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Place dossier plate
SheetWI-MOUNT-HOREB-WI · Mount Horeb, WI 7,719 pop · income 78th 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 Mount Horeb
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Mount Horeb on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Ripley · lowest
39,047
Ripley · lowest
39,047 median HH income
22.1% of the leader · rank #1
Garwood · near
100,948
Garwood · near
100,948 median HH income
57.1% of the leader · rank #2
Mount Horeb · this city
100,956
Mount Horeb · this city
100,956 median HH income
57.1% of the leader · rank #3
Johnson Siding · near
100,972
Johnson Siding · near
100,972 median HH income
57.2% of the leader · rank #4
Glen Acres · near
100,982
Glen Acres · near
100,982 median HH income
57.2% of the leader · rank #5
Neotsu · near
100,982
Neotsu · near
100,982 median HH income
57.2% of the leader · rank #6
Fanwood · highest
176,667
Fanwood · highest
176,667 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 Mount Horeb 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: 7,719.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Mount Horeb - the verdict
Mount Horeb ranks in the 78th percentile for household income and the 93rd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
78th
percentile, household income
73rd
percentile, home value
29th
percentile, median rent
93rd
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: Mount Horeb, WI
Wisconsin's Mount Horeb is a small town, with 7,719 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Mount Horeb brings in $100,956 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.2%. Typical homes in Mount Horeb are valued around $359,500, and the median resident age is 36.9 years. Educational attainment runs 47.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 73.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 19 residential building permits were authorized in Mount Horeb (Growing), up 6% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Mount Horeb reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 283.7 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,097 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Wisconsin's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 59.1 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Mount Horeb'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 housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Mount Horeb, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits.
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.
Question 1
Is Mount Horeb growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -30 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 19 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
What does the education layer cover for Mount Horeb?
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 6 public schools within the city match. 47.5% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Mount Horeb?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 283.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 88% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Mount Horeb?
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 Jefferson (7,722 residents, $77,095 income); Ripon (7,803 residents, $59,063 income); Hales Corners (7,627 residents, $88,068 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ripley, TN (7,718 residents); Acton, CA (7,721 residents); Earlimart, CA (7,716 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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Mount Horeb?
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 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.6×
Home value
$359,500
Household income
$100,956
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Mount Horeb?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.2%. 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. 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.
Drive alone
78.2%
Work from home
13.4%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,013 workers age 16+.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Wisconsin average
B+
City profile score · Mount Horeb, WI
77/100
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.
Poverty rate A+
1.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A-
47.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$100,956
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.
Violent crime B-
116 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Mount Horeb profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 91/100 (A+) · 1.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 82/100 (A-) · 47.5%
Household income: 77/100 (B+) · $100,956
Cost of living: 68/100 (B-) · 94.1 index
Violent crime: 67/100 (B-) · 116 /100k
Where Mount Horeb sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Mount Horeb'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 - Mount Horeb highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Mount Horeb, WI (this city): home $359,500, crime 284/100k
Ripley, TN : home $152,200, crime 3,894/100k
Fanwood, NJ : home $610,600, crime 745/100k
Park City, KS : home $163,800, crime 2,603/100k
St. Johns, MI : home $175,300, crime 688/100k
Jefferson, WI : home $222,100, crime 1,620/100k
Ripon, WI : home $161,500, crime 827/100k
Hales Corners, WI : home $291,100, crime 745/100k
Ashland, WI : home $162,200, crime 3,126/100k
Cottage Grove, WI : home $401,900, crime 567/100k
How does Mount Horeb compare to other US cities?
Where Mount Horeb sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income78% higher than other cities
Home value73% pricier than other cities
Median rent29% pricier than other cities
Safety93% 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, Mount Horeb ranks #16 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 Mount Horeb 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 Mount Horeb near the bottom of Wisconsin's cities
Among the 761 Wisconsin cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Mount Horeb ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Mount Horeb only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#79 of 753
90th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 761
0th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Home Value
#56 of 754
93rd percentile in Wisconsin
Poverty Rate
#637 of 761
15th percentile in Wisconsin
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#61 of 761
92nd 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
78th percentile nationally for median household income · 93rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Mount Horeb's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Mount Horeb'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 Mount Horeb's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$359,50027th percentilemore affordable than 27% 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
Mount Horeb'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
#9,215 of 15,516
More affordable than 41% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,406 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.6×, Mount Horeb sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,215 of 15,516 and #7,406 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
$100,956Mount Horeb, WI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Mount Horeb, 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 Mount Horeb, WI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)47.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)73.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,719
Median Income
$100,956
Median Home Value
$359,500
Median Age
36.9
Poverty Rate
1.2%
Labor force participation
73.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
47.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
283.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
116.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
167.6
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Mount Horeb's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
7,755 residents
2021
7,706 residents
2022
7,696 residents
2023
7,743 residents
2024
7,776 residents
2025
7,725 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
19
housing units authorized
Single-Family
19
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
18
14
4
$5.5M
2020
27
15
12
$7.6M
2021
51
35
16
$18.6M
2022
54
31
23
$18.4M
2023
34
26
8
$12.9M
2024
19
19
0
$8.4M
Permit volume increased 6% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.2%
Carpool
3.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
4.4%
Work from Home
13.4%
Based on 4,013 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 Mount Horeb. 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 Mount Horeb 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 Mount Horeb sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Mount Horeb 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.