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What do people earn in my town?

Pick a state or region and type a place: any of 38,658 US cities, towns and townships or 62,879 UK towns, villages and districts. You get the official pay figures for the place where they exist, its county or council, and the wider area, with the margin of error so you know how far to trust each number.

Choose a state first. Places with the same name are listed with their county.

Your result

Pick a place to see what people there earn.

What the figures mean

United States

  • Median earnings of full-time workers who live in the place, from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (table B20018), pooled over 2020 to 2024 and shown in 2024 dollars, with its 90% margin of error.
  • Median household income (table B19013): all the income of everyone in the household, so it is higher than one person's pay where there are two earners.
  • Small places have big margins. The survey only reaches a sample of households, so for a village of a few hundred people the margin can be bigger than the figure. Where the margin is more than 30% of the estimate we say the figure is too uncertain and lead with the county.
  • Jobs in the area: the median for all jobs located in the place's metro area or rural pay area, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (May 2025). It counts part-time jobs and is measured where people work, not where they live.

United Kingdom

  • Official pay figures in the UK go down to the council (local authority), not the town or village. Each place shows its council's median full-time pay from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (2026, provisional; NISRA's figures for Northern Ireland's councils), twice: for jobs located in the council area, and for full-time workers who live there. The gap between them shows commuting.
  • ONS rates each estimate by its coefficient of variation: up to 5% is precise, 5% to 10% reasonably precise, 10% to 20% acceptable, over 20% unreliable. We show that rating next to each figure.

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