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SheetWI-NEENAH-WI · Neenah, WI 27,409 pop · income 55th 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 Neenah
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Neenah on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Marion · lowest
43,349
Marion · lowest
43,349 median HH income
29.4% of the leader · rank #1
Stratford Dow… · near
73,875
Stratford Dow… · near
73,875 median HH income
50.1% of the leader · rank #2
Jefferson · near
73,875
Jefferson · near
73,875 median HH income
50.1% of the leader · rank #3
Centerburg · near
73,875
Centerburg · near
73,875 median HH income
50.1% of the leader · rank #4
Jasper · near
73,875
Jasper · near
73,875 median HH income
50.1% of the leader · rank #5
Neenah · this city
73,880
Neenah · this city
73,880 median HH income
50.1% of the leader · rank #6
Mequon · highest
147,391
Mequon · highest
147,391 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 Neenah 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: 27,409.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Neenah - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Neenah lands in the 55th percentile for household income and the 52nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
55th
percentile, household income
41st
percentile, home value
29th
percentile, median rent
52nd
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: Neenah, WI
Neenah is a small city in Wisconsin, home to 27,409 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Neenah brings in $73,880 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.0%. Typical homes in Neenah are valued around $194,700, and the median resident age is 36.8 years. 35.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 67.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 129 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Growing), up 19% from five years earlier. Neenah reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1299.1 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. 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 Neenah'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 housing and income to schools and households to population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Neenah, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, 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. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Neenah?
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 79.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in Neenah?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.0%, 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.
The NCES join finds 14 public schools within the city match. 35.7% 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.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Neenah?
Within Wisconsin, the closest population matches are Mount Pleasant (27,694 residents, $90,189 income); Superior (26,550 residents, $63,415 income); Stevens Point (25,497 residents, $56,218 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Clinton, MS (27,418 residents); Millville, NJ (27,432 residents); Marion, IN (27,384 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.
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 Neenah growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +249 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 129 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+0.9%
2025 estimate
27,638
2020 estimate
27,389
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Neenah?
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 1299.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 43% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1142.6
Violent rate
156.5
Total reported rate
1299.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 6.0% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
94.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Wisconsin average
C+
City profile score · Neenah, WI
60/100
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-
35.7%
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.
Poverty rate C
6.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C
157 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income C-
$73,880
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Neenah profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 68/100 (B-) · 35.7%
Cost of living: 68/100 (B-) · 94.1 index
Poverty rate: 59/100 (C) · 6.0%
Violent crime: 57/100 (C) · 157 /100k
Household income: 53/100 (C-) · $73,880
Where Neenah sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Neenah'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 - Neenah highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Neenah, WI (this city): home $194,700, crime 1,299/100k
Clinton, MS : home $220,400, crime 1,275/100k
Millville, NJ : home $199,300, crime 4,360/100k
Marion, IN : home $83,200, crime 1,212/100k
Kernersville, NC : home $264,000, crime 3,376/100k
New Lenox, IL : home $377,500, crime 978/100k
Mount Pleasant, WI : home $269,900, crime 1,846/100k
Superior, WI : home $168,500, crime 2,425/100k
Stevens Point, WI : home $189,700, crime 783/100k
De Pere, WI : home $253,900, crime 644/100k
Caledonia, WI : home $279,400, crime 533/100k
Mequon, WI : home $485,300, crime 598/100k
How does Neenah compare to other US cities?
Neenah measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income55% higher than other cities
Home value41% pricier than other cities
Median rent29% pricier than other cities
Safety52% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Wisconsin, Neenah ranks #132 of 202 Wisconsin cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Neenah 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 Neenah near the bottom of Wisconsin's cities
Among the 761 Wisconsin cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Neenah ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Neenah only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#302 of 753
60th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 761
0th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Home Value
#326 of 754
57th percentile in Wisconsin
Poverty Rate
#353 of 761
53rd percentile in Wisconsin
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#139 of 761
82nd 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
55th percentile nationally for median household income · 52nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Neenah's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Neenah'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 Neenah's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$194,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 59% 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
Neenah's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,699 of 15,516
More affordable than 70% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#483 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.6×, Neenah sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,699 of 15,516 and #483 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$73,880Neenah, WI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Neenah, 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 Neenah, WI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)35.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
27,409
Median Income
$73,880
Median Home Value
$194,700
Median Age
36.8
Poverty Rate
6.0%
Labor force participation
67.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
35.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1299.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
156.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1142.6
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
14
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Neenah's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
27,389 residents
2021
27,283 residents
2022
27,164 residents
2023
27,319 residents
2024
27,444 residents
2025
27,638 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
129
housing units authorized
Single-Family
81
detached homes
Multifamily
48
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
108
30
78
$14.9M
2020
176
36
140
$26.2M
2021
77
38
39
$20.5M
2022
39
37
2
$13.9M
2023
73
43
30
$16.7M
2024
129
81
48
$32.2M
Permit volume increased 19% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
79.4%
Carpool
6.9%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
3.2%
Work from Home
9.2%
Other
1.0%
Based on 14,287 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 Neenah. 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 Neenah 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 Neenah sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Neenah 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.