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Chula Vista, CA
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Chula Vista, CA

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276,375 people (2024) 250k-1m West

Bright spots 14 indicators

Where Chula Vista, CA shows a real improvement in recent years, or stands clearly ahead of its peers. How this is calculated →
Household income
Median household income
$108,032
2020-24
▲ 33%
relative change
$81,272 in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Vehicle theft
Motor vehicle theft rate
206 /100k
May 2026
▼ 23%
relative change
268 a year earlier
Ahead of peers and dropping Leading peers
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Uninsured
People without health insurance
6.2%
2020-24
▼ 15%
relative change
7.3% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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College attainment
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher
33.2%
2020-24
▲ 13%
relative change
29.4% in 2019
Real improvement Trailing peers
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Broadband
Households with a broadband internet subscription
94.8%
2020-24
▲ 7%
relative change
88.7% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Unemployment
Unemployment rate
4.2%
May 2026
▼ 5%
relative change
4.4% a year earlier
Holding up better than peers Trailing peers
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Child poverty
Share of children below the poverty level
10.0%
2020-24
▼ 11%
relative change
11.2% in 2019
Turning down (early signal) Leading peers
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Poverty
Share of people below the poverty level
8.7%
2020-24
▼ 9%
relative change
9.6% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Inequality
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.42
2020-24
▲ <1%
relative change
0.42 in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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No vehicle
Households without a vehicle
4.5%
2020-24
▼ 3%
relative change
4.7% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Child uninsured
Children without health insurance
3.6%
2020-24
flat
relative change
3.6% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Preschool enrollment
Children ages 3-4 enrolled in preschool
51.1%
2020-24
▲ 9%
relative change
46.8% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Disconnected youth
Teens not in school and not working
4.9%
2020-24
▼ 1%
relative change
5.0% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Homeownership
Homeownership rate
59.8%
2020-24
▲ 1%
relative change
59.1% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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What needs attention 4 indicators

Where Chula Vista, CA shows a real worsening in recent years, or trails its peers clearly. How this is calculated →
SNAP
Households receiving SNAP
10.6%
2019-23
▲ 23%
relative change
8.6% in 2018
Worsening Leading peers
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Cost burden
Housing cost-burdened households
44.9%
2020-24
▲ 2%
relative change
43.9% in 2019
Turning up (early signal) Trailing peers
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Property crime
Property crime rate
1,089 /100k
May 2026
▲ 2%
relative change
1,068 a year earlier
Rising, the wrong way Leading peers
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Homicide
Homicide rate
2 /100k
May 2026
▲ 20%
relative change
2 a year earlier
Rising, the wrong way Leading peers
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Big shifts 7 indicators

Real moves and big gaps, where neither direction is simply good or bad. Biggest relative change first; big-gap cards come last. How this is calculated →
Population
276,375
2020-24
▲ 3%
relative change
268,920 in 2019
Rising Among the lowest of peers
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Starter homes
Starter home value (bottom tier)
$651,215
Jun 2026
▼ <1%
relative change
$656,535 a year earlier
Falling recently Among the highest of peers
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Home value
Typical home value
$849,516
Jun 2026
flat
relative change
$852,199 a year earlier
Rising Among the highest of peers
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Rent
Typical asking rent
$3,008
Jun 2026
flat
relative change
$3,000 a year earlier
Rising Among the highest of peers
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Single-parent
Children in single-parent families
23.6%
2020-24
▼ 12%
relative change
26.9% in 2019
No measurable change Among the lowest of peers
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Children
Children's share of the population
24.5%
2020-24
▼ 3%
relative change
25.3% in 2019
No measurable change Among the highest of peers
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Working parents
Young children with all parents in the labor force
71.4%
2020-24
▲ 8%
relative change
66.0% in 2019
No measurable change Among the highest of peers
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All indicators

Public Safety
Public Safety

Violent crime rate

▼ Lower is better Improving recently
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Violent crime fell about 9% over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 52% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: violent crime rose about 1% a year from 2021 to 2026. That is movement in the wrong direction.
Longer view: violent crime rose about 3% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 348 in May 2026, down from 381 a year earlier.
348 per 100k
2018May 2026
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▸ Compare all 28 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).
Place Latestper 100k Today's rank Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 456 (Apr 26) -9.3%
Glendale, AZ 360 (May 26) 14th -26.7% 1st 12% below peers
Garland, TX 185 (Apr 26) 6th -23.2% 2nd 55% below peers
Toledo, OH 849 (Mar 26) 27th -20.9% 3rd 107% above peers
Greensboro, NC 724 (Oct 25) 24th -19.6% 4th 77% above peers
Lubbock, TX 634 (Mar 26) 22nd -19.2% 5th 55% above peers
Newark, NJ 454 (May 26) 16th -18.6% 6th 11% above peers
Jersey City, NJ 466 (May 26) 17th -15.2% 7th 14% above peers
Laredo, TX 299 (May 26) 10th -14.3% 8th 27% below peers
Madison, WI 222 (May 26) 7th -11.6% 9th 46% below peers
Fort Wayne, IN 266 (May 26) 9th -10.8% 10th 35% below peers
Durham, NC 517 (May 26) 20th -9.9% 11th 26% above peers
Saint Paul, MN 501 (May 26) 18th -9.1% 12th 22% above peers
Gilbert, AZ 116 (May 26) 2nd -8.6% 13th 72% below peers
Chula Vista, CA 348 (May 26) 12th -8.6% 14th 15% below peers
Irving, TX 251 (May 26) 8th -8.1% 15th 39% below peers
St. Louis, MO 1,231 (May 26) 28th -5.9% 16th 200% above peers
Winston-Salem, NC 770 (Mar 26) 25th -5.5% 17th 88% above peers
Plano, TX 144 (May 26) 4th -2.6% 18th 65% below peers
Pittsburgh, PA 509 (May 26) 19th -2.1% 19th 24% above peers
Chesapeake, VA 326 (May 26) 11th -0.8% 20th 20% below peers
Cincinnati, OH 835 (May 26) 26th +0.0% 21st 104% above peers
Irvine, CA 77 (May 26) 1st +0.8% 22nd 81% below peers
Chandler, AZ 124 (May 26) 3rd +2.4% 23rd 70% below peers
Scottsdale, AZ 175 (May 26) 5th +8.0% 24th 57% below peers
Lincoln, NE 410 (May 26) 15th +8.1% 25th on par with peers
Buffalo, NY 697 (May 26) 23rd +8.9% 26th 70% above peers
Reno, NV 534 (Mar 26) 21st +9.4% 27th 30% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV 360 (Apr 26) 13th +12.6% 28th 12% below peers
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Peers worth a call

3
Cities of similar size (250k-1m) 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 →
  • Las Vegas, NV down about 22% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 8% a year · 2021-2026
  • Fort Worth, TX down about 20% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 6% a year · 2021-2026
  • Miami, FL down about 20% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 6% a year · 2021-2026
Real-Time Crime Index through 2026-04 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
Public Safety

Property crime rate

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

Property crime rose about 2% over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 96% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: property crime fell about 2% a year from 2021 to 2026, slower than 63% of similar-size cities. The change does not yet pass the noise and consistency checks, so treat it as a raw signal.
Longer view: property crime fell about 2% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 1,089 in May 2026, up from 1,068 a year earlier.
1,089 per 100k
2018May 2026
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▸ Compare all 28 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).
Place Latestper 100k Today's rank Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 1,987 (Apr 26) -12.2%
Irvine, CA 996 (May 26) 2nd -26.2% 1st 45% below peers
Irving, TX 1,615 (May 26) 11th -21.7% 2nd 11% below peers
Laredo, TX 1,056 (May 26) 3rd -19.9% 3rd 42% below peers
Fort Wayne, IN 1,694 (May 26) 14th -18.4% 4th 7% below peers
Greensboro, NC 2,832 (Oct 25) 21st -18.1% 5th 56% above peers
Newark, NJ 1,608 (May 26) 10th -17.3% 6th 11% below peers
Plano, TX 1,133 (May 26) 5th -17.2% 7th 38% below peers
Chandler, AZ 1,165 (May 26) 6th -16.7% 8th 36% below peers
Lincoln, NE 1,815 (May 26) 15th -15.9% 9th on par with peers
Jersey City, NJ 1,663 (May 26) 12th -14.6% 10th 8% below peers
Glendale, AZ 2,150 (May 26) 18th -14.2% 11th 18% above peers
Reno, NV 2,073 (Mar 26) 17th -13.7% 12th 14% above peers
Chesapeake, VA 1,447 (May 26) 7th -13.6% 13th 20% below peers
Garland, TX 1,605 (Apr 26) 9th -11.4% 14th 12% below peers
Lubbock, TX 2,289 (Mar 26) 19th -10.8% 15th 26% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV 1,576 (Apr 26) 8th -9.2% 16th 13% below peers
Gilbert, AZ 844 (May 26) 1st -9.0% 17th 53% below peers
St. Louis, MO 5,018 (May 26) 28th -7.8% 18th 177% above peers
Toledo, OH 2,628 (Mar 26) 20th -6.9% 19th 45% above peers
Pittsburgh, PA 2,861 (May 26) 23rd -6.8% 20th 58% above peers
Winston-Salem, NC 2,863 (Mar 26) 24th -6.4% 21st 58% above peers
Scottsdale, AZ 1,672 (May 26) 13th -5.8% 22nd 8% below peers
Madison, WI 1,900 (May 26) 16th -5.8% 23rd 5% above peers
Cincinnati, OH 3,695 (May 26) 27th -5.7% 24th 104% above peers
Durham, NC 3,580 (May 26) 26th -4.7% 25th 97% above peers
Buffalo, NY 3,423 (May 26) 25th +1.3% 26th 89% above peers
Chula Vista, CA 1,089 (May 26) 4th +1.9% 27th 40% below peers
Saint Paul, MN 2,832 (May 26) 22nd +4.8% 28th 56% above peers
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Peers worth a call

3
Cities of similar size (250k-1m) 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 →
  • Plano, TX down about 17% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 8% a year · 2021-2026
  • Chandler, AZ down about 17% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 8% a year · 2021-2026
  • Madison, WI down about 6% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 4% a year · 2021-2026
Real-Time Crime Index through 2026-04 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
Public Safety

