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65,130 people (2024) 50k-100k South

Bright spots 8 indicators

Where St. Cloud, FL shows a real improvement in recent years, or stands clearly ahead of its peers. How this is calculated →
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Disconnected youth
Teens not in school and not working
0.9%
2020-24
▼ 93%
relative change
13.2% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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College attainment
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher
31.6%
2020-24
▲ 73%
relative change
18.2% in 2019
Real improvement Trailing peers
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Household income
Median household income
$83,174
2020-24
▲ 50%
relative change
$55,440 in 2019
Real improvement Trailing peers
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Child poverty
Share of children below the poverty level
13.1%
2020-24
▼ 33%
relative change
19.7% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Broadband
Households with a broadband internet subscription
95.2%
2020-24
▲ 9%
relative change
87.5% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Inequality
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.39
2020-24
▼ 3%
relative change
0.40 in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Homeownership
Homeownership rate
72.5%
2020-24
▼ 2%
relative change
73.7% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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No vehicle
Households without a vehicle
4.0%
2020-24
▼ 28%
relative change
5.6% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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What needs attention 6 indicators

Where St. Cloud, FL shows a real worsening in recent years, or trails its peers clearly. How this is calculated →
Unemployment
Unemployment rate
5.1%
May 2026
▲ 34%
relative change
3.8% a year earlier
Behind peers and rising Trailing peers
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SNAP
Households receiving SNAP
15.1%
2019-23
▼ 4%
relative change
15.8% in 2018
No measurable change Trailing peers
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Cost burden
Housing cost-burdened households
36.4%
2020-24
▲ 7%
relative change
34.1% in 2019
No measurable change Trailing peers
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Preschool enrollment
Children ages 3-4 enrolled in preschool
34.5%
2020-24
▲ 9%
relative change
31.5% in 2019
No measurable change Trailing peers
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Uninsured
People without health insurance
8.8%
2020-24
▼ 16%
relative change
10.5% in 2019
No measurable change Trailing peers
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Poverty
Share of people below the poverty level
10.0%
2020-24
▼ 24%
relative change
13.1% in 2019
No measurable change Trailing peers
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Big shifts 4 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 →
Single-parent
Children in single-parent families
32.5%
2020-24
▲ 42%
relative change
22.9% in 2019
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Population
65,130
2020-24
▲ 27%
relative change
51,158 in 2019
Rising Among the lowest of peers
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Children
Children's share of the population
26.5%
2020-24
▼ 5%
relative change
27.8% in 2019
Turning down (early signal) Among the highest of peers
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Working parents
Young children with all parents in the labor force
65.0%
2020-24
▲ 2%
relative change
63.5% in 2019
No measurable change Among the lowest of peers
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Economy

Median household income

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

Household income rose about 50% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from $55,440 to $83,174 (each survey's own dollars, not adjusted for inflation) - more than the combined survey margin (±$6,683). 30 of the 30 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; 30 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: household income rose about 70% from 2014 to 2024 ($48,911 to $83,174).
$83,174
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%
Malden, MA $100,606 12th +52% 1st 18% above peers
Brentwood, NY $111,572 11th +51% 2nd 31% above peers
St. Cloud, FL $83,174 18th +50% 3rd 3% below peers
Commerce City, CO $111,972 10th +45% 4th 31% above peers
Port Orange, FL $74,426 21st +43% 5th 13% below peers
Lynwood, CA $74,844 20th +43% 6th 12% below peers
Utica, NY $52,484 29th +39% 7th 39% below peers
Port Charlotte, FL $63,844 27th +37% 8th 25% below peers
Greenwood, IN $83,608 17th +32% 9th 2% below peers
Castro Valley, CA $142,779 2nd +32% 10th 67% above peers
Muncie, IN $44,471 31st +31% 11th 48% below peers
Bellevue, NE $85,462 16th +31% 12th on par with peers
Brentwood, CA $142,494 3rd +31% 13th 67% above peers
Skokie, IL $95,337 14th +31% 14th 12% above peers
Janesville, WI $73,446 22nd +30% 15th 14% below peers
South San Francisco, CA $136,578 5th +30% 16th 60% above peers
Laguna Niguel, CA $140,452 4th +29% 17th 64% above peers
Four Corners, FL $72,879 23rd +27% 18th 15% below peers
Lorain, OH $48,685 30th +27% 19th 43% below peers
Pflugerville, TX $117,799 8th +26% 20th 38% above peers
Waltham, MA $120,216 7th +25% 21st 41% above peers
Victoria, TX $67,226 24th +24% 22nd 21% below peers
Reston, VA $148,710 1st +24% 23rd 74% above peers
Cheyenne, WY $78,839 19th +22% 24th 8% below peers
Palatine, IL $97,819 13th +21% 25th 14% above peers
North Little Rock, AR $52,707 28th +21% 26th 38% below peers
Burnsville, MN $87,024 15th +18% 27th 2% above peers
Huntersville, NC $120,516 6th +18% 28th 41% above peers
Kenner, LA $64,020 26th +16% 29th 25% below peers
Dundalk, MD $64,520 25th +16% 30th 25% below peers
Rowlett, TX $112,081 9th +11% 31st 31% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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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3 of 6 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 (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Florin, CA up about 59% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Cathedral City, CA up about 58% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Country Club, FL up about 56% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±$5,897 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 →

