Household-Income Percentiles by Metro

Where any household income ranks across the 25 largest U.S. metros, and how the distribution has shifted — built from ACS 5-year PUMS for homebuilder affordability & buyer-pool analysis.

ACS 5-year PUMS
1st pct99th pct Cell = share of households earning ≤ the row income — latest window , in dollars.

$100,000
Bubble color = the percentile that income lands at in each metro — terracotta = low percentile (income ranks high there) → sage = high percentile. Income in dollars.
1st pct99th pct

5-year ACS windows overlap by design — read the multi-year direction, not single-step wiggles. Lines show the 5th / 25th / 50th / 75th / 95th percentile of household income.

Validation — PUMS vs published ACS (latest window)