Homicide rate

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

Homicide rose about 20% over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 81% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: homicide fell about 11% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 67% 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 10% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 2 in May 2026, up from 2 a year earlier.
2 per 100k
2018May 2026
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▸ Compare all 28 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).
Place Latestper 100k Today's rank Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 6 (Apr 26) -17.8%
Irvine, CA 0 (May 26) 1st -100.0% 1st 100% below peers
Reno, NV 1 (Mar 26) 4th -85.0% 2nd 64% below peers
North Las Vegas, NV 2 (Apr 26) 9th -77.8% 3rd 33% below peers
Irving, TX 2 (May 26) 7th -73.3% 4th 47% below peers
Lubbock, TX 3 (Mar 26) 13th -56.2% 5th 14% below peers
Glendale, AZ 3 (May 26) 14th -56.2% 6th 9% below peers
Laredo, TX 2 (May 26) 6th -55.7% 7th 48% below peers
Plano, TX 0 (May 26) 2nd -51.0% 8th 89% below peers
Lincoln, NE 1 (May 26) 3rd -50.0% 9th 66% below peers
Buffalo, NY 8 (May 26) 20th -41.7% 10th 158% above peers
Garland, TX 2 (Apr 26) 11th -39.9% 11th 19% below peers
Greensboro, NC 10 (Oct 25) 23rd -34.7% 12th 249% above peers
Newark, NJ 8 (May 26) 19th -25.0% 13th 155% above peers
Saint Paul, MN 5 (May 26) 18th -23.9% 14th 76% above peers
Cincinnati, OH 17 (May 26) 27th -15.7% 15th 479% above peers
Toledo, OH 8 (Mar 26) 21st -12.5% 16th 169% above peers
Durham, NC 10 (May 26) 22nd -9.0% 17th 242% above peers
Fort Wayne, IN 11 (May 26) 24th -6.1% 18th 281% above peers
Madison, WI 2 (May 26) 12th +0.0% 19th 18% below peers
Jersey City, NJ 3 (May 26) 15th +0.0% 20th on par with peers
St. Louis, MO 51 (May 26) 28th +2.9% 21st 1639% above peers
Winston-Salem, NC 11 (Mar 26) 25th +11.6% 22nd 282% above peers
Chula Vista, CA 2 (May 26) 10th +20.1% 23rd 27% below peers
Scottsdale, AZ 2 (May 26) 8th +33.9% 24th 45% below peers
Pittsburgh, PA 12 (May 26) 26th +37.0% 25th 309% above peers
Chesapeake, VA 5 (May 26) 17th +44.6% 26th 72% above peers
Chandler, AZ 1 (May 26) 5th +100.4% 27th 52% below peers
Gilbert, AZ 3 (May 26) 16th +899.1% 28th 15% above peers
Real-Time Crime Index through 2026-04 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
Public Safety

Motor vehicle theft rate

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

Vehicle theft fell about 23% over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 67% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: vehicle theft fell about 5% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 67% of similar-size cities. The change does not yet pass the noise and consistency checks, so treat it as a raw signal.
Longer view: vehicle theft rose about 4% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 206 in May 2026, down from 268 a year earlier.
206 per 100k
2018May 2026
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▸ Compare all 28 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).
Place Latestper 100k Today's rank Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 303 (Apr 26) -22.2%
Plano, TX 67 (May 26) 3rd -45.2% 1st 73% below peers
Glendale, AZ 246 (May 26) 14th -37.4% 2nd 1% below peers
Irving, TX 242 (May 26) 13th -32.6% 3rd 3% below peers
Cincinnati, OH 660 (May 26) 27th -28.2% 4th 164% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV 465 (Apr 26) 23rd -27.5% 5th 86% above peers
Newark, NJ 607 (May 26) 26th -27.0% 6th 143% above peers
Laredo, TX 114 (May 26) 7th -26.2% 7th 54% below peers
Garland, TX 250 (Apr 26) 15th -25.7% 8th on par with peers
Reno, NV 260 (Mar 26) 16th -23.7% 9th 4% above peers
Chula Vista, CA 206 (May 26) 11th -23.2% 10th 18% below peers
Fort Wayne, IN 166 (May 26) 9th -22.9% 11th 33% below peers
Durham, NC 465 (May 26) 24th -22.3% 12th 86% above peers
Lincoln, NE 207 (May 26) 12th -21.7% 13th 17% below peers
Lubbock, TX 199 (Mar 26) 10th -21.2% 14th 20% below peers
Chandler, AZ 72 (May 26) 4th -20.2% 15th 71% below peers
Buffalo, NY 410 (May 26) 20th -17.9% 16th 64% above peers
Irvine, CA 51 (May 26) 1st -17.6% 17th 80% below peers
Chesapeake, VA 88 (May 26) 5th -16.0% 18th 65% below peers
Greensboro, NC 477 (Oct 25) 25th -14.8% 19th 91% above peers
Scottsdale, AZ 116 (May 26) 8th -14.1% 20th 54% below peers
Gilbert, AZ 51 (May 26) 2nd -10.7% 21st 80% below peers
Pittsburgh, PA 385 (May 26) 19th -7.1% 22nd 54% above peers
St. Louis, MO 1,186 (May 26) 28th -6.9% 23rd 375% above peers
Madison, WI 108 (May 26) 6th -5.8% 24th 57% below peers
Winston-Salem, NC 338 (Mar 26) 18th -5.2% 25th 35% above peers
Saint Paul, MN 424 (May 26) 21st -1.1% 26th 70% above peers
Toledo, OH 432 (Mar 26) 22nd -0.7% 27th 73% above peers
Jersey City, NJ 277 (May 26) 17th +2.3% 28th 11% above peers
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (250k-1m) 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 →
  • Lubbock, TX down about 21% over the 12 months ending March 2026 · sustained: down about 8% a year · 2020-2025
  • Anaheim, CA down about 16% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 11% a year · 2021-2026
Real-Time Crime Index through 2026-04 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
See all Public Safety data →
Economy
Economy

Median household income

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

Household income rose about 33% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from $81,272 to $108,032 (each survey's own dollars, not adjusted for inflation) - more than the combined survey margin (±$3,361). 29 of the 29 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. It started among the stronger third of similar-size cities and kept improving; worth investigating.

Improving beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 29 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: household income rose about 63% from 2014 to 2024 ($66,110 to $108,032).
$108,032
20102024
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▸ Compare all 30 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
California ref $99,122 +32%
United States ref $80,734 +28%
Newark, NJ $52,060 28th +48% 1st 32% below peers
Durham, NC $81,619 11th +39% 2nd 7% above peers
Jersey City, NJ $97,710 8th +38% 3rd 28% above peers
Reno, NV $80,760 12th +37% 4th 6% above peers
Pittsburgh, PA $65,742 20th +35% 5th 14% below peers
Laredo, TX $63,915 21st +34% 6th 16% below peers
Buffalo, NY $50,041 29th +34% 7th 34% below peers
Glendale, AZ $73,530 17th +34% 8th 4% below peers
North Las Vegas, NV $79,542 13th +33% 9th 4% above peers
Chula Vista, CA $108,032 6th +33% 10th 42% above peers
St. Petersburg, FL $75,192 16th +32% 11th 1% below peers
Toledo, OH $49,724 30th +32% 12th 35% below peers
Chandler, AZ $108,095 5th +30% 13th 42% above peers
Cincinnati, OH $52,909 27th +30% 14th 31% below peers
Irvine, CA $136,719 1st +30% 15th 79% above peers
Winston-Salem, NC $59,268 25th +30% 16th 22% below peers
St. Louis, MO $56,160 26th +28% 17th 26% below peers
Saint Paul, MN $73,394 18th +27% 18th 4% below peers
Gilbert, AZ $122,551 2nd +27% 19th 61% above peers
Irving, TX $81,830 10th +26% 20th 7% above peers
Scottsdale, AZ $110,886 4th +26% 21st 45% above peers
Greensboro, NC $61,515 22nd +26% 22nd 19% below peers
Garland, TX $76,320 15th +25% 23rd on par with peers
Lincoln, NE $71,867 19th +24% 24th 6% below peers
Fort Wayne, IN $61,422 23rd +24% 25th 20% below peers
Anchorage municipality, AK $103,284 7th +22% 26th 35% above peers
Chesapeake, VA $95,373 9th +21% 27th 25% above peers
Lubbock, TX $60,895 24th +21% 28th 20% below peers
Madison, WI $78,050 14th +19% 29th 2% above peers
Plano, TX $112,253 3rd +17% 30th 47% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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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15 of 52 tracts cover a shorter window (dashed outline; mostly 2020 boundary changes). 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 (250k-1m) 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 Ana, CA up about 42% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 94% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Jersey City, NJ up about 38% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 84% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Denver, CO up about 38% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 83% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±$2,863 at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Unemployment rate

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

Unemployment rose about 0.4 percentage points a year from 2022 to 2025. That is movement in the wrong direction.