Unemployment rose 1.3 percentage points over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 100% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: unemployment rose about 0.4 percentage points a year from 2022 to 2025. That is movement in the wrong direction.
Longer view: unemployment fell about 0.1 percentage points a year from 2015 to 2025.
Most recent monthly reading: 5.1% in May 2026, up from 3.8% a year earlier.
5.1%
2000May 2026
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Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 4.8% (May 26) +1.1pp
United States ref 4.2% (Jun 26) +0.1pp
Lorain, OH 3.8% (May 26) 10th -1.5pp 1st 5% below peers
Muncie, IN 4.0% (May 26) 12th -0.5pp 2nd on par with peers
South San Francisco, CA 3.1% (May 26) 4th -0.4pp 3rd 22% below peers
Brentwood, CA 4.1% (May 26) 15th -0.3pp 4th 2% above peers
Cheyenne, WY 2.8% (May 26) 1st -0.3pp 5th 30% below peers
Greenwood, IN 2.8% (May 26) 2nd -0.3pp 6th 30% below peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 3.3% (May 26) 7th -0.3pp 7th 18% below peers
Bellevue, NE 2.9% (May 26) 3rd -0.2pp 8th 28% below peers
Huntersville, NC 3.1% (May 26) 5th -0.2pp 9th 22% below peers
Commerce City, CO 4.1% (May 26) 16th -0.1pp 10th 2% above peers
Janesville, WI 3.1% (May 26) 6th -0.1pp 11th 22% below peers
Waltham, MA 3.7% (May 26) 8th -0.1pp 12th 7% below peers
Malden, MA 4.0% (May 26) 13th -0.1pp 13th on par with peers
Kenner, LA 3.8% (May 26) 11th +0.0pp 14th 5% below peers
Lynwood, CA 5.7% (May 26) 25th +0.1pp 15th 43% above peers
Victoria, TX 4.1% (May 26) 17th +0.2pp 16th 2% above peers
Pflugerville, TX 3.7% (May 26) 9th +0.2pp 17th 7% below peers
Rowlett, TX 4.0% (May 26) 14th +0.3pp 18th on par with peers
North Little Rock, AR 4.1% (May 26) 18th +0.3pp 19th 2% above peers
Burnsville, MN 4.1% (May 26) 19th +0.5pp 20th 2% above peers
Palatine, IL 4.3% (May 26) 20th +0.6pp 21st 7% above peers
Utica, NY 4.9% (May 26) 22nd +0.7pp 22nd 23% above peers
Skokie, IL 4.9% (May 26) 23rd +0.8pp 23rd 23% above peers
Port Orange, FL 4.5% (May 26) 21st +0.9pp 24th 12% above peers
St. Cloud, FL 5.1% (May 26) 24th +1.3pp 25th 27% 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 (13.1% then, 10.0% now; margin ±4.0pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 8 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: poverty fell 5.7 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (15.7% to 10.0%).
10.0%
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 11.9% -1.5pp
United States ref 12.0%
Brentwood, NY 6.5% 6th -5.5pp 1st 27% below peers
Port Charlotte, FL 9.5% 17th -4.2pp 2nd 6% above peers
Huntersville, NC 3.0% 1st -1.2pp 3rd 66% below peers
Malden, MA 11.3% 23rd -4.1pp 4th 27% above peers
Port Orange, FL 10.9% 22nd -3.9pp 5th 22% above peers
Bellevue, NE 7.7% 10th -2.6pp 6th 14% below peers
Commerce City, CO 8.6% 14th -2.9pp 7th 4% below peers
St. Cloud, FL 10.0% 19th -3.1pp 8th 12% above peers
Four Corners, FL 10.4% 20th -3.3pp 9th 17% above peers
Janesville, WI 8.9% 16th -2.3pp 10th on par with peers
Reston, VA 5.7% 2nd -1.2pp 11th 37% below peers
Palatine, IL 8.1% 11th -1.6pp 12th 9% below peers
Cheyenne, WY 8.6% 15th -1.5pp 13th 3% below peers
North Little Rock, AR 20.1% 28th -3.4pp 14th 124% above peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 6.4% 5th -0.8pp 15th 29% below peers
Kenner, LA 15.3% 24th -1.9pp 16th 71% above peers
Muncie, IN 25.9% 30th -2.1pp 17th 189% above peers
Utica, NY 26.6% 31st -1.6pp 18th 197% above peers
Rowlett, TX 6.1% 4th -0.2pp 19th 32% below peers
South San Francisco, CA 6.7% 8th -0.2pp 20th 25% below peers
Castro Valley, CA 6.7% 7th -0.1pp 21st 26% below peers
Lorain, OH 24.9% 29th +0.1pp 22nd 178% above peers
Waltham, MA 8.3% 12th +0.1pp 23rd 7% below peers
Lynwood, CA 17.4% 26th +0.2pp 24th 94% above peers
Skokie, IL 9.6% 18th +0.2pp 25th 7% above peers
Greenwood, IN 7.3% 9th +0.2pp 26th 19% below peers
Victoria, TX 17.9% 27th +0.8pp 27th 100% above peers
Dundalk, MD 17.3% 25th +2.8pp 28th 94% above peers
Pflugerville, TX 6.0% 3rd +1.0pp 29th 32% below peers
Brentwood, CA 8.3% 13th +2.5pp 30th 7% below peers
Burnsville, MN 10.8% 21st +3.2pp 31st 20% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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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3 of 6 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

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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Brentwood, NY down 5.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2017-2022
  • Coeur d'Alene, ID down 5.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Westchester, FL down 5.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±2.4pp 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 Real improvement
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Child poverty fell 6.6 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 19.7% to 13.1% - more than the combined survey margin (±4.9pp). 13 of the 30 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; 14 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: child poverty fell 11.6 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (24.7% to 13.1%).
13.1%
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%
Huntersville, NC 2.0% 1st -2.8pp 1st 85% below peers
Brentwood, NY 7.2% 5th -9.9pp 2nd 44% below peers
Bellevue, NE 8.1% 11th -5.8pp 3rd 36% below peers
Port Orange, FL 12.7% 16th -6.8pp 4th on par with peers
Waltham, MA 7.6% 9th -4.0pp 5th 40% below peers
Four Corners, FL 15.5% 23rd -8.0pp 6th 22% above peers
St. Cloud, FL 13.1% 18th -6.6pp 7th 3% above peers
Reston, VA 6.6% 4th -2.9pp 8th 48% below peers
Malden, MA 13.2% 19th -5.7pp 9th 4% above peers
Cheyenne, WY 9.0% 12th -3.7pp 10th 29% below peers
Kenner, LA 20.1% 24th -8.2pp 11th 58% above peers
Palatine, IL 13.0% 17th -5.3pp 12th 2% above peers
Janesville, WI 11.7% 15th -4.6pp 13th 8% below peers
Port Charlotte, FL 14.3% 21st -5.5pp 14th 13% above peers
Greenwood, IN 6.3% 3rd -2.1pp 15th 50% below peers
North Little Rock, AR 27.8% 27th -8.5pp 16th 119% above peers
Castro Valley, CA 5.8% 2nd -1.7pp 17th 54% below peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 7.5% 8th -1.6pp 18th 41% below peers
South San Francisco, CA 7.5% 7th -1.5pp 19th 41% below peers
Muncie, IN 30.3% 29th -4.3pp 20th 138% above peers
Utica, NY 39.4% 31st -5.4pp 21st 210% above peers
Rowlett, TX 8.0% 10th -0.9pp 22nd 37% below peers
Skokie, IL 11.4% 14th -0.8pp 23rd 10% below peers
Commerce City, CO 13.9% 20th -0.4pp 24th 10% above peers
Lorain, OH 38.7% 30th -0.9pp 25th 205% above peers
Victoria, TX 23.8% 25th +0.2pp 26th 88% above peers
Pflugerville, TX 7.4% 6th +0.5pp 27th 42% below peers
Lynwood, CA 29.0% 28th +2.3pp 28th 128% above peers
Brentwood, CA 9.7% 13th +1.5pp 29th 24% below peers
Burnsville, MN 14.4% 22nd +2.6pp 30th 13% above peers
Dundalk, MD 27.0% 26th +5.7pp 31st 112% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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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3 of 6 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 (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Town 'n' Country, FL down 13.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Westchester, FL down 10.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 96% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Sanford, FL down 15.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 95% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±3.0pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Households with a broadband internet subscription

