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Hollywood, FL

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157,019 people (2025) 100k-250k South

Bright spots 4 indicators

Where Hollywood, FL shows a real improvement in recent years, or stands clearly ahead of its peers. How this is calculated →
Household income
Median household income
$67,203
2020-24
▲ 24%
relative change
$54,251 in 2019
Real improvement  
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College attainment
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher
33.8%
2020-24
▲ 21%
relative change
27.9% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Broadband
Households with a broadband internet subscription
91.4%
2020-24
▲ 7%
relative change
85.4% in 2019
Real improvement Trailing peers
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Homeownership
Homeownership rate
58.9%
2020-24
▲ 4%
relative change
56.6% in 2019
Improving (small) Leading peers
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What needs attention 10 indicators

Where Hollywood, FL shows a real worsening in recent years, or trails its peers clearly. How this is calculated →
Preschool enrollment
Children ages 3-4 enrolled in preschool
54.7%
2020-24
▼ 26%
relative change
73.6% in 2019
Worsening Leading peers
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Poverty
Share of people below the poverty level
14.7%
2020-24
▲ 16%
relative change
12.6% in 2019
Worsening Trailing peers
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Unemployment
Unemployment rate
4.3%
Jul 2026
▲ 16%
relative change
3.7% a year earlier
Rising, the wrong way Leading peers
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Cost burden
Housing cost-burdened households
50.0%
2020-24
▲ 10%
relative change
45.5% in 2019
Worsening Trailing peers
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Uninsured
People without health insurance
15.5%
2020-24
▼ 9%
relative change
16.9% in 2019
Turning down (early signal) Trailing peers
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Child poverty
Share of children below the poverty level
19.2%
2020-24
▲ 16%
relative change
16.5% in 2019
Turning up (early signal) Leading peers
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Inequality
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.49
2020-24
▲ 1%
relative change
0.48 in 2019
No measurable change Trailing peers
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Child uninsured
Children without health insurance
7.2%
2020-24
▼ 4%
relative change
7.5% in 2019
No measurable change Trailing peers
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No vehicle
Households without a vehicle
8.2%
2020-24
▼ 3%
relative change
8.4% in 2019
No measurable change Trailing peers
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Disconnected youth
Teens not in school and not working
7.0%
2020-24
▲ 23%
relative change
5.7% in 2019
No measurable change Trailing peers
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Big moves & big gaps 3 indicators

Real movement and big differences from peers, where neither direction is simply good or bad. Biggest relative change first; big-gap cards come last. How this is calculated →
Population
155,082
2020-24
▲ 2%
relative change
152,511 in 2019
Rising Among the lowest of peers
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Rent
Typical asking rent
$2,341
Aug 2026
▲ 1%
relative change
$2,312 a year earlier
Rising recently Among the highest of peers
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Children
Children's share of the population
19.1%
2020-24
low
vs peers
19.8% in 2019
No measurable change Among the lowest of peers
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All indicators

Economy 7 indicators
Economy

Median household income

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

Household income rose about 24% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from $54,251 to $67,203 (each survey's own dollars, not adjusted for inflation) - more than the combined survey margin (±$3,130).

Broader trend
All similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. Hollywood started mid-pack and has reached a genuinely better level; worth investigating.
Longer view
Household income rose about 45% from 2014 to 2024 ($46,419 to $67,203).
Bright spot $67,203
20102024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref $74,568 +34%
United States ref $80,734 +28%
Salinas, CA $91,908 11th +49% 1st 27% above peers
Palm Bay, FL $72,614 16th +41% 2nd on par with peers
Bellevue, WA $165,576 2nd +37% 3rd 128% above peers
Kansas City, KS $62,401 20th +37% 4th 14% below peers
Paterson, NJ $55,997 25th +35% 5th 23% below peers
Waco, TX $54,365 27th +35% 6th 25% below peers
Charleston, SC $92,414 9th +35% 7th 27% above peers
Lakewood, CO $89,792 12th +35% 8th 24% above peers
Springfield, MA $52,656 28th +34% 9th 27% below peers
Sunnyvale, CA $186,170 1st +32% 10th 156% above peers
Savannah, GA $57,137 24th +32% 11th 21% below peers
McAllen, TX $61,579 21st +32% 12th 15% below peers
Pomona, CA $79,479 15th +31% 13th 9% above peers
Joliet, IL $92,201 10th +31% 14th 27% above peers
Hayward, CA $113,318 6th +31% 15th 56% above peers
Corona, CA $109,242 7th +30% 16th 50% above peers
Palmdale, CA $81,770 14th +30% 17th 13% above peers
Thornton, CO $103,088 8th +30% 18th 42% above peers
Olathe, KS $114,009 5th +26% 19th 57% above peers
Bridgeport, CT $58,685 23rd +26% 20th 19% below peers
Mesquite, TX $72,537 17th +25% 21st on par with peers
Gainesville, FL $46,195 30th +24% 22nd 36% below peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA $51,234 29th +24% 23rd 29% below peers
Hollywood, FL $67,203 18th +24% 24th 7% below peers
Rockford, IL $54,752 26th +24% 25th 25% below peers
Naperville, IL $155,105 3rd +23% 26th 114% above peers
Killeen, TX $60,977 22nd +23% 27th 16% below peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR $31,750 31st +19% 28th 56% below peers
Alexandria, VA $119,681 4th +19% 29th 65% above peers
Pasadena, TX $64,927 19th +18% 30th 11% below peers
Midland, TX $89,585 13th +13% 31st 23% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 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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10 of 35 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

3
Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Salinas, CA up about 49% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Lancaster, CA up about 48% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Bend, OR up about 47% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±$2,793 at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Unemployment rate

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

Unemployment rose 0.6 percentage points over the 12 months ending July 2026, faster than 90% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: unemployment rose about 0.3 percentage points a year from 2022 to 2025. That is movement in the wrong direction.
Longer view
Unemployment fell about 0.2 percentage points a year from 2015 to 2025.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: 4.3% in July 2026, up from 3.7% a year earlier.
Needs attention 4.3%
1990July 2026
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Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 4.6% (Jul 26) +0.7pp
United States ref 4.1% (Aug 26) -0.2pp
Paterson, NJ 7.6% (Jul 26) 29th -1.9pp 1st 58% above peers
Palmdale, CA 6.0% (Jul 26) 24th -1.5pp 2nd 25% above peers
Rockford, IL 5.0% (Jul 26) 17th -1.2pp 3rd 4% above peers
Pomona, CA 5.7% (Jul 26) 22nd -0.8pp 4th 19% above peers
Hayward, CA 4.6% (Jul 26) 13th -0.6pp 5th 4% below peers
Charleston, SC 3.2% (Jul 26) 2nd -0.6pp 6th 33% below peers
Salinas, CA 6.3% (Jul 26) 26th -0.4pp 7th 31% above peers
Corona, CA 4.6% (Jul 26) 14th -0.3pp 8th 4% below peers
Sunnyvale, CA 3.5% (Jul 26) 4th -0.3pp 9th 27% below peers
Kansas City, KS 5.0% (Jul 26) 18th -0.3pp 10th 4% above peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 4.3% (Jul 26) 9th -0.1pp 11th 10% below peers
Savannah, GA 3.1% (Jul 26) 1st -0.1pp 12th 35% below peers
Olathe, KS 3.7% (Jul 26) 6th -0.1pp 13th 23% below peers
Lakewood, CO 4.0% (Jul 26) 7th +0.0pp 14th 17% below peers
Springfield, MA 8.0% (Jul 26) 30th +0.0pp 15th 67% above peers
Alexandria, VA 3.2% (Jul 26) 3rd +0.0pp 16th 33% below peers
Pasadena, TX 5.8% (Jul 26) 23rd +0.0pp 17th 21% above peers
Thornton, CO 4.2% (Jul 26) 8th +0.0pp 18th 12% below peers
Midland, TX 3.5% (Jul 26) 5th +0.1pp 19th 27% below peers
McAllen, TX 5.2% (Jul 26) 19th +0.1pp 20th 8% above peers
Joliet, IL 5.3% (Jul 26) 21st +0.2pp 21st 10% above peers
Waco, TX 4.8% (Jul 26) 16th +0.2pp 22nd on par with peers
Naperville, IL 4.5% (Jul 26) 11th +0.3pp 23rd 6% below peers
Mesquite, TX 4.7% (Jul 26) 15th +0.3pp 24th 2% below peers
Killeen, TX 6.0% (Jul 26) 25th +0.4pp 25th 25% above peers
Bellevue, WA 4.5% (Jul 26) 12th +0.5pp 26th 6% below peers
Hollywood, FL 4.3% (Jul 26) 10th +0.6pp 27th 10% below peers
Palm Bay, FL 5.2% (Jul 26) 20th +0.7pp 28th 8% above peers
Gainesville, FL 6.6% (Jul 26) 27th +1.0pp 29th 38% above peers
Bridgeport, CT 7.3% (Jul 26) 28th +1.6pp 30th 52% 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 Worsening
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Poverty rose 2.1 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 12.6% to 14.7% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.9pp). That reverses the previous span, which went down between the 2010-2014 and 2015-2019 surveys. That is movement in the wrong direction.

