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125,359 people (2025) 100k-250k West

Bright spots 12 indicators

Where Goodyear, AZ shows a real improvement in recent years, or stands clearly ahead of its peers. How this is calculated →
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Disconnected youth
Teens not in school and not working
3.9%
2020-24
▼ 67%
relative change
11.6% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Child poverty
Share of children below the poverty level
5.9%
2020-24
▼ 49%
relative change
11.6% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Vehicle theft
Motor vehicle theft rate
78 /100k
Jul 2026
▼ 39%
relative change
128 a year earlier
Dropping fast  
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Poverty
Share of people below the poverty level
5.2%
2020-24
▼ 34%
relative change
8.0% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Household income
Median household income
$103,319
2020-24
▲ 23%
relative change
$83,866 in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Property crime
Property crime rate
1,187 /100k
Jul 2026
▼ 16%
relative change
1,405 a year earlier
Real, sustained progress  
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College attainment
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher
35.5%
2020-24
▲ 14%
relative change
31.2% in 2019
Real improvement Trailing peers
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Broadband
Households with a broadband internet subscription
96.7%
2020-24
▲ 3%
relative change
93.5% in 2019
Turning up (early signal) Leading peers
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No vehicle
Households without a vehicle
2.0%
2020-24
▲ 3%
relative change
1.9% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Inequality
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.38
2020-24
▼ 1%
relative change
0.38 in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Homeownership
Homeownership rate
77.7%
2020-24
flat
relative change
77.4% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Uninsured
People without health insurance
7.3%
2020-24
▲ 3%
relative change
7.1% in 2019
Turning down (early signal) Leading peers
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What needs attention 6 indicators

Where Goodyear, AZ shows a real worsening in recent years, or trails its peers clearly. How this is calculated →
SNAP
Households receiving SNAP
5.6%
2019-23
▲ 55%
relative change
3.6% in 2018
Worsening Leading peers
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Preschool enrollment
Children ages 3-4 enrolled in preschool
19.5%
2020-24
▼ 41%
relative change
33.1% in 2019
Worsening Trailing peers
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Cost burden
Housing cost-burdened households
30.9%
2020-24
▲ 16%
relative change
26.6% in 2019
Worsening Leading peers
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Unemployment
Unemployment rate
5.4%
Jul 2026
▲ 15%
relative change
4.7% a year earlier
Rising, the wrong way Trailing peers
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Violent crime
Violent crime rate
238 /100k
Jul 2026
▲ 11%
relative change
214 a year earlier
Rising, the wrong way  
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Child uninsured
Children without health insurance
6.7%
2020-24
▼ 22%
relative change
8.5% in 2019
Turning down (early signal) Trailing peers
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Big moves & big gaps 3 indicators

Real movement and big differences from peers, where neither direction is simply good or bad. Biggest relative change first; big-gap cards come last. How this is calculated →
Population
107,645
2020-24
▲ 34%
relative change
80,371 in 2019
Rising Among the lowest of peers
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Children
Children's share of the population
22.0%
2020-24
▼ 10%
relative change
24.5% in 2019
Falling Among the lowest of peers
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Working parents
Young children with all parents in the labor force
64.3%
2020-24
low
vs peers
61.9% in 2019
No measurable change Among the lowest of peers
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Public Safety 4 indicators
Public Safety

Violent crime rate

▼ Lower is better Worsening recently, faster than peers
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Violent crime rose about 11% over the 12 months ending July 2026, faster than 92% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: violent crime is about 20% higher than in 2021 (205 then, 246 now), but the direction has turned: after bottoming near 138 in 2024 it has risen each year since. That recent climb is movement in the wrong direction.
Longer view
Violent crime fell about 5% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: 238 in July 2026, up from 214 a year earlier.
Needs attention 238 per 100k
2018July 2026
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▸ Compare all 26 similar-size cities by change rank
Each place's latest 12 months compares against its prior 12. significant improvement · significant worsening · within chance fluctuation for counts this size (Poisson test at 90%; these are administrative tallies, so the test covers event randomness, not survey error). Reporting practices vary by agency, so comparisons are indicative, not definitive; see crime data cautions.
Place Latestper 100k Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 456 (Apr 26) -9.3%
Pearland, TX 65 (Jul 26) -30.3% 1st
Concord, CA 376 (Jul 26) -21.8% 2nd
Broken Arrow, OK 175 (Jun 26) -20.7% 3rd
Billings, MT 662 (Jul 26) -16.9% 4th
Allentown, PA 236 (Jul 26) -16.8% 5th
Wilmington, NC 385 (Jul 26) -14.5% 6th
North Charleston, SC 631 (Jul 26) -12.5% 7th
Cambridge, MA 408 (Jul 26) -12.0% 8th
Arvada, CO 276 (Jul 26) -9.4% 9th
College Station, TX 137 (Jul 26) -9.3% 10th
Berkeley, CA 593 (Jun 26) -7.3% 11th
Hartford, CT 453 (Jul 26) -5.5% 12th
Independence, MO 558 (Jul 26) -1.2% 13th
Buckeye, AZ 151 (Jul 26) -1.0% 14th
Lafayette, LA 1,096 (Jul 26) +1.4% 15th
Clovis, CA 264 (Jun 26) +1.5% 16th
Thousand Oaks, CA 119 (Jul 26) +2.1% 17th
New Braunfels, TX 204 (Jul 26) +3.3% 18th
Vallejo, CA 744 (Apr 26) +3.8% 19th
High Point, NC 507 (Jul 26) +4.3% 20th
Ann Arbor, MI 291 (Jul 26) +6.6% 21st
Odessa, TX 304 (Jul 26) +8.4% 22nd
Rochester, MN 161 (Jul 26) +10.5% 23rd
Goodyear, AZ 238 (Jul 26) +11.2% 24th
Simi Valley, CA 135 (Jul 26) +15.9% 25th
Fairfield, CA 572 (Jul 26) +17.8% 26th
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Because this metric moves monthly, each listed city also held or improved over its own most recent 12 months (shown on each row), and the list is ordered by that recent movement. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Pearland, TX down about 30% over the 12 months ending July 2026 · sustained: down about 6% a year · 2021-2026
  • Santa Clara, CA down about 21% over the 12 months ending July 2026 · sustained: down about 18% a year · 2021-2026
  • Alexandria, VA down about 17% over the 12 months ending July 2026 · sustained: down about 5% a year · 2021-2026
Real-Time Crime Index through 2026-05 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
Public Safety

Property crime rate

▼ Lower is better Verified improver
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Property crime fell about 16% over the 12 months ending July 2026, faster than 68% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: property crime fell about 8% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 72% of similar-size cities. Goodyear started among the stronger third of similar-size cities and kept improving; worth investigating.
Longer view
Property crime fell about 6% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: 1,187 in July 2026, down from 1,405 a year earlier.
Bright spot 1,187 per 100k
2018July 2026
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▸ Compare all 26 similar-size cities by change rank
Each place's latest 12 months compares against its prior 12. significant improvement · significant worsening · within chance fluctuation for counts this size (Poisson test at 90%; these are administrative tallies, so the test covers event randomness, not survey error). Reporting practices vary by agency, so comparisons are indicative, not definitive; see crime data cautions.
Place Latestper 100k Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 1,987 (Apr 26) -12.2%
Concord, CA 2,247 (Jul 26) -26.3% 1st
Pearland, TX 985 (Jul 26) -25.1% 2nd
College Station, TX 783 (Jul 26) -24.0% 3rd
Vallejo, CA 2,768 (Apr 26) -23.6% 4th
Odessa, TX 1,121 (Jul 26) -23.3% 5th
Billings, MT 2,332 (Jul 26) -19.8% 6th
Hartford, CT 2,059 (Jul 26) -16.9% 7th
North Charleston, SC 2,987 (Jul 26) -15.7% 8th
Goodyear, AZ 1,187 (Jul 26) -15.5% 9th
Clovis, CA 1,293 (Jun 26) -14.1% 10th
Arvada, CO 2,124 (Jul 26) -12.1% 11th
Cambridge, MA 2,404 (Jul 26) -11.8% 12th
Broken Arrow, OK 975 (Jun 26) -11.6% 13th
Wilmington, NC 2,922 (Jul 26) -9.5% 14th
Lafayette, LA 3,335 (Jul 26) -9.4% 15th
Berkeley, CA 4,022 (Jun 26) -9.0% 16th
High Point, NC 1,844 (Jul 26) -8.1% 17th
Thousand Oaks, CA 960 (Jul 26) -7.0% 18th
Independence, MO 2,982 (Jul 26) -6.6% 19th
Fairfield, CA 1,647 (Jul 26) -6.0% 20th
Allentown, PA 1,438 (Jul 26) -5.0% 21st
Rochester, MN 1,262 (Jul 26) -2.4% 22nd
Buckeye, AZ 680 (Jul 26) -1.3% 23rd
Simi Valley, CA 819 (Jul 26) -0.6% 24th
New Braunfels, TX 1,181 (Jul 26) +1.0% 25th
Ann Arbor, MI 1,726 (Jul 26) +10.9% 26th
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Because this metric moves monthly, each listed city also held or improved over its own most recent 12 months (shown on each row), and the list is ordered by that recent movement. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Murrieta, CA down about 32% over the 12 months ending July 2026 · sustained: down about 9% a year · 2021-2026
  • College Station, TX down about 24% over the 12 months ending July 2026 · sustained: down about 12% a year · 2021-2026
  • Georgetown, TX down about 23% over the 12 months ending July 2026 · sustained: down about 8% a year · 2021-2026
Real-Time Crime Index through 2026-05 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
Public Safety