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

Broadband rose 7.7 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 87.5% to 95.2% - more than the combined survey margin (±2.7pp). 28 of the 30 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; 28 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: broadband rose 17.0 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (78.2% to 95.2%).
95.2%
20172024
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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 91.7% +8.4pp
United States ref 91.1%
Lynwood, CA 91.0% 23rd +19.6pp 1st 3% below peers
Lorain, OH 83.4% 29th +14.2pp 2nd 11% below peers
North Little Rock, AR 86.8% 28th +14.0pp 3rd 8% below peers
Utica, NY 87.2% 27th +11.7pp 4th 7% below peers
Muncie, IN 87.7% 25th +11.0pp 5th 7% below peers
Kenner, LA 87.7% 26th +10.9pp 6th 7% below peers
Victoria, TX 82.1% 30th +9.5pp 7th 13% below peers
Four Corners, FL 94.8% 12th +11.0pp 8th 1% above peers
Port Orange, FL 93.3% 17th +9.9pp 9th 1% below peers
Dundalk, MD 88.1% 24th +8.8pp 10th 6% below peers
Janesville, WI 91.3% 22nd +8.6pp 11th 3% below peers
Greenwood, IN 94.2% 14th +8.7pp 12th on par with peers
Malden, MA 94.3% 13th +8.6pp 13th on par with peers
Port Charlotte, FL 91.6% 20th +8.3pp 14th 3% below peers
Commerce City, CO 91.8% 19th +7.6pp 15th 2% below peers
St. Cloud, FL 95.2% 11th +7.7pp 16th 1% above peers
Skokie, IL 94.2% 15th +7.1pp 17th on par with peers
Burnsville, MN 95.4% 10th +7.1pp 18th 1% above peers
South San Francisco, CA 95.7% 9th +6.3pp 19th 2% above peers
Cheyenne, WY 91.5% 21st +6.0pp 20th 3% below peers
Castro Valley, CA 96.7% 6th +5.9pp 21st 3% above peers
Waltham, MA 94.0% 16th +5.4pp 22nd on par with peers
Bellevue, NE 93.3% 18th +5.3pp 23rd 1% below peers
Palatine, IL 95.7% 8th +5.2pp 24th 2% above peers
Huntersville, NC 96.8% 5th +4.4pp 25th 3% above peers
Brentwood, CA 97.0% 3rd +3.8pp 26th 3% above peers
Rowlett, TX 98.1% 1st +2.9pp 27th 4% above peers
Pflugerville, TX 97.1% 2nd +2.5pp 28th 3% above peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 96.6% 7th +2.2pp 29th 3% above peers
Reston, VA 97.0% 4th +2.0pp 30th 3% above peers
Brentwood, NY 77.6% 31st +1.3pp 31st 17% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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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3 of 6 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 (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Olympia, WA up 11.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 85% of this group · 2019-2024
  • The Hammocks, FL up 11.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 82% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Redding, CA up 11.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 81% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.4pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Economy

Income inequality (Gini index)

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

Inequality changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (0.40 then, 0.39 now; margin ±0.04).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 7 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: inequality fell about 3% from 2014 to 2024 (0.40 to 0.39).
0.39
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
Victoria, TX 0.44 21st -0.044 1st 4% above peers
Malden, MA 0.43 19th -0.040 2nd 1% above peers
Brentwood, NY 0.40 8th -0.036 3rd 6% below peers
Utica, NY 0.47 30th -0.035 4th 12% above peers
Greenwood, IN 0.38 4th -0.028 5th 9% below peers
North Little Rock, AR 0.47 28th -0.030 6th 11% above peers
Commerce City, CO 0.36 2nd -0.023 7th 14% below peers
Muncie, IN 0.46 26th -0.024 8th 10% above peers
Janesville, WI 0.39 6th -0.019 9th 7% below peers
Port Charlotte, FL 0.41 14th -0.019 10th 1% below peers
Pflugerville, TX 0.35 1st -0.016 11th 17% below peers
Skokie, IL 0.45 24th -0.018 12th 6% above peers
Palatine, IL 0.43 20th -0.016 13th 2% above peers
Cheyenne, WY 0.42 17th -0.016 14th on par with peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 0.47 27th -0.017 15th 11% above peers
Reston, VA 0.41 13th -0.014 16th 2% below peers
St. Cloud, FL 0.39 5th -0.011 17th 8% below peers
Port Orange, FL 0.42 15th -0.008 18th 1% below peers
Lynwood, CA 0.40 10th -0.006 19th 5% below peers
Lorain, OH 0.47 29th -0.004 20th 11% above peers
Burnsville, MN 0.40 9th +0.002 21st 5% below peers
Bellevue, NE 0.39 7th +0.004 22nd 6% below peers
Dundalk, MD 0.44 22nd +0.005 23rd 4% above peers
Huntersville, NC 0.41 11th +0.010 24th 3% below peers
Castro Valley, CA 0.43 18th +0.012 25th 1% above peers
Brentwood, CA 0.41 12th +0.016 26th 2% below peers
Kenner, LA 0.49 31st +0.022 27th 16% above peers
Rowlett, TX 0.38 3rd +0.022 28th 10% below peers
Waltham, MA 0.44 23rd +0.032 29th 5% above peers
Four Corners, FL 0.42 16th +0.054 30th on par with peers
South San Francisco, CA 0.46 25th +0.059 31st 9% above peers
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B19083) through 2024 ±0.03 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 →

SNAP changed less than the survey can measure between the 2014-2018 and 2019-2023 surveys (15.8% then, 15.1% now; margin ±3.6pp).

Within the survey margin, 2014-2018 vs 2019-2023 surveys; 7 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: snap fell 2.8 percentage points from 2013 to 2023 (17.9% to 15.1%).
15.1%
20102023
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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
Cheyenne, WY 4.8% 4th -2.2pp 1st 48% below peers
Burnsville, MN 5.1% 5th -2.2pp 2nd 44% below peers
Reston, VA 3.6% 2nd -1.1pp 3rd 61% below peers
Four Corners, FL 8.9% 15th -2.3pp 4th 3% below peers
Brentwood, NY 12.7% 20th -3.1pp 5th 38% above peers
Janesville, WI 12.8% 21st -2.4pp 6th 40% above peers
Bellevue, NE 7.3% 11th -1.3pp 7th 21% below peers
North Little Rock, AR 13.5% 23rd -1.4pp 8th 48% above peers
Utica, NY 30.0% 31st -3.0pp 9th 227% above peers
Port Charlotte, FL 11.8% 18th -1.0pp 10th 28% above peers
Kenner, LA 13.0% 22nd -0.8pp 11th 42% above peers
Lorain, OH 25.0% 30th -1.1pp 12th 173% above peers
St. Cloud, FL 15.1% 25th -0.7pp 13th 65% above peers
Port Orange, FL 9.2% 16th -0.2pp 14th on par with peers
Rowlett, TX 6.4% 9th +0.1pp 15th 30% below peers
Commerce City, CO 10.3% 17th +0.2pp 16th 13% above peers
Greenwood, IN 7.3% 12th +0.2pp 17th 21% below peers
Lynwood, CA 21.4% 28th +1.2pp 18th 133% above peers
Dundalk, MD 23.3% 29th +1.6pp 19th 154% above peers
Victoria, TX 14.7% 24th +1.1pp 20th 60% above peers
Muncie, IN 20.5% 27th +1.8pp 21st 123% above peers
Pflugerville, TX 5.9% 8th +0.6pp 22nd 35% below peers
Palatine, IL 8.2% 14th +1.1pp 23rd 11% below peers
Malden, MA 15.9% 26th +2.3pp 24th 73% above peers
Waltham, MA 7.6% 13th +1.5pp 25th 17% below peers
Skokie, IL 12.6% 19th +2.6pp 26th 37% above peers
Huntersville, NC 2.9% 1st +0.8pp 27th 68% below peers
Castro Valley, CA 5.7% 7th +1.6pp 28th 38% below peers
South San Francisco, CA 5.3% 6th +1.5pp 29th 43% below peers
Brentwood, CA 6.6% 10th +2.1pp 30th 28% below peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 4.2% 3rd +1.6pp 31st 54% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Coeur d'Alene, ID down 5.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2018-2023
  • Caldwell, ID down 8.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2018-2023
  • Lakewood, NJ down 11.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 96% of this group · 2018-2023
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2023 ±2.6pp at 90% confidence (2023 estimate) survey trend: 2014-2018 vs 2019-2023 surveys about this metric
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Housing