Broader trend
7% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction; 30% moved the other way.
Longer view
Poverty fell 1.3 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (16.0% to 14.7%).
Needs attention 14.7%
20112024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 12.6% -1.4pp
United States ref 12.4%
Alexandria, VA 7.9% 6th -2.4pp 1st 45% below peers
Thornton, CO 7.0% 4th -1.8pp 2nd 51% below peers
Paterson, NJ 21.2% 25th -5.4pp 3rd 48% above peers
Pomona, CA 14.3% 16th -3.6pp 4th on par with peers
Kansas City, KS 15.9% 19th -3.8pp 5th 11% above peers
Salinas, CA 13.6% 15th -3.2pp 6th 5% below peers
McAllen, TX 20.0% 23rd -3.1pp 7th 39% above peers
Waco, TX 23.1% 27th -3.1pp 8th 61% above peers
Corona, CA 8.7% 7th -1.1pp 9th 39% below peers
Savannah, GA 19.6% 22nd -2.2pp 10th 37% above peers
Palm Bay, FL 11.7% 11th -1.3pp 11th 18% below peers
Charleston, SC 12.3% 12th -0.9pp 12th 14% below peers
Rockford, IL 21.3% 26th -1.0pp 13th 49% above peers
Springfield, MA 25.8% 29th -1.1pp 14th 80% above peers
Olathe, KS 5.6% 2nd -0.2pp 15th 61% below peers
Bridgeport, CT 21.0% 24th -0.8pp 16th 47% above peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 24.7% 28th -0.2pp 17th 72% above peers
Gainesville, FL 30.8% 30th +0.1pp 18th 115% above peers
Lakewood, CO 9.2% 8th +0.1pp 19th 36% below peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 34.2% 31st +0.3pp 20th 139% above peers
Palmdale, CA 15.7% 18th +0.2pp 21st 10% above peers
Joliet, IL 11.1% 10th +0.2pp 22nd 23% below peers
Naperville, IL 4.5% 1st +0.2pp 23rd 69% below peers
Mesquite, TX 13.4% 14th +0.6pp 24th 7% below peers
Sunnyvale, CA 5.8% 3rd +0.3pp 25th 59% below peers
Bellevue, WA 7.2% 5th +0.6pp 26th 50% below peers
Pasadena, TX 18.9% 21st +1.9pp 27th 32% above peers
Hayward, CA 9.6% 9th +1.3pp 28th 33% below peers
Hollywood, FL 14.7% 17th +2.1pp 29th 3% above peers
Killeen, TX 17.4% 20th +2.7pp 30th 22% above peers
Midland, TX 12.4% 13th +3.2pp 31st 13% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 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.
EconomyShare of people below the poverty level
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10 of 35 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 · Age · Sex · ACS 2024
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Peers worth a call

3
Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Murfreesboro, TN down 5.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Visalia, CA down 4.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Huntsville, AL down 4.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 95% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.6pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Share of children below the poverty level

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

Child poverty changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (16.5% then, 19.2% now; margin ±3.3pp). 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.*

Broader trend
53% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Child poverty fell 2.3 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (21.5% to 19.2%).
Needs attention 19.2%
20132024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 16.5% -3.6pp
United States ref 16.1%
Alexandria, VA 11.5% 8th -7.3pp 1st 40% below peers
Naperville, IL 3.5% 1st -1.9pp 2nd 81% below peers
Pomona, CA 17.3% 14th -8.8pp 3rd 10% below peers
Olathe, KS 5.5% 2nd -2.5pp 4th 72% below peers
Salinas, CA 17.8% 15th -7.8pp 5th 7% below peers
Thornton, CO 8.7% 4th -2.8pp 6th 55% below peers
Kansas City, KS 21.7% 18th -7.0pp 7th 13% above peers
Paterson, NJ 29.4% 25th -8.2pp 8th 53% above peers
McAllen, TX 27.1% 22nd -6.4pp 9th 42% above peers
Palm Bay, FL 15.2% 11th -2.7pp 10th 21% below peers
Corona, CA 10.2% 6th -1.6pp 11th 47% below peers
Waco, TX 28.2% 24th -3.4pp 12th 47% above peers
Rockford, IL 30.6% 27th -3.4pp 13th 60% above peers
Joliet, IL 15.6% 12th -1.7pp 14th 19% below peers
Springfield, MA 36.1% 30th -3.3pp 15th 88% above peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 35.5% 29th -2.0pp 16th 85% above peers
Gainesville, FL 23.2% 20th -0.7pp 17th 21% above peers
Savannah, GA 30.1% 26th -0.8pp 18th 57% above peers
Palmdale, CA 22.1% 19th +0.5pp 19th 15% above peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 51.8% 31st +2.5pp 20th 170% above peers
Bridgeport, CT 33.5% 28th +2.1pp 21st 75% above peers
Lakewood, CO 13.1% 9th +1.2pp 22nd 32% below peers
Pasadena, TX 28.1% 23rd +2.6pp 23rd 47% above peers
Hayward, CA 11.5% 7th +1.3pp 24th 40% below peers
Charleston, SC 16.9% 13th +2.2pp 25th 12% below peers
Hollywood, FL 19.2% 16th +2.6pp 26th on par with peers
Mesquite, TX 21.1% 17th +3.9pp 27th 10% above peers
Midland, TX 14.8% 10th +3.3pp 28th 23% below peers
Killeen, TX 26.0% 21st +6.1pp 29th 36% above peers
Sunnyvale, CA 5.6% 3rd +1.5pp 30th 71% below peers
Bellevue, WA 9.7% 5th +3.6pp 31st 50% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 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.
EconomyShare of children below the poverty level
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10 of 35 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 →
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Peers worth a call

3
Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Goodyear, AZ down 5.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Murrieta, CA down 4.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Meridian, ID down 4.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±2.6pp 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 →
What changed

Broadband rose 5.9 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 85.4% to 91.4% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.2pp).

Broader trend
97% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. Hollywood started mid-pack and has reached a genuinely better level; worth investigating.
Longer view
Broadband rose 10.8 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (80.6% to 91.4%).
Bright spot 91.4%
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
Florida ref 91.7% +8.4pp
United States ref 91.1%
Paterson, NJ 89.3% 23rd +20.2pp 1st 4% below peers
Springfield, MA 86.1% 28th +14.0pp 2nd 7% below peers
Waco, TX 89.0% 24th +13.4pp 3rd 4% below peers
Kansas City, KS 88.8% 25th +13.1pp 4th 4% below peers
Charleston, SC 92.9% 16th +13.6pp 5th on par with peers
Salinas, CA 94.4% 7th +11.5pp 6th 2% above peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 85.8% 29th +10.4pp 7th 8% below peers
McAllen, TX 92.2% 18th +10.9pp 8th 1% below peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 85.1% 31st +9.1pp 9th 8% below peers
Savannah, GA 90.6% 22nd +9.6pp 10th 2% below peers
Bridgeport, CT 88.1% 26th +9.2pp 11th 5% below peers
Rockford, IL 86.6% 27th +8.0pp 12th 7% below peers
Joliet, IL 93.5% 11th +7.8pp 13th 1% above peers
Pomona, CA 92.8% 17th +7.8pp 14th on par with peers
Midland, TX 92.9% 14th +7.6pp 15th on par with peers
Mesquite, TX 94.0% 10th +7.5pp 16th 1% above peers
Thornton, CO 96.5% 4th +6.5pp 17th 4% above peers
Hollywood, FL 91.4% 20th +5.9pp 18th 2% below peers
Hayward, CA 95.0% 6th +5.8pp 19th 2% above peers
Palmdale, CA 93.0% 13th +5.7pp 20th on par with peers
Palm Bay, FL 92.9% 15th +5.6pp 21st on par with peers
Killeen, TX 91.4% 21st +5.0pp 22nd 2% below peers
Pasadena, TX 91.6% 19th +4.7pp 23rd 1% below peers
Lakewood, CO 93.3% 12th +4.6pp 24th on par with peers
Corona, CA 94.3% 8th +4.5pp 25th 2% above peers
Sunnyvale, CA 96.6% 3rd +3.7pp 26th 4% above peers
Alexandria, VA 94.1% 9th +2.5pp 27th 1% above peers
Olathe, KS 95.8% 5th +2.3pp 28th 3% above peers
Bellevue, WA 97.0% 2nd +2.0pp 29th 4% above peers
Naperville, IL 97.5% 1st +2.0pp 30th 5% above peers
Gainesville, FL 85.7% 30th +0.8pp 31st 8% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 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
Loading tract map…
10 of 35 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 →
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Peers worth a call

3
Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Nampa, ID up 12.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 85% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Salinas, CA up 11.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 79% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Ontario, CA up 11.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 79% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±0.7pp 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 →
What changed

Inequality changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (0.48 then, 0.49 now; margin ±0.02).