Worsening faster than 69% of similar-size cities over 2022-2025.
Longer view: unemployment fell less than 0.1 percentage points a year from 2015 to 2025.
Most recent monthly reading: 4.2% in May 2026, down from 4.4% a year earlier.
4.2%
1990May 2026
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▸ Compare all 30 similar-size cities by change rank
Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
California ref 5.3% (May 26) -0.2pp
United States ref 4.2% (Jun 26) +0.1pp
Toledo, OH 4.4% (May 26) 26th -1.8pp 1st 10% above peers
Cincinnati, OH 3.0% (May 26) 3rd -1.7pp 2nd 25% below peers
Newark, NJ 6.3% (May 26) 30th -1.2pp 3rd 57% above peers
Jersey City, NJ 4.0% (May 26) 16th -0.9pp 4th on par with peers
St. Louis, MO 4.0% (May 26) 17th -0.5pp 5th on par with peers
Fort Wayne, IN 3.1% (May 26) 4th -0.4pp 6th 22% below peers
Winston-Salem, NC 3.9% (May 26) 14th -0.3pp 7th 3% below peers
Greensboro, NC 4.0% (May 26) 18th -0.3pp 8th on par with peers
Chula Vista, CA 4.2% (May 26) 23rd -0.2pp 9th 5% above peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 3.5% (May 26) 6th -0.2pp 10th 12% below peers
Irvine, CA 3.5% (May 26) 7th -0.2pp 11th 12% below peers
Lincoln, NE 2.6% (May 26) 2nd -0.2pp 12th 35% below peers
Reno, NV 4.1% (May 26) 22nd -0.1pp 13th 2% above peers
Madison, WI 2.5% (May 26) 1st -0.1pp 14th 38% below peers
Durham, NC 3.2% (May 26) 5th -0.1pp 15th 20% below peers
Laredo, TX 4.5% (May 26) 27th -0.1pp 16th 12% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV 5.7% (May 26) 29th +0.0pp 17th 43% above peers
Plano, TX 3.9% (May 26) 15th +0.2pp 18th 3% below peers
Irving, TX 3.8% (May 26) 13th +0.3pp 19th 5% below peers
Glendale, AZ 4.3% (May 26) 25th +0.3pp 20th 7% above peers
Garland, TX 4.0% (May 26) 19th +0.3pp 21st on par with peers
Chandler, AZ 3.7% (May 26) 11th +0.3pp 22nd 7% below peers
Lubbock, TX 3.6% (May 26) 8th +0.3pp 23rd 10% below peers
Gilbert, AZ 3.6% (May 26) 9th +0.4pp 24th 10% below peers
Chesapeake, VA 3.6% (May 26) 10th +0.4pp 25th 10% below peers
Scottsdale, AZ 3.7% (May 26) 12th +0.4pp 26th 7% below peers
Saint Paul, MN 4.2% (May 26) 24th +0.6pp 27th 5% above peers
St. Petersburg, FL 4.0% (May 26) 20th +0.7pp 28th on par with peers
Pittsburgh, PA 4.0% (May 26) 21st +0.7pp 29th on par with peers
Buffalo, NY 5.3% (May 26) 28th +0.8pp 30th 32% above peers
BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics through 2025 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
Economy

Share of people below the poverty level

▼ Lower is better No measurable change
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Poverty changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (9.6% then, 8.7% now; margin ±1.1pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 11 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: poverty fell 3.3 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (12.0% to 8.7%).
8.7%
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
California ref 11.8% -1.3pp
United States ref 12.0%
Durham, NC 11.3% 10th -4.0pp 1st 24% below peers
Laredo, TX 20.6% 26th -5.7pp 2nd 39% above peers
Irvine, CA 10.3% 8th -2.6pp 3rd 30% below peers
Saint Paul, MN 15.2% 17th -3.2pp 4th 2% above peers
Glendale, AZ 14.8% 16th -3.1pp 5th on par with peers
Winston-Salem, NC 17.0% 22nd -2.8pp 6th 15% above peers
Newark, NJ 22.6% 27th -3.7pp 7th 52% above peers
Buffalo, NY 25.3% 30th -3.8pp 8th 71% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV 12.0% 11th -1.6pp 9th 19% below peers
Irving, TX 10.9% 9th -1.2pp 10th 26% below peers
Chula Vista, CA 8.7% 5th -0.9pp 11th 41% below peers
Jersey City, NJ 15.5% 18th -1.5pp 12th 4% above peers
Greensboro, NC 16.1% 21st -1.5pp 13th 8% above peers
St. Petersburg, FL 12.1% 12th -1.0pp 14th 18% below peers
Reno, NV 12.4% 14th -0.9pp 15th 17% below peers
Lubbock, TX 18.1% 23rd -1.2pp 16th 22% above peers
Lincoln, NE 12.2% 13th -0.7pp 17th 18% below peers
St. Louis, MO 20.0% 25th -1.2pp 18th 35% above peers
Scottsdale, AZ 7.2% 3rd -0.3pp 19th 51% below peers
Toledo, OH 23.8% 28th -1.0pp 20th 60% above peers
Cincinnati, OH 24.5% 29th -0.8pp 21st 65% above peers
Madison, WI 15.7% 19th -0.4pp 22nd 6% above peers
Pittsburgh, PA 18.5% 24th -0.5pp 23rd 25% above peers
Gilbert, AZ 5.2% 1st -0.1pp 24th 65% below peers
Garland, TX 13.0% 15th -0.1pp 25th 13% below peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 8.8% 6th -0.1pp 26th 41% below peers
Plano, TX 6.7% 2nd -0.0pp 27th 55% below peers
Fort Wayne, IN 15.7% 20th +0.1pp 28th 6% above peers
Chandler, AZ 7.9% 4th +0.3pp 29th 47% below peers
Chesapeake, VA 9.3% 7th +0.9pp 30th 38% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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 (250k-1m) 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 →
  • Colorado Springs, CO down 2.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 96% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Irvine, CA down 2.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 94% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Denver, CO down 1.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 73% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±0.9pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Share of children below the poverty level

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

Child poverty changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (11.2% then, 10.0% now; margin ±1.7pp). 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.*

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 13 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: child poverty fell 6.1 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (16.1% to 10.0%).
10.0%
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
California ref 15.0% -3.1pp
United States ref 16.1%
Durham, NC 16.6% 14th -7.9pp 1st 17% below peers
North Las Vegas, NV 15.4% 12th -5.2pp 2nd 23% below peers
Glendale, AZ 20.2% 17th -6.8pp 3rd 1% above peers
Laredo, TX 28.3% 24th -8.5pp 4th 41% above peers
Buffalo, NY 35.5% 28th -10.4pp 5th 77% above peers
Scottsdale, AZ 8.4% 3rd -2.2pp 6th 58% below peers
Saint Paul, MN 22.0% 19th -5.6pp 7th 9% above peers
Winston-Salem, NC 25.9% 23rd -6.1pp 8th 29% above peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 10.8% 7th -2.3pp 9th 46% below peers
Newark, NJ 31.2% 27th -6.6pp 10th 55% above peers
Chesapeake, VA 12.5% 8th -2.4pp 11th 38% below peers
St. Louis, MO 29.7% 25th -4.2pp 12th 48% above peers
Greensboro, NC 23.5% 21st -3.2pp 13th 17% above peers
St. Petersburg, FL 17.7% 15th -2.2pp 14th 12% below peers
Chula Vista, CA 10.0% 6th -1.2pp 15th 50% below peers
Lubbock, TX 20.1% 16th -1.9pp 16th on par with peers
Gilbert, AZ 5.0% 1st -0.4pp 17th 75% below peers
Jersey City, NJ 22.9% 20th -1.9pp 18th 14% above peers
Cincinnati, OH 36.2% 30th -2.7pp 19th 80% above peers
Garland, TX 20.3% 18th -1.5pp 20th 1% above peers
Irving, TX 16.4% 13th -1.2pp 21st 18% below peers
Plano, TX 7.9% 2nd -0.5pp 22nd 61% below peers
Reno, NV 14.9% 11th -0.8pp 23rd 26% below peers
Lincoln, NE 13.6% 9th -0.6pp 24th 33% below peers
Toledo, OH 36.0% 29th -0.8pp 25th 79% above peers
Fort Wayne, IN 23.8% 22nd -0.3pp 26th 19% above peers
Chandler, AZ 9.9% 5th +0.4pp 27th 50% below peers
Irvine, CA 8.6% 4th +0.7pp 28th 57% below peers
Pittsburgh, PA 30.8% 26th +3.7pp 29th 54% above peers
Madison, WI 13.9% 10th +2.1pp 30th 31% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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 (250k-1m) 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 →
  • Colorado Springs, CO down 5.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Anchorage municipality, AK down 2.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 72% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Riverside, CA down 3.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 71% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.1pp 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
Economy

Households with a broadband internet subscription

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

Broadband rose 6.1 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 88.7% to 94.8% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.0pp). 28 of the 29 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. It started among the stronger third of similar-size cities and kept improving; worth investigating.

Improving beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 28 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: broadband rose 11.3 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (83.5% to 94.8%).
94.8%
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
California ref 93.6% +6.6pp
United States ref 91.1%
Laredo, TX 87.5% 27th +18.9pp 1st 5% below peers
Greensboro, NC 91.0% 18th +17.9pp 2nd 2% below peers
Newark, NJ 86.5% 30th +16.7pp 3rd 6% below peers
Buffalo, NY 88.6% 25th +13.7pp 4th 4% below peers
St. Louis, MO 86.9% 29th +12.5pp 5th 6% below peers
Cincinnati, OH 89.3% 22nd +9.6pp 6th 3% below peers
Winston-Salem, NC 88.5% 26th +9.2pp 7th 4% below peers
Toledo, OH 87.2% 28th +9.0pp 8th 6% below peers
Glendale, AZ 88.8% 24th +8.8pp 9th 4% below peers
Lubbock, TX 88.9% 23rd +8.8pp 10th 4% below peers
Pittsburgh, PA 90.6% 20th +8.8pp 11th 2% below peers
St. Petersburg, FL 92.5% 15th +8.6pp 12th on par with peers
North Las Vegas, NV 93.2% 10th +8.6pp 13th 1% above peers
Irving, TX 92.8% 12th +7.4pp 14th on par with peers
Fort Wayne, IN 90.8% 19th +6.9pp 15th 2% below peers
Jersey City, NJ 92.6% 14th +6.8pp 16th on par with peers
Durham, NC 93.7% 9th +6.7pp 17th 1% above peers
Saint Paul, MN 91.8% 16th +6.2pp 18th 1% below peers
Reno, NV 89.7% 21st +5.8pp 19th 3% below peers
Garland, TX 94.9% 6th +6.2pp 20th 3% above peers
Chula Vista, CA 94.8% 7th +6.1pp 21st 2% above peers
Lincoln, NE 92.9% 11th +5.1pp 22nd on par with peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 94.6% 8th +4.5pp 23rd 2% above peers
Scottsdale, AZ 96.3% 3rd +3.8pp 24th 4% above peers
Chandler, AZ 95.4% 5th +3.5pp 25th 3% above peers
Madison, WI 91.5% 17th +2.8pp 26th 1% below peers
Plano, TX 96.7% 2nd +2.6pp 27th 4% above peers
Chesapeake, VA 92.8% 13th +2.5pp 28th on par with peers
Irvine, CA 95.8% 4th +1.9pp 29th 4% above peers
Gilbert, AZ 97.0% 1st +1.1pp 30th 5% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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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Cities of similar size (250k-1m) 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 →
  • Bakersfield, CA up 6.8pp between its surveys · a smaller real gain than 61% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Durham, NC up 6.7pp between its surveys · a smaller real gain than 62% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Riverside, CA up 6.5pp between its surveys · a smaller real gain than 66% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±0.6pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Income inequality (Gini index)

