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Place dossier plate
SheetWI-ST-FRANCIS-WI · St. Francis, WI 9,318 pop · income 33rd 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 St. Francis
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest St. Francis on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
San Sebastián… · lowest
20,112
San Sebastián… · lowest
20,112 median HH income
16.7% of the leader · rank #1
Lamar · near
58,487
Lamar · near
58,487 median HH income
48.7% of the leader · rank #2
Union Point · near
58,487
Union Point · near
58,487 median HH income
48.7% of the leader · rank #3
St. Francis · this city
58,490
St. Francis · this city
58,490 median HH income
48.7% of the leader · rank #4
Lismore · near
58,490
Lismore · near
58,490 median HH income
48.7% of the leader · rank #5
Perth Amboy · near
58,490
Perth Amboy · near
58,490 median HH income
48.7% of the leader · rank #6
Bohemia · highest
120,094
Bohemia · highest
120,094 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 St. Francis 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: 9,318.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
St. Francis - the verdict
St. Francis ranks in the 33rd percentile for household income and the 53rd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
33rd
percentile, household income
45th
percentile, home value
29th
percentile, median rent
53rd
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: St. Francis, WI
9,318 people live in St. Francis, Wisconsin - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $58,490 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.5%. St. Francis's housing stock carries a median value of $207,200, and the median resident age is 53.6 years. About 30.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 55.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 14 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Low Activity). St. Francis reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1270.5 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). 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 St. Francis'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 reported crime to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For St. Francis, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is St. Francis growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -193 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 14 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 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in St. Francis?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1270.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 44% 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 St. Francis?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.4%. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for St. Francis?
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 Shawano (9,236 residents, $56,457 income); McFarland (9,230 residents, $93,810 income); Merrill (9,224 residents, $49,947 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are San Sebastián zona urbana, PR (9,309 residents); Lake Norman of Catawba, NC (9,308 residents); Chesapeake Ranch Estates, MD (9,307 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 St. Francis?
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 9.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.5×
Home value
$207,200
Household income
$58,490
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 9.5% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
94.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Wisconsin average
C-
City profile score · St. Francis, WI
53/100
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.
Violent crime B
105 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Bachelor's+ share C
30.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$58,490
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
St. Francis profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 70/100 (B) · 105 /100k
Cost of living: 68/100 (B-) · 94.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 58/100 (C) · 30.1%
Poverty rate: 42/100 (D) · 9.5%
Household income: 32/100 (F) · $58,490
Where St. Francis sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
St. Francis'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 - St. Francis highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
St. Francis, WI (this city): home $207,200, crime 1,271/100k
Laurens, SC : home $139,800, crime 3,930/100k
Havre, MT : home $197,600, crime 3,870/100k
Shawano, WI : home $127,200, crime 1,418/100k
McFarland, WI : home $363,400, crime 885/100k
Merrill, WI : home $113,200, crime 2,621/100k
Tomah, WI : home $162,900, crime 2,050/100k
Rice Lake, WI : home $178,100, crime 1,589/100k
How does St. Francis compare to other US cities?
Where St. Francis sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income33% higher than other cities
Home value45% pricier than other cities
Median rent29% pricier than other cities
Safety53% 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, St. Francis ranks #129 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 St. Francis 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 St. Francis near the bottom of Wisconsin's cities
Among the 761 Wisconsin cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, St. Francis ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares St. Francis only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#541 of 753
28th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 761
0th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Home Value
#282 of 754
62nd percentile in Wisconsin
Poverty Rate
#198 of 761
74th percentile in Wisconsin
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#208 of 761
72nd 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
33rd percentile nationally for median household income · 53rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
St. Francis's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
St. Francis'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 St. Francis's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$207,200Among the most affordablemore affordable than 55% 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
St. Francis's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,149 of 15,516
More affordable than 41% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,368 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.5×, St. Francis sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,149 of 15,516 and #7,368 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
$58,490St. Francis, WI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context St. Francis, 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 St. Francis, WI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)30.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,318
Median Income
$58,490
Median Home Value
$207,200
Median Age
53.6
Poverty Rate
9.5%
Labor force participation
55.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
30.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1270.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
105.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1165.5
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
St. Francis's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,148 residents
2021
9,046 residents
2022
8,990 residents
2023
8,936 residents
2024
8,947 residents
2025
8,955 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Low Activity
Total Permits (2024)
14
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
14
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
9
1
8
$2.2M
2024
14
0
14
$2.5M
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.4%
Carpool
4.8%
Public Transit
1.1%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
17.2%
Other
0.6%
Based on 4,615 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 St. Francis. 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 St. Francis 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 St. Francis sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How St. Francis 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, 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.