Broader trend
27% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Inequality rose about 5% from 2014 to 2024 (0.46 to 0.49).
Needs attention 0.49
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
Florida ref 0.49 -0.001
United States ref 0.48 +0.001
Savannah, GA 0.48 22nd -0.026 1st 6% above peers
Corona, CA 0.41 6th -0.010 2nd 9% below peers
Rockford, IL 0.47 19th -0.011 3rd 4% above peers
Charleston, SC 0.49 24th -0.008 4th 8% above peers
Springfield, MA 0.48 20th -0.006 5th 4% above peers
Paterson, NJ 0.47 18th -0.004 6th 4% above peers
Kansas City, KS 0.43 10th -0.001 7th 7% below peers
Salinas, CA 0.41 5th -0.001 8th 10% below peers
Pomona, CA 0.42 7th -0.000 9th 8% below peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 0.52 30th +0.002 10th 14% above peers
Waco, TX 0.51 29th +0.002 11th 12% above peers
Joliet, IL 0.40 3rd +0.003 12th 11% below peers
Palmdale, CA 0.43 11th +0.003 13th 6% below peers
Hollywood, FL 0.49 23rd +0.005 14th 7% above peers
Gainesville, FL 0.53 31st +0.006 15th 17% above peers
Lakewood, CO 0.44 12th +0.006 16th 4% below peers
Alexandria, VA 0.46 15th +0.009 17th on par with peers
McAllen, TX 0.51 27th +0.010 18th 11% above peers
Thornton, CO 0.39 1st +0.010 19th 15% below peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 0.51 28th +0.015 20th 11% above peers
Midland, TX 0.50 25th +0.017 21st 9% above peers
Bridgeport, CT 0.50 26th +0.018 22nd 9% above peers
Hayward, CA 0.42 8th +0.016 23rd 8% below peers
Killeen, TX 0.42 9th +0.017 24th 8% below peers
Sunnyvale, CA 0.46 17th +0.020 25th 1% above peers
Mesquite, TX 0.40 2nd +0.017 26th 12% below peers
Bellevue, WA 0.48 21st +0.022 27th 6% above peers
Pasadena, TX 0.46 16th +0.023 28th on par with peers
Olathe, KS 0.41 4th +0.021 29th 11% below peers
Naperville, IL 0.44 13th +0.031 30th 3% below peers
Palm Bay, FL 0.45 14th +0.049 31st 2% below peers
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B19083) through 2024 ±0.01 at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Households receiving SNAP

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

SNAP changed less than the survey can measure between the 2014-2018 and 2019-2023 surveys (16.1% then, 14.5% now; margin ±1.7pp).

Broader trend
47% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Snap rose 0.8 percentage points from 2013 to 2023 (13.7% to 14.5%).
14.5%
20102023
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2019-2023 survey Today's rank Change2014-2018 → 2019-2023 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 12.6% -1.6pp
United States ref 11.8% -0.5pp
Olathe, KS 2.4% 1st -2.6pp 1st 83% below peers
Charleston, SC 5.2% 6th -2.0pp 2nd 63% below peers
Gainesville, FL 8.9% 11th -2.5pp 3rd 37% below peers
Kansas City, KS 13.2% 14th -2.8pp 4th 7% below peers
Bellevue, WA 4.2% 3rd -0.8pp 5th 70% below peers
Savannah, GA 17.4% 21st -2.4pp 6th 23% above peers
Bridgeport, CT 24.1% 27th -3.1pp 7th 70% above peers
McAllen, TX 19.6% 25th -2.4pp 8th 38% above peers
Waco, TX 14.9% 18th -1.7pp 9th 5% above peers
Hollywood, FL 14.5% 17th -1.6pp 10th 2% above peers
Paterson, NJ 34.1% 29th -3.1pp 11th 141% above peers
Thornton, CO 8.3% 10th -0.4pp 12th 41% below peers
Springfield, MA 36.3% 31st -1.2pp 13th 156% above peers
Mesquite, TX 13.8% 15th -0.3pp 14th 3% below peers
Joliet, IL 16.3% 20th -0.2pp 15th 15% above peers
Killeen, TX 15.9% 19th +0.2pp 16th 13% above peers
Hayward, CA 10.5% 12th +0.2pp 17th 26% below peers
Corona, CA 7.6% 8th +0.3pp 18th 46% below peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 22.1% 26th +1.8pp 19th 56% above peers
Pasadena, TX 18.6% 23rd +1.6pp 20th 31% above peers
Lakewood, CO 7.2% 7th +0.6pp 21st 49% below peers
Pomona, CA 17.8% 22nd +2.0pp 22nd 26% above peers
Palm Bay, FL 14.2% 16th +1.7pp 23rd on par with peers
Rockford, IL 28.1% 28th +3.6pp 24th 99% above peers
Alexandria, VA 5.2% 5th +0.8pp 25th 63% below peers
Salinas, CA 11.0% 13th +1.7pp 26th 22% below peers
Midland, TX 7.8% 9th +1.3pp 27th 45% below peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 36.0% 30th +7.7pp 28th 155% above peers
Sunnyvale, CA 3.0% 2nd +0.7pp 29th 79% below peers
Palmdale, CA 18.9% 24th +4.9pp 30th 34% above peers
Naperville, IL 4.8% 4th +1.8pp 31st 66% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 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.
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Bend, OR down 4.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2018-2023
  • Buckeye, AZ down 4.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2018-2023
  • Athens, GA down 5.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2018-2023
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2023 ±1.3pp at 90% confidence (2023 estimate) survey trend: 2014-2018 vs 2019-2023 surveys about this metric
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Housing

Typical home value

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

Home value fell about 2% over the 12 months ending August 2026, faster than 82% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: home value rose about 4% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 64% of similar-size cities.
Longer view
Home value rose about 10% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: $444,268 in August 2026, down from $454,722 a year earlier.
$444,268
2000August 2026
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▸ Compare all 29 similar-size cities by change rank
Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref $375,470 (Aug 26) -1.5%
United States ref $368,697 (Aug 26) +1.2%
Rockford, IL $186,897 (Aug 26) 29th +9.7% 1st 57% below peers
Olathe, KS $434,937 (Aug 26) 15th +4.8% 2nd on par with peers
Paterson, NJ $536,737 (Aug 26) 11th +4.8% 3rd 23% above peers
Bridgeport, CT $364,989 (Aug 26) 16th +4.5% 4th 16% below peers
Naperville, IL $625,494 (Aug 26) 8th +4.4% 5th 44% above peers
Springfield, MA $305,068 (Aug 26) 19th +4.3% 6th 30% below peers
Kansas City, KS $204,669 (Aug 26) 27th +2.2% 7th 53% below peers
Midland, TX $330,434 (Aug 26) 17th +1.9% 8th 24% below peers
Salinas, CA $748,418 (Aug 26) 5th +1.4% 9th 72% above peers
Charleston, SC $591,821 (Aug 26) 9th +1.3% 10th 36% above peers
Joliet, IL $269,608 (Aug 26) 22nd +1.2% 11th 38% below peers
Sunnyvale, CA $1,994,916 (Aug 26) 1st +1.2% 12th 359% above peers
Alexandria, VA $666,031 (Aug 26) 7th +0.9% 13th 53% above peers
McAllen, TX $229,066 (Aug 26) 24th +0.5% 14th 47% below peers
Palmdale, CA $499,832 (Aug 26) 12th +0.1% 15th 15% above peers
Corona, CA $754,203 (Aug 26) 4th -0.1% 16th 73% above peers
Pomona, CA $682,283 (Aug 26) 6th -0.1% 17th 57% above peers
Killeen, TX $219,533 (Aug 26) 25th -1.1% 18th 50% below peers
Gainesville, FL $295,760 (Aug 26) 21st -1.2% 19th 32% below peers
Waco, TX $197,932 (Aug 26) 28th -1.3% 20th 54% below peers
Palm Bay, FL $303,910 (Aug 26) 20th -1.7% 21st 30% below peers
Lakewood, CO $556,597 (Aug 26) 10th -2.0% 22nd 28% above peers
Thornton, CO $492,295 (Aug 26) 13th -2.2% 23rd 13% above peers
Hollywood, FL $444,268 (Aug 26) 14th -2.3% 24th 2% above peers
Pasadena, TX $218,883 (Aug 26) 26th -2.3% 25th 50% below peers
Mesquite, TX $258,678 (Aug 26) 23rd -2.5% 26th 41% below peers
Savannah, GA $322,239 (Aug 26) 18th -2.8% 27th 26% below peers
Hayward, CA $820,844 (Aug 26) 3rd -3.2% 28th 89% above peers
Bellevue, WA $1,418,231 (Aug 26) 2nd -3.9% 29th 226% above peers
Zillow Home Value Index through 2026-08 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
Housing