▼ Lower is better No measurable change
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Inequality changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (0.42 then, 0.42 now; margin ±0.02).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 6 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: inequality rose about 2% from 2014 to 2024 (0.42 to 0.42).
0.42
20102024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
California ref 0.49 +0.000
United States ref 0.48 +0.001
Laredo, TX 0.45 14th -0.025 1st 2% below peers
Glendale, AZ 0.43 7th -0.023 2nd 7% below peers
Toledo, OH 0.45 12th -0.015 3rd 3% below peers
Winston-Salem, NC 0.51 26th -0.016 4th 10% above peers
Irvine, CA 0.46 15th -0.011 5th on par with peers
Jersey City, NJ 0.51 27th -0.010 6th 10% above peers
Newark, NJ 0.50 22nd -0.007 7th 8% above peers
Garland, TX 0.40 3rd -0.006 8th 12% below peers
Buffalo, NY 0.50 24th -0.007 9th 9% above peers
Greensboro, NC 0.49 21st -0.005 10th 6% above peers
Durham, NC 0.46 16th -0.003 11th on par with peers
St. Louis, MO 0.50 25th -0.001 12th 9% above peers
Plano, TX 0.45 11th -0.001 13th 3% below peers
Chandler, AZ 0.42 5th -0.001 14th 9% below peers
Saint Paul, MN 0.48 19th -0.000 15th 4% above peers
Fort Wayne, IN 0.44 10th +0.001 16th 4% below peers
Pittsburgh, PA 0.52 28th +0.001 17th 13% above peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 0.43 8th +0.001 18th 7% below peers
Cincinnati, OH 0.54 30th +0.003 19th 18% above peers
Chula Vista, CA 0.42 6th +0.003 20th 8% below peers
Lincoln, NE 0.45 13th +0.003 21st 3% below peers
Irving, TX 0.44 9th +0.004 22nd 6% below peers
Lubbock, TX 0.49 20th +0.006 23rd 6% above peers
Madison, WI 0.47 17th +0.007 24th 2% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV 0.40 2nd +0.008 25th 13% below peers
Chesapeake, VA 0.42 4th +0.009 26th 9% below peers
Reno, NV 0.48 18th +0.011 27th 3% above peers
Gilbert, AZ 0.39 1st +0.013 28th 15% below peers
St. Petersburg, FL 0.50 23rd +0.016 29th 8% above peers
Scottsdale, AZ 0.52 29th +0.019 30th 13% above 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
Economy

Households receiving SNAP

▼ Lower is better Worsening
Compared against How peers are chosen →

SNAP rose 2.0 percentage points between the 2014-2018 and 2019-2023 surveys, from 8.6% to 10.6% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.3pp). 4 of the 29 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. That is movement in the wrong direction.

Worsening beyond the survey margin, 2014-2018 vs 2019-2023 surveys; 20 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: snap rose 3.1 percentage points from 2013 to 2023 (7.4% to 10.6%).
10.6%
20102023
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Place Latest2019-2023 survey Today's rank Change2014-2018 → 2019-2023 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
California ref 11.4% +2.2pp
United States ref 11.8% -0.5pp
Irving, TX 6.2% 6th -2.8pp 1st 46% below peers
St. Petersburg, FL 9.1% 11th -3.8pp 2nd 20% below peers
Garland, TX 8.8% 9th -3.6pp 3rd 23% below peers
Scottsdale, AZ 2.3% 1st -0.9pp 4th 80% below peers
Durham, NC 9.3% 13th -2.7pp 5th 19% below peers
Fort Wayne, IN 11.4% 16th -2.9pp 6th on par with peers
Jersey City, NJ 14.0% 18th -2.9pp 7th 23% above peers
Saint Paul, MN 15.0% 19th -2.9pp 8th 31% above peers
Gilbert, AZ 3.4% 2nd -0.6pp 9th 70% below peers
St. Louis, MO 18.0% 25th -3.3pp 10th 58% above peers
Cincinnati, OH 18.3% 26th -2.6pp 11th 61% above peers
Newark, NJ 23.7% 28th -3.3pp 12th 107% above peers
Laredo, TX 23.9% 29th -3.3pp 13th 109% above peers
Buffalo, NY 29.9% 30th -3.9pp 14th 162% above peers
Toledo, OH 22.3% 27th -2.7pp 15th 95% above peers
Glendale, AZ 15.4% 21st -1.9pp 16th 35% above peers
Lubbock, TX 11.4% 15th -1.3pp 17th on par with peers
North Las Vegas, NV 15.1% 20th -1.2pp 18th 32% above peers
Pittsburgh, PA 16.5% 22nd -0.7pp 19th 45% above peers
Chesapeake, VA 6.9% 7th -0.3pp 20th 40% below peers
Chandler, AZ 5.3% 5th -0.2pp 21st 54% below peers
Lincoln, NE 8.9% 10th -0.0pp 22nd 22% below peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 8.8% 8th +0.1pp 23rd 23% below peers
Reno, NV 12.2% 17th +0.8pp 24th 7% above peers
Greensboro, NC 17.4% 24th +1.8pp 25th 52% above peers
Madison, WI 9.2% 12th +1.0pp 26th 19% below peers
Plano, TX 3.4% 3rd +0.5pp 27th 70% below peers
Winston-Salem, NC 17.2% 23rd +3.0pp 28th 50% above peers
Chula Vista, CA 10.6% 14th +2.0pp 29th 8% below peers
Irvine, CA 4.9% 4th +2.3pp 30th 57% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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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Cities of similar size (250k-1m) 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 →
  • Irving, TX down 2.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2018-2023
  • Austin, TX down 1.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 95% of this group · 2018-2023
  • Mesa, AZ down 1.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 91% of this group · 2018-2023
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2023 ±0.9pp 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 Rising
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Home value was essentially flat over the 12 months ending June 2026.

Multi-year view: home value rose about 4% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 61% of similar-size cities.
Longer view: home value rose about 9% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: $849,516 in June 2026, down from $852,199 a year earlier.
$849,516
2000June 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
California ref $775,549 (Jun 26) -0.4%
United States ref $372,995 (Jun 26) +0.8%
Toledo, OH $135,476 (Jun 26) 29th +5.3% 1st 66% below peers
Anchorage municipality, AK $424,577 (Jun 26) 12th +4.6% 2nd 6% above peers
Buffalo, NY $251,203 (Jun 26) 23rd +3.5% 3rd 37% below peers
Lincoln, NE $297,539 (Jun 26) 17th +3.4% 4th 26% below peers
Chesapeake, VA $429,006 (Jun 26) 11th +3.4% 5th 7% above peers
Laredo, TX $222,147 (Jun 26) 26th +2.7% 6th 45% below peers
Fort Wayne, IN $250,668 (Jun 26) 24th +2.6% 7th 37% below peers
Madison, WI $435,430 (Jun 26) 10th +2.1% 8th 9% above peers
Scottsdale, AZ $858,275 (Jun 26) 2nd +1.8% 9th 114% above peers
Lubbock, TX $213,159 (Jun 26) 27th +1.7% 10th 47% below peers
Cincinnati, OH $254,955 (Jun 26) 22nd +1.1% 11th 36% below peers
Louisville, KY $267,770 (Jun 26) 19th +1.1% 12th 33% below peers
Winston-Salem, NC $267,668 (Jun 26) 20th +0.6% 13th 33% below peers
Greensboro, NC $266,364 (Jun 26) 21st +0.4% 14th 34% below peers
Reno, NV $576,913 (Jun 26) 5th +0.3% 15th 44% above peers
Chula Vista, CA $849,516 (Jun 26) 3rd -0.3% 16th 112% above peers
St. Louis, MO $186,876 (Jun 26) 28th -0.6% 17th 53% below peers
Pittsburgh, PA $246,117 (Jun 26) 25th -0.7% 18th 39% below peers
Gilbert, AZ $572,453 (Jun 26) 6th -0.8% 19th 43% above peers
Jersey City, NJ $665,140 (Jun 26) 4th -1.3% 20th 66% above peers
Irving, TX $346,142 (Jun 26) 16th -1.3% 21st 14% below peers
Newark, NJ $486,845 (Jun 26) 9th -1.8% 22nd 22% above peers
Chandler, AZ $521,563 (Jun 26) 7th -1.8% 23rd 30% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV $408,280 (Jun 26) 13th -1.8% 24th 2% above peers
Glendale, AZ $407,385 (Jun 26) 14th -1.9% 25th 2% above peers
Irvine, CA $1,538,073 (Jun 26) 1st -1.9% 26th 284% above peers
Durham, NC $400,564 (Jun 26) 15th -3.2% 27th on par with peers
Garland, TX $289,444 (Jun 26) 18th -4.4% 28th 28% below peers
Plano, TX $504,391 (Jun 26) 8th -5.1% 29th 26% above peers
Zillow Home Value Index through 2026-06 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
Housing

Starter home value (bottom tier)