Homicide rate

▼ Lower is better Improving, leading peers
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Homicides was essentially flat over the 12 months ending July 2026.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: homicide fell about 15% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 76% of similar-size cities. The change does not yet pass the noise and consistency checks, so treat it as a raw signal.
Longer view
Homicide fell about 7% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Latest
Most recent reading: 1 homicides in the 12 months ending July 2026, unchanged from 1 in the prior 12 months. That is 1 per 100,000 residents; peer comparisons use the rate.
1 homicides
2018July 2026
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▸ Compare all 26 similar-size cities by change rank
Each place's latest 12 months compares against its prior 12. significant improvement · significant worsening · within chance fluctuation for counts this size (Poisson test at 90%; these are administrative tallies, so the test covers event randomness, not survey error). Reporting practices vary by agency, so comparisons are indicative, not definitive; see crime data cautions.
Place Latestper 100k Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 6 (Apr 26) -17.8%
Concord, CA 0 (Jul 26) -100.0% 1st
Thousand Oaks, CA 0 (Jul 26) -100.0% 2nd
Berkeley, CA 1 (Jun 26) -83.3% 3rd
Clovis, CA 1 (Jun 26) -80.0% 4th
Broken Arrow, OK 1 (Jun 26) -80.0% 5th
Billings, MT 2 (Jul 26) -66.7% 6th
North Charleston, SC 9 (Jul 26) -36.9% 7th
Rochester, MN 2 (Jul 26) -33.2% 8th
Independence, MO 7 (Jul 26) -20.1% 9th
Hartford, CT 12 (Jul 26) -11.8% 10th
Goodyear, AZ 1 (Jul 26) +0.0% 11th
Simi Valley, CA 2 (Jul 26) +0.0% 12th
Odessa, TX 3 (Jul 26) +0.0% 13th
Pearland, TX 1 (Jul 26) +0.0% 14th
Vallejo, CA 15 (Jul 26) +11.7% 15th
Wilmington, NC 10 (Jul 26) +18.2% 16th
Allentown, PA 4 (Jul 26) +25.2% 17th
Lafayette, LA 4 (Jul 26) +66.7% 18th
New Braunfels, TX 2 (Jul 26) +99.7% 19th
Fairfield, CA 7 (Jul 26) +99.7% 20th
Cambridge, MA 2 (Jul 26) +99.8% 21st
High Point, NC 10 (Jul 26) +199.7% 22nd
Buckeye, AZ 5 (Jul 26) +200.6% 23rd
College Station, TX 1 (Jul 26)
Arvada, CO 6 (Jul 26)
Ann Arbor, MI 2 (Jul 26)
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Because this metric moves monthly, each listed city also held or improved over its own most recent 12 months (shown on each row), and the list is ordered by that recent movement. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • San Mateo, CA down about 100% over the 12 months ending July 2026 · sustained: down about 17% a year · 2021-2026
  • Cedar Rapids, IA down about 50% over the 12 months ending July 2026 · sustained: down about 22% a year · 2021-2026
  • Oxnard, CA down about 50% over the 12 months ending July 2026 · sustained: down about 16% a year · 2021-2026
Real-Time Crime Index through 2026-06 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
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Public Safety

Motor vehicle theft rate

▼ Lower is better Improving recently, leading peers ★ Strong performer
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Vehicle theft fell about 39% over the 12 months ending July 2026, faster than 80% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: vehicle theft is about 32% lower than in 2021 (128 then, 87 now), but the direction has turned: after peaking near 170 in 2022 it has fallen mostly since.
Longer view
Vehicle theft fell less than 1%% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: 78 in July 2026, down from 128 a year earlier.
Bright spot 78 per 100k
2018July 2026
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▸ Compare all 26 similar-size cities by change rank
Each place's latest 12 months compares against its prior 12. significant improvement · significant worsening · within chance fluctuation for counts this size (Poisson test at 90%; these are administrative tallies, so the test covers event randomness, not survey error). Reporting practices vary by agency, so comparisons are indicative, not definitive; see crime data cautions.
Place Latestper 100k Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 303 (Apr 26) -22.2%
College Station, TX 45 (Jul 26) -49.1% 1st
Odessa, TX 147 (Jul 26) -41.9% 2nd
Buckeye, AZ 56 (Jul 26) -41.7% 3rd
Concord, CA 281 (Jul 26) -40.8% 4th
High Point, NC 230 (Jul 26) -40.4% 5th
Goodyear, AZ 78 (Jul 26) -38.7% 6th
Lafayette, LA 202 (Jul 26) -37.6% 7th
Arvada, CO 225 (Jul 26) -36.7% 8th
Billings, MT 259 (Jul 26) -35.1% 9th
Broken Arrow, OK 75 (Jun 26) -30.9% 10th
Rochester, MN 54 (Jul 26) -26.4% 11th
New Braunfels, TX 69 (Jul 26) -23.4% 12th
North Charleston, SC 284 (Jul 26) -22.4% 13th
Fairfield, CA 227 (Jul 26) -21.2% 14th
Independence, MO 496 (Jul 26) -20.3% 15th
Wilmington, NC 239 (Jul 26) -20.3% 16th
Berkeley, CA 460 (Jun 26) -19.0% 17th
Thousand Oaks, CA 44 (Jul 26) -18.2% 18th
Hartford, CT 566 (Jul 26) -15.6% 19th
Vallejo, CA 578 (Apr 26) -14.9% 20th
Pearland, TX 77 (Jul 26) -13.0% 21st
Clovis, CA 135 (Jun 26) -6.0% 22nd
Simi Valley, CA 90 (Jul 26) +0.0% 23rd
Cambridge, MA 78 (Jul 26) +1.0% 24th
Ann Arbor, MI 76 (Jul 26) +5.7% 25th
Allentown, PA 192 (Jul 26) +16.9% 26th
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Because this metric moves monthly, each listed city also held or improved over its own most recent 12 months (shown on each row), and the list is ordered by that recent movement. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • College Station, TX down about 49% over the 12 months ending July 2026 · sustained: down about 14% a year · 2021-2026
  • Tyler, TX down about 31% over the 12 months ending July 2026 · sustained: down about 13% a year · 2021-2026
  • Provo, UT down about 26% over the 12 months ending July 2026 · sustained: down about 11% a year · 2021-2026
Real-Time Crime Index through 2026-06 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
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Economy 7 indicators
Economy

Median household income

▲ Higher is better Real improvement
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Household income rose about 23% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from $83,866 to $103,319 (each survey's own dollars, not adjusted for inflation) - more than the combined survey margin (±$5,215).

Broader trend
All similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. Goodyear started among the stronger third of similar-size cities and kept improving; worth investigating.
Longer view
Household income rose about 47% from 2014 to 2024 ($70,293 to $103,319).
Bright spot $103,319
20102024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref $79,964 +36%
United States ref $80,734 +28%
Wilmington, NC $66,738 21st +40% 1st 22% below peers
Buckeye, AZ $99,486 11th +39% 2nd 16% above peers
Arvada, CO $117,348 6th +39% 3rd 36% above peers
North Charleston, SC $62,956 24th +38% 4th 27% below peers
Athens, GA $52,974 29th +38% 5th 38% below peers
High Point, NC $64,561 22nd +37% 6th 25% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL $73,446 20th +35% 7th 15% below peers
Lakeland, FL $64,185 23rd +35% 8th 25% below peers
Allentown, PA $55,494 28th +35% 9th 35% below peers
Vallejo, CA $90,171 13th +30% 10th 5% above peers
Hartford, CT $46,411 31st +28% 11th 46% below peers
Clovis, CA $99,241 12th +27% 12th 15% above peers
Cambridge, MA $130,748 3rd +27% 13th 52% above peers
Berkeley, CA $108,092 8th +26% 14th 26% above peers
Ann Arbor, MI $82,212 17th +25% 15th 4% below peers
Thousand Oaks, CA $135,603 2nd +24% 16th 58% above peers
Billings, MT $73,712 18th +24% 17th 14% below peers
Goodyear, AZ $103,319 9th +23% 18th 20% above peers
Simi Valley, CA $122,081 4th +23% 19th 42% above peers
Rochester, MN $89,389 14th +22% 20th 4% above peers
Concord, CA $108,709 7th +21% 21st 26% above peers
New Braunfels, TX $86,021 16th +21% 22nd on par with peers
Lafayette, LA $61,915 25th +21% 23rd 28% below peers
Fairfield, CA $101,895 10th +21% 24th 18% above peers
Independence, MO $60,339 26th +19% 25th 30% below peers
Broken Arrow, OK $86,765 15th +19% 26th 1% above peers
Topeka, KS $56,956 27th +19% 27th 34% below peers
Odessa, TX $73,472 19th +15% 28th 15% below peers
The Woodlands, TX $140,701 1st +15% 29th 64% above peers
Pearland, TX $118,842 5th +14% 30th 38% above peers
College Station, TX $50,900 30th +11% 31st 41% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EconomyMedian household income
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17 of 23 tracts cover a shorter window (dashed outline; mostly 2020 boundary changes); 1 has too little data to show a change (gray). Each tract's change uses the same two survey periods as the card above and is judged against the tract's own published margins; tracts marked * moved less than their margin. How the tract view works →
▸ Break down by group Race · ACS 2024
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Santa Clara, CA up about 42% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 93% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Meridian, ID up about 41% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 92% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Fontana, CA up about 41% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 92% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±$4,008 at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Unemployment rate

▼ Lower is better Worsening recently, faster than peers
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Unemployment rose 0.7 percentage points over the 12 months ending July 2026, faster than 86% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: unemployment rose about 0.1 percentage points a year from 2022 to 2025. That is movement in the wrong direction.
Longer view
Unemployment fell about 0.2 percentage points a year from 2015 to 2025.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: 5.4% in July 2026, up from 4.7% a year earlier.
Needs attention 5.4%
2000July 2026
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▸ Compare all 29 similar-size cities by change rank
Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 4.9% (Jul 26) +0.6pp
United States ref 4.1% (Aug 26) -0.2pp
Independence, MO 3.8% (Jul 26) 7th -1.0pp 1st 14% below peers
High Point, NC 4.6% (Jul 26) 18th -0.7pp 2nd 5% above peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 4.3% (Jul 26) 13th -0.6pp 3rd 2% below peers
Berkeley, CA 4.7% (Jul 26) 20th -0.6pp 4th 7% above peers
Simi Valley, CA 4.4% (Jul 26) 15th -0.5pp 5th on par with peers
Ann Arbor, MI 3.5% (Jul 26) 2nd -0.5pp 6th 20% below peers
North Charleston, SC 3.7% (Jul 26) 6th -0.5pp 7th 16% below peers
Wilmington, NC 3.5% (Jul 26) 3rd -0.4pp 8th 20% below peers
Clovis, CA 5.4% (Jul 26) 23rd -0.4pp 9th 23% above peers
Vallejo, CA 5.7% (Jul 26) 25th -0.3pp 10th 30% above peers
Cambridge, MA 3.6% (Jul 26) 4th -0.3pp 11th 18% below peers
Billings, MT 3.0% (Jul 26) 1st -0.3pp 12th 32% below peers
Concord, CA 4.5% (Jul 26) 17th -0.2pp 13th 2% above peers
Fairfield, CA 5.3% (Jul 26) 22nd -0.2pp 14th 20% above peers
Topeka, KS 4.3% (Jul 26) 14th -0.1pp 15th 2% below peers
Lafayette, LA 4.0% (Jul 26) 8th +0.0pp 16th 9% below peers
College Station, TX 4.6% (Jul 26) 19th +0.1pp 17th 5% above peers
Arvada, CO 4.0% (Jul 26) 9th +0.1pp 18th 9% below peers
Odessa, TX 4.1% (Jul 26) 10th +0.2pp 19th 7% below peers
Allentown, PA 5.7% (Jul 26) 26th +0.5pp 20th 30% above peers
Rochester, MN 3.6% (Jul 26) 5th +0.5pp 21st 18% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL 4.4% (Jul 26) 16th +0.5pp 22nd on par with peers
New Braunfels, TX 4.1% (Jul 26) 11th +0.6pp 23rd 7% below peers
Pearland, TX 4.9% (Jul 26) 21st +0.6pp 24th 11% above peers
Goodyear, AZ 5.4% (Jul 26) 24th +0.7pp 25th 23% above peers
Lakeland, FL 5.9% (Jul 26) 27th +0.9pp 26th 34% above peers
Buckeye, AZ 6.0% (Jul 26) 28th +1.0pp 27th 36% above peers
Broken Arrow, OK 4.1% (Jul 26) 12th +1.1pp 28th 7% below peers
Hartford, CT 9.0% (Jul 26) 29th +2.1pp 29th 105% above peers
BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics through 2025 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
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Economy

Share of people below the poverty level

▼ Lower is better Real improvement ★ National leader
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Poverty fell 2.7 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 8.0% to 5.2% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.7pp).