Starter home value (bottom tier)

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

Starter homes fell about 4% over the 12 months ending August 2026, faster than 89% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: starter homes is about 20% higher than in 2021 ($198,709 then, $239,304 now), but the direction has turned: after peaking near $271,823 in 2023 it has fallen each year since.
Longer view
Starter homes rose about 11% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: $239,304 in August 2026, down from $248,457 a year earlier.
$239,304
2000August 2026
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Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref $231,656 (Aug 26) -2.3%
United States ref $200,550 (Aug 26) +2.2%
Rockford, IL $117,389 (Aug 26) 29th +12.9% 1st 55% below peers
Paterson, NJ $426,126 (Aug 26) 7th +6.9% 2nd 65% above peers
Bridgeport, CT $230,143 (Aug 26) 18th +6.2% 3rd 11% below peers
Olathe, KS $333,257 (Aug 26) 14th +6.1% 4th 29% above peers
Springfield, MA $258,798 (Aug 26) 15th +5.6% 5th on par with peers
Kansas City, KS $140,601 (Aug 26) 27th +3.7% 6th 46% below peers
Naperville, IL $396,237 (Aug 26) 9th +3.3% 7th 53% above peers
Midland, TX $226,993 (Aug 26) 19th +2.9% 8th 12% below peers
Salinas, CA $626,114 (Aug 26) 4th +1.9% 9th 142% above peers
McAllen, TX $160,497 (Aug 26) 26th +1.2% 10th 38% below peers
Joliet, IL $202,194 (Aug 26) 22nd +1.2% 11th 22% below peers
Charleston, SC $394,543 (Aug 26) 11th +1.1% 12th 52% above peers
Pomona, CA $570,077 (Aug 26) 6th +0.5% 13th 120% above peers
Corona, CA $622,910 (Aug 26) 5th +0.5% 14th 141% above peers
Palmdale, CA $418,496 (Aug 26) 8th -0.2% 15th 62% above peers
Alexandria, VA $394,721 (Aug 26) 10th -0.3% 16th 53% above peers
Killeen, TX $162,502 (Aug 26) 25th -0.6% 17th 37% below peers
Sunnyvale, CA $1,214,029 (Aug 26) 1st -0.8% 18th 369% above peers
Waco, TX $125,268 (Aug 26) 28th -1.0% 19th 52% below peers
Gainesville, FL $182,482 (Aug 26) 23rd -2.4% 20th 29% below peers
Palm Bay, FL $240,102 (Aug 26) 16th -2.5% 21st 7% below peers
Mesquite, TX $207,504 (Aug 26) 21st -2.9% 22nd 20% below peers
Hayward, CA $636,981 (Aug 26) 3rd -2.9% 23rd 146% above peers
Thornton, CO $384,871 (Aug 26) 12th -3.0% 24th 49% above peers
Pasadena, TX $166,424 (Aug 26) 24th -3.4% 25th 36% below peers
Hollywood, FL $239,304 (Aug 26) 17th -3.7% 26th 8% below peers
Bellevue, WA $762,573 (Aug 26) 2nd -3.8% 27th 195% above peers
Savannah, GA $214,177 (Aug 26) 20th -3.8% 28th 17% below peers
Lakewood, CO $367,696 (Aug 26) 13th -4.5% 29th 42% above peers
Zillow Home Value Index through 2026-08 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
Housing

Homeownership rate

▲ Higher is better Improving (small)
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Homeownership rose 2.3 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 56.6% to 58.9% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.8pp). That reverses the previous span, which went down between the 2010-2014 and 2015-2019 surveys.

Broader trend
37% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction; 3% moved the other way.
Longer view
Homeownership fell 1.0 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (59.9% to 58.9%).
Bright spot 58.9%
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
Florida ref 67.6% +2.2pp
United States ref 65.2%
Killeen, TX 49.5% 23rd +5.7pp 1st 11% below peers
Hayward, CA 58.0% 15th +5.2pp 2nd 4% above peers
Kansas City, KS 60.9% 11th +4.6pp 3rd 10% above peers
Waco, TX 49.4% 24th +3.3pp 4th 11% below peers
Palm Bay, FL 79.7% 1st +5.2pp 5th 43% above peers
Springfield, MA 49.6% 22nd +3.0pp 6th 11% below peers
Mesquite, TX 62.8% 10th +3.7pp 7th 13% above peers
Salinas, CA 47.0% 25th +2.2pp 8th 15% below peers
Joliet, IL 73.7% 4th +3.0pp 9th 33% above peers
Hollywood, FL 58.9% 13th +2.3pp 10th 6% above peers
Savannah, GA 45.4% 26th +1.6pp 11th 18% below peers
Olathe, KS 74.8% 2nd +2.6pp 12th 35% above peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 69.5% 6th +2.4pp 13th 25% above peers
Paterson, NJ 26.9% 31st +0.8pp 14th 52% below peers
Bridgeport, CT 42.8% 28th +1.0pp 15th 23% below peers
Pomona, CA 54.0% 19th +1.2pp 16th 3% below peers
Pasadena, TX 54.5% 18th +0.9pp 17th 2% below peers
Palmdale, CA 66.2% 7th +0.9pp 18th 19% above peers
Rockford, IL 55.0% 17th +0.7pp 19th 1% below peers
Midland, TX 65.1% 8th +0.1pp 20th 17% above peers
Charleston, SC 55.6% 16th +0.0pp 21st on par with peers
Lakewood, CO 58.1% 14th -0.2pp 22nd 5% above peers
Corona, CA 63.8% 9th -0.3pp 23rd 15% above peers
Naperville, IL 74.8% 3rd -0.8pp 24th 35% above peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 51.4% 21st -0.9pp 25th 8% below peers
Thornton, CO 71.4% 5th -1.4pp 26th 28% above peers
McAllen, TX 59.5% 12th -1.4pp 27th 7% above peers
Alexandria, VA 42.1% 29th -1.1pp 28th 24% below peers
Gainesville, FL 37.7% 30th -1.2pp 29th 32% below peers
Sunnyvale, CA 43.8% 27th -1.6pp 30th 21% below peers
Bellevue, WA 52.0% 20th -2.1pp 31st 6% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 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 ±1.3pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Housing

Typical asking rent

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

Rent rose about 1% over the 12 months ending August 2026, faster than 50% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: rent rose about 2% a year from 2021 to 2026, slower than 82% of similar-size cities.
Longer view
Rent rose about 8% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: $2,341 in August 2026, up from $2,312 a year earlier.
Big move $2,341
2015August 2026
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Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
United States ref $1,948 (Aug 26) +2.5%
Sunnyvale, CA $3,932 (Aug 26) 1st +8.8% 1st 111% above peers
Rockford, IL $1,195 (Aug 26) 29th +7.8% 2nd 36% below peers
Salinas, CA $2,501 (Aug 26) 6th +5.5% 3rd 34% above peers
Kansas City, KS $1,326 (Aug 26) 26th +5.4% 4th 29% below peers
Joliet, IL $1,668 (Aug 26) 20th +5.2% 5th 11% below peers
Charleston, SC $2,312 (Aug 26) 9th +5.0% 6th 24% above peers
Olathe, KS $1,810 (Aug 26) 17th +4.4% 7th 3% below peers
Springfield, MA $1,853 (Aug 26) 16th +4.3% 8th 1% below peers
Corona, CA $2,674 (Aug 26) 4th +3.2% 9th 43% above peers
Hayward, CA $2,637 (Aug 26) 5th +3.0% 10th 41% above peers
Naperville, IL $2,289 (Aug 26) 10th +2.7% 11th 23% above peers
Bridgeport, CT $1,990 (Aug 26) 12th +2.7% 12th 7% above peers
Gainesville, FL $1,618 (Aug 26) 21st +1.7% 13th 13% below peers
Bellevue, WA $2,828 (Aug 26) 2nd +1.6% 14th 51% above peers
Hollywood, FL $2,341 (Aug 26) 8th +1.3% 15th 25% above peers
Pasadena, TX $1,378 (Aug 26) 24th +1.2% 16th 26% below peers
Pomona, CA $2,353 (Aug 26) 7th +1.1% 17th 26% above peers
Palm Bay, FL $1,867 (Aug 26) 15th +1.1% 18th on par with peers
McAllen, TX $1,283 (Aug 26) 27th +1.0% 19th 31% below peers
Paterson, NJ $1,878 (Aug 26) 14th +1.0% 20th 1% above peers
Palmdale, CA $2,751 (Aug 26) 3rd +0.7% 21st 47% above peers
Waco, TX $1,363 (Aug 26) 25th +0.3% 22nd 27% below peers
Savannah, GA $1,757 (Aug 26) 19th -0.7% 23rd 6% below peers
Mesquite, TX $1,471 (Aug 26) 23rd -0.7% 24th 21% below peers
Killeen, TX $1,273 (Aug 26) 28th -1.0% 25th 32% below peers
Thornton, CO $1,881 (Aug 26) 13th -1.1% 26th 1% above peers
Lakewood, CO $1,800 (Aug 26) 18th -1.3% 27th 4% below peers
Alexandria, VA $2,285 (Aug 26) 11th -1.3% 28th 22% above peers
Midland, TX $1,599 (Aug 26) 22nd -2.2% 29th 14% below peers
Zillow Observed Rent Index through 2026-08 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
Housing