No better direction Falling recently
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Starter homes fell about 1% over the 12 months ending June 2026, faster than 64% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: starter homes rose about 4% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 50% of similar-size cities.
Longer view: starter homes rose about 11% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: $651,215 in June 2026, down from $656,535 a year earlier.
$651,215
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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
California ref $474,537 (Jun 26) -0.7%
United States ref $202,486 (Jun 26) +2.0%
Anchorage municipality, AK $288,814 (Jun 26) 15th +7.4% 1st on par with peers
Laredo, TX $149,419 (Jun 26) 25th +5.7% 2nd 48% below peers
Buffalo, NY $169,467 (Jun 26) 22nd +4.4% 3rd 41% below peers
Lincoln, NE $219,733 (Jun 26) 18th +4.0% 4th 24% below peers
Toledo, OH $67,500 (Jun 26) 29th +4.0% 5th 77% below peers
Chesapeake, VA $299,892 (Jun 26) 13th +3.2% 6th 4% above peers
Cincinnati, OH $169,642 (Jun 26) 21st +2.6% 7th 41% below peers
Fort Wayne, IN $162,273 (Jun 26) 24th +2.2% 8th 44% below peers
Louisville, KY $175,951 (Jun 26) 19th +1.6% 9th 39% below peers
Lubbock, TX $132,679 (Jun 26) 27th +1.2% 10th 54% below peers
Winston-Salem, NC $168,649 (Jun 26) 23rd +1.1% 11th 42% below peers
Newark, NJ $386,067 (Jun 26) 8th +0.9% 12th 34% above peers
Jersey City, NJ $452,800 (Jun 26) 5th +0.7% 13th 57% above peers
Madison, WI $318,212 (Jun 26) 12th +0.6% 14th 10% above peers
Greensboro, NC $172,928 (Jun 26) 20th +0.1% 15th 40% below peers
Scottsdale, AZ $478,907 (Jun 26) 3rd -0.3% 16th 66% above peers
Reno, NV $398,729 (Jun 26) 7th -0.4% 17th 38% above peers
Pittsburgh, PA $145,549 (Jun 26) 26th -0.6% 18th 50% below peers
Chula Vista, CA $651,215 (Jun 26) 2nd -0.8% 19th 125% above peers
Irvine, CA $1,044,470 (Jun 26) 1st -1.4% 20th 262% above peers
Irving, TX $257,982 (Jun 26) 16th -1.4% 21st 11% below peers
Gilbert, AZ $455,244 (Jun 26) 4th -1.4% 22nd 58% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV $337,697 (Jun 26) 10th -1.7% 23rd 17% above peers
Glendale, AZ $322,238 (Jun 26) 11th -2.1% 24th 12% above peers
Chandler, AZ $402,435 (Jun 26) 6th -2.6% 25th 39% above peers
Durham, NC $290,926 (Jun 26) 14th -2.7% 26th 1% above peers
St. Louis, MO $77,981 (Jun 26) 28th -3.8% 27th 73% below peers
Garland, TX $228,317 (Jun 26) 17th -4.5% 28th 21% below peers
Plano, TX $370,468 (Jun 26) 9th -5.2% 29th 28% above peers
Zillow Home Value Index through 2026-06 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
Housing

Homeownership rate

▲ Higher is better No measurable change
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Homeownership changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (59.1% then, 59.8% now; margin ±1.6pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 16 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: homeownership rose 1.6 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (58.2% to 59.8%).
59.8%
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
California ref 55.9% +1.0pp
United States ref 65.2%
Newark, NJ 24.4% 30th +2.1pp 1st 56% below peers
North Las Vegas, NV 63.6% 7th +5.5pp 2nd 14% above peers
Buffalo, NY 43.0% 26th +2.3pp 3rd 23% below peers
Toledo, OH 53.3% 16th +2.9pp 4th 4% below peers
Cincinnati, OH 39.8% 27th +2.1pp 5th 28% below peers
Saint Paul, MN 52.9% 17th +2.5pp 6th 5% below peers
Durham, NC 52.3% 18th +2.1pp 7th 6% below peers
Chesapeake, VA 74.3% 1st +3.0pp 8th 34% above peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 63.9% 6th +2.6pp 9th 15% above peers
Winston-Salem, NC 55.6% 15th +2.1pp 10th on par with peers
St. Petersburg, FL 62.8% 8th +2.4pp 11th 13% above peers
Reno, NV 49.8% 21st +1.9pp 12th 10% below peers
St. Louis, MO 45.3% 24th +1.6pp 13th 19% below peers
Laredo, TX 64.1% 5th +2.2pp 14th 15% above peers
Irving, TX 38.1% 28th +1.3pp 15th 31% below peers
Glendale, AZ 57.2% 12th +1.8pp 16th 3% above peers
Chula Vista, CA 59.8% 11th +0.7pp 17th 8% above peers
Scottsdale, AZ 67.0% 3rd +0.8pp 18th 21% above peers
Pittsburgh, PA 47.7% 22nd +0.5pp 19th 14% below peers
Greensboro, NC 50.5% 20th +0.2pp 20th 9% below peers
Chandler, AZ 65.0% 4th +0.1pp 21st 17% above peers
Lubbock, TX 51.2% 19th -0.1pp 22nd 8% below peers
Fort Wayne, IN 61.9% 9th -0.1pp 23rd 11% above peers
Gilbert, AZ 73.1% 2nd -0.7pp 24th 31% above peers
Garland, TX 61.6% 10th -0.9pp 25th 11% above peers
Lincoln, NE 56.1% 14th -0.9pp 26th 1% above peers
Madison, WI 46.0% 23rd -1.0pp 27th 17% below peers
Plano, TX 56.9% 13th -2.2pp 28th 2% above peers
Jersey City, NJ 27.9% 29th -1.2pp 29th 50% below peers
Irvine, CA 44.5% 25th -2.4pp 30th 20% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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 ±1.1pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Housing

Typical asking rent

No better direction Rising
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Rent was essentially flat over the 12 months ending June 2026.

Multi-year view: rent rose about 4% a year from 2021 to 2026, slower than 57% of similar-size cities.
Longer view: rent rose about 8% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: $3,008 in June 2026, up from $3,000 a year earlier.
$3,008
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Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
United States ref $1,965 (Jun 26) +2.2%
Chesapeake, VA $2,041 (Jun 26) 6th +6.3% 1st 28% above peers
Fort Wayne, IN $1,281 (Jun 26) 28th +6.2% 2nd 20% below peers
Reno, NV $1,932 (Jun 26) 8th +6.0% 3rd 21% above peers
St. Louis, MO $1,394 (Jun 26) 24th +4.8% 4th 12% below peers
Toledo, OH $1,125 (Jun 26) 29th +4.7% 5th 29% below peers
Anchorage municipality, AK $1,710 (Jun 26) 12th +4.5% 6th 7% above peers
Pittsburgh, PA $1,593 (Jun 26) 15th +3.7% 7th on par with peers
Cincinnati, OH $1,475 (Jun 26) 20th +2.8% 8th 7% below peers
Buffalo, NY $1,430 (Jun 26) 21st +2.8% 9th 10% below peers
Jersey City, NJ $3,182 (Jun 26) 2nd +2.8% 10th 100% above peers
Madison, WI $1,656 (Jun 26) 14th +2.5% 11th 4% above peers
Lincoln, NE $1,345 (Jun 26) 26th +2.5% 12th 16% below peers
Winston-Salem, NC $1,537 (Jun 26) 17th +2.4% 13th 3% below peers
Scottsdale, AZ $2,173 (Jun 26) 4th +2.4% 14th 36% above peers
Greensboro, NC $1,415 (Jun 26) 22nd +2.2% 15th 11% below peers
Louisville, KY $1,394 (Jun 26) 25th +2.2% 16th 12% below peers
Lubbock, TX $1,401 (Jun 26) 23rd +1.8% 17th 12% below peers
Irvine, CA $3,390 (Jun 26) 1st +1.5% 18th 113% above peers
Durham, NC $1,700 (Jun 26) 13th +0.6% 19th 7% above peers
Newark, NJ $2,130 (Jun 26) 5th +0.5% 20th 34% above peers
Chandler, AZ $1,903 (Jun 26) 9th +0.5% 21st 20% above peers
Irving, TX $1,592 (Jun 26) 16th +0.4% 22nd on par with peers
Chula Vista, CA $3,008 (Jun 26) 3rd +0.3% 23rd 89% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV $1,846 (Jun 26) 10th +0.1% 24th 16% above peers
Laredo, TX $1,331 (Jun 26) 27th -0.1% 25th 16% below peers
Glendale, AZ $1,524 (Jun 26) 18th -0.5% 26th 4% below peers
Garland, TX $1,519 (Jun 26) 19th -0.7% 27th 5% below peers
Gilbert, AZ $2,019 (Jun 26) 7th -0.7% 28th 27% above peers
Plano, TX $1,713 (Jun 26) 11th -1.0% 29th 8% above peers
Zillow Observed Rent Index through 2026-06 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
Housing

Housing cost-burdened households

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

Cost burden changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (43.9% then, 44.9% now; margin ±2.5pp). The newest releases lean upward: each of the last 4 annual updates moved the 5-year average the same way - an early signal, not a measured change.*

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 12 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: cost burden fell 6.0 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (50.8% to 44.9%).
44.9%
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
California ref 41.7% +0.0pp
United States ref 32.2% +0.4pp
St. Louis, MO 34.2% 13th -3.2pp 1st 6% below peers
Newark, NJ 53.8% 30th -4.6pp 2nd 48% above peers
Toledo, OH 31.9% 8th -2.2pp 3rd 12% below peers
Durham, NC 31.9% 9th -1.6pp 4th 12% below peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 31.1% 6th -0.7pp 5th 15% below peers
Buffalo, NY 37.7% 22nd -0.8pp 6th 4% above peers
Jersey City, NJ 41.7% 27th -0.8pp 7th 14% above peers
Laredo, TX 36.1% 15th -0.6pp 8th 1% below peers
Irvine, CA 42.5% 28th -0.4pp 9th 17% above peers
Winston-Salem, NC 33.7% 12th -0.2pp 10th 7% below peers
Chesapeake, VA 32.7% 10th +0.1pp 11th 10% below peers
Cincinnati, OH 38.9% 25th +0.4pp 12th 7% above peers
Pittsburgh, PA 33.6% 11th +0.4pp 13th 8% below peers
Chula Vista, CA 44.9% 29th +1.0pp 14th 23% above peers
Chandler, AZ 27.1% 2nd +0.7pp 15th 26% below peers
Gilbert, AZ 25.3% 1st +0.6pp 16th 31% below peers
Madison, WI 36.4% 17th +1.4pp 17th on par with peers
Glendale, AZ 36.4% 16th +1.5pp 18th on par with peers
Saint Paul, MN 35.7% 14th +1.5pp 19th 2% below peers
Reno, NV 36.9% 21st +1.8pp 20th 1% above peers
Greensboro, NC 36.9% 19th +2.0pp 21st 1% above peers
Garland, TX 36.9% 20th +2.2pp 22nd 1% above peers
Lincoln, NE 30.3% 4th +1.9pp 23rd 17% below peers
Lubbock, TX 38.6% 23rd +2.5pp 24th 6% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV 39.0% 26th +2.6pp 25th 7% above peers
Scottsdale, AZ 31.6% 7th +2.3pp 26th 13% below peers
Fort Wayne, IN 27.6% 3rd +2.2pp 27th 24% below peers
St. Petersburg, FL 38.6% 24th +3.2pp 28th 6% above peers
Plano, TX 30.5% 5th +3.4pp 29th 16% below peers
Irving, TX 36.8% 18th +5.4pp 30th 1% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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.
HousingHousing cost-burdened households
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (250k-1m) 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 →
  • Santa Ana, CA down 4.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Newark, NJ down 4.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • San Juan zona urbana, PR down 2.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 96% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (tables B25070 + B25091) through 2024 ±1.8pp 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
Housing