Homeownership rate

▲ Higher is better No measurable change ★ Strong performer
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Homeownership changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (73.7% then, 72.5% now; margin ±4.0pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 12 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: homeownership rose 2.9 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (69.6% to 72.5%).
72.5%
20112024
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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%
Brentwood, NY 80.4% 3rd +7.5pp 1st 23% above peers
Kenner, LA 63.1% 19th +5.8pp 2nd 4% below peers
Port Charlotte, FL 83.2% 1st +7.4pp 3rd 27% above peers
Brentwood, CA 82.2% 2nd +5.1pp 4th 26% above peers
Skokie, IL 74.7% 7th +4.3pp 5th 14% above peers
Bellevue, NE 65.5% 16th +3.4pp 6th on par with peers
Muncie, IN 52.0% 25th +2.6pp 7th 20% below peers
Port Orange, FL 75.6% 5th +3.2pp 8th 15% above peers
Lynwood, CA 47.8% 29th +2.0pp 9th 27% below peers
Commerce City, CO 77.2% 4th +3.2pp 10th 18% above peers
Utica, NY 49.7% 27th +1.7pp 11th 24% below peers
Janesville, WI 67.3% 14th +1.3pp 12th 3% above peers
Greenwood, IN 59.3% 21st +1.1pp 13th 9% below peers
Castro Valley, CA 72.5% 8th +1.3pp 14th 11% above peers
Cheyenne, WY 67.1% 15th +1.2pp 15th 2% above peers
Lorain, OH 57.1% 24th +1.0pp 16th 13% below peers
Dundalk, MD 64.6% 18th +0.8pp 17th 1% below peers
Malden, MA 41.3% 31st +0.3pp 18th 37% below peers
Burnsville, MN 64.7% 17th +0.4pp 19th 1% below peers
Reston, VA 60.6% 20th -1.0pp 20th 7% below peers
St. Cloud, FL 72.5% 9th -1.2pp 21st 11% above peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 67.4% 13th -1.6pp 22nd 3% above peers
Palatine, IL 67.4% 12th -1.7pp 23rd 3% above peers
Four Corners, FL 51.8% 26th -1.3pp 24th 21% below peers
Victoria, TX 57.9% 23rd -1.6pp 25th 12% below peers
South San Francisco, CA 59.0% 22nd -2.2pp 26th 10% below peers
Waltham, MA 49.7% 28th -2.0pp 27th 24% below peers
Huntersville, NC 71.7% 10th -3.0pp 28th 10% above peers
North Little Rock, AR 44.6% 30th -2.7pp 29th 32% below peers
Pflugerville, TX 69.9% 11th -4.6pp 30th 7% above peers
Rowlett, TX 75.2% 6th -10.7pp 31st 15% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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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Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±3.0pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Housing cost-burdened households