Housing cost-burdened households

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

Cost burden rose 4.5 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 45.5% to 50.0% - more than the combined survey margin (±3.2pp). That reverses the previous span, which went down between the 2010-2014 and 2015-2019 surveys. That is movement in the wrong direction.

Broader trend
23% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction; 13% moved the other way.
Longer view
Cost burden rose 0.2 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (49.9% to 50.0%).
Needs attention 50.0%
20102024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 37.7% +1.8pp
United States ref 32.2% +0.4pp
Salinas, CA 41.2% 21st -5.9pp 1st 12% above peers
Joliet, IL 28.5% 3rd -3.9pp 2nd 23% below peers
Pomona, CA 43.7% 25th -4.0pp 3rd 19% above peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 31.7% 7th -2.1pp 4th 14% below peers
Kansas City, KS 33.0% 8th -1.5pp 5th 11% below peers
Bridgeport, CT 51.1% 29th -1.8pp 6th 39% above peers
Corona, CA 41.7% 22nd -1.4pp 7th 13% above peers
Hayward, CA 40.2% 19th -1.2pp 8th 9% above peers
Sunnyvale, CA 29.5% 5th -0.7pp 9th 20% below peers
Naperville, IL 24.5% 2nd -0.6pp 10th 34% below peers
Springfield, MA 46.2% 26th -0.8pp 11th 25% above peers
McAllen, TX 33.6% 9th -0.6pp 12th 9% below peers
Paterson, NJ 56.6% 31st -0.7pp 13th 54% above peers
Savannah, GA 41.8% 24th -0.3pp 14th 13% above peers
Bellevue, WA 29.5% 4th -0.1pp 15th 20% below peers
Waco, TX 41.7% 23rd +0.1pp 16th 13% above peers
Palm Bay, FL 31.5% 6th +0.2pp 17th 15% below peers
Rockford, IL 34.4% 11th +0.7pp 18th 7% below peers
Palmdale, CA 46.7% 27th +1.4pp 19th 27% above peers
Charleston, SC 36.6% 15th +1.2pp 20th 1% below peers
Lakewood, CO 36.9% 16th +1.9pp 21st on par with peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 38.4% 17th +2.2pp 22nd 4% above peers
Alexandria, VA 35.3% 12th +2.2pp 23rd 4% below peers
Olathe, KS 23.7% 1st +2.1pp 24th 36% below peers
Thornton, CO 35.8% 13th +3.2pp 25th 3% below peers
Hollywood, FL 50.0% 28th +4.5pp 26th 36% above peers
Killeen, TX 40.2% 20th +4.6pp 27th 9% above peers
Mesquite, TX 39.8% 18th +4.6pp 28th 8% above peers
Gainesville, FL 51.3% 30th +6.4pp 29th 39% above peers
Pasadena, TX 36.0% 14th +5.5pp 30th 2% below peers
Midland, TX 34.1% 10th +7.4pp 31st 7% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 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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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Salinas, CA down 5.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Fontana, CA down 5.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • East Los Angeles, CA down 4.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (tables B25070 + B25091) through 2024 ±2.6pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Housing

Households without a vehicle

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

No vehicle changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (8.4% then, 8.2% now; margin ±1.3pp).

Broader trend
33% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
No vehicle fell less than 0.1 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (8.2% to 8.2%).
Needs attention 8.2%
20102024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 6.0% -0.4pp
United States ref 8.3% -0.3pp
Kansas City, KS 7.3% 20th -2.4pp 1st 7% above peers
Savannah, GA 10.5% 23rd -3.2pp 2nd 54% above peers
Killeen, TX 5.0% 8th -1.5pp 3rd 27% below peers
Waco, TX 6.8% 16th -1.9pp 4th on par with peers
Springfield, MA 18.2% 29th -3.7pp 5th 167% above peers
Paterson, NJ 26.1% 31st -5.2pp 6th 283% above peers
Palmdale, CA 4.8% 6th -0.9pp 7th 30% below peers
Olathe, KS 3.2% 2nd -0.3pp 8th 53% below peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 12.3% 27th -1.0pp 9th 80% above peers
Joliet, IL 5.9% 12th -0.5pp 10th 14% below peers
Thornton, CO 3.0% 1st -0.2pp 11th 56% below peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 11.3% 25th -0.6pp 12th 65% above peers
Lakewood, CO 6.1% 14th -0.2pp 13th 11% below peers
Naperville, IL 3.8% 4th -0.1pp 14th 44% below peers
Bridgeport, CT 19.5% 30th -0.6pp 15th 186% above peers
Hollywood, FL 8.2% 21st -0.2pp 16th 20% above peers
Hayward, CA 5.7% 11th -0.1pp 17th 17% below peers
Pomona, CA 6.5% 15th -0.1pp 18th 4% below peers
Rockford, IL 12.7% 28th +0.1pp 19th 87% above peers
Salinas, CA 5.2% 10th +0.0pp 20th 24% below peers
Charleston, SC 7.2% 19th +0.3pp 21st 6% above peers
Palm Bay, FL 4.7% 5th +0.2pp 22nd 31% below peers
McAllen, TX 7.0% 17th +0.3pp 23rd 2% above peers
Mesquite, TX 4.9% 7th +0.2pp 24th 29% below peers
Pasadena, TX 6.0% 13th +0.5pp 25th 11% below peers
Midland, TX 5.0% 9th +0.7pp 26th 26% below peers
Gainesville, FL 10.8% 24th +1.7pp 27th 58% above peers
Sunnyvale, CA 7.0% 18th +1.1pp 28th 3% above peers
Alexandria, VA 11.4% 26th +2.0pp 29th 67% above peers
Bellevue, WA 9.2% 22nd +1.7pp 30th 34% above peers
Corona, CA 3.7% 3rd +0.8pp 31st 46% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Fayetteville, AR down 2.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Visalia, CA down 1.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Victorville, CA down 2.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B08201) through 2024 ±1.0pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Health 3 indicators
Health

People without health insurance

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

Uninsured changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (16.9% then, 15.5% now; margin ±1.5pp). The newest releases lean downward: each of the last 3 annual updates moved the 5-year average the same way - an early signal, not a measured change.*

