Northeast · Rhode Island · pop 190K
Providence, RI
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in RI, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,151 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,360 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,206 left over.
Expect summer highs near 82°F, winter lows around 22°F, and about 202 sunny days a year.
Reported crime rates sit below most cities in this dataset.
Tradeoff: home prices run high relative to local incomes, so buying may take longer than elsewhere.
The Providence fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,945/mo
Typical rent
$1,600/mo
Home value ÷ income
6.1×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,350/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,600/mo
- Median home value
- $380,000
- Median household income
- $62,000
- Population
- 190,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.8%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.6%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 490
- Property crime rate
- 2,400
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 82°F
- Avg. winter low
- 22°F
- Sunny days / year
- 202
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈1/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈38/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈7/yr
- Annual rain
- 47"
- Annual snow
- 33"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+30
- Int'l airport
- ≈8 mi
- Walkability
- 77/100
- Disaster risk
- 40/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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