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

Cost burden changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (34.1% then, 36.4% now; margin ±5.5pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 5 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: cost burden fell 4.2 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (40.6% to 36.4%).
36.4%
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 37.7% +1.8pp
United States ref 32.2% +0.4pp
Brentwood, NY 33.4% 13th -14.5pp 1st 2% below peers
Muncie, IN 31.9% 8th -4.9pp 2nd 7% below peers
Lynwood, CA 47.8% 31st -6.4pp 3rd 40% above peers
Utica, NY 36.1% 23rd -3.2pp 4th 6% above peers
Malden, MA 40.7% 28th -3.6pp 5th 19% above peers
Skokie, IL 34.8% 19th -3.0pp 6th 2% above peers
Brentwood, CA 38.1% 25th -2.6pp 7th 11% above peers
Janesville, WI 25.6% 3rd -1.5pp 8th 25% below peers
Reston, VA 25.9% 4th -1.1pp 9th 24% below peers
Bellevue, NE 26.0% 5th -1.1pp 10th 24% below peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 41.4% 29th -1.1pp 11th 21% above peers
Lorain, OH 34.6% 18th -0.2pp 12th 1% above peers
North Little Rock, AR 34.6% 17th -0.1pp 13th 1% above peers
Huntersville, NC 22.1% 1st +0.1pp 14th 35% below peers
Commerce City, CO 34.2% 16th +0.3pp 15th on par with peers
Greenwood, IN 25.5% 2nd +0.5pp 16th 26% below peers
Port Charlotte, FL 33.9% 14th +0.7pp 17th 1% below peers
Castro Valley, CA 35.6% 21st +1.1pp 18th 4% above peers
Victoria, TX 33.0% 11th +1.3pp 19th 3% below peers
Port Orange, FL 33.9% 15th +1.5pp 20th 1% below peers
Pflugerville, TX 28.1% 6th +1.3pp 21st 18% below peers
Kenner, LA 35.9% 22nd +1.8pp 22nd 5% above peers
Waltham, MA 35.1% 20th +2.0pp 23rd 3% above peers
St. Cloud, FL 36.4% 24th +2.3pp 24th 6% above peers
South San Francisco, CA 38.7% 27th +2.6pp 25th 13% above peers
Palatine, IL 33.1% 12th +2.4pp 26th 3% below peers
Cheyenne, WY 31.3% 7th +3.0pp 27th 9% below peers
Burnsville, MN 32.0% 9th +3.2pp 28th 6% below peers
Four Corners, FL 42.3% 30th +5.6pp 29th 24% above peers
Dundalk, MD 38.1% 26th +5.5pp 30th 11% above peers
Rowlett, TX 33.0% 10th +8.6pp 31st 4% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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 (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Des Plaines, IL down 5.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Newark, OH down 5.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Toms River, NJ down 6.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (tables B25070 + B25091) through 2024 ±3.9pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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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 (5.6% then, 4.0% now; margin ±2.3pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 3 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: no vehicle fell 2.0 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (6.0% to 4.0%).
4.0%
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 6.0% -0.4pp
United States ref 8.3% -0.3pp
Port Orange, FL 2.9% 4th -2.1pp 1st 47% below peers
St. Cloud, FL 4.0% 10th -1.6pp 2nd 28% below peers
Lorain, OH 9.1% 26th -2.6pp 3rd 63% above peers
Port Charlotte, FL 5.0% 14th -1.4pp 4th 11% below peers
North Little Rock, AR 8.2% 23rd -2.0pp 5th 48% above peers
Burnsville, MN 5.6% 16th -1.1pp 6th on par with peers
Commerce City, CO 3.6% 7th -0.7pp 7th 35% below peers
Malden, MA 17.5% 30th -2.4pp 8th 214% above peers
Bellevue, NE 3.8% 9th -0.5pp 9th 31% below peers
Victoria, TX 7.2% 21st -0.9pp 10th 30% above peers
Skokie, IL 7.0% 19th -0.7pp 11th 26% above peers
Cheyenne, WY 5.8% 17th -0.4pp 12th 4% above peers
Dundalk, MD 12.4% 29th -0.8pp 13th 122% above peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 2.4% 1st -0.1pp 14th 57% below peers
Muncie, IN 10.6% 27th -0.3pp 15th 90% above peers
Janesville, WI 5.9% 18th -0.2pp 16th 6% above peers
Utica, NY 21.9% 31st -0.4pp 17th 293% above peers
Lynwood, CA 7.1% 20th -0.0pp 18th 28% above peers
Pflugerville, TX 3.2% 5th +0.0pp 19th 43% below peers
Brentwood, CA 3.5% 6th +0.1pp 20th 36% below peers
Waltham, MA 8.6% 25th +0.7pp 21st 54% above peers
Kenner, LA 8.3% 24th +0.7pp 22nd 49% above peers
Reston, VA 4.6% 12th +0.5pp 23rd 17% below peers
Castro Valley, CA 5.5% 15th +0.8pp 24th 1% below peers
Huntersville, NC 2.8% 3rd +0.5pp 25th 50% below peers
South San Francisco, CA 7.5% 22nd +1.4pp 26th 35% above peers
Greenwood, IN 4.5% 11th +0.9pp 27th 20% below peers
Palatine, IL 4.7% 13th +1.0pp 28th 15% below peers
Four Corners, FL 3.8% 8th +0.9pp 29th 31% below peers
Brentwood, NY 10.6% 28th +2.9pp 30th 90% above peers
Rowlett, TX 2.4% 2nd +1.1pp 31st 57% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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 (50k-100k) 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 →
  • San Jacinto, CA down 3.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Idaho Falls, ID down 2.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Encinitas, CA down 2.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B08201) through 2024 ±1.8pp 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 No measurable change
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Uninsured changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (10.5% then, 8.8% now; margin ±2.1pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 12 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: uninsured fell 9.7 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (18.6% to 8.8%).
8.8%
20122024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 11.0% -1.3pp
United States ref 8.2% -0.4pp
Skokie, IL 5.1% 9th -3.1pp 1st 35% below peers
Greenwood, IN 5.4% 10th -3.2pp 2nd 30% below peers
Utica, NY 3.8% 5th -2.0pp 3rd 52% below peers
South San Francisco, CA 3.1% 3rd -1.5pp 4th 60% below peers
Brentwood, NY 11.2% 26th -3.8pp 5th 43% above peers
Palatine, IL 7.6% 15th -2.3pp 6th 3% below peers
Bellevue, NE 7.6% 14th -2.0pp 7th 3% below peers
Port Orange, FL 8.3% 20th -1.9pp 8th 6% above peers
Waltham, MA 2.9% 2nd -0.6pp 9th 64% below peers
Commerce City, CO 7.4% 13th -1.4pp 10th 5% below peers
Huntersville, NC 4.9% 8th -0.9pp 11th 37% below peers
St. Cloud, FL 8.8% 21st -1.7pp 12th 13% above peers
Lynwood, CA 13.2% 29th -1.9pp 13th 69% above peers
Muncie, IN 7.8% 16th -1.1pp 14th on par with peers
Reston, VA 5.7% 12th -0.5pp 15th 27% below peers
Brentwood, CA 2.1% 1st -0.2pp 16th 73% below peers
Victoria, TX 17.3% 31st -1.0pp 17th 121% above peers
Pflugerville, TX 9.4% 23rd -0.5pp 18th 20% above peers
Dundalk, MD 7.9% 17th -0.3pp 19th 1% above peers
Port Charlotte, FL 12.5% 28th -0.3pp 20th 60% above peers
Kenner, LA 14.5% 30th +0.2pp 21st 85% above peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 3.9% 6th +0.1pp 22nd 50% below peers
Rowlett, TX 12.3% 27th +0.6pp 23rd 57% above peers
North Little Rock, AR 10.3% 24th +0.7pp 24th 32% above peers
Castro Valley, CA 3.3% 4th +0.2pp 25th 58% below peers
Janesville, WI 5.6% 11th +0.5pp 26th 29% below peers
Malden, MA 4.9% 7th +0.6pp 27th 38% below peers
Lorain, OH 8.1% 19th +1.1pp 28th 4% above peers
Four Corners, FL 10.3% 25th +2.3pp 29th 32% above peers
Cheyenne, WY 9.1% 22nd +2.7pp 30th 17% above peers
Burnsville, MN 7.9% 18th +4.1pp 31st 2% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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 (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Doral, FL down 7.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Kendale Lakes, FL down 6.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Horizon West, FL down 4.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.4pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Health

Adult obesity

▼ Lower is better Level only
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Adult obesity is somewhat below the peer median.

30.5%
20202022
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Place Latest Today's rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 32.6%
United States ref 33.4%
Castro Valley, CA 19.3% 1st 42% below peers
South San Francisco, CA 21.4% 2nd 36% below peers
Waltham, MA 24.1% 3rd 28% below peers
Malden, MA 24.2% 4th 27% below peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 24.8% 5th 26% below peers
Skokie, IL 26.6% 6th 20% below peers
Reston, VA 27.9% 7th 16% below peers
Palatine, IL 29.0% 8th 13% below peers
Brentwood, CA 29.1% 9th 13% below peers
Pflugerville, TX 29.6% 10th 11% below peers
Huntersville, NC 29.9% 11th 10% below peers
St. Cloud, FL 30.5% 12th 8% below peers
Rowlett, TX 31.7% 13th 5% below peers
Port Orange, FL 32.5% 14th 2% below peers
Lynwood, CA 33.1% 15th 1% below peers
Four Corners, FL 33.3% 16th on par with peers
Cheyenne, WY 33.5% 17th 1% above peers
Commerce City, CO 34.1% 18th 2% above peers
Brentwood, NY 35.0% 19th 5% above peers
Burnsville, MN 35.3% 20th 6% above peers
Port Charlotte, FL 35.6% 21st 7% above peers
Dundalk, MD 36.8% 22nd 11% above peers
Janesville, WI 36.9% 23rd 11% above peers
Kenner, LA 39.8% 24th 20% above peers
Bellevue, NE 40.3% 25th 21% above peers
Victoria, TX 40.6% 26th 22% above peers
Greenwood, IN 41.0% 27th 23% above peers
North Little Rock, AR 41.1% 28th 23% above peers
Muncie, IN 41.6% 29th 25% above peers
Utica, NY 42.3% 30th 27% above peers
Lorain, OH 44.9% 31st 35% 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 (5.0% then, 4.0% now; margin ±2.6pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 5 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: child uninsured fell 6.7 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (10.8% to 4.0%).
4.0%
20122024
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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
Port Orange, FL 2.4% 7th -4.3pp 1st 43% below peers
Utica, NY 1.2% 2nd -1.1pp 2nd 71% below peers
Greenwood, IN 4.3% 17th -3.4pp 3rd 5% above peers
Commerce City, CO 2.6% 8th -1.7pp 4th 38% below peers
Malden, MA 1.4% 4th -0.8pp 5th 65% below peers
Palatine, IL 4.5% 18th -1.9pp 6th 8% above peers
Muncie, IN 3.8% 14th -1.5pp 7th 8% below peers
Bellevue, NE 3.4% 12th -1.3pp 8th 18% below peers
Brentwood, CA 0.9% 1st -0.3pp 9th 78% below peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 2.0% 5th -0.6pp 10th 52% below peers
Huntersville, NC 3.2% 11th -1.0pp 11th 22% below peers
Rowlett, TX 9.8% 29th -2.6pp 12th 137% above peers
St. Cloud, FL 4.0% 15th -1.0pp 13th 2% below peers
South San Francisco, CA 1.4% 3rd -0.3pp 14th 67% below peers
Port Charlotte, FL 7.3% 25th -1.1pp 15th 77% above peers
Waltham, MA 2.1% 6th -0.3pp 16th 48% below peers
Lorain, OH 3.5% 13th -0.4pp 17th 16% below peers
Lynwood, CA 5.4% 21st -0.5pp 18th 32% above peers
Skokie, IL 3.0% 9th -0.1pp 19th 27% below peers
Pflugerville, TX 8.4% 27th -0.0pp 20th 104% above peers
Reston, VA 5.3% 20th +0.4pp 21st 30% above peers
Dundalk, MD 5.1% 19th +0.6pp 22nd 24% above peers
Victoria, TX 14.5% 31st +2.3pp 23rd 251% above peers
North Little Rock, AR 5.8% 22nd +1.4pp 24th 40% above peers
Brentwood, NY 8.6% 28th +2.1pp 25th 109% above peers
Kenner, LA 7.1% 24th +1.9pp 26th 71% above peers
Castro Valley, CA 3.1% 10th +1.2pp 27th 25% below peers
Four Corners, FL 8.3% 26th +3.2pp 28th 101% above peers
Janesville, WI 4.1% 16th +2.3pp 29th on par with peers
Burnsville, MN 6.8% 23rd +5.0pp 30th 65% above peers
Cheyenne, WY 10.7% 30th +8.1pp 31st 158% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Southfield, MI down 2.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Mountain View, CA down 2.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Mayagüez zona urbana, PR down 3.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% 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
Education

Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher

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

College attainment rose 13.3 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 18.2% to 31.6% - more than the combined survey margin (±3.5pp). 19 of the 30 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; 19 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: college attainment rose 14.0 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (17.5% to 31.6%).
31.6%
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 34.1% +4.3pp
United States ref 35.7% +3.5pp
St. Cloud, FL 31.6% 18th +13.3pp 1st 6% below peers
Brentwood, NY 17.2% 28th +4.2pp 2nd 49% below peers
Lynwood, CA 9.8% 31st +2.2pp 3rd 71% below peers
Port Orange, FL 31.4% 19th +5.6pp 4th 6% below peers
Dundalk, MD 15.7% 29th +2.8pp 5th 53% below peers
Bellevue, NE 34.5% 15th +6.0pp 6th 3% above peers
Brentwood, CA 39.3% 12th +6.2pp 7th 17% above peers
Utica, NY 22.4% 25th +3.4pp 8th 33% below peers
Commerce City, CO 25.8% 24th +3.8pp 9th 23% below peers
Lorain, OH 14.8% 30th +2.1pp 10th 56% below peers
Kenner, LA 29.1% 21st +4.0pp 11th 13% below peers
Janesville, WI 27.3% 22nd +3.7pp 12th 19% below peers
Malden, MA 45.1% 7th +6.1pp 13th 34% above peers
Four Corners, FL 35.0% 14th +4.6pp 14th 4% above peers
South San Francisco, CA 40.8% 10th +5.2pp 15th 22% above peers
Skokie, IL 53.8% 5th +6.2pp 16th 60% above peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 59.8% 2nd +6.2pp 17th 78% above peers
Muncie, IN 26.1% 23rd +2.6pp 18th 22% below peers
North Little Rock, AR 30.6% 20th +3.0pp 19th 9% below peers
Port Charlotte, FL 20.8% 26th +2.0pp 20th 38% below peers
Cheyenne, WY 33.5% 16th +3.2pp 21st on par with peers
Pflugerville, TX 43.0% 9th +4.0pp 22nd 28% above peers
Greenwood, IN 33.4% 17th +2.3pp 23rd 1% below peers
Rowlett, TX 37.9% 13th +2.4pp 24th 13% above peers
Waltham, MA 57.3% 4th +3.0pp 25th 71% above peers
Reston, VA 72.0% 1st +3.2pp 26th 115% above peers
Huntersville, NC 57.5% 3rd +1.7pp 27th 71% above peers
Palatine, IL 51.1% 6th +1.1pp 28th 52% above peers
Burnsville, MN 39.8% 11th +0.8pp 29th 19% above peers
Castro Valley, CA 44.5% 8th -0.3pp 30th 33% above peers
Victoria, TX 20.3% 27th -0.4pp 31st 40% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Lawrence, MA up 6.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Kissimmee, FL up 8.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Country Club, FL up 10.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±2.7pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Education

Children ages 3-4 enrolled in preschool

▲ Higher is better 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 (31.5% then, 34.5% now; margin ±13.7pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 8 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: preschool enrollment fell 11.5 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (45.9% to 34.5%).
34.5%
20112024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 48.9% -2.9pp
United States ref 45.5%
Brentwood, NY 49.9% 12th +18.5pp 1st 12% above peers
Victoria, TX 52.8% 11th +16.8pp 2nd 18% above peers
Bellevue, NE 43.1% 19th +12.3pp 3rd 3% below peers
Skokie, IL 72.7% 3rd +20.2pp 4th 63% above peers
Palatine, IL 64.5% 4th +16.7pp 5th 45% above peers
Rowlett, TX 41.8% 20th +9.0pp 6th 6% below peers
Reston, VA 76.1% 1st +15.0pp 7th 71% above peers
Waltham, MA 74.0% 2nd +13.1pp 8th 66% above peers
Port Charlotte, FL 44.8% 15th +7.2pp 9th 1% above peers
Muncie, IN 47.4% 14th +7.4pp 10th 6% above peers
Utica, NY 43.3% 18th +6.5pp 11th 3% below peers
South San Francisco, CA 63.2% 6th +9.0pp 12th 42% above peers
Castro Valley, CA 52.9% 10th +7.5pp 13th 19% above peers
Malden, MA 56.2% 7th +5.2pp 14th 26% above peers
St. Cloud, FL 34.5% 23rd +3.0pp 15th 23% below peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 63.9% 5th +2.3pp 16th 43% above peers
Burnsville, MN 48.9% 13th +1.3pp 17th 10% above peers
Port Orange, FL 28.5% 27th +0.7pp 18th 36% below peers
North Little Rock, AR 53.6% 9th +1.4pp 19th 20% above peers
Pflugerville, TX 44.2% 17th +0.8pp 20th 1% below peers
Greenwood, IN 26.0% 29th +0.4pp 21st 42% below peers
Huntersville, NC 55.6% 8th -1.7pp 22nd 25% above peers
Four Corners, FL 33.9% 24th -3.0pp 23rd 24% below peers
Dundalk, MD 30.4% 26th -4.3pp 24th 32% below peers
Lorain, OH 38.0% 22nd -7.6pp 25th 15% below peers
Commerce City, CO 39.6% 21st -13.7pp 26th 11% below peers
Brentwood, CA 44.5% 16th -21.5pp 27th on par with peers
Janesville, WI 20.2% 31st -9.9pp 28th 55% below peers
Kenner, LA 30.6% 25th -17.0pp 29th 31% below peers
Lynwood, CA 27.0% 28th -17.1pp 30th 39% below peers
Cheyenne, WY 20.8% 30th -19.3pp 31st 53% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Severn, MD up 33.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Auburn, WA up 21.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Bel Air South, MD up 26.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±9.7pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Education