Households without a vehicle

▼ Lower is better No measurable change
Compared against How peers are chosen →

No vehicle changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (4.7% then, 4.5% now; margin ±0.8pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 15 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: no vehicle fell 1.1 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (5.6% to 4.5%).
4.5%
20102024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
California ref 7.1% -0.0pp
United States ref 8.3% -0.3pp
Glendale, AZ 6.7% 15th -1.7pp 1st 7% below peers
Buffalo, NY 22.6% 28th -5.3pp 2nd 213% above peers
Winston-Salem, NC 8.2% 20th -1.9pp 3rd 14% above peers
Durham, NC 7.2% 16th -1.4pp 4th on par with peers
Scottsdale, AZ 3.7% 3rd -0.7pp 5th 49% below peers
Toledo, OH 11.7% 22nd -2.0pp 6th 62% above peers
Cincinnati, OH 17.1% 25th -2.8pp 7th 136% above peers
St. Petersburg, FL 7.3% 17th -1.0pp 8th 1% above peers
Pittsburgh, PA 20.6% 27th -2.7pp 9th 185% above peers
Chandler, AZ 3.3% 2nd -0.4pp 10th 54% below peers
Garland, TX 4.1% 5th -0.5pp 11th 43% below peers
Newark, NJ 34.3% 29th -4.1pp 12th 375% above peers
Reno, NV 8.4% 21st -0.7pp 13th 16% above peers
St. Louis, MO 18.5% 26th -1.2pp 14th 156% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV 5.2% 8th -0.2pp 15th 28% below peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 5.8% 10th -0.2pp 16th 19% below peers
Chula Vista, CA 4.5% 6th -0.1pp 17th 37% below peers
Saint Paul, MN 13.0% 24th -0.3pp 18th 81% above peers
Lubbock, TX 6.1% 12th +0.2pp 19th 15% below peers
Jersey City, NJ 40.3% 30th +1.8pp 20th 458% above peers
Madison, WI 12.2% 23rd +0.8pp 21st 69% above peers
Greensboro, NC 8.2% 19th +0.6pp 22nd 13% above peers
Irvine, CA 5.3% 9th +0.5pp 23rd 27% below peers
Laredo, TX 6.6% 13th +0.7pp 24th 8% below peers
Lincoln, NE 6.7% 14th +0.8pp 25th 8% below peers
Plano, TX 3.7% 4th +0.5pp 26th 48% below peers
Fort Wayne, IN 7.8% 18th +1.2pp 27th 8% above peers
Chesapeake, VA 5.0% 7th +0.9pp 28th 31% below peers
Irving, TX 5.8% 11th +1.2pp 29th 19% below peers
Gilbert, AZ 2.3% 1st +0.6pp 30th 68% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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 (250k-1m) 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 →
  • Riverside, CA down 1.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Mesa, AZ down 1.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 95% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Colorado Springs, CO down 0.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 90% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B08201) through 2024 ±0.5pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Health

People without health insurance

▼ Lower is better Real improvement
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Uninsured fell 1.1 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 7.3% to 6.2% - more than the combined survey margin (±0.7pp). 11 of the 29 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. It started mid-pack and has reached a genuinely better level; worth investigating.

Improving beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 16 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: uninsured fell 9.3 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (15.5% to 6.2%).
6.2%
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
California ref 6.5% -0.9pp
United States ref 8.2% -0.4pp
Jersey City, NJ 8.5% 15th -2.8pp 1st 7% below peers
Toledo, OH 5.7% 7th -1.5pp 2nd 39% below peers
Chesapeake, VA 5.6% 6th -1.3pp 3rd 40% below peers
Greensboro, NC 8.3% 14th -1.8pp 4th 10% below peers
Lincoln, NE 6.2% 9th -1.3pp 5th 32% below peers
Chula Vista, CA 6.2% 8th -1.1pp 6th 32% below peers
Durham, NC 10.7% 22nd -1.8pp 7th 16% above peers
St. Louis, MO 9.2% 16th -1.5pp 8th on par with peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 9.4% 18th -1.4pp 9th 2% above peers
Irvine, CA 4.0% 1st -0.6pp 10th 57% below peers
St. Petersburg, FL 9.9% 19th -1.2pp 11th 8% above peers
Scottsdale, AZ 5.0% 5th -0.6pp 12th 45% below peers
Buffalo, NY 4.1% 2nd -0.5pp 13th 56% below peers
Chandler, AZ 6.6% 11th -0.7pp 14th 29% below peers
Winston-Salem, NC 11.1% 23rd -1.1pp 15th 21% above peers
Pittsburgh, PA 4.8% 4th -0.4pp 16th 48% below peers
Plano, TX 10.6% 21st -0.5pp 17th 16% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV 13.1% 24th -0.1pp 18th 43% above peers
Laredo, TX 27.2% 30th -0.2pp 19th 195% above peers
Saint Paul, MN 6.6% 12th +0.1pp 20th 28% below peers
Lubbock, TX 13.5% 26th +0.6pp 21st 46% above peers
Fort Wayne, IN 9.3% 17th +0.5pp 22nd 2% above peers
Madison, WI 4.2% 3rd +0.3pp 23rd 54% below peers
Cincinnati, OH 7.7% 13th +0.5pp 24th 17% below peers
Glendale, AZ 13.2% 25th +0.9pp 25th 43% above peers
Garland, TX 25.1% 29th +1.7pp 26th 172% above peers
Reno, NV 10.5% 20th +0.8pp 27th 14% above peers
Irving, TX 22.3% 28th +2.0pp 28th 142% above peers
Newark, NJ 19.2% 27th +2.4pp 29th 109% above peers
Gilbert, AZ 6.3% 10th +1.0pp 30th 32% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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 (250k-1m) 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 →
  • Oakland, CA down 2.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Fresno, CA down 2.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Jersey City, NJ down 2.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±0.5pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Health

Adult obesity

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

Adult obesity is about three-quarters of the peer median.

26.9%
20202022
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Place Latest Today's rank History Latest vs. peers
California ref 28.4%
United States ref 33.4%
Irvine, CA 20.3% 1st 40% below peers
Chula Vista, CA 26.9% 2nd 20% below peers
Plano, TX 28.2% 3rd 17% below peers
Scottsdale, AZ 28.8% 4th 15% below peers
Jersey City, NJ 29.1% 5th 14% below peers
Gilbert, AZ 29.8% 6th 12% below peers
Reno, NV 30.1% 7th 11% below peers
Chandler, AZ 30.2% 8th 11% below peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 30.4% 9th 10% below peers
Irving, TX 30.7% 10th 9% below peers
Madison, WI 32.1% 11th 5% below peers
St. Petersburg, FL 32.2% 12th 5% below peers
Saint Paul, MN 33.2% 13th 2% below peers
Garland, TX 33.6% 14th 1% below peers
Lincoln, NE 33.8% 15th on par with peers
Pittsburgh, PA 33.8% 16th on par with peers
Durham, NC 33.9% 17th on par with peers
Winston-Salem, NC 34.0% 18th 1% above peers
Greensboro, NC 35.1% 19th 4% above peers
Newark, NJ 35.1% 20th 4% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV 35.5% 21st 5% above peers
Glendale, AZ 35.9% 22nd 6% above peers
Lubbock, TX 36.6% 23rd 8% above peers
St. Louis, MO 37.4% 24th 11% above peers
Buffalo, NY 38.4% 25th 14% above peers
Fort Wayne, IN 39.4% 26th 17% above peers
Louisville, KY 39.9% 27th 18% above peers
Chesapeake, VA 40.4% 28th 20% above peers
Cincinnati, OH 41.8% 29th 24% above peers
Laredo, TX 42.3% 30th 25% above peers
Toledo, OH 45.0% 31st 33% above peers
CDC PLACES through 2022 modeled tract map about this metric
Health