Broader trend
50% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Uninsured fell 9.2 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (24.7% to 15.5%).
Needs attention 15.5%
20132024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 11.5% -1.3pp
United States ref 8.4% -0.4pp
Charleston, SC 6.0% 5th -2.1pp 1st 40% below peers
Alexandria, VA 8.8% 15th -2.2pp 2nd 11% below peers
Sunnyvale, CA 2.9% 2nd -0.7pp 3rd 71% below peers
Savannah, GA 13.9% 21st -3.1pp 4th 40% above peers
Midland, TX 14.4% 22nd -2.4pp 5th 45% above peers
Gainesville, FL 7.4% 10th -1.1pp 6th 25% below peers
Pomona, CA 11.0% 17th -1.4pp 7th 11% above peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 6.7% 7th -0.8pp 8th 32% below peers
Naperville, IL 2.4% 1st -0.3pp 9th 75% below peers
Hollywood, FL 15.5% 26th -1.4pp 10th 56% above peers
Bellevue, WA 4.2% 4th -0.3pp 11th 57% below peers
Corona, CA 8.4% 14th -0.7pp 12th 16% below peers
Salinas, CA 12.3% 18th -0.8pp 13th 24% above peers
Kansas City, KS 17.8% 27th -1.0pp 14th 79% above peers
McAllen, TX 24.1% 30th -1.2pp 15th 143% above peers
Springfield, MA 3.8% 3rd -0.2pp 16th 61% below peers
Lakewood, CO 7.5% 11th -0.3pp 17th 24% below peers
Waco, TX 15.2% 24th -0.2pp 18th 54% above peers
Olathe, KS 7.2% 8th -0.0pp 19th 28% below peers
Joliet, IL 8.1% 12th +0.2pp 20th 18% below peers
Mesquite, TX 21.5% 29th +0.7pp 21st 117% above peers
Palmdale, CA 8.2% 13th +0.3pp 22nd 18% below peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 13.6% 20th +0.6pp 23rd 37% above peers
Palm Bay, FL 12.8% 19th +0.7pp 24th 29% above peers
Rockford, IL 7.2% 9th +0.4pp 25th 27% below peers
Pasadena, TX 28.5% 31st +2.1pp 26th 187% above peers
Bridgeport, CT 14.8% 23rd +1.2pp 27th 50% above peers
Paterson, NJ 19.5% 28th +1.6pp 28th 97% above peers
Thornton, CO 9.9% 16th +1.6pp 29th on par with peers
Killeen, TX 15.3% 25th +3.0pp 30th 55% above peers
Hayward, CA 6.2% 6th +1.4pp 31st 38% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 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 · Age · Sex · ACS 2024
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Riverview, FL down 3.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Hialeah, FL down 5.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Rialto, CA down 3.3pp 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 *Early signal: consecutive releases agree on direction only; the size of the newest movement is not measurable from overlapping surveys. about this metric
Health

Adult obesity

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

Adult obesity is somewhat below the peer median.

31.5%
20202022
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Place Latest Today's rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 32.6%
United States ref 33.4%
Bellevue, WA 19.1% 1st 44% below peers
Sunnyvale, CA 19.4% 2nd 43% below peers
Hayward, CA 21.7% 3rd 37% below peers
Lakewood, CO 25.6% 4th 25% below peers
Naperville, IL 27.3% 5th 20% below peers
Charleston, SC 29.1% 6th 15% below peers
Alexandria, VA 29.5% 7th 14% below peers
Pomona, CA 29.5% 8th 14% below peers
Palmdale, CA 30.4% 9th 11% below peers
Hollywood, FL 31.5% 10th 8% below peers
Thornton, CO 32.0% 11th 6% below peers
Corona, CA 32.4% 12th 5% below peers
Olathe, KS 33.2% 13th 3% below peers
Bridgeport, CT 34.0% 14th 1% below peers
Salinas, CA 34.2% 15th on par with peers
Gainesville, FL 34.2% 16th on par with peers
Palm Bay, FL 35.5% 17th 4% above peers
Pasadena, TX 36.5% 18th 7% above peers
Mesquite, TX 36.8% 19th 8% above peers
Paterson, NJ 37.3% 20th 9% above peers
Savannah, GA 38.7% 21st 13% above peers
Midland, TX 39.1% 22nd 14% above peers
Springfield, MA 39.9% 23rd 17% above peers
Joliet, IL 40.5% 24th 18% above peers
Rockford, IL 41.2% 25th 20% above peers
Waco, TX 41.3% 26th 21% above peers
Killeen, TX 41.7% 27th 22% above peers
Kansas City, KS 42.3% 28th 24% above peers
McAllen, TX 44.6% 29th 30% above peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 48.5% 30th 42% 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 →
What changed

Child uninsured changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (7.5% then, 7.2% now; margin ±2.3pp).

Broader trend
20% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Child uninsured fell 5.4 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (12.6% to 7.2%).
Needs attention 7.2%
20122024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 7.5% +0.3pp
United States ref 5.5% +0.4pp
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 2.7% 6th -1.2pp 1st 43% below peers
Charleston, SC 2.3% 5th -1.0pp 2nd 53% below peers
Alexandria, VA 4.8% 16th -1.9pp 3rd on par with peers
Pomona, CA 3.8% 10th -1.1pp 4th 20% below peers
Midland, TX 11.6% 28th -3.0pp 5th 144% above peers
Savannah, GA 6.7% 20th -1.0pp 6th 39% above peers
Lakewood, CO 4.8% 15th -0.7pp 7th 1% below peers
Naperville, IL 1.7% 1st -0.1pp 8th 64% below peers
Hollywood, FL 7.2% 23rd -0.3pp 9th 51% above peers
Olathe, KS 4.6% 12th +0.1pp 10th 4% below peers
Kansas City, KS 9.3% 27th +0.3pp 11th 95% above peers
Bridgeport, CT 5.3% 18th +0.2pp 12th 10% above peers
Corona, CA 4.7% 13th +0.2pp 13th 3% below peers
McAllen, TX 14.6% 30th +0.8pp 14th 206% above peers
Pasadena, TX 17.6% 31st +1.0pp 15th 268% above peers
Waco, TX 8.7% 24th +0.8pp 16th 83% above peers
Mesquite, TX 13.8% 29th +1.4pp 17th 189% above peers
Killeen, TX 6.0% 19th +0.7pp 18th 26% above peers
Rockford, IL 2.9% 7th +0.4pp 19th 40% below peers
Joliet, IL 3.7% 9th +0.6pp 20th 22% below peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 6.8% 22nd +1.2pp 21st 43% above peers
Paterson, NJ 9.0% 26th +1.8pp 22nd 88% above peers
Hayward, CA 2.9% 8th +0.7pp 23rd 39% below peers
Gainesville, FL 4.1% 11th +1.1pp 24th 15% below peers
Springfield, MA 2.1% 3rd +0.6pp 25th 56% below peers
Palm Bay, FL 8.9% 25th +2.4pp 26th 87% above peers
Bellevue, WA 2.1% 4th +0.6pp 27th 55% below peers
Palmdale, CA 4.7% 14th +1.7pp 28th 1% below peers
Thornton, CO 6.8% 21st +2.7pp 29th 41% above peers
Salinas, CA 5.2% 17th +2.3pp 30th 9% above peers
Sunnyvale, CA 1.9% 2nd +1.0pp 31st 60% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Costa Mesa, CA down 4.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Downey, CA down 3.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Riverview, FL down 3.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B27001) through 2024 ±1.6pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Education 3 indicators
Education

Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher

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

College attainment rose 5.9 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 27.9% to 33.8% - more than the combined survey margin (±2.0pp).

Broader trend
79% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. Hollywood started mid-pack and has reached a genuinely better level; worth investigating.
Longer view
College attainment rose 7.0 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (26.8% to 33.8%).
Bright spot 33.8%
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
Florida ref 34.1% +4.3pp
United States ref 35.7% +3.5pp
Bridgeport, CT 23.4% 21st +4.6pp 1st 28% below peers
Palm Bay, FL 24.0% 19th +4.7pp 2nd 26% below peers
Salinas, CA 16.5% 28th +3.1pp 3rd 49% below peers
Hayward, CA 34.0% 9th +6.3pp 4th 5% above peers
Hollywood, FL 33.8% 10th +5.9pp 5th 4% above peers
Corona, CA 32.4% 15th +5.4pp 6th on par with peers
Gainesville, FL 53.7% 6th +8.6pp 7th 66% above peers
Savannah, GA 33.3% 12th +5.1pp 8th 3% above peers
Kansas City, KS 20.8% 23rd +3.1pp 9th 36% below peers
Midland, TX 33.7% 11th +4.8pp 10th 4% above peers
Joliet, IL 25.5% 18th +3.4pp 11th 21% below peers
Waco, TX 28.7% 16th +3.8pp 12th 11% below peers
Thornton, CO 32.8% 13th +3.7pp 13th 1% above peers
Pasadena, TX 16.2% 29th +1.8pp 14th 50% below peers
Pomona, CA 20.3% 25th +2.2pp 15th 37% below peers
Lakewood, CO 45.3% 8th +4.4pp 16th 40% above peers
Springfield, MA 20.5% 24th +1.9pp 17th 37% below peers
Palmdale, CA 17.1% 27th +1.6pp 18th 47% below peers
Mesquite, TX 19.6% 26th +1.8pp 19th 39% below peers
Charleston, SC 58.3% 5th +5.2pp 20th 80% above peers
Killeen, TX 21.9% 22nd +1.7pp 21st 32% below peers
McAllen, TX 32.5% 14th +2.2pp 22nd on par with peers
Sunnyvale, CA 69.3% 3rd +4.3pp 23rd 114% above peers
Paterson, NJ 11.8% 30th +0.7pp 24th 64% below peers
Naperville, IL 72.5% 1st +4.3pp 25th 124% above peers
Rockford, IL 23.5% 20th +1.1pp 26th 28% below peers
Bellevue, WA 72.1% 2nd +3.4pp 27th 123% above peers
Alexandria, VA 66.2% 4th +3.1pp 28th 104% above peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 26.3% 17th +0.9pp 29th 19% below peers
Olathe, KS 50.5% 7th +0.8pp 30th 56% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EducationAdults with a bachelor's degree or higher
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▸ Break down by group Sex · ACS 2024
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started 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 →
  • Miramar, FL up 10.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Conroe, TX up 7.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
  • St. George, UT up 7.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 94% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.6pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Education

Children ages 3-4 enrolled in preschool

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

Preschool enrollment fell 19.0 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 73.6% to 54.7% - more than the combined survey margin (±10.4pp). That reverses the previous span, which went up between the 2010-2014 and 2015-2019 surveys. That is movement in the wrong direction.