Teens not in school and not working

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

Disconnected youth fell 12.3 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 13.2% to 0.9% - more than the combined survey margin (±8.1pp). 2 of the 30 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; 4 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: disconnected youth fell 6.4 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (7.3% to 0.9%).
0.9%
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
Florida ref 7.1% +0.0pp
United States ref 6.9% +0.3pp
St. Cloud, FL 0.9% 1st -12.3pp 1st 84% below peers
Skokie, IL 1.9% 2nd -6.2pp 2nd 68% below peers
Lorain, OH 5.9% 17th -7.1pp 3rd 1% above peers
Bellevue, NE 5.2% 13th -3.9pp 4th 13% below peers
Port Orange, FL 5.9% 15th -3.1pp 5th on par with peers
Huntersville, NC 3.6% 6th -1.0pp 6th 38% below peers
Muncie, IN 3.1% 4th -0.9pp 7th 47% below peers
Kenner, LA 9.1% 22nd -1.9pp 8th 53% above peers
Dundalk, MD 8.3% 21st -1.5pp 9th 40% above peers
North Little Rock, AR 13.9% 28th -0.6pp 10th 136% above peers
Janesville, WI 4.4% 11th +0.1pp 11th 25% below peers
Palatine, IL 5.9% 16th +0.2pp 12th on par with peers
Victoria, TX 9.7% 25th +1.2pp 13th 64% above peers
Four Corners, FL 6.2% 18th +0.9pp 14th 5% above peers
Brentwood, NY 9.4% 23rd +1.8pp 15th 59% above peers
Pflugerville, TX 6.4% 20th +1.6pp 16th 8% above peers
Burnsville, MN 5.3% 14th +1.3pp 17th 11% below peers
Utica, NY 14.1% 29th +3.9pp 18th 139% above peers
Waltham, MA 4.3% 8th +1.3pp 19th 27% below peers
Castro Valley, CA 4.1% 7th +1.2pp 20th 30% below peers
Lynwood, CA 14.4% 30th +5.3pp 21st 144% above peers
Cheyenne, WY 10.3% 26th +3.8pp 22nd 74% above peers
Brentwood, CA 4.3% 10th +2.0pp 23rd 26% below peers
South San Francisco, CA 3.0% 3rd +1.4pp 24th 49% below peers
Reston, VA 6.2% 19th +3.1pp 25th 5% above peers
Malden, MA 9.6% 24th +5.4pp 26th 62% above peers
Greenwood, IN 4.3% 9th +3.1pp 27th 27% below peers
Rowlett, TX 4.5% 12th +3.3pp 28th 24% below peers
Port Charlotte, FL 11.8% 27th +9.8pp 29th 100% above peers
Commerce City, CO 14.5% 31st +12.3pp 30th 146% above peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 3.6% 5th +3.5pp 31st 39% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EducationTeens not in school and not working
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Miami Beach, FL down 7.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Pico Rivera, CA down 22.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Skokie, IL down 6.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B14005) through 2024 ±2.6pp 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 27% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 51,158 to 65,130 - more than the combined survey margin (±59). 19 of the 30 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction.

Rising beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 27 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: population rose about 64% from 2014 to 2024 (39,685 to 65,130).
65,130
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Four Corners, FL 65,048 16th +54% 1st on par with peers
St. Cloud, FL 65,130 15th +27% 2nd on par with peers
Bellevue, NE 64,510 25th +21% 3rd 1% below peers
Commerce City, CO 66,445 1st +18% 4th 2% above peers
Greenwood, IN 66,029 6th +14% 5th 2% above peers
Huntersville, NC 63,969 31st +14% 6th 2% below peers
Malden, MA 65,906 9th +8% 7th 1% above peers
Pflugerville, TX 65,971 7th +7% 8th 1% above peers
Utica, NY 64,217 29th +6% 9th 1% below peers
Port Charlotte, FL 66,133 4th +6% 10th 2% above peers
Reston, VA 64,414 27th +5% 11th 1% below peers
Brentwood, CA 65,208 14th +5% 12th on par with peers
Burnsville, MN 64,463 26th +5% 13th 1% below peers
Dundalk, MD 65,969 8th +5% 14th 1% above peers
Skokie, IL 66,219 3rd +4% 15th 2% above peers
Waltham, MA 64,902 20th +3% 16th on par with peers
Port Orange, FL 64,767 21st +3% 17th on par with peers
Castro Valley, CA 65,001 18th +3% 18th on par with peers
Brentwood, NY 65,042 17th +3% 19th on par with peers
Janesville, WI 66,030 5th +3% 20th 2% above peers
Rowlett, TX 65,463 11th +3% 21st 1% above peers
Cheyenne, WY 65,239 13th +3% 22nd on par with peers
Lorain, OH 65,395 12th +2% 23rd 1% above peers
Victoria, TX 65,625 10th -2% 24th 1% above peers
North Little Rock, AR 64,538 24th -2% 25th 1% below peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 64,139 30th -3% 26th 1% below peers
Kenner, LA 64,904 19th -3% 27th on par with peers
Palatine, IL 66,293 2nd -3% 28th 2% above peers
South San Francisco, CA 64,305 28th -5% 29th 1% below peers
Muncie, IN 64,751 22nd -6% 30th on par with peers
Lynwood, CA 64,578 23rd -9% 31st 1% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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 ±43 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 Turning down (early signal)
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Children changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (27.8% then, 26.5% now; margin ±2.5pp). 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 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: children fell 0.5 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (27.0% to 26.5%).
26.5%
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 18.8% -0.7pp
United States ref 21.6% -0.7pp
Dundalk, MD 24.2% 9th +1.1pp 1st 8% above peers
Skokie, IL 22.3% 17th +0.6pp 2nd 1% below peers
Utica, NY 25.4% 5th +0.6pp 3rd 13% above peers
Victoria, TX 25.8% 4th +0.1pp 4th 15% above peers
Brentwood, CA 26.3% 3rd -0.2pp 5th 17% above peers
Waltham, MA 13.6% 31st -0.1pp 6th 39% below peers
Bellevue, NE 24.2% 8th -0.2pp 7th 8% above peers
Burnsville, MN 22.4% 16th -0.4pp 8th on par with peers
Four Corners, FL 21.1% 19th -0.5pp 9th 6% below peers
Kenner, LA 23.6% 11th -0.6pp 10th 5% above peers
Pflugerville, TX 25.0% 7th -0.9pp 11th 11% above peers
Castro Valley, CA 20.8% 21st -0.8pp 12th 7% below peers
St. Cloud, FL 26.5% 2nd -1.3pp 13th 18% above peers
Muncie, IN 15.8% 29th -0.9pp 14th 30% below peers
Lorain, OH 23.5% 12th -1.3pp 15th 5% above peers
Malden, MA 18.2% 25th -1.2pp 16th 19% below peers
South San Francisco, CA 17.2% 27th -1.2pp 17th 23% below peers
Reston, VA 18.6% 24th -1.3pp 18th 17% below peers
Janesville, WI 21.2% 18th -1.5pp 19th 5% below peers
Cheyenne, WY 20.7% 22nd -1.7pp 20th 8% below peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 17.9% 26th -1.7pp 21st 20% below peers
Port Charlotte, FL 13.8% 30th -1.4pp 22nd 39% below peers
Rowlett, TX 22.4% 15th -2.5pp 23rd on par with peers
Lynwood, CA 25.4% 6th -2.9pp 24th 13% above peers
Greenwood, IN 23.5% 13th -2.9pp 25th 5% above peers
Port Orange, FL 16.5% 28th -2.1pp 26th 26% below peers
Palatine, IL 20.9% 20th -2.8pp 27th 7% below peers
Commerce City, CO 28.6% 1st -4.4pp 28th 28% above peers
Huntersville, NC 24.2% 10th -3.7pp 29th 8% above peers
Brentwood, NY 22.5% 14th -3.9pp 30th 1% above peers
North Little Rock, AR 20.6% 23rd -4.5pp 31st 8% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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 Rising
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Single-parent rose 9.6 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 22.9% to 32.5% - more than the combined survey margin (±8.1pp). 5 of the 30 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction.