Broader trend
30% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction; 7% moved the other way. Goodyear started among the stronger third of similar-size cities and kept improving; worth investigating.
Longer view
Poverty fell 3.9 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (9.2% to 5.2%).
Bright spot 5.2%
20112024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 12.5% -2.7pp
United States ref 12.4%
Goodyear, AZ 5.2% 2nd -2.7pp 1st 59% below peers
North Charleston, SC 14.4% 19th -6.5pp 2nd 13% above peers
Wilmington, NC 16.0% 23rd -6.2pp 3rd 25% above peers
Clovis, CA 8.0% 7th -2.5pp 4th 38% below peers
Buckeye, AZ 8.0% 8th -1.9pp 5th 38% below peers
Lakeland, FL 13.2% 17th -3.2pp 6th 3% above peers
Allentown, PA 21.0% 27th -4.7pp 7th 64% above peers
Concord, CA 8.2% 9th -1.5pp 8th 36% below peers
Rochester, MN 8.5% 10th -1.6pp 9th 33% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL 14.2% 18th -2.4pp 10th 11% above peers
New Braunfels, TX 7.4% 6th -1.2pp 11th 42% below peers
High Point, NC 15.7% 20th -2.1pp 12th 22% above peers
Athens, GA 26.5% 30th -3.4pp 13th 107% above peers
Berkeley, CA 17.3% 25th -1.9pp 14th 35% above peers
Lafayette, LA 18.3% 26th -1.3pp 15th 43% above peers
Hartford, CT 26.3% 29th -1.8pp 16th 105% above peers
Vallejo, CA 12.2% 15th -0.4pp 17th 5% below peers
Billings, MT 9.8% 13th -0.2pp 18th 23% below peers
College Station, TX 29.2% 31st -0.4pp 19th 128% above peers
Arvada, CO 5.8% 4th +0.0pp 20th 55% below peers
Simi Valley, CA 6.4% 5th +0.0pp 21st 50% below peers
Cambridge, MA 12.8% 16th +0.1pp 22nd on par with peers
Independence, MO 15.8% 22nd +0.8pp 23rd 24% above peers
Ann Arbor, MI 23.8% 28th +1.5pp 24th 86% above peers
Topeka, KS 15.7% 21st +1.3pp 25th 23% above peers
Broken Arrow, OK 8.8% 11th +0.8pp 26th 31% below peers
Pearland, TX 4.1% 1st +0.6pp 27th 68% below peers
Fairfield, CA 10.2% 14th +1.6pp 28th 20% below peers
The Woodlands, TX 5.5% 3rd +1.3pp 29th 57% below peers
Odessa, TX 16.2% 24th +5.1pp 30th 27% above peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 8.9% 12th +3.7pp 31st 30% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Murrieta, CA down 2.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Meridian, ID down 2.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Roseville, CA down 2.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±0.8pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Share of children below the poverty level

▼ Lower is better Real improvement ★ National leader
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Child poverty fell 5.7 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 11.6% to 5.9% - more than the combined survey margin (±2.8pp).

Broader trend
40% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction; 13% moved the other way. Goodyear started mid-pack and has reached a genuinely better level; worth investigating.
Longer view
Child poverty fell 4.2 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (10.1% to 5.9%).
Bright spot 5.9%
20132024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 16.2% -5.3pp
United States ref 16.1%
Goodyear, AZ 5.9% 3rd -5.7pp 1st 57% below peers
New Braunfels, TX 6.3% 5th -4.6pp 2nd 54% below peers
North Charleston, SC 21.2% 23rd -13.7pp 3rd 56% above peers
Rochester, MN 7.8% 9th -5.0pp 4th 43% below peers
Wilmington, NC 18.9% 22nd -11.1pp 5th 39% above peers
Clovis, CA 8.1% 10th -4.7pp 6th 40% below peers
Concord, CA 7.4% 7th -4.1pp 7th 46% below peers
Vallejo, CA 13.9% 17th -5.4pp 8th 2% above peers
Athens, GA 24.4% 28th -9.3pp 9th 79% above peers
Lakeland, FL 17.8% 21st -5.8pp 10th 31% above peers
West Palm Beach, FL 22.4% 24th -6.5pp 11th 65% above peers
The Woodlands, TX 3.5% 2nd -0.9pp 12th 74% below peers
Allentown, PA 30.4% 30th -7.0pp 13th 123% above peers
High Point, NC 22.8% 25th -4.9pp 14th 67% above peers
Simi Valley, CA 6.1% 4th -1.1pp 15th 55% below peers
Pearland, TX 2.6% 1st -0.4pp 16th 81% below peers
Lafayette, LA 24.6% 29th -3.1pp 17th 81% above peers
Broken Arrow, OK 10.6% 13th -1.1pp 18th 22% below peers
Buckeye, AZ 10.5% 12th -1.0pp 19th 23% below peers
Independence, MO 23.8% 26th -1.3pp 20th 75% above peers
Hartford, CT 35.6% 31st -1.8pp 21st 162% above peers
Arvada, CO 7.1% 6th -0.2pp 22nd 48% below peers
Billings, MT 10.8% 14th -0.2pp 23rd 21% below peers
Topeka, KS 17.6% 20th -0.2pp 24th 30% above peers
Fairfield, CA 13.6% 16th +1.9pp 25th on par with peers
Cambridge, MA 15.2% 18th +2.5pp 26th 12% above peers
Berkeley, CA 7.6% 8th +1.9pp 27th 44% below peers
College Station, TX 16.5% 19th +4.2pp 28th 21% above peers
Ann Arbor, MI 13.2% 15th +3.4pp 29th 3% below peers
Odessa, TX 23.8% 27th +9.4pp 30th 75% above peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 10.1% 11th +5.8pp 31st 25% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Murfreesboro, TN down 11.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Lewisville, TX down 7.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • San Angelo, TX down 9.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.6pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Households with a broadband internet subscription

▲ Higher is better Turning up (early signal) ★ National leader
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Broadband changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (93.5% then, 96.7% now; margin ±4.1pp). The newest releases lean upward: each of the last 7 annual updates moved the 5-year average the same way - an early signal, not a measured change.*

Broader trend
87% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Broadband rose 4.3 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (92.3% to 96.7%).
Bright spot 96.7%
20172024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 91.7% +7.3pp
United States ref 91.1%
Lakeland, FL 89.7% 24th +19.6pp 1st 3% below peers
Topeka, KS 88.2% 28th +18.4pp 2nd 5% below peers
North Charleston, SC 89.3% 26th +17.8pp 3rd 4% below peers
Hartford, CT 86.7% 29th +14.7pp 4th 6% below peers
Athens, GA 92.6% 17th +10.2pp 5th on par with peers
Allentown, PA 86.7% 30th +9.2pp 6th 7% below peers
High Point, NC 91.0% 22nd +9.5pp 7th 2% below peers
Independence, MO 89.7% 23rd +9.0pp 8th 3% below peers
Wilmington, NC 91.4% 21st +9.0pp 9th 1% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL 89.4% 25th +8.3pp 10th 4% below peers
Lafayette, LA 92.0% 19th +7.8pp 11th 1% below peers
New Braunfels, TX 95.0% 8th +7.3pp 12th 2% above peers
Billings, MT 91.7% 20th +6.9pp 13th 1% below peers
Clovis, CA 95.7% 6th +6.5pp 14th 3% above peers
Arvada, CO 96.1% 5th +6.3pp 15th 4% above peers
Cambridge, MA 94.8% 10th +5.9pp 16th 2% above peers
Vallejo, CA 94.2% 13th +5.8pp 17th 2% above peers
Odessa, TX 88.7% 27th +4.9pp 18th 4% below peers
Rochester, MN 92.2% 18th +4.5pp 19th 1% below peers
Concord, CA 95.2% 7th +4.5pp 20th 3% above peers
Buckeye, AZ 97.0% 3rd +4.4pp 21st 5% above peers
Ann Arbor, MI 93.9% 15th +3.7pp 22nd 1% above peers
Simi Valley, CA 95.0% 9th +3.6pp 23rd 2% above peers
Goodyear, AZ 96.7% 4th +3.1pp 24th 4% above peers
Pearland, TX 97.2% 2nd +2.9pp 25th 5% above peers
Berkeley, CA 94.3% 12th +2.8pp 26th 2% above peers
Broken Arrow, OK 94.5% 11th +2.7pp 27th 2% above peers
The Woodlands, TX 97.2% 1st +1.5pp 28th 5% above peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 94.2% 14th +1.2pp 29th 1% above peers
Fairfield, CA 92.8% 16th +0.9pp 30th on par with peers
College Station, TX 84.6% 31st +0.3pp 31st 9% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EconomyHouseholds with a broadband internet subscription
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Antioch, CA up 7.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 50% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Carrollton, TX up 6.8pp between its surveys · a smaller real gain than 51% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Clovis, CA up 6.5pp between its surveys · a smaller real gain than 51% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±3.8pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys *Early signal: consecutive releases agree on direction only; the size of the newest movement is not measurable from overlapping surveys. about this metric
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Income inequality (Gini index)

▼ Lower is better No measurable change ★ National leader
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Inequality changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (0.38 then, 0.38 now; margin ±0.02).