Broader trend
27% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction; 3% moved the other way.
Longer view
Preschool enrollment fell 1.9 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (56.5% to 54.7%).
Needs attention 54.7%
20112024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 48.9% -2.9pp
United States ref 45.5%
Mesquite, TX 45.9% 18th +11.8pp 1st 5% below peers
Midland, TX 41.0% 20th +5.4pp 2nd 15% below peers
Charleston, SC 64.9% 2nd +8.3pp 3rd 35% above peers
Springfield, MA 62.5% 4th +7.7pp 4th 30% above peers
Olathe, KS 51.0% 13th +5.9pp 5th 6% above peers
Waco, TX 51.2% 12th +5.8pp 6th 7% above peers
McAllen, TX 48.4% 15th +4.3pp 7th 1% above peers
Joliet, IL 46.3% 17th +3.8pp 8th 4% below peers
Pasadena, TX 30.3% 26th +1.0pp 9th 37% below peers
Sunnyvale, CA 66.5% 1st -2.2pp 10th 38% above peers
Kansas City, KS 40.7% 21st -2.0pp 11th 15% below peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 59.3% 6th -3.8pp 12th 23% above peers
Alexandria, VA 51.3% 11th -4.2pp 13th 7% above peers
Hayward, CA 41.4% 19th -3.8pp 14th 14% below peers
Bridgeport, CT 59.9% 5th -5.9pp 15th 25% above peers
Naperville, IL 64.2% 3rd -6.5pp 16th 34% above peers
Rockford, IL 48.1% 16th -4.9pp 17th on par with peers
Pomona, CA 39.6% 22nd -4.5pp 18th 18% below peers
Lakewood, CO 50.3% 14th -6.8pp 19th 5% above peers
Gainesville, FL 53.0% 9th -9.6pp 20th 10% above peers
Paterson, NJ 58.2% 7th -10.9pp 21st 21% above peers
Bellevue, WA 52.9% 10th -12.0pp 22nd 10% above peers
Killeen, TX 26.2% 31st -7.3pp 23rd 45% below peers
Palmdale, CA 29.7% 27th -9.6pp 24th 38% below peers
Salinas, CA 26.9% 30th -8.9pp 25th 44% below peers
Hollywood, FL 54.7% 8th -19.0pp 26th 14% above peers
Thornton, CO 34.0% 24th -12.3pp 27th 29% below peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 34.8% 23rd -15.7pp 28th 28% below peers
Corona, CA 27.5% 29th -12.9pp 29th 43% below peers
Palm Bay, FL 27.9% 28th -19.0pp 30th 42% below peers
Savannah, GA 31.9% 25th -23.1pp 31st 34% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 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 ±6.8pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Education

Teens not in school and not working

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

Disconnected youth changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (5.7% then, 7.0% now; margin ±3.9pp).

Broader trend
7% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Disconnected youth fell 3.6 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (10.6% to 7.0%).
Needs attention 7.0%
20102024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 7.1% +0.0pp
United States ref 6.9% +0.3pp
Sunnyvale, CA 0.3% 1st -2.6pp 1st 96% below peers
Gainesville, FL 1.6% 2nd -2.5pp 2nd 75% below peers
Kansas City, KS 6.3% 13th -4.9pp 3rd 2% below peers
Midland, TX 5.5% 8th -3.2pp 4th 15% below peers
McAllen, TX 5.8% 11th -2.4pp 5th 9% below peers
Pasadena, TX 6.3% 14th -2.2pp 6th 1% below peers
Alexandria, VA 5.1% 7th -1.7pp 7th 21% below peers
Charleston, SC 2.3% 3rd -0.6pp 8th 65% below peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 8.7% 24th -1.9pp 9th 35% above peers
Bridgeport, CT 6.4% 15th -1.4pp 10th on par with peers
Hayward, CA 5.6% 9th -0.9pp 11th 13% below peers
Savannah, GA 5.8% 10th -0.8pp 12th 10% below peers
Pomona, CA 6.0% 12th -0.8pp 13th 7% below peers
Mesquite, TX 6.4% 16th -0.8pp 14th on par with peers
Paterson, NJ 6.8% 18th -0.5pp 15th 6% above peers
Palmdale, CA 7.2% 21st -0.5pp 16th 13% above peers
Lakewood, CO 8.1% 22nd -0.4pp 17th 26% above peers
Olathe, KS 4.1% 6th -0.1pp 18th 36% below peers
Salinas, CA 8.4% 23rd +0.0pp 19th 30% above peers
Joliet, IL 9.2% 25th +0.1pp 20th 44% above peers
Rockford, IL 12.4% 29th +0.7pp 21st 93% above peers
Corona, CA 7.0% 19th +0.6pp 22nd 8% above peers
Springfield, MA 12.9% 30th +2.3pp 23rd 100% above peers
Hollywood, FL 7.0% 20th +1.3pp 24th 9% above peers
Killeen, TX 11.9% 28th +2.3pp 25th 86% above peers
Palm Bay, FL 10.7% 26th +2.4pp 26th 67% above peers
Thornton, CO 10.9% 27th +2.6pp 27th 69% above peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 13.7% 31st +3.8pp 28th 114% above peers
Waco, TX 6.6% 17th +2.1pp 29th 2% above peers
Bellevue, WA 3.8% 5th +1.9pp 30th 41% below peers
Naperville, IL 3.2% 4th +1.7pp 31st 50% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 census tracts
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EducationTeens not in school and not working
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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Gainesville, FL down 2.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B14005) through 2024 ±3.0pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Demographics 4 indicators
Demographics

Population

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

Population rose about 2% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 152,511 to 155,082 - more than the combined survey margin (±91).

Broader trend
77% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction; 17% moved the other way.
Longer view
Population rose about 7% from 2014 to 2024 (145,128 to 155,082).
Big move 155,082
20102024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Palm Bay, FL 130,132 31st +16% 1st 14% below peers
Charleston, SC 154,338 14th +14% 2nd 2% above peers
Gainesville, FL 145,702 25th +10% 3rd 4% below peers
Paterson, NJ 158,735 6th +9% 4th 5% above peers
Killeen, TX 158,159 7th +9% 5th 4% above peers
Waco, TX 143,570 29th +6% 6th 5% below peers
Olathe, KS 145,057 27th +5% 7th 4% below peers
Thornton, CO 144,187 28th +5% 8th 5% below peers
Palmdale, CA 164,634 2nd +5% 9th 8% above peers
Bellevue, WA 151,847 16th +5% 10th on par with peers
Mesquite, TX 149,299 20th +4% 11th 2% below peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 166,923 1st +4% 12th 10% above peers
Salinas, CA 161,761 3rd +4% 13th 7% above peers
Bridgeport, CT 149,153 21st +2% 14th 2% below peers
McAllen, TX 145,385 26th +2% 15th 4% below peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 156,578 10th +2% 16th 3% above peers
Naperville, IL 150,692 17th +2% 17th 1% below peers
Joliet, IL 150,445 18th +2% 18th 1% below peers
Savannah, GA 147,898 23rd +2% 19th 3% below peers
Kansas City, KS 155,135 11th +2% 20th 2% above peers
Hollywood, FL 155,082 12th +2% 21st 2% above peers
Sunnyvale, CA 154,236 15th +1% 22nd 2% above peers
Lakewood, CO 156,583 9th +1% 23rd 3% above peers
Springfield, MA 154,749 13th +0% 24th 2% above peers
Rockford, IL 147,521 24th +0% 25th 3% below peers
Hayward, CA 158,801 5th -0% 26th 5% above peers
Alexandria, VA 156,976 8th -0% 27th 3% above peers
Midland, TX 136,640 30th -1% 28th 10% below peers
Pasadena, TX 149,433 19th -3% 29th 2% below peers
Pomona, CA 147,943 22nd -3% 30th 3% below peers
Corona, CA 159,670 4th -4% 31st 5% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 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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Demographics

Children's share of the population

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

Children changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (19.8% then, 19.1% now; margin ±1.2pp).

