
Within Wisconsin, the closest population matches are Beaver Dam (16,629 residents, $68,757 income); River Falls (16,349 residents, $78,078 income); Bellevue (16,255 residents, $80,750 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bostonia, CA (16,545 residents); Hueytown, AL (16,541 residents); Ada, OK (16,536 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.
Is Menomonie growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -189 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 23 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Menomonie?
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 1343.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 41% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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 Menomonie?
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 75.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 15.9 minutes.
Public transit
0.3%
Work from home
6.9%
Drive alone
75.9%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 8,768 workers age 16+.
What does the education layer cover for Menomonie?
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 38.1% 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.
Matched public schools
6
Bachelor's degree+
38.1%
Poverty estimate
6.8%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 44.2°F, with 34.2 inches of precipitation and 40.9 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Wisconsin is 59.1 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
44.2°F
Annual precipitation
34.2 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
59.1
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
How far does income reach against housing in Menomonie?
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 6.8%, 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
$54,587
Home value
$203,800
Value / income
3.7×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 6.8% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
94.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Wisconsin average
C
City profile score · Menomonie, WI
55/100
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 B
38.1%
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.
Violent crime C+
133 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C-
6.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$54,587
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Menomonie profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 72/100 (B) · 38.1%
Cost of living: 68/100 (B-) · 94.1 index
Violent crime: 63/100 (C+) · 133 /100k
Poverty rate: 54/100 (C-) · 6.8%
Household income: 27/100 (F) · $54,587
Where Menomonie sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Menomonie'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 - Menomonie highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Menomonie, WI (this city): home $203,800, crime 1,344/100k
Hueytown, AL : home $142,900, crime 3,091/100k
Ada, OK : home $169,300, crime 2,396/100k
Westchester, IL : home $297,400, crime 681/100k
Beaver Dam, WI : home $189,800, crime 1,269/100k
River Falls, WI : home $299,800, crime 990/100k
Ashwaubenon, WI : home $245,100, crime 2,448/100k
Kaukauna, WI : home $198,800, crime 783/100k
How does Menomonie compare to other US cities?
Menomonie measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income27% higher than other cities
Home value44% pricier than other cities
Median rent29% pricier than other cities
Safety51% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Wisconsin and the picture shifts: Menomonie ranks #135 of 202 Wisconsin cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Menomonie 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 Menomonie near the bottom of Wisconsin's cities
Among the 761 Wisconsin cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Menomonie ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Menomonie only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#605 of 753
20th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 761
0th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Home Value
#291 of 754
61st percentile in Wisconsin
Poverty Rate
#308 of 761
59th percentile in Wisconsin
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#119 of 761
84th 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
27th percentile nationally for median household income · 51st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Menomonie's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Menomonie'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 Menomonie's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$203,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 56% 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
Menomonie's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,829 of 15,516
More affordable than 37% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,726 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.7×, Menomonie sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,829 of 15,516 and #1,726 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
$54,587Menomonie, WI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Menomonie, 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 Menomonie, WI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)38.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,548
Median Income
$54,587
Median Home Value
$203,800
Median Age
25.3
Poverty Rate
6.8%
Labor force participation
62.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
38.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1343.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
132.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1211.2
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
44.2°F
Annual Precipitation
34.2"
Annual Snowfall
40.9"
Schools
Total Schools
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Menomonie's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,853 residents
2021
15,797 residents
2022
16,642 residents
2023
16,601 residents
2024
16,659 residents
2025
16,664 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
23
housing units authorized
Single-Family
21
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
25
17
8
$4.0M
2020
19
17
2
$3.3M
2021
13
11
2
$3.4M
2022
22
18
4
$4.4M
2023
19
19
0
$5.0M
2024
23
21
2
$6.6M
Permit volume decreased 8% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
15.9 minutes
Drive Alone
75.9%
Carpool
3.9%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
11.6%
Work from Home
6.9%
Other
1.4%
Based on 8,768 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 Menomonie. 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 Menomonie 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 Menomonie sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Menomonie 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.