Broader trend
10% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Inequality fell about 1% from 2014 to 2024 (0.38 to 0.38).
Bright spot 0.38
20102024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 0.46 -0.003
United States ref 0.48 +0.001
Allentown, PA 0.43 8th -0.033 1st 5% below peers
Lakeland, FL 0.47 20th -0.020 2nd 2% above peers
North Charleston, SC 0.44 14th -0.018 3rd 3% below peers
Athens, GA 0.50 24th -0.020 4th 10% above peers
Lafayette, LA 0.51 26th -0.012 5th 11% above peers
Independence, MO 0.44 10th -0.007 6th 5% below peers
Goodyear, AZ 0.38 2nd -0.006 7th 18% below peers
College Station, TX 0.54 31st -0.005 8th 18% above peers
The Woodlands, TX 0.49 22nd +0.000 9th 7% above peers
Cambridge, MA 0.50 23rd +0.002 10th 8% above peers
Wilmington, NC 0.52 28th +0.002 11th 13% above peers
Arvada, CO 0.41 4th +0.002 12th 11% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL 0.51 25th +0.002 13th 10% above peers
High Point, NC 0.47 21st +0.004 14th 3% above peers
Buckeye, AZ 0.37 1st +0.004 15th 20% below peers
Billings, MT 0.46 19th +0.008 16th 1% above peers
Odessa, TX 0.46 17th +0.009 17th on par with peers
Rochester, MN 0.46 16th +0.009 18th on par with peers
Clovis, CA 0.43 7th +0.009 19th 6% below peers
Hartford, CT 0.52 27th +0.011 20th 12% above peers
Berkeley, CA 0.54 30th +0.012 21st 17% above peers
Vallejo, CA 0.44 11th +0.011 22nd 5% below peers
Topeka, KS 0.45 15th +0.011 23rd 2% below peers
Simi Valley, CA 0.43 5th +0.011 24th 7% below peers
Fairfield, CA 0.44 12th +0.011 25th 5% below peers
Ann Arbor, MI 0.52 29th +0.014 26th 14% above peers
New Braunfels, TX 0.44 9th +0.012 27th 5% below peers
Concord, CA 0.43 6th +0.014 28th 7% below peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 0.46 18th +0.016 29th 1% above peers
Broken Arrow, OK 0.44 13th +0.030 30th 5% below peers
Pearland, TX 0.40 3rd +0.027 31st 13% below peers
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B19083) through 2024 ±0.01 at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Households receiving SNAP

▼ Lower is better Worsening ★ Strong performer
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

SNAP rose 2.0 percentage points between the 2014-2018 and 2019-2023 surveys, from 3.6% to 5.6% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.6pp). That reverses the previous span, which went down between the 2009-2013 and 2014-2018 surveys. That is movement in the wrong direction.

Broader trend
17% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction; 20% moved the other way.
Longer view
Snap fell 0.7 percentage points from 2013 to 2023 (6.2% to 5.5%).
Needs attention 5.6%
20102023
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2019-2023 survey Today's rank Change2014-2018 → 2019-2023 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 10.1% -1.7pp
United States ref 11.8% -0.5pp
Buckeye, AZ 7.2% 11th -4.5pp 1st 19% below peers
Athens, GA 9.2% 17th -5.1pp 2nd 4% above peers
North Charleston, SC 10.9% 19th -5.4pp 3rd 23% above peers
Rochester, MN 7.6% 12th -1.3pp 4th 14% below peers
High Point, NC 17.6% 29th -2.7pp 5th 99% above peers
The Woodlands, TX 2.5% 1st -0.4pp 6th 71% below peers
Wilmington, NC 12.0% 24th -1.3pp 7th 35% above peers
Hartford, CT 36.5% 31st -3.8pp 8th 313% above peers
Odessa, TX 10.1% 18th -0.8pp 9th 14% above peers
New Braunfels, TX 4.7% 3rd -0.3pp 10th 47% below peers
Ann Arbor, MI 4.9% 5th -0.3pp 11th 45% below peers
Broken Arrow, OK 5.8% 9th -0.3pp 12th 35% below peers
Cambridge, MA 8.1% 13th -0.4pp 13th 9% below peers
Independence, MO 11.6% 22nd -0.6pp 14th 31% above peers
West Palm Beach, FL 14.5% 28th -0.5pp 15th 64% above peers
Lafayette, LA 11.8% 23rd -0.3pp 16th 34% above peers
Billings, MT 8.8% 16th -0.2pp 17th on par with peers
Topeka, KS 11.0% 20th -0.0pp 18th 24% above peers
Lakeland, FL 14.4% 27th +0.6pp 19th 63% above peers
Allentown, PA 31.4% 30th +1.6pp 20th 255% above peers
Vallejo, CA 13.3% 26th +0.9pp 21st 50% above peers
Simi Valley, CA 5.3% 7th +0.5pp 22nd 40% below peers
Arvada, CO 4.8% 4th +0.6pp 23rd 46% below peers
Fairfield, CA 11.1% 21st +1.4pp 24th 25% above peers
Concord, CA 8.6% 15th +1.4pp 25th 3% below peers
Clovis, CA 12.1% 25th +2.1pp 26th 37% above peers
Pearland, TX 5.1% 6th +1.4pp 27th 43% below peers
College Station, TX 6.8% 10th +2.0pp 28th 23% below peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 4.4% 2nd +1.5pp 29th 50% below peers
Goodyear, AZ 5.5% 8th +2.0pp 30th 37% below peers
Berkeley, CA 8.2% 14th +3.7pp 31st 8% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2018 to 2023, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EconomyHouseholds receiving SNAP
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Olathe, KS down 2.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2018-2023
  • Allen, TX down 1.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2018-2023
  • St. George, UT down 3.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2018-2023
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2023 ±1.3pp at 90% confidence (2023 estimate) survey trend: 2014-2018 vs 2019-2023 surveys about this metric
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Housing

Typical home value

No better direction Falling recently, faster than peers
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Home value fell about 1% over the 12 months ending August 2026, faster than 75% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: home value is about 8% higher than in 2021 ($428,757 then, $462,929 now), but the direction has turned: after peaking near $522,427 in 2022 it has fallen mostly since.
Longer view
Home value rose about 9% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: $462,929 in August 2026, down from $466,838 a year earlier.
$462,929
2000August 2026
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▸ Compare all 29 similar-size cities by change rank
Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref $417,990 (Aug 26) -1.1%
United States ref $368,697 (Aug 26) +1.2%
Berkeley, CA $1,445,049 (Aug 26) 1st +6.9% 1st 269% above peers
Odessa, TX $251,624 (Aug 26) 24th +4.4% 2nd 36% below peers
Allentown, PA $317,498 (Aug 26) 20th +3.9% 3rd 19% below peers
Rochester, MN $342,187 (Aug 26) 19th +3.7% 4th 13% below peers
Independence, MO $212,613 (Aug 26) 27th +3.6% 5th 46% below peers
Ann Arbor, MI $526,592 (Aug 26) 8th +3.2% 6th 35% above peers
Billings, MT $400,819 (Aug 26) 14th +2.5% 7th 2% above peers
Broken Arrow, OK $288,709 (Aug 26) 23rd +2.2% 8th 26% below peers
Lafayette, LA $226,811 (Aug 26) 26th +2.0% 9th 42% below peers
Hartford, CT $203,792 (Aug 26) 28th +1.9% 10th 48% below peers
Thousand Oaks, CA $1,035,291 (Aug 26) 2nd +1.6% 11th 165% above peers
West Palm Beach, FL $404,294 (Aug 26) 13th +1.4% 12th 3% above peers
Clovis, CA $516,830 (Aug 26) 10th +1.0% 13th 32% above peers
High Point, NC $250,100 (Aug 26) 25th +0.1% 14th 36% below peers
Wilmington, NC $419,038 (Aug 26) 12th -0.1% 15th 7% above peers
Topeka, KS $198,041 (Aug 26) 29th -0.1% 16th 49% below peers
College Station, TX $345,836 (Aug 26) 18th -0.2% 17th 12% below peers
Simi Valley, CA $833,306 (Aug 26) 4th -0.3% 18th 113% above peers
Concord, CA $722,165 (Aug 26) 5th -0.5% 19th 85% above peers
Cambridge, MA $1,031,739 (Aug 26) 3rd -0.6% 20th 164% above peers
Pearland, TX $380,787 (Aug 26) 16th -0.6% 21st 3% below peers
Goodyear, AZ $462,929 (Aug 26) 11th -0.8% 22nd 18% above peers
Fairfield, CA $599,253 (Aug 26) 7th -1.2% 23rd 53% above peers
Lakeland, FL $309,954 (Aug 26) 22nd -1.3% 24th 21% below peers
North Charleston, SC $310,134 (Aug 26) 21st -1.4% 25th 21% below peers
Buckeye, AZ $391,351 (Aug 26) 15th -1.7% 26th on par with peers
Arvada, CO $600,934 (Aug 26) 6th -2.1% 27th 54% above peers
New Braunfels, TX $346,475 (Aug 26) 17th -2.1% 28th 11% below peers
Vallejo, CA $519,461 (Aug 26) 9th -2.8% 29th 33% above peers
Zillow Home Value Index through 2026-08 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
Housing

Starter home value (bottom tier)