Broader trend
53% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Children fell 0.7 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (19.8% to 19.1%).
Big move 19.1%
20172024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 19.5% -0.5pp
United States ref 21.9% -0.7pp
Midland, TX 29.8% 1st +2.2pp 1st 23% above peers
Charleston, SC 17.3% 28th +0.6pp 2nd 28% below peers
Paterson, NJ 27.6% 8th +0.4pp 3rd 14% above peers
Alexandria, VA 18.1% 27th -0.0pp 4th 25% below peers
Savannah, GA 20.4% 22nd -0.0pp 5th 16% below peers
McAllen, TX 28.2% 5th -0.1pp 6th 17% above peers
Gainesville, FL 13.1% 31st -0.1pp 7th 46% below peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 24.4% 13th -0.2pp 8th 1% above peers
Kansas City, KS 27.6% 9th -0.2pp 9th 14% above peers
Palm Bay, FL 22.1% 20th -0.3pp 10th 8% below peers
Palmdale, CA 29.5% 2nd -0.5pp 11th 22% above peers
Naperville, IL 24.8% 12th -0.6pp 12th 3% above peers
Springfield, MA 24.2% 15th -0.6pp 13th on par with peers
Rockford, IL 24.2% 16th -0.8pp 14th on par with peers
Killeen, TX 29.3% 4th -1.0pp 15th 21% above peers
Hollywood, FL 19.1% 26th -0.7pp 16th 21% below peers
Waco, TX 22.8% 19th -1.0pp 17th 6% below peers
Mesquite, TX 27.9% 7th -1.3pp 18th 15% above peers
Salinas, CA 29.4% 3rd -1.6pp 19th 22% above peers
Bellevue, WA 19.5% 24th -1.1pp 20th 19% below peers
Pasadena, TX 28.0% 6th -1.8pp 21st 16% above peers
Sunnyvale, CA 19.5% 25th -1.5pp 22nd 19% below peers
Corona, CA 23.2% 17th -2.1pp 23rd 4% below peers
Pomona, CA 22.9% 18th -2.2pp 24th 5% below peers
Olathe, KS 26.0% 10th -2.4pp 25th 8% above peers
Hayward, CA 19.6% 23rd -1.9pp 26th 19% below peers
Bridgeport, CT 20.9% 21st -2.3pp 27th 14% below peers
Thornton, CO 24.9% 11th -3.1pp 28th 3% above peers
Lakewood, CO 16.3% 29th -2.1pp 29th 33% below peers
Joliet, IL 24.4% 14th -3.3pp 30th 1% above peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 15.5% 30th -2.7pp 31st 36% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 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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Demographics

Children in single-parent families

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

Single-parent changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (39.5% then, 38.4% now; margin ±5.6pp).

Broader trend
23% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Single-parent rose 2.7 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (35.7% to 38.4%).
38.4%
20102024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 32.9% -1.8pp
United States ref 29.9% -0.2pp
Sunnyvale, CA 15.9% 28th +3.8pp 1st 59% below peers
Salinas, CA 43.8% 11th +9.2pp 2nd 14% above peers
Pasadena, TX 40.7% 13th +7.2pp 3rd 6% above peers
Lakewood, CO 37.0% 18th +5.8pp 4th 3% below peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 63.2% 2nd +7.3pp 5th 65% above peers
Killeen, TX 43.1% 12th +4.5pp 6th 13% above peers
Thornton, CO 26.1% 22nd +2.3pp 7th 32% below peers
Gainesville, FL 43.9% 10th +3.3pp 8th 15% above peers
Pomona, CA 38.3% 16th +2.8pp 9th on par with peers
Kansas City, KS 44.8% 9th +2.3pp 10th 17% above peers
Mesquite, TX 46.3% 8th +2.1pp 11th 21% above peers
Bridgeport, CT 54.1% 5th +2.4pp 12th 41% above peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 54.3% 4th +2.2pp 13th 42% above peers
Bellevue, WA 13.9% 30th +0.2pp 14th 64% below peers
Corona, CA 22.5% 26th +0.3pp 15th 41% below peers
Joliet, IL 31.6% 20th +0.2pp 16th 17% below peers
Rockford, IL 51.5% 7th -0.1pp 17th 34% above peers
Paterson, NJ 54.0% 6th -0.6pp 18th 41% above peers
Palmdale, CA 33.2% 19th -0.6pp 19th 13% below peers
Savannah, GA 55.6% 3rd -1.0pp 20th 45% above peers
Springfield, MA 63.5% 1st -1.2pp 21st 66% above peers
Hollywood, FL 38.4% 15th -1.1pp 22nd on par with peers
Naperville, IL 13.2% 31st -0.6pp 23rd 66% below peers
Palm Bay, FL 37.0% 17th -1.8pp 24th 3% below peers
Hayward, CA 25.7% 23rd -2.0pp 25th 33% below peers
Waco, TX 39.1% 14th -3.3pp 26th 2% above peers
McAllen, TX 29.8% 21st -2.7pp 27th 22% below peers
Alexandria, VA 24.6% 25th -3.9pp 28th 36% below peers
Midland, TX 21.7% 27th -5.0pp 29th 43% below peers
Charleston, SC 24.8% 24th -6.3pp 30th 35% below peers
Olathe, KS 15.7% 29th -5.8pp 31st 59% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: blue tracts rose, orange tracts fell. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
DemographicsChildren in single-parent families
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Census ACS 5-year survey (table B09002) through 2024 ±4.2pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Demographics

Young children with all parents in the labor force

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

Working parents changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (74.3% then, 67.9% now; margin ±7.2pp).

Broader trend
13% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Working parents fell 7.1 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (75.0% to 67.9%).
67.9%
20102024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 69.2% +1.8pp
United States ref 68.1% +1.9pp
Alexandria, VA 79.8% 1st +14.0pp 1st 18% above peers
Pasadena, TX 63.1% 24th +10.0pp 2nd 7% below peers
Palmdale, CA 65.3% 20th +9.1pp 3rd 4% below peers
Pomona, CA 69.1% 13th +8.7pp 4th 2% above peers
Salinas, CA 59.9% 28th +6.0pp 5th 12% below peers
Olathe, KS 77.6% 3rd +7.8pp 6th 14% above peers
Mesquite, TX 77.0% 4th +7.3pp 7th 13% above peers
Corona, CA 67.8% 16th +5.9pp 8th on par with peers
Killeen, TX 67.2% 18th +5.7pp 9th 1% below peers
Charleston, SC 79.5% 2nd +6.5pp 10th 17% above peers
Thornton, CO 74.0% 6th +4.7pp 11th 9% above peers
Paterson, NJ 64.4% 22nd +3.7pp 12th 5% below peers
Hayward, CA 69.5% 12th +4.0pp 13th 2% above peers
Lakewood, CO 69.7% 11th +3.9pp 14th 3% above peers
Sunnyvale, CA 62.8% 26th +3.5pp 15th 7% below peers
Palm Bay, FL 74.0% 7th +3.7pp 16th 9% above peers
Kansas City, KS 68.5% 14th +2.8pp 17th 1% above peers
Gainesville, FL 71.7% 10th +2.5pp 18th 6% above peers
Bellevue, WA 52.0% 31st -1.0pp 19th 23% below peers
Joliet, IL 67.6% 17th -1.3pp 20th on par with peers
Rockford, IL 72.6% 9th -1.7pp 21st 7% above peers
Waco, TX 64.7% 21st -1.6pp 22nd 5% below peers
Savannah, GA 75.5% 5th -2.0pp 23rd 11% above peers
Midland, TX 56.6% 29th -1.7pp 24th 17% below peers
Macon-Bibb County, GA 72.8% 8th -3.4pp 25th 7% above peers
Naperville, IL 62.9% 25th -3.2pp 26th 7% below peers
Springfield, MA 63.3% 23rd -3.9pp 27th 7% below peers
McAllen, TX 56.4% 30th -4.7pp 28th 17% below peers
Hollywood, FL 67.9% 15th -6.3pp 29th on par with peers
Bridgeport, CT 66.6% 19th -7.7pp 30th 2% below peers
Bayamón zona urbana, PR 60.3% 27th -10.2pp 31st 11% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 35 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: blue tracts rose, orange tracts fell. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
DemographicsYoung children with all parents in the labor force
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Census ACS 5-year survey (table B23008) through 2024 ±6.0pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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