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Place dossier plate
SheetWV-VIENNA-WV · Vienna, WV 10,575 pop · income 43rd 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 Vienna
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Vienna on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bluefield · lowest
43,826
Bluefield · lowest
43,826 median HH income
36.6% of the leader · rank #1
Arimo · near
65,208
Arimo · near
65,208 median HH income
54.4% of the leader · rank #2
Wingate · near
65,208
Wingate · near
65,208 median HH income
54.4% of the leader · rank #3
Harrisville · near
65,208
Harrisville · near
65,208 median HH income
54.4% of the leader · rank #4
Genesee · near
65,208
Genesee · near
65,208 median HH income
54.4% of the leader · rank #5
Vienna · this city
65,211
Vienna · this city
65,211 median HH income
54.4% of the leader · rank #6
Pingree Grove · highest
119,880
Pingree Grove · highest
119,880 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 Vienna 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: 10,575.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Vienna - the verdict
Nationally, Vienna sits in the 43rd percentile for household income and the 11th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
43rd
percentile, household income
29th
percentile, home value
5th
percentile, median rent
11th
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: Vienna, WV
10,575 people live in Vienna, West Virginia - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Vienna report a median income of $65,211 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 2.2%. Typical homes in Vienna are valued around $155,500, and the median resident age is 40.2 years. Educational attainment runs 32.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 59.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 7 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 75% from five years earlier. Vienna's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3462.5 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in West Virginia run below the national norm: the state registers 89.5 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $945 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts West Virginia's average monthly utility costs around $220 (state average). Workers in Vienna report an average commute of 18.2 minutes, with 84.9% driving alone and 8.9% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 49.2 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Vienna'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 reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households to population change to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Vienna, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
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
What can the FBI record say about safety in Vienna?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3462.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 52% higher 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 Vienna?
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 West Virginia, the closest population matches are St. Albans (10,637 residents, $58,788 income); Cheat Lake (10,485 residents, $111,379 income); Cross Lanes (10,172 residents, $62,704 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pingree Grove, IL (10,576 residents); Durham, NH (10,577 residents); Fairview, TX (10,570 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.
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 4 public schools within the city match. 32.7% 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -306 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 7 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.
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 Vienna?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 84.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.2 minutes.
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
84.9%
Work from home
8.9%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,915 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Vienna?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.4×
Home value
$155,500
Household income
$65,211
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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.
Cost of living A
89.5 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 A-
2.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
32.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime C
154 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income D
$65,211
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Vienna profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 87/100 (A) · 89.5 index
Poverty rate: 84/100 (A-) · 2.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 63/100 (C+) · 32.7%
Violent crime: 57/100 (C) · 154 /100k
Household income: 42/100 (D) · $65,211
Where Vienna sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Vienna'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 - Vienna highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Vienna, WV (this city): home $155,500, crime 3,463/100k
Pingree Grove, IL : home $298,300, crime 167/100k
Durham, NH : home $451,000, crime 265/100k
Fairview, TX : home $544,800, crime 999/100k
Monroe, WI : home $184,400, crime 1,176/100k
Ironton, OH : home $112,400, crime 745/100k
St. Albans, WV : home $131,800, crime 2,313/100k
Bluefield, WV : home $101,000, crime 1,517/100k
Bridgeport, WV : home $276,700, crime 1,596/100k
Oak Hill, WV : home $110,400, crime 2,220/100k
How does Vienna compare to other US cities?
Vienna measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income43% higher than other cities
Home value29% pricier than other cities
Median rent5% pricier than other cities
Safety11% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just West Virginia and the picture shifts: Vienna ranks #37 of 45 West Virginia cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Vienna against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to West Virginia only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
West Virginia-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Vienna near the bottom of West Virginia's cities
Among the 390 West Virginia cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Vienna ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Vienna only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#83 of 330
75th percentile in West Virginia
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 390
0th percentile in West Virginia
Median Home Value
#89 of 337
74th percentile in West Virginia
Poverty Rate
#297 of 389
23rd percentile in West Virginia
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#54 of 390
86th percentile in West Virginia
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 West Virginia only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
43rd percentile nationally for median household income · 11th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Vienna's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Vienna'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 Vienna's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$155,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 71% 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
Vienna's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,394 of 15,516
More affordable than 78% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#268 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.4×, Vienna sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,394 of 15,516 and #268 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
$65,211Vienna, WV median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Vienna, WV median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Vienna, WV.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)32.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,575
Median Income
$65,211
Median Home Value
$155,500
Median Age
40.2
Poverty Rate
2.2%
Labor force participation
59.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
32.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3462.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
153.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3308.6
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Vienna's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,627 residents
2021
10,580 residents
2022
10,500 residents
2023
10,442 residents
2024
10,380 residents
2025
10,321 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
7
housing units authorized
Single-Family
7
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
4
4
0
$1.8M
2020
8
8
0
$1.6M
2021
5
5
0
$1.0M
2022
3
3
0
$0.6M
2023
5
5
0
$1.3M
2024
7
7
0
$1.3M
Permit volume increased 75% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.2 minutes
Drive Alone
84.9%
Carpool
4.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
8.9%
Other
0.8%
Based on 4,915 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
West Virginia statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $220
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across West Virginia at $220 (electricity about $110 , water and sewer about $38 ).
These are West Virginia statewide averages, not a meter reading for Vienna. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
West Virginia's BEA cost-of-living index is 89.5 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Vienna is $945/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to West Virginia statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 49.2 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a West Virginia statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Vienna sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Vienna compares to similar-size West Virginia 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.