No better direction Falling recently, faster than peers
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Starter homes fell about 1% over the 12 months ending August 2026, faster than 68% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: starter homes is about 9% higher than in 2021 ($349,687 then, $380,397 now), but the direction has turned: after peaking near $433,378 in 2022 it has fallen mostly since.
Longer view
Starter homes rose about 11% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: $380,397 in August 2026, down from $384,700 a year earlier.
$380,397
2000August 2026
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▸ Compare all 29 similar-size cities by change rank
Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref $293,613 (Aug 26) -1.4%
United States ref $200,550 (Aug 26) +2.2%
Berkeley, CA $979,123 (Aug 26) 1st +6.1% 1st 233% above peers
Odessa, TX $172,358 (Aug 26) 24th +5.5% 2nd 41% below peers
Allentown, PA $235,210 (Aug 26) 19th +5.0% 3rd 20% below peers
Independence, MO $156,466 (Aug 26) 25th +4.7% 4th 47% below peers
Rochester, MN $249,868 (Aug 26) 18th +4.2% 5th 15% below peers
Billings, MT $299,452 (Aug 26) 14th +3.4% 6th 2% above peers
Broken Arrow, OK $226,640 (Aug 26) 20th +2.8% 7th 23% below peers
Ann Arbor, MI $346,265 (Aug 26) 11th +1.9% 8th 18% above peers
Lafayette, LA $135,442 (Aug 26) 27th +1.6% 9th 54% below peers
Clovis, CA $400,701 (Aug 26) 9th +1.4% 10th 36% above peers
Cambridge, MA $689,486 (Aug 26) 4th +0.9% 11th 134% above peers
Thousand Oaks, CA $775,327 (Aug 26) 2nd +0.7% 12th 163% above peers
College Station, TX $260,687 (Aug 26) 17th +0.6% 13th 11% below peers
Hartford, CT $108,951 (Aug 26) 28th +0.5% 14th 63% below peers
Pearland, TX $305,575 (Aug 26) 13th -0.2% 15th 4% above peers
High Point, NC $145,426 (Aug 26) 26th -0.2% 16th 51% below peers
Simi Valley, CA $700,965 (Aug 26) 3rd -0.2% 17th 138% above peers
Wilmington, NC $294,307 (Aug 26) 15th -0.4% 18th on par with peers
North Charleston, SC $222,009 (Aug 26) 21st -0.7% 19th 25% below peers
Goodyear, AZ $380,397 (Aug 26) 10th -1.1% 20th 29% above peers
Fairfield, CA $479,655 (Aug 26) 6th -1.4% 21st 63% above peers
Vallejo, CA $420,111 (Aug 26) 8th -1.5% 22nd 43% above peers
New Braunfels, TX $261,219 (Aug 26) 16th -2.0% 23rd 11% below peers
Concord, CA $487,042 (Aug 26) 5th -2.1% 24th 65% above peers
Buckeye, AZ $336,328 (Aug 26) 12th -2.1% 25th 14% above peers
Lakeland, FL $219,972 (Aug 26) 22nd -2.1% 26th 25% below peers
Arvada, CO $472,905 (Aug 26) 7th -2.7% 27th 61% above peers
Topeka, KS $106,242 (Aug 26) 29th -3.4% 28th 64% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL $211,301 (Aug 26) 23rd -3.6% 29th 28% below peers
Zillow Home Value Index through 2026-08 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
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Housing

Homeownership rate

▲ Higher is better No measurable change ★ National leader
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Homeownership changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (77.4% then, 77.7% now; margin ±2.8pp).

Broader trend
37% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Homeownership rose 8.3 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (69.4% to 77.7%).
Bright spot 77.7%
20112024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 67.4% +2.9pp
United States ref 65.2%
Buckeye, AZ 86.0% 1st +10.8pp 1st 44% above peers
North Charleston, SC 49.8% 23rd +5.0pp 2nd 17% below peers
Hartford, CT 25.7% 31st +1.7pp 3rd 57% below peers
Wilmington, NC 47.6% 24th +3.1pp 4th 20% below peers
Allentown, PA 43.2% 27th +2.4pp 5th 28% below peers
Athens, GA 40.7% 28th +2.2pp 6th 32% below peers
High Point, NC 57.8% 18th +3.1pp 7th 3% below peers
New Braunfels, TX 65.3% 10th +3.1pp 8th 9% above peers
Topeka, KS 59.0% 17th +2.7pp 9th 1% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL 50.5% 22nd +1.7pp 10th 15% below peers
Fairfield, CA 61.3% 14th +2.0pp 11th 3% above peers
Vallejo, CA 57.4% 19th +1.9pp 12th 4% below peers
Clovis, CA 65.3% 9th +1.9pp 13th 9% above peers
Concord, CA 61.6% 13th +1.7pp 14th 3% above peers
Billings, MT 64.8% 12th +1.8pp 15th 8% above peers
Berkeley, CA 44.2% 26th +1.2pp 16th 26% below peers
The Woodlands, TX 72.5% 6th +2.0pp 17th 21% above peers
Arvada, CO 75.3% 4th +1.2pp 18th 26% above peers
Lakeland, FL 56.4% 20th +0.8pp 19th 6% below peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 70.8% 8th +0.7pp 20th 18% above peers
Simi Valley, CA 72.9% 5th +0.7pp 21st 22% above peers
Ann Arbor, MI 45.5% 25th +0.3pp 22nd 24% below peers
Goodyear, AZ 77.7% 2nd +0.3pp 23rd 30% above peers
Pearland, TX 76.2% 3rd +0.3pp 24th 28% above peers
Independence, MO 60.9% 15th +0.2pp 25th 2% above peers
Odessa, TX 59.8% 16th +0.1pp 26th on par with peers
Broken Arrow, OK 72.0% 7th -1.6pp 27th 21% above peers
Cambridge, MA 33.5% 30th -1.3pp 28th 44% below peers
Rochester, MN 65.1% 11th -2.7pp 29th 9% above peers
College Station, TX 35.4% 29th -2.3pp 30th 41% below peers
Lafayette, LA 53.1% 21st -3.5pp 31st 11% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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▸ Break down by group Race · ACS 2024
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Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±2.2pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Housing

Typical asking rent

No better direction Rising recently, slower than peers
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Rent rose about 1% over the 12 months ending August 2026, slower than 86% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: rent rose less than 1% a year from 2021 to 2026, slower than 96% of similar-size cities.
Longer view
Rent rose about 8% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: $1,683 in August 2026, up from $1,674 a year earlier.
$1,683
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Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
United States ref $1,948 (Aug 26) +2.5%
Topeka, KS $1,285 (Aug 26) 29th +4.8% 1st 25% below peers
Wilmington, NC $1,706 (Aug 26) 17th +4.3% 2nd 1% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL $2,377 (Aug 26) 7th +3.9% 3rd 38% above peers
Broken Arrow, OK $1,583 (Aug 26) 21st +3.8% 4th 8% below peers
Allentown, PA $1,710 (Aug 26) 16th +3.7% 5th 1% below peers
High Point, NC $1,372 (Aug 26) 27th +3.2% 6th 20% below peers
Billings, MT $1,426 (Aug 26) 24th +3.2% 7th 17% below peers
Berkeley, CA $2,818 (Aug 26) 3rd +3.0% 8th 64% above peers
Hartford, CT $1,600 (Aug 26) 20th +2.9% 9th 7% below peers
Concord, CA $2,572 (Aug 26) 5th +2.8% 10th 49% above peers
Cambridge, MA $3,476 (Aug 26) 1st +2.7% 11th 102% above peers
Clovis, CA $2,349 (Aug 26) 8th +2.7% 12th 36% above peers
Independence, MO $1,385 (Aug 26) 26th +2.6% 13th 20% below peers
North Charleston, SC $1,757 (Aug 26) 14th +2.6% 14th 2% above peers
Vallejo, CA $2,213 (Aug 26) 9th +2.4% 15th 29% above peers
Fairfield, CA $2,389 (Aug 26) 6th +2.1% 16th 39% above peers
Rochester, MN $1,650 (Aug 26) 19th +1.9% 17th 4% below peers
Lakeland, FL $1,722 (Aug 26) 15th +1.7% 18th on par with peers
Thousand Oaks, CA $3,361 (Aug 26) 2nd +1.6% 19th 95% above peers
Simi Valley, CA $2,760 (Aug 26) 4th +1.3% 20th 60% above peers
Ann Arbor, MI $2,086 (Aug 26) 11th +0.8% 21st 21% above peers
Pearland, TX $1,898 (Aug 26) 13th +0.8% 22nd 10% above peers
College Station, TX $1,419 (Aug 26) 25th +0.6% 23rd 18% below peers
Arvada, CO $2,150 (Aug 26) 10th +0.6% 24th 25% above peers
Goodyear, AZ $1,683 (Aug 26) 18th +0.5% 25th 2% below peers
Lafayette, LA $1,329 (Aug 26) 28th +0.3% 26th 23% below peers
New Braunfels, TX $1,570 (Aug 26) 22nd -0.5% 27th 9% below peers
Buckeye, AZ $1,975 (Aug 26) 12th -1.0% 28th 15% above peers
Odessa, TX $1,553 (Aug 26) 23rd -1.3% 29th 10% below peers
Zillow Observed Rent Index through 2026-08 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
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Housing

Housing cost-burdened households

▼ Lower is better Worsening ★ Strong performer
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Cost burden rose 4.3 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 26.6% to 30.9% - more than the combined survey margin (±3.4pp). That is movement in the wrong direction.

Broader trend
30% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction; 3% moved the other way.
Longer view
Cost burden rose 1.4 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (29.4% to 30.9%).
Needs attention 30.9%
20102024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 31.0% +0.3pp
United States ref 32.2% +0.4pp
High Point, NC 32.5% 10th -3.6pp 1st 6% below peers
Wilmington, NC 40.3% 20th -1.7pp 2nd 16% above peers
The Woodlands, TX 25.4% 2nd -0.7pp 3rd 27% below peers
North Charleston, SC 41.8% 23rd -0.9pp 4th 21% above peers
Topeka, KS 28.9% 6th -0.4pp 5th 17% below peers
Simi Valley, CA 40.0% 19th -0.5pp 6th 16% above peers
Billings, MT 29.7% 8th -0.2pp 7th 14% below peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 38.4% 18th -0.1pp 8th 11% above peers
Cambridge, MA 37.1% 17th +0.1pp 9th 7% above peers
Athens, GA 44.0% 26th +0.2pp 10th 27% above peers
Berkeley, CA 43.7% 25th +0.3pp 11th 26% above peers
Clovis, CA 34.0% 13th +0.4pp 12th 2% below peers
Arvada, CO 28.1% 5th +0.6pp 13th 19% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL 46.1% 28th +1.3pp 14th 33% above peers
Allentown, PA 46.7% 29th +1.5pp 15th 35% above peers
Lakeland, FL 34.6% 16th +1.1pp 16th on par with peers
Concord, CA 41.5% 22nd +1.7pp 17th 20% above peers
Hartford, CT 54.5% 31st +3.1pp 18th 57% above peers
Vallejo, CA 45.7% 27th +2.7pp 19th 32% above peers
Buckeye, AZ 27.4% 4th +1.6pp 20th 21% below peers
Lafayette, LA 33.3% 12th +2.4pp 21st 4% below peers
Broken Arrow, OK 24.9% 1st +1.9pp 22nd 28% below peers
College Station, TX 49.8% 30th +3.9pp 23rd 44% above peers
Ann Arbor, MI 41.3% 21st +4.0pp 24th 19% above peers
Rochester, MN 26.9% 3rd +2.8pp 25th 22% below peers
Independence, MO 34.1% 14th +4.5pp 26th 2% below peers
Fairfield, CA 43.1% 24th +6.0pp 27th 24% above peers
Goodyear, AZ 30.9% 9th +4.3pp 28th 11% below peers
New Braunfels, TX 32.9% 11th +5.1pp 29th 5% below peers
Pearland, TX 29.1% 7th +6.5pp 30th 16% below peers
Odessa, TX 34.4% 15th +8.2pp 31st 1% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Rio Rancho, NM down 5.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Joliet, IL down 3.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (tables B25070 + B25091) through 2024 ±2.7pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Housing

Households without a vehicle

▼ Lower is better No measurable change ★ National leader
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

No vehicle changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (1.9% then, 2.0% now; margin ±0.8pp).