Children without health insurance

▼ Lower is better No measurable change
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Child uninsured changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (3.6% then, 3.6% now; margin ±1.0pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 9 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: child uninsured fell 4.5 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (8.1% to 3.6%).
3.6%
20122024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
California ref 3.2% -0.0pp
United States ref 5.5% +0.4pp
Scottsdale, AZ 3.9% 10th -2.1pp 1st 26% below peers
Toledo, OH 2.1% 2nd -1.2pp 2nd 59% below peers
Jersey City, NJ 3.9% 11th -1.6pp 3rd 26% below peers
Lincoln, NE 3.8% 9th -1.4pp 4th 28% below peers
Irvine, CA 2.2% 3rd -0.7pp 5th 57% below peers
Greensboro, NC 3.5% 6th -1.0pp 6th 33% below peers
St. Petersburg, FL 5.0% 14th -1.1pp 7th 4% below peers
Chesapeake, VA 3.7% 8th -0.8pp 8th 30% below peers
Reno, NV 6.8% 19th -1.2pp 9th 31% above peers
Chandler, AZ 5.4% 17th -0.9pp 10th 2% above peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 7.3% 21st -0.8pp 11th 40% above peers
St. Louis, MO 4.9% 13th -0.2pp 12th 7% below peers
North Las Vegas, NV 7.8% 22nd -0.1pp 13th 49% above peers
Laredo, TX 14.1% 28th -0.2pp 14th 169% above peers
Saint Paul, MN 4.4% 12th -0.0pp 15th 16% below peers
Chula Vista, CA 3.6% 7th -0.0pp 16th 31% below peers
Glendale, AZ 9.9% 25th +0.3pp 17th 88% above peers
Pittsburgh, PA 3.5% 5th +0.2pp 18th 34% below peers
Winston-Salem, NC 5.2% 16th +0.4pp 19th on par with peers
Durham, NC 8.0% 23rd +0.6pp 20th 52% above peers
Garland, TX 18.0% 30th +1.5pp 21st 244% above peers
Plano, TX 9.1% 24th +0.8pp 22nd 74% above peers
Gilbert, AZ 5.1% 15th +0.4pp 23rd 2% below peers
Irving, TX 15.8% 29th +2.0pp 24th 202% above peers
Buffalo, NY 1.9% 1st +0.3pp 25th 63% below peers
Madison, WI 2.8% 4th +0.5pp 26th 47% below peers
Lubbock, TX 10.7% 26th +2.3pp 27th 105% above peers
Fort Wayne, IN 7.3% 20th +1.7pp 28th 39% above peers
Cincinnati, OH 5.8% 18th +1.4pp 29th 11% above peers
Newark, NJ 11.3% 27th +3.2pp 30th 116% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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.
HealthChildren without health insurance
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (250k-1m) 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 →
  • Toledo, OH down 1.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Portland, OR down 0.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B27001) through 2024 ±0.8pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Education

Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher

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

College attainment rose 3.8 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 29.4% to 33.2% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.6pp). 27 of the 29 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. It started among the weakest third of similar-size cities, so some rebound is expected; still, the improvement is sustained and worth investigating.

Improving beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 27 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: college attainment rose 5.8 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (27.4% to 33.2%).
33.2%
20102024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
California ref 37.1% +3.1pp
United States ref 35.7% +3.5pp
Newark, NJ 19.7% 29th +4.5pp 1st 52% below peers
Toledo, OH 21.9% 28th +3.6pp 2nd 47% below peers
St. Petersburg, FL 42.6% 11th +6.9pp 3rd 4% above peers
Durham, NC 57.3% 5th +7.7pp 4th 39% above peers
Jersey City, NJ 54.8% 6th +7.2pp 5th 33% above peers
Winston-Salem, NC 39.5% 17th +5.0pp 6th 4% below peers
Laredo, TX 22.0% 27th +2.6pp 7th 47% below peers
St. Louis, MO 41.1% 15th +4.8pp 8th on par with peers
Chula Vista, CA 33.2% 22nd +3.8pp 9th 19% below peers
Buffalo, NY 31.2% 23rd +3.5pp 10th 24% below peers
Cincinnati, OH 41.8% 13th +4.7pp 11th 2% above peers
Glendale, AZ 24.3% 26th +2.7pp 12th 41% below peers
Irving, TX 42.4% 12th +4.7pp 13th 3% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV 18.9% 30th +2.0pp 14th 54% below peers
Lubbock, TX 35.1% 21st +3.6pp 15th 15% below peers
Chesapeake, VA 36.9% 19th +3.7pp 16th 10% below peers
Garland, TX 25.4% 25th +2.5pp 17th 38% below peers
Pittsburgh, PA 49.1% 7th +4.5pp 18th 19% above peers
Reno, NV 36.8% 20th +3.2pp 19th 11% below peers
Gilbert, AZ 48.2% 8th +3.8pp 20th 17% above peers
Saint Paul, MN 43.8% 10th +3.0pp 21st 6% above peers
Greensboro, NC 41.0% 16th +2.8pp 22nd on par with peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 38.6% 18th +2.5pp 23rd 6% below peers
Chandler, AZ 47.8% 9th +3.0pp 24th 16% above peers
Scottsdale, AZ 61.9% 2nd +3.5pp 25th 50% above peers
Plano, TX 60.5% 3rd +3.3pp 26th 47% above peers
Lincoln, NE 41.8% 14th +2.2pp 27th 2% above peers
Fort Wayne, IN 29.0% 24th +1.2pp 28th 30% below peers
Madison, WI 59.9% 4th +2.0pp 29th 46% above peers
Irvine, CA 70.6% 1st +1.8pp 30th 72% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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 (250k-1m) 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 →
  • Newark, NJ up 4.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Cleveland, OH up 4.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Miami, FL up 7.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.1pp 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 No measurable change
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Preschool enrollment changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (46.8% then, 51.1% now; margin ±8.0pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 8 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: preschool enrollment rose 1.8 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (49.4% to 51.1%).
51.1%
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
California ref 44.5% -5.1pp
United States ref 45.5%
St. Petersburg, FL 69.9% 2nd +11.4pp 1st 67% above peers
Chula Vista, CA 51.1% 8th +4.3pp 2nd 22% above peers
Irving, TX 36.6% 23rd +1.7pp 3rd 13% below peers
Madison, WI 51.4% 7th +2.1pp 4th 23% above peers
Fort Wayne, IN 39.8% 17th +1.1pp 5th 5% below peers
St. Louis, MO 53.8% 6th +1.0pp 6th 28% above peers
Chandler, AZ 46.9% 13th +0.8pp 7th 12% above peers
Buffalo, NY 44.2% 14th -0.1pp 8th 5% above peers
Cincinnati, OH 47.6% 12th -0.2pp 9th 14% above peers
Pittsburgh, PA 50.9% 9th -0.4pp 10th 21% above peers
Toledo, OH 37.1% 20th -1.2pp 11th 12% below peers
Plano, TX 47.7% 11th -2.1pp 12th 14% above peers
Jersey City, NJ 73.2% 1st -3.6pp 13th 75% above peers
Saint Paul, MN 36.2% 24th -1.8pp 14th 14% below peers
Garland, TX 31.5% 28th -2.1pp 15th 25% below peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 34.2% 25th -2.4pp 16th 18% below peers
Newark, NJ 67.5% 3rd -5.8pp 17th 61% above peers
Lincoln, NE 41.4% 16th -3.9pp 18th 1% below peers
Scottsdale, AZ 54.5% 5th -5.6pp 19th 30% above peers
Gilbert, AZ 50.1% 10th -6.6pp 20th 20% above peers
Greensboro, NC 37.0% 21st -4.9pp 21st 12% below peers
Winston-Salem, NC 32.6% 27th -4.5pp 22nd 22% below peers
Durham, NC 39.8% 18th -7.2pp 23rd 5% below peers
Lubbock, TX 39.6% 19th -7.3pp 24th 6% below peers
Reno, NV 36.8% 22nd -7.2pp 25th 12% below peers
Chesapeake, VA 42.0% 15th -8.4pp 26th on par with peers
Irvine, CA 59.6% 4th -12.5pp 27th 42% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV 26.7% 29th -6.6pp 28th 36% below peers
Laredo, TX 33.1% 26th -14.3pp 29th 21% below peers
Glendale, AZ 22.2% 30th -10.0pp 30th 47% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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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Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±5.1pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Teens not in school and not working

▼ Lower is better No measurable change
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Disconnected youth changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (5.0% then, 4.9% now; margin ±1.9pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 7 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: disconnected youth fell 1.3 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (6.2% to 4.9%).
4.9%
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
California ref 6.7% +0.2pp
United States ref 6.9% +0.3pp
Chandler, AZ 4.3% 6th -3.9pp 1st 40% below peers
St. Louis, MO 6.7% 12th -3.3pp 2nd 5% below peers
Irvine, CA 1.4% 1st -0.6pp 3rd 81% below peers
Fort Wayne, IN 7.1% 17th -2.3pp 4th 1% above peers
Durham, NC 4.5% 7th -1.2pp 5th 36% below peers
Greensboro, NC 5.1% 10th -1.3pp 6th 28% below peers
Laredo, TX 7.8% 20th -1.9pp 7th 10% above peers
Glendale, AZ 8.4% 22nd -1.9pp 8th 18% above peers
Chesapeake, VA 5.1% 9th -1.1pp 9th 28% below peers
Winston-Salem, NC 5.3% 11th -1.0pp 10th 25% below peers
Newark, NJ 9.8% 25th -1.8pp 11th 39% above peers
Cincinnati, OH 7.6% 19th -0.7pp 12th 7% above peers
Madison, WI 2.2% 2nd -0.1pp 13th 69% below peers
Jersey City, NJ 7.9% 21st -0.2pp 14th 12% above peers
Chula Vista, CA 4.9% 8th -0.1pp 15th 30% below peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 8.4% 23rd +0.1pp 16th 20% above peers
Reno, NV 6.7% 13th +0.2pp 17th 5% below peers
Pittsburgh, PA 3.7% 4th +0.2pp 18th 47% below peers
Lubbock, TX 4.2% 5th +0.3pp 19th 40% below peers
Saint Paul, MN 6.8% 15th +0.9pp 20th 4% below peers
Lincoln, NE 3.5% 3rd +0.7pp 21st 51% below peers
Toledo, OH 12.0% 29th +2.6pp 22nd 69% above peers
Gilbert, AZ 6.7% 14th +1.9pp 23rd 5% below peers
St. Petersburg, FL 7.2% 18th +2.1pp 24th 2% above peers
Plano, TX 7.1% 16th +2.1pp 25th on par with peers
Buffalo, NY 9.9% 26th +3.1pp 26th 41% above peers
Garland, TX 10.1% 28th +3.2pp 27th 43% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV 14.1% 30th +5.0pp 28th 100% above peers
Irving, TX 10.1% 27th +4.4pp 29th 43% above peers
Scottsdale, AZ 9.1% 24th +4.2pp 30th 29% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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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Census ACS 5-year survey (table B14005) through 2024 ±1.4pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Demographics
Demographics

Population

No better direction Rising
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Population rose about 3% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 268,920 to 276,375 - more than the combined survey margin (±176). 23 of the 29 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction.