Rising beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 6 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: single-parent rose 3.3 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (29.2% to 32.5%).
32.5%
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 32.9% -1.8pp
United States ref 29.9% -0.2pp
Pflugerville, TX 25.8% 21st +11.3pp 1st 14% below peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 22.8% 25th +7.9pp 2nd 24% below peers
Waltham, MA 24.0% 22nd +7.3pp 3rd 20% below peers
Commerce City, CO 28.9% 18th +8.7pp 4th 4% below peers
St. Cloud, FL 32.5% 13th +9.6pp 5th 8% above peers
Lynwood, CA 53.3% 2nd +14.9pp 6th 77% above peers
Huntersville, NC 20.7% 28th +4.3pp 7th 31% below peers
Port Orange, FL 34.0% 9th +6.0pp 8th 13% above peers
Rowlett, TX 23.1% 24th +3.6pp 9th 23% below peers
Reston, VA 23.3% 23rd +3.2pp 10th 23% below peers
Lorain, OH 60.4% 1st +5.2pp 11th 101% above peers
Palatine, IL 26.9% 20th +1.5pp 12th 11% below peers
Port Charlotte, FL 31.6% 14th +1.0pp 13th 5% above peers
Kenner, LA 38.0% 7th +0.1pp 14th 26% above peers
Janesville, WI 33.9% 10th +0.1pp 15th 13% above peers
Bellevue, NE 30.1% 16th -0.1pp 16th on par with peers
North Little Rock, AR 52.3% 3rd -0.3pp 17th 74% above peers
Muncie, IN 47.5% 4th -0.4pp 18th 58% above peers
South San Francisco, CA 22.4% 26th -0.4pp 19th 26% below peers
Dundalk, MD 40.8% 6th -1.3pp 20th 35% above peers
Brentwood, CA 17.9% 31st -0.7pp 21st 40% below peers
Four Corners, FL 33.1% 12th -2.2pp 22nd 10% above peers
Brentwood, NY 33.2% 11th -2.9pp 23rd 10% above peers
Utica, NY 46.6% 5th -4.6pp 24th 55% above peers
Victoria, TX 35.3% 8th -3.6pp 25th 17% above peers
Greenwood, IN 28.7% 19th -2.9pp 26th 5% below peers
Malden, MA 20.8% 27th -2.4pp 27th 31% below peers
Cheyenne, WY 29.5% 17th -3.4pp 28th 2% below peers
Castro Valley, CA 18.8% 29th -2.6pp 29th 37% below peers
Skokie, IL 18.2% 30th -3.4pp 30th 40% below peers
Burnsville, MN 30.4% 15th -6.9pp 31st 1% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: blue tracts rose, orange tracts fell. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
DemographicsChildren in single-parent families
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Census ACS 5-year survey (table B09002) through 2024 ±5.7pp 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 (63.5% then, 65.0% now; margin ±14.0pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 3 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: working parents fell 11.5 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (76.6% to 65.0%).
65.0%
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
Kenner, LA 79.3% 1st +20.2pp 1st 14% above peers
Castro Valley, CA 78.8% 2nd +18.5pp 2nd 13% above peers
North Little Rock, AR 74.0% 6th +13.2pp 3rd 6% above peers
Muncie, IN 71.6% 10th +10.7pp 4th 3% above peers
Lynwood, CA 64.2% 25th +8.4pp 5th 8% below peers
Pflugerville, TX 70.2% 14th +9.2pp 6th 1% above peers
Port Charlotte, FL 67.6% 20th +7.8pp 7th 3% below peers
Skokie, IL 68.9% 18th +6.5pp 8th 1% below peers
Rowlett, TX 69.9% 15th +6.2pp 9th on par with peers
Port Orange, FL 65.9% 23rd +5.1pp 10th 5% below peers
Huntersville, NC 73.8% 8th +5.6pp 11th 6% above peers
Janesville, WI 74.0% 7th +5.3pp 12th 6% above peers
Brentwood, NY 70.5% 13th +4.5pp 13th 1% above peers
Waltham, MA 78.3% 4th +4.6pp 14th 12% above peers
Bellevue, NE 71.5% 11th +3.6pp 15th 3% above peers
Lorain, OH 69.7% 16th +3.0pp 16th on par with peers
South San Francisco, CA 78.4% 3rd +2.7pp 17th 12% above peers
St. Cloud, FL 65.0% 24th +1.5pp 18th 7% below peers
Greenwood, IN 69.7% 17th +1.3pp 19th on par with peers
Cheyenne, WY 73.8% 9th +1.3pp 20th 6% above peers
Laguna Niguel, CA 61.3% 26th +0.8pp 21st 12% below peers
Utica, NY 60.2% 27th +0.7pp 22nd 14% below peers
Commerce City, CO 67.3% 21st +0.7pp 23rd 3% below peers
Reston, VA 66.7% 22nd -1.6pp 24th 4% below peers
Victoria, TX 70.8% 12th -1.8pp 25th 2% above peers
Malden, MA 56.3% 31st -1.8pp 26th 19% below peers
Palatine, IL 68.3% 19th -2.7pp 27th 2% below peers
Brentwood, CA 60.2% 28th -3.3pp 28th 14% below peers
Burnsville, MN 76.1% 5th -6.4pp 29th 9% above peers
Four Corners, FL 59.6% 29th -7.5pp 30th 15% below peers
Dundalk, MD 57.7% 30th -11.3pp 31st 17% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 6 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 ±10.0pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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