Broader trend
17% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
No vehicle fell 1.5 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (3.5% to 2.0%).
Bright spot 2.0%
20102024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 5.4% -0.8pp
United States ref 8.3% -0.3pp
New Braunfels, TX 2.5% 4th -2.1pp 1st 62% below peers
Athens, GA 6.4% 14th -3.3pp 2nd 4% below peers
North Charleston, SC 7.2% 18th -2.4pp 3rd 8% above peers
Simi Valley, CA 2.8% 5th -0.6pp 4th 58% below peers
Billings, MT 5.1% 12th -0.9pp 5th 24% below peers
Wilmington, NC 8.2% 23rd -1.3pp 6th 23% above peers
Lafayette, LA 8.0% 21st -1.2pp 7th 19% above peers
Allentown, PA 16.5% 28th -1.7pp 8th 147% above peers
Lakeland, FL 7.4% 19th -0.7pp 9th 11% above peers
Broken Arrow, OK 2.4% 3rd -0.2pp 10th 64% below peers
Topeka, KS 9.3% 25th -0.6pp 11th 39% above peers
Clovis, CA 4.4% 9th -0.3pp 12th 35% below peers
Vallejo, CA 6.7% 16th -0.2pp 13th on par with peers
Fairfield, CA 4.8% 11th -0.1pp 14th 28% below peers
Concord, CA 6.1% 13th -0.0pp 15th 9% below peers
Ann Arbor, MI 12.8% 27th -0.1pp 16th 91% above peers
Hartford, CT 30.6% 30th +0.9pp 17th 358% above peers
Goodyear, AZ 2.0% 1st +0.1pp 18th 71% below peers
Cambridge, MA 33.2% 31st +1.1pp 19th 396% above peers
Arvada, CO 3.3% 7th +0.1pp 20th 50% below peers
Berkeley, CA 20.7% 29th +0.8pp 21st 210% above peers
High Point, NC 7.7% 20th +0.4pp 22nd 15% above peers
West Palm Beach, FL 9.5% 26th +0.8pp 23rd 42% above peers
Rochester, MN 8.3% 24th +0.8pp 24th 25% above peers
The Woodlands, TX 4.0% 8th +0.4pp 25th 40% below peers
Buckeye, AZ 3.2% 6th +0.4pp 26th 52% below peers
Independence, MO 8.1% 22nd +1.2pp 27th 22% above peers
College Station, TX 6.6% 15th +1.1pp 28th 2% below peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 4.5% 10th +0.9pp 29th 32% below peers
Odessa, TX 7.0% 17th +2.4pp 30th 5% above peers
Pearland, TX 2.3% 2nd +1.0pp 31st 66% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • New Braunfels, TX down 2.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Scottsdale, AZ down 0.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 84% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B08201) through 2024 ±0.6pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Health 3 indicators
Health

People without health insurance

▼ Lower is better Turning down (early signal)
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Uninsured changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (7.1% then, 7.3% now; margin ±1.3pp). The newest releases lean downward: each of the last 3 annual updates moved the 5-year average the same way - an early signal, not a measured change.*

Broader trend
30% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Uninsured fell 3.7 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (11.0% to 7.3%).
Bright spot 7.3%
20132024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 10.5% +0.1pp
United States ref 8.4% -0.4pp
Athens, GA 11.3% 26th -2.2pp 1st 39% above peers
Cambridge, MA 1.7% 1st -0.3pp 2nd 79% below peers
North Charleston, SC 15.4% 30th -2.6pp 3rd 89% above peers
New Braunfels, TX 10.6% 23rd -1.7pp 4th 31% above peers
Clovis, CA 3.8% 4th -0.6pp 5th 53% below peers
Arvada, CO 4.4% 6th -0.6pp 6th 46% below peers
Rochester, MN 3.9% 5th -0.4pp 7th 52% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL 15.2% 29th -1.0pp 8th 87% above peers
Simi Valley, CA 4.6% 7th -0.2pp 9th 44% below peers
Concord, CA 6.2% 10th -0.3pp 10th 24% below peers
Berkeley, CA 2.8% 3rd -0.1pp 11th 65% below peers
Buckeye, AZ 7.4% 14th -0.3pp 12th 9% below peers
Ann Arbor, MI 2.6% 2nd -0.1pp 13th 68% below peers
High Point, NC 10.7% 24th -0.1pp 14th 31% above peers
Pearland, TX 7.5% 15th -0.0pp 15th 8% below peers
Allentown, PA 11.4% 27th +0.1pp 16th 40% above peers
Odessa, TX 18.3% 31st +0.3pp 17th 125% above peers
Broken Arrow, OK 9.8% 18th +0.2pp 18th 21% above peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 4.9% 8th +0.1pp 19th 40% below peers
Goodyear, AZ 7.3% 13th +0.2pp 20th 10% below peers
Wilmington, NC 10.9% 25th +0.6pp 21st 34% above peers
College Station, TX 8.5% 17th +0.5pp 22nd 5% above peers
Lakeland, FL 10.6% 22nd +0.6pp 23rd 31% above peers
The Woodlands, TX 6.9% 12th +0.4pp 24th 15% below peers
Independence, MO 12.6% 28th +1.0pp 25th 55% above peers
Billings, MT 8.1% 16th +1.2pp 26th on par with peers
Hartford, CT 10.6% 21st +1.5pp 27th 30% above peers
Lafayette, LA 10.3% 20th +1.5pp 28th 26% above peers
Topeka, KS 10.2% 19th +1.9pp 29th 25% above peers
Fairfield, CA 5.8% 9th +1.3pp 30th 28% below peers
Vallejo, CA 6.7% 11th +1.5pp 31st 18% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
HealthPeople without health insurance
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▸ Break down by group Race · Age · Sex · ACS 2024
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Downey, CA down 3.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Richmond, CA down 2.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Charleston, SC down 2.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.0pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys *Early signal: consecutive releases agree on direction only; the size of the newest movement is not measurable from overlapping surveys. about this metric
Health

Adult obesity

▼ Lower is better Level only
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Adult obesity is somewhat below the peer median.

32.9%
20202022
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities best first
Place Latest Today's rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 33.5%
United States ref 33.4%
Berkeley, CA 21.1% 1st 39% below peers
Cambridge, MA 22.7% 2nd 34% below peers
Arvada, CO 24.6% 3rd 29% below peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 26.2% 4th 24% below peers
Simi Valley, CA 27.2% 5th 21% below peers
Ann Arbor, MI 28.2% 6th 18% below peers
Concord, CA 29.5% 7th 15% below peers
The Woodlands, TX 30.2% 8th 13% below peers
Fairfield, CA 32.1% 9th 7% below peers
Vallejo, CA 32.2% 10th 7% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL 32.7% 11th 5% below peers
Goodyear, AZ 32.9% 12th 5% below peers
High Point, NC 33.6% 13th 3% below peers
Clovis, CA 34.0% 14th 2% below peers
Billings, MT 34.0% 15th 2% below peers
Wilmington, NC 34.6% 16th on par with peers
Buckeye, AZ 35.1% 17th 1% above peers
College Station, TX 35.1% 18th 1% above peers
Lafayette, LA 35.2% 19th 2% above peers
Rochester, MN 35.7% 20th 3% above peers
North Charleston, SC 35.9% 21st 4% above peers
Athens, GA 36.3% 22nd 5% above peers
Broken Arrow, OK 36.4% 23rd 5% above peers
Pearland, TX 36.8% 24th 6% above peers
New Braunfels, TX 39.1% 25th 13% above peers
Allentown, PA 39.5% 26th 14% above peers
Odessa, TX 39.9% 27th 15% above peers
Independence, MO 40.0% 28th 16% above peers
Lakeland, FL 40.9% 29th 18% above peers
Hartford, CT 41.3% 30th 19% above peers
Topeka, KS 42.0% 31st 21% above peers
CDC PLACES through 2022 modeled tract map about this metric
Health

Children without health insurance

▼ Lower is better Turning down (early signal)
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Child uninsured changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (8.5% then, 6.7% now; margin ±3.2pp). The newest releases lean downward: each of the last 4 annual updates moved the 5-year average the same way - an early signal, not a measured change.*

Broader trend
30% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Child uninsured fell 2.2 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (8.9% to 6.7%).
Needs attention 6.7%
20122024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 8.8% +0.6pp
United States ref 5.5% +0.4pp
Clovis, CA 2.0% 2nd -0.6pp 1st 63% below peers
Goodyear, AZ 6.7% 24th -1.8pp 2nd 22% above peers
Arvada, CO 2.7% 5th -0.6pp 3rd 50% below peers
Buckeye, AZ 5.5% 16th -1.1pp 4th on par with peers
Independence, MO 6.4% 22nd -1.1pp 5th 17% above peers
New Braunfels, TX 6.5% 23rd -1.1pp 6th 19% above peers
The Woodlands, TX 5.0% 13th -0.8pp 7th 9% below peers
Concord, CA 2.8% 6th -0.2pp 8th 48% below peers
College Station, TX 4.8% 12th -0.1pp 9th 11% below peers
Pearland, TX 5.1% 14th +0.1pp 10th 6% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL 10.1% 29th +0.5pp 11th 86% above peers
Berkeley, CA 1.8% 1st +0.2pp 12th 67% below peers
Broken Arrow, OK 7.8% 26th +0.7pp 13th 42% above peers
Odessa, TX 15.4% 31st +1.6pp 14th 183% above peers
Simi Valley, CA 2.3% 3rd +0.2pp 15th 58% below peers
Athens, GA 8.2% 28th +0.9pp 16th 50% above peers
Topeka, KS 5.6% 18th +0.8pp 17th 3% above peers
Lakeland, FL 6.2% 21st +1.0pp 18th 13% above peers
North Charleston, SC 12.1% 30th +2.1pp 19th 122% above peers
Allentown, PA 6.2% 20th +1.2pp 20th 13% above peers
High Point, NC 4.6% 11th +1.1pp 21st 15% below peers
Hartford, CT 5.3% 15th +1.9pp 22nd 3% below peers
Rochester, MN 4.1% 10th +1.7pp 23rd 25% below peers
Lafayette, LA 5.6% 19th +2.6pp 24th 3% above peers
Wilmington, NC 7.8% 27th +3.8pp 25th 43% above peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 3.6% 8th +1.8pp 26th 33% below peers
Vallejo, CA 5.5% 17th +2.8pp 27th 2% above peers
Fairfield, CA 3.8% 9th +2.1pp 28th 30% below peers
Ann Arbor, MI 2.5% 4th +1.4pp 29th 55% below peers
Cambridge, MA 2.8% 7th +1.6pp 30th 48% below peers
Billings, MT 7.3% 25th +4.3pp 31st 34% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Costa Mesa, CA down 4.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Downey, CA down 3.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Riverview, FL down 3.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B27001) through 2024 ±2.5pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys *Early signal: consecutive releases agree on direction only; the size of the newest movement is not measurable from overlapping surveys. about this metric
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Education 3 indicators
Education

Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher

▲ Higher is better Real improvement
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

College attainment rose 4.3 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 31.2% to 35.5% - more than the combined survey margin (±2.4pp).