Rising beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 26 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: population rose about 9% from 2014 to 2024 (253,031 to 276,375).
276,375
20102024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Las Vegas, NV 278,595 15th +15% 1st on par with peers
Gilbert, AZ 280,262 13th +15% 2nd 1% above peers
Irvine, CA 311,690 1st +14% 3rd 12% above peers
Jersey City, NJ 294,078 8th +12% 4th 6% above peers
Chandler, AZ 280,136 14th +11% 5th 1% above peers
Reno, NV 273,212 19th +11% 6th 2% below peers
Newark, NJ 310,178 3rd +10% 7th 11% above peers
Madison, WI 278,001 16th +9% 8th on par with peers
Durham, NC 291,467 9th +8% 9th 5% above peers
Buffalo, NY 276,854 17th +8% 10th 1% below peers
Irving, TX 256,492 25th +7% 11th 8% below peers
Chesapeake, VA 252,583 27th +5% 12th 9% below peers
Lubbock, TX 264,814 22nd +4% 13th 5% below peers
Lincoln, NE 294,856 7th +4% 14th 6% above peers
Garland, TX 246,844 29th +4% 15th 11% below peers
Greensboro, NC 301,198 6th +3% 16th 8% above peers
Cincinnati, OH 311,224 2nd +3% 17th 12% above peers
Winston-Salem, NC 252,037 28th +3% 18th 10% below peers
Chula Vista, CA 276,375 18th +3% 19th 1% below peers
Glendale, AZ 252,833 26th +2% 20th 9% below peers
Plano, TX 290,594 10th +1% 21st 4% above peers
Fort Wayne, IN 268,589 20th +1% 22nd 4% below peers
Saint Paul, MN 307,284 4th +1% 23rd 10% above peers
Pittsburgh, PA 304,759 5th +1% 24th 9% above peers
St. Petersburg, FL 262,732 23rd +1% 25th 6% below peers
Laredo, TX 257,619 24th -1% 26th 8% below peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 288,976 11th -2% 27th 4% above peers
Scottsdale, AZ 243,821 30th -3% 28th 12% below peers
Toledo, OH 267,463 21st -3% 29th 4% below peers
St. Louis, MO 288,512 12th -6% 30th 4% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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 ±86 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 No measurable change
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Children changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (25.3% then, 24.5% now; margin ±0.9pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 20 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: children fell 1.4 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (25.9% to 24.5%).
24.5%
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
California ref 21.9% -0.9pp
United States ref 21.6% -0.7pp
Newark, NJ 24.8% 6th +0.2pp 1st 8% above peers
Greensboro, NC 21.7% 19th -0.1pp 2nd 5% below peers
Chesapeake, VA 24.2% 10th -0.1pp 3rd 6% above peers
Madison, WI 16.1% 27th -0.2pp 4th 30% below peers
Buffalo, NY 22.3% 17th -0.3pp 5th 2% below peers
Lubbock, TX 22.9% 14th -0.4pp 6th on par with peers
Irvine, CA 21.7% 20th -0.4pp 7th 5% below peers
Irving, TX 26.2% 3rd -0.7pp 8th 15% above peers
Toledo, OH 22.9% 15th -0.6pp 9th on par with peers
Lincoln, NE 21.9% 18th -0.7pp 10th 4% below peers
Pittsburgh, PA 14.6% 29th -0.5pp 11th 36% below peers
Chula Vista, CA 24.5% 8th -0.8pp 12th 7% above peers
Winston-Salem, NC 23.0% 13th -0.8pp 13th 1% above peers
Fort Wayne, IN 24.3% 9th -1.0pp 14th 6% above peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 23.5% 11th -1.0pp 15th 3% above peers
Glendale, AZ 24.5% 7th -1.0pp 16th 7% above peers
Jersey City, NJ 19.7% 25th -0.9pp 17th 14% below peers
St. Petersburg, FL 16.1% 28th -0.9pp 18th 30% below peers
Laredo, TX 31.3% 1st -1.8pp 19th 37% above peers
St. Louis, MO 18.3% 26th -1.1pp 20th 20% below peers
Cincinnati, OH 20.7% 22nd -1.3pp 21st 9% below peers
Saint Paul, MN 23.5% 12th -1.5pp 22nd 3% above peers
Gilbert, AZ 28.1% 2nd -1.8pp 23rd 23% above peers
Garland, TX 25.5% 4th -1.7pp 24th 12% above peers
Reno, NV 19.9% 24th -1.4pp 25th 13% below peers
Plano, TX 20.9% 21st -1.6pp 26th 9% below peers
Durham, NC 20.1% 23rd -1.6pp 27th 12% below peers
Chandler, AZ 22.8% 16th -2.4pp 28th on par with peers
Scottsdale, AZ 13.9% 30th -1.6pp 29th 39% below peers
North Las Vegas, NV 25.5% 5th -3.2pp 30th 12% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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 ±0.8pp 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
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Single-parent changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (26.9% then, 23.6% now; margin ±3.6pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 13 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: single-parent fell 2.0 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (25.6% to 23.6%).
23.6%
20102024
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▸ Compare all 30 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
California ref 28.5% +0.7pp
United States ref 29.9% -0.2pp
Chandler, AZ 27.9% 23rd +5.1pp 1st 22% below peers
Irvine, CA 17.7% 30th +3.2pp 2nd 51% below peers
Gilbert, AZ 19.9% 28th +3.5pp 3rd 45% below peers
Scottsdale, AZ 26.6% 25th +3.7pp 4th 26% below peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 31.6% 19th +4.2pp 5th 12% below peers
Laredo, TX 39.6% 10th +4.4pp 6th 10% above peers
Madison, WI 31.3% 20th +3.5pp 7th 13% below peers
Reno, NV 38.0% 12th +2.6pp 8th 5% above peers
Toledo, OH 61.7% 1st +3.8pp 9th 72% above peers
Plano, TX 19.4% 29th +0.7pp 10th 46% below peers
Saint Paul, MN 39.6% 11th +1.2pp 11th 10% above peers
Lincoln, NE 26.7% 24th +0.8pp 12th 26% below peers
Garland, TX 31.1% 21st +0.5pp 13th 14% below peers
Fort Wayne, IN 40.3% 9th +0.5pp 14th 12% above peers
North Las Vegas, NV 37.2% 14th +0.3pp 15th 3% above peers
Newark, NJ 58.1% 2nd -0.2pp 16th 61% above peers
Greensboro, NC 42.9% 6th -1.1pp 17th 19% above peers
Winston-Salem, NC 41.9% 8th -1.3pp 18th 16% above peers
Chesapeake, VA 30.1% 22nd -1.1pp 19th 16% below peers
Pittsburgh, PA 42.6% 7th -2.1pp 20th 18% above peers
Buffalo, NY 52.2% 4th -3.6pp 21st 45% above peers
St. Louis, MO 52.2% 5th -4.0pp 22nd 45% above peers
Lubbock, TX 35.6% 16th -2.8pp 23rd 1% below peers
Cincinnati, OH 56.2% 3rd -6.5pp 24th 56% above peers
Irving, TX 25.9% 26th -3.4pp 25th 28% below peers
Chula Vista, CA 23.6% 27th -3.3pp 26th 34% below peers
Jersey City, NJ 31.6% 18th -4.9pp 27th 12% below peers
St. Petersburg, FL 36.0% 15th -5.7pp 28th on par with peers
Durham, NC 37.4% 13th -5.9pp 29th 4% above peers
Glendale, AZ 33.9% 17th -7.3pp 30th 6% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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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15 of 52 tracts cover a shorter window (dashed outline; mostly 2020 boundary changes). 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 →
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B09002) through 2024 ±2.3pp 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 →

Working parents changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (66.0% then, 71.4% now; margin ±7.0pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 9 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: working parents rose 8.2 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (63.3% to 71.4%).
71.4%
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
California ref 66.5% +3.8pp
United States ref 68.1% +1.9pp
Gilbert, AZ 70.7% 9th +15.2pp 1st 3% above peers
Buffalo, NY 65.5% 18th +7.7pp 2nd 4% below peers
North Las Vegas, NV 69.3% 11th +8.0pp 3rd 1% above peers
Irvine, CA 61.7% 26th +6.5pp 4th 10% below peers
Scottsdale, AZ 69.0% 14th +6.8pp 5th 1% above peers
Chula Vista, CA 71.4% 8th +5.5pp 6th 4% above peers
Laredo, TX 56.3% 29th +4.2pp 7th 18% below peers
Jersey City, NJ 65.3% 19th +4.2pp 8th 5% below peers
Chandler, AZ 67.6% 17th +4.2pp 9th 1% below peers
Plano, TX 59.9% 28th +3.3pp 10th 13% below peers
Anchorage municipality, AK 68.5% 15th +3.2pp 11th on par with peers
Winston-Salem, NC 65.2% 21st +2.3pp 12th 5% below peers
Newark, NJ 72.3% 7th +1.5pp 13th 6% above peers
St. Petersburg, FL 72.6% 6th +0.8pp 14th 6% above peers
Reno, NV 75.1% 2nd +0.3pp 15th 10% above peers
Durham, NC 74.5% 4th -0.5pp 16th 9% above peers
Glendale, AZ 63.5% 24th -0.5pp 17th 7% below peers
Madison, WI 75.9% 1st -0.7pp 18th 11% above peers
Pittsburgh, PA 69.1% 13th -0.7pp 19th 1% above peers
Garland, TX 60.7% 27th -0.6pp 20th 11% below peers
Greensboro, NC 69.6% 10th -0.8pp 21st 2% above peers
Lubbock, TX 67.8% 16th -1.0pp 22nd 1% below peers
Chesapeake, VA 65.3% 20th -1.4pp 23rd 5% below peers
Lincoln, NE 73.5% 5th -1.9pp 24th 7% above peers
St. Louis, MO 74.5% 3rd -2.2pp 25th 9% above peers
Toledo, OH 69.3% 12th -4.5pp 26th 1% above peers
Saint Paul, MN 64.9% 22nd -6.9pp 27th 5% below peers
Cincinnati, OH 64.5% 23rd -7.3pp 28th 6% below peers
Fort Wayne, IN 62.2% 25th -8.3pp 29th 9% below peers
Irving, TX 53.4% 30th -8.5pp 30th 22% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 52 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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15 of 52 tracts cover a shorter window (dashed outline; mostly 2020 boundary changes). 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 →
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B23008) through 2024 ±6.2pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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