Broader trend
60% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. Goodyear started among the weakest third of similar-size cities, so some rebound is expected; still, the improvement is sustained and worth investigating.
Longer view
College attainment rose 8.5 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (27.0% to 35.5%).
Bright spot 35.5%
20102024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 33.3% +3.9pp
United States ref 35.7% +3.5pp
Arvada, CO 51.5% 6th +10.4pp 1st 37% above peers
Allentown, PA 19.1% 30th +3.9pp 2nd 49% below peers
North Charleston, SC 28.6% 25th +5.8pp 3rd 24% below peers
Buckeye, AZ 24.9% 27th +4.9pp 4th 34% below peers
Simi Valley, CA 39.1% 14th +5.5pp 5th 4% above peers
Hartford, CT 19.4% 29th +2.5pp 6th 48% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL 39.2% 13th +4.8pp 7th 4% above peers
Goodyear, AZ 35.5% 20th +4.3pp 8th 5% below peers
Lakeland, FL 29.4% 22nd +3.5pp 9th 22% below peers
Wilmington, NC 46.8% 11th +5.3pp 10th 25% above peers
Clovis, CA 36.6% 18th +4.0pp 11th 2% below peers
Independence, MO 21.9% 28th +2.3pp 12th 42% below peers
Vallejo, CA 28.8% 24th +3.0pp 13th 23% below peers
New Braunfels, TX 38.6% 15th +3.8pp 14th 3% above peers
Rochester, MN 50.9% 8th +4.2pp 15th 36% above peers
High Point, NC 34.0% 21st +2.7pp 16th 9% below peers
Broken Arrow, OK 35.7% 19th +2.5pp 17th 5% below peers
Lafayette, LA 41.1% 12th +2.9pp 18th 9% above peers
Athens, GA 47.3% 9th +3.3pp 19th 26% above peers
Billings, MT 36.9% 17th +1.8pp 20th 2% below peers
The Woodlands, TX 66.1% 4th +2.3pp 21st 76% above peers
Concord, CA 37.5% 16th +1.1pp 22nd on par with peers
Odessa, TX 19.0% 31st +0.5pp 23rd 49% below peers
Ann Arbor, MI 77.9% 2nd +1.9pp 24th 108% above peers
Cambridge, MA 80.8% 1st +1.7pp 25th 115% above peers
Berkeley, CA 74.9% 3rd +1.0pp 26th 100% above peers
Topeka, KS 29.0% 23rd +0.4pp 27th 23% below peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 51.4% 7th +0.6pp 28th 37% above peers
Pearland, TX 47.1% 10th -0.0pp 29th 26% above peers
College Station, TX 56.5% 5th -2.1pp 30th 51% above peers
Fairfield, CA 26.6% 26th -1.6pp 31st 29% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EducationAdults with a bachelor's degree or higher
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▸ Break down by group Sex · ACS 2024
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Hialeah, FL up 6.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Ontario, CA up 5.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • East Los Angeles, CA up 2.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.7pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Education

Children ages 3-4 enrolled in preschool

▲ Higher is better Worsening
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Preschool enrollment fell 13.6 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 33.1% to 19.5% - more than the combined survey margin (±9.6pp). That is movement in the wrong direction.

Broader trend
17% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction; 3% moved the other way.
Longer view
Preschool enrollment fell 13.5 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (33.0% to 19.5%).
Needs attention 19.5%
20112024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 35.0% -3.9pp
United States ref 45.5%
Odessa, TX 51.9% 7th +16.0pp 1st 20% above peers
High Point, NC 45.6% 13th +9.4pp 2nd 5% above peers
North Charleston, SC 45.4% 14th +8.8pp 3rd 5% above peers
New Braunfels, TX 42.7% 19th +7.0pp 4th 1% below peers
Allentown, PA 26.5% 29th +4.2pp 5th 39% below peers
Wilmington, NC 50.7% 10th +7.6pp 6th 17% above peers
Topeka, KS 43.3% 16th +4.6pp 7th on par with peers
West Palm Beach, FL 51.0% 9th +2.0pp 8th 18% above peers
Berkeley, CA 78.1% 2nd +3.0pp 9th 81% above peers
Arvada, CO 62.2% 4th +2.0pp 10th 44% above peers
Vallejo, CA 37.9% 23rd +0.4pp 11th 12% below peers
Pearland, TX 46.4% 11th +0.3pp 12th 7% above peers
Clovis, CA 36.9% 24th +0.0pp 13th 15% below peers
Concord, CA 55.5% 5th -1.4pp 14th 28% above peers
Cambridge, MA 78.2% 1st -4.1pp 15th 81% above peers
Hartford, CT 53.3% 6th -4.7pp 16th 23% above peers
Broken Arrow, OK 44.1% 15th -4.1pp 17th 2% above peers
Athens, GA 45.7% 12th -4.5pp 18th 6% above peers
Ann Arbor, MI 64.4% 3rd -8.2pp 19th 49% above peers
Buckeye, AZ 26.4% 30th -4.1pp 20th 39% below peers
Rochester, MN 39.1% 22nd -6.6pp 21st 10% below peers
Independence, MO 29.5% 28th -5.4pp 22nd 32% below peers
College Station, TX 41.6% 20th -8.1pp 23rd 4% below peers
Lafayette, LA 42.8% 17th -8.8pp 24th 1% below peers
Billings, MT 30.5% 27th -9.7pp 25th 29% below peers
Fairfield, CA 33.4% 26th -10.7pp 26th 23% below peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 51.1% 8th -18.7pp 27th 18% above peers
Simi Valley, CA 42.7% 18th -16.1pp 28th 1% below peers
Lakeland, FL 34.1% 25th -20.4pp 29th 21% below peers
Goodyear, AZ 19.5% 31st -13.6pp 30th 55% below peers
The Woodlands, TX 41.0% 21st -31.0pp 31st 5% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EducationChildren ages 3-4 enrolled in preschool
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Nampa, ID up 14.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Edinburg, TX up 13.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Norman, OK up 14.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±7.3pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Education

Teens not in school and not working

▼ Lower is better Real improvement ★ Strong performer
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Disconnected youth fell 7.7 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 11.6% to 3.9% - more than the combined survey margin (±4.4pp).

Broader trend
3% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction; 7% moved the other way. Goodyear started among the weakest third of similar-size cities, so some rebound is expected; still, the improvement is sustained and worth investigating.
Longer view
Disconnected youth fell 6.4 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (10.3% to 3.9%).
Bright spot 3.9%
20102024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 8.2% -0.2pp
United States ref 6.9% +0.3pp
Cambridge, MA 0.2% 1st -0.6pp 1st 96% below peers
Goodyear, AZ 3.9% 8th -7.7pp 2nd 35% below peers
Fairfield, CA 5.4% 14th -4.3pp 3rd 10% below peers
Lakeland, FL 6.0% 16th -2.6pp 4th on par with peers
North Charleston, SC 6.3% 19th -2.6pp 5th 6% above peers
Odessa, TX 4.6% 10th -1.8pp 6th 23% below peers
Topeka, KS 6.3% 20th -2.4pp 7th 6% above peers
Ann Arbor, MI 1.6% 3rd -0.6pp 8th 73% below peers
High Point, NC 5.1% 12th -1.7pp 9th 14% below peers
Hartford, CT 6.2% 17th -2.0pp 10th 4% above peers
Simi Valley, CA 3.8% 7th -0.7pp 11th 37% below peers
Independence, MO 9.2% 27th -1.5pp 12th 54% above peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 2.5% 4th -0.2pp 13th 59% below peers
Clovis, CA 4.6% 9th -0.1pp 14th 23% below peers
Lafayette, LA 9.2% 28th +0.4pp 15th 55% above peers
Wilmington, NC 6.2% 18th +0.3pp 16th 5% above peers
Vallejo, CA 9.1% 26th +1.6pp 17th 52% above peers
New Braunfels, TX 8.4% 24th +1.6pp 18th 42% above peers
Athens, GA 3.2% 5th +0.6pp 19th 46% below peers
Buckeye, AZ 12.8% 30th +2.6pp 20th 116% above peers
Concord, CA 5.1% 13th +1.2pp 21st 14% below peers
Allentown, PA 9.9% 29th +2.9pp 22nd 66% above peers
Arvada, CO 7.0% 21st +2.0pp 23rd 17% above peers
Broken Arrow, OK 7.8% 23rd +2.3pp 24th 32% above peers
Billings, MT 8.9% 25th +3.8pp 25th 49% above peers
College Station, TX 1.3% 2nd +0.6pp 26th 78% below peers
Rochester, MN 7.4% 22nd +3.4pp 27th 25% above peers
Pearland, TX 4.9% 11th +2.7pp 28th 17% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL 13.6% 31st +8.4pp 29th 129% above peers
Berkeley, CA 3.5% 6th +2.4pp 30th 41% below peers
The Woodlands, TX 5.7% 15th +4.5pp 31st 5% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EducationTeens not in school and not working
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Avondale, AZ down 6.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Arlington, VA down 5.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 96% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Manchester, NH down 5.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 96% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B14005) through 2024 ±2.1pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Demographics 4 indicators
Demographics

Population

No better direction Rising
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Population rose about 34% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 80,371 to 107,645 - more than the combined survey margin (±108).

Broader trend
73% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction; 27% moved the other way.
Longer view
Population rose about 53% from 2014 to 2024 (70,148 to 107,645).
Big move 107,645
20102024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Buckeye, AZ 104,923 30th +50% 1st 14% below peers
Goodyear, AZ 107,645 29th +34% 2nd 12% below peers
New Braunfels, TX 104,643 31st +32% 3rd 14% below peers
Clovis, CA 124,725 7th +14% 4th 2% above peers
West Palm Beach, FL 122,290 13th +11% 5th on par with peers
Lakeland, FL 119,961 22nd +11% 6th 1% below peers
College Station, TX 124,570 8th +10% 7th 2% above peers
Billings, MT 119,434 24th +9% 8th 2% below peers
Broken Arrow, OK 118,180 26th +9% 9th 3% below peers
North Charleston, SC 119,913 23rd +8% 10th 1% below peers
The Woodlands, TX 121,002 18th +6% 11th 1% below peers
Rochester, MN 122,330 12th +6% 12th 1% above peers
Fairfield, CA 120,785 20th +5% 13th 1% below peers
Pearland, TX 127,514 1st +4% 14th 5% above peers
Allentown, PA 125,976 3rd +4% 15th 4% above peers
High Point, NC 116,245 27th +4% 16th 4% below peers
Independence, MO 121,740 15th +4% 17th on par with peers
Arvada, CO 122,634 11th +3% 18th 1% above peers
Vallejo, CA 124,268 9th +2% 19th 2% above peers
Athens, GA 127,345 2nd +2% 20th 5% above peers
Cambridge, MA 118,796 25th +2% 21st 2% below peers
Ann Arbor, MI 122,036 14th +1% 22nd on par with peers
Wilmington, NC 120,805 19th +1% 23rd 1% below peers
Simi Valley, CA 125,634 5th -0% 24th 3% above peers
Topeka, KS 125,786 4th -0% 25th 3% above peers
Berkeley, CA 120,257 21st -1% 26th 1% below peers
Hartford, CT 121,127 17th -2% 27th on par with peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 125,205 6th -2% 28th 3% above peers
Odessa, TX 115,322 28th -4% 29th 5% below peers
Lafayette, LA 121,715 16th -4% 30th on par with peers
Concord, CA 124,035 10th -4% 31st 2% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: blue tracts rose, orange tracts fell. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
DemographicsPopulation
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Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±89 at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Demographics

Children's share of the population

No better direction Falling
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Children fell 2.5 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 24.5% to 22.0% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.8pp).

Broader trend
40% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction.
Longer view
Children fell 3.6 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (25.5% to 22.0%).
Big move 22.0%
20172024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 21.6% -1.6pp
United States ref 21.9% -0.7pp
College Station, TX 16.9% 26th +0.6pp 1st 23% below peers
Concord, CA 21.3% 18th +0.7pp 2nd 3% below peers
Clovis, CA 28.6% 2nd +0.9pp 3rd 30% above peers
Odessa, TX 29.4% 1st +0.4pp 4th 34% above peers
The Woodlands, TX 27.9% 3rd +0.4pp 5th 27% above peers
Berkeley, CA 12.7% 29th +0.2pp 6th 42% below peers
Cambridge, MA 12.4% 31st +0.1pp 7th 44% below peers
Lafayette, LA 20.9% 19th -0.0pp 8th 5% below peers
Independence, MO 22.8% 11th -0.2pp 9th 4% above peers
Lakeland, FL 19.0% 24th -0.3pp 10th 13% below peers
Broken Arrow, OK 25.3% 6th -0.5pp 11th 15% above peers
Topeka, KS 22.4% 13th -0.5pp 12th 2% above peers
Ann Arbor, MI 12.4% 30th -0.3pp 13th 43% below peers
Buckeye, AZ 27.2% 4th -0.8pp 14th 24% above peers
Rochester, MN 23.3% 10th -0.7pp 15th 6% above peers
Vallejo, CA 20.0% 20th -0.7pp 16th 9% below peers
Hartford, CT 22.7% 12th -0.8pp 17th 4% above peers
Pearland, TX 26.7% 5th -1.0pp 18th 21% above peers
West Palm Beach, FL 17.7% 25th -0.7pp 19th 19% below peers
Athens, GA 16.6% 27th -0.7pp 20th 24% below peers
Billings, MT 22.0% 15th -1.0pp 21st on par with peers
Fairfield, CA 24.1% 8th -1.3pp 22nd 10% above peers
Arvada, CO 19.6% 21st -1.3pp 23rd 11% below peers
New Braunfels, TX 23.5% 9th -1.7pp 24th 7% above peers
Allentown, PA 24.4% 7th -2.0pp 25th 11% above peers
Wilmington, NC 16.4% 28th -1.4pp 26th 25% below peers
High Point, NC 22.0% 14th -2.1pp 27th on par with peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 19.5% 22nd -2.1pp 28th 11% below peers
Simi Valley, CA 19.5% 23rd -2.1pp 29th 11% below peers
Goodyear, AZ 22.0% 16th -2.5pp 30th on par with peers
North Charleston, SC 21.9% 17th -2.7pp 31st on par with peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: blue tracts rose, orange tracts fell. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
DemographicsChildren's share of the population
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Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.5pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Demographics

Children in single-parent families

No better direction No measurable change
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Single-parent changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (18.8% then, 23.3% now; margin ±6.8pp).

Broader trend
23% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Single-parent fell 2.2 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (25.5% to 23.3%).
23.3%
20102024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 31.4% -0.6pp
United States ref 29.9% -0.2pp
Pearland, TX 18.2% 29th +7.3pp 1st 36% below peers
College Station, TX 28.5% 15th +6.8pp 2nd 1% above peers
West Palm Beach, FL 55.1% 3rd +11.6pp 3rd 95% above peers
Goodyear, AZ 23.3% 20th +4.5pp 4th 18% below peers
Topeka, KS 41.0% 7th +6.3pp 5th 45% above peers
Athens, GA 47.8% 4th +4.6pp 6th 69% above peers
Billings, MT 29.5% 14th +1.8pp 7th 4% above peers
New Braunfels, TX 26.6% 18th +1.0pp 8th 6% below peers
Allentown, PA 59.1% 2nd +1.6pp 9th 109% above peers
Ann Arbor, MI 20.1% 26th +0.4pp 10th 29% below peers
Broken Arrow, OK 24.7% 19th +0.4pp 11th 13% below peers
Buckeye, AZ 20.2% 25th +0.1pp 12th 29% below peers
Lakeland, FL 37.9% 9th -0.5pp 13th 34% above peers
Arvada, CO 20.3% 24th -0.4pp 14th 28% below peers
Simi Valley, CA 19.2% 27th -0.4pp 15th 32% below peers
Lafayette, LA 42.7% 5th -0.9pp 16th 51% above peers
Independence, MO 40.5% 8th -1.0pp 17th 43% above peers
Concord, CA 22.3% 21st -1.3pp 18th 21% below peers
Fairfield, CA 27.5% 17th -2.1pp 19th 3% below peers
The Woodlands, TX 9.9% 31st -1.1pp 20th 65% below peers
Hartford, CT 61.9% 1st -6.7pp 21st 119% above peers
North Charleston, SC 42.5% 6th -4.7pp 22nd 50% above peers
Rochester, MN 21.6% 22nd -2.4pp 23rd 23% below peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 14.1% 30th -1.8pp 24th 50% below peers
Clovis, CA 28.3% 16th -3.7pp 25th on par with peers
Cambridge, MA 21.6% 23rd -2.8pp 26th 24% below peers
Odessa, TX 30.0% 13th -4.1pp 27th 6% above peers
Vallejo, CA 37.0% 10th -5.5pp 28th 31% above peers
Berkeley, CA 19.1% 28th -3.8pp 29th 32% below peers
Wilmington, NC 35.3% 11th -7.4pp 30th 25% above peers
High Point, NC 33.9% 12th -8.6pp 31st 20% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: blue tracts rose, orange tracts fell. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
DemographicsChildren in single-parent families
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Census ACS 5-year survey (table B09002) through 2024 ±5.8pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Demographics

Young children with all parents in the labor force

No better direction No measurable change
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Working parents changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (61.9% then, 64.3% now; margin ±10.9pp).

Broader trend
10% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Working parents rose 2.8 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (61.5% to 64.3%).
Big move 64.3%
20102024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Arizona ref 64.7% +3.0pp
United States ref 68.1% +1.9pp
College Station, TX 72.8% 10th +18.0pp 1st 5% above peers
The Woodlands, TX 57.6% 30th +13.0pp 2nd 17% below peers
West Palm Beach, FL 74.8% 8th +9.8pp 3rd 8% above peers
Simi Valley, CA 76.4% 4th +9.7pp 4th 10% above peers
Concord, CA 70.8% 14th +9.0pp 5th 2% above peers
Billings, MT 77.7% 1st +7.4pp 6th 12% above peers
Hartford, CT 76.7% 3rd +4.8pp 7th 11% above peers
Arvada, CO 74.1% 9th +3.4pp 8th 7% above peers
Independence, MO 67.3% 19th +3.0pp 9th 3% below peers
Allentown, PA 76.0% 5th +3.3pp 10th 10% above peers
New Braunfels, TX 72.0% 11th +3.0pp 11th 4% above peers
Goodyear, AZ 64.3% 25th +2.5pp 12th 7% below peers
Lakeland, FL 68.8% 18th +2.6pp 13th 1% below peers
Thousand Oaks, CA 66.9% 21st +1.9pp 14th 3% below peers
Ann Arbor, MI 64.9% 24th +1.6pp 15th 6% below peers
High Point, NC 69.2% 16th +1.5pp 16th on par with peers
Broken Arrow, OK 65.7% 22nd +1.3pp 17th 5% below peers
Topeka, KS 77.2% 2nd +1.5pp 18th 12% above peers
Clovis, CA 69.0% 17th +1.2pp 19th on par with peers
Vallejo, CA 71.1% 13th +1.2pp 20th 3% above peers
Rochester, MN 75.4% 7th +0.2pp 21st 9% above peers
Berkeley, CA 75.9% 6th +0.0pp 22nd 10% above peers
Athens, GA 62.7% 27th -0.2pp 23rd 9% below peers
Pearland, TX 71.1% 12th -0.9pp 24th 3% above peers
Lafayette, LA 65.6% 23rd -2.2pp 25th 5% below peers
North Charleston, SC 69.9% 15th -3.4pp 26th 1% above peers
Odessa, TX 58.8% 28th -3.3pp 27th 15% below peers
Fairfield, CA 58.8% 29th -3.7pp 28th 15% below peers
Cambridge, MA 67.1% 20th -5.9pp 29th 3% below peers
Wilmington, NC 63.5% 26th -5.7pp 30th 8% below peers
Buckeye, AZ 57.6% 31st -8.4pp 31st 17% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 23 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: blue tracts rose, orange tracts fell. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
DemographicsYoung children with all parents in the labor force
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Census ACS 5-year survey (table B23008) through 2024 ±7.4pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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