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204,902 people (2025) 100k-250k South

Bright spots 8 indicators

Where Tallahassee, 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
1.3%
2020-24
▼ 76%
relative change
5.5% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Household income
Median household income
$57,409
2020-24
▲ 26%
relative change
$45,734 in 2019
Real improvement Trailing peers
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Poverty
Share of people below the poverty level
23.6%
2020-24
▼ 10%
relative change
26.4% in 2019
Real improvement Trailing peers
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College attainment
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher
51.3%
2020-24
▲ 7%
relative change
48.2% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Broadband
Households with a broadband internet subscription
91.1%
2020-24
▲ 3%
relative change
88.3% in 2019
Real improvement Trailing peers
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Uninsured
People without health insurance
7.8%
2020-24
▼ 7%
relative change
8.4% in 2019
Turning down (early signal) Leading peers
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SNAP
Households receiving SNAP
12.5%
2019-23
▼ 7%
relative change
13.4% in 2018
No measurable change Leading peers
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Child uninsured
Children without health insurance
4.3%
2020-24
▲ 2%
relative change
4.2% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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What needs attention 5 indicators

Where Tallahassee, 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
50.8%
2020-24
▼ 25%
relative change
67.3% in 2019
Worsening Leading peers
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Unemployment
Unemployment rate
5.5%
Jul 2026
▲ 17%
relative change
4.7% a year earlier
Behind peers and rising Trailing peers
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Inequality
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.51
2020-24
▲ 2%
relative change
0.50 in 2019
No measurable change Trailing peers
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Homeownership
Homeownership rate
40.6%
2020-24
▲ 2%
relative change
40.0% in 2019
No measurable change Trailing peers
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Cost burden
Housing cost-burdened households
43.7%
2020-24
▼ 2%
relative change
44.4% in 2019
No measurable change Trailing peers
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Big moves & big gaps 5 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
201,875
2020-24
▲ 6%
relative change
191,279 in 2019
Rising Among the lowest of peers
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Rent
Typical asking rent
$1,470
Aug 2026
▲ 2%
relative change
$1,448 a year earlier
Rising recently Among the lowest of peers
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Children
Children's share of the population
16.6%
2020-24
low
vs peers
16.7% in 2019
No measurable change Among the lowest of peers
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Working parents
Young children with all parents in the labor force
72.6%
2020-24
high
vs peers
68.2% in 2019
No measurable change Among the highest of peers
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Single-parent
Children in single-parent families
48.4%
2020-24
high
vs peers
43.2% in 2019
No measurable change Among the highest 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 26% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from $45,734 to $57,409 (each survey's own dollars, not adjusted for inflation) - more than the combined survey margin (±$2,595).

Broader trend
All similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. Tallahassee started among the weakest third of similar-size cities, so some rebound is expected; still, the improvement is sustained and worth investigating.
Longer view
Household income rose about 46% from 2014 to 2024 ($39,407 to $57,409).
Bright spot $57,409
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 $74,568 +34%
United States ref $80,734 +28%
Providence, RI $68,119 16th +49% 1st on par with peers
Worcester, MA $70,102 14th +46% 2nd 3% above peers
Chattanooga, TN $64,523 19th +42% 3rd 5% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA $93,222 5th +41% 4th 37% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI $69,108 15th +38% 5th 1% above peers
Tempe, AZ $79,663 10th +37% 6th 17% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV $58,421 21st +35% 7th 14% below peers
Brownsville, TX $52,130 29th +35% 8th 23% below peers
Modesto, CA $79,891 9th +35% 9th 17% above peers
Knoxville, TN $54,039 27th +34% 10th 21% below peers
Rochester, NY $47,213 30th +33% 11th 31% below peers
Oxnard, CA $96,212 3rd +32% 12th 41% above peers
Vancouver, WA $81,338 8th +32% 13th 19% above peers
Yonkers, NY $83,549 6th +31% 14th 23% above peers
Augusta, GA $55,485 26th +30% 15th 19% below peers
Fayetteville, NC $58,407 22nd +30% 16th 14% below peers
Spring Valley, NV $74,511 13th +28% 17th 9% above peers
Huntington Beach, CA $120,919 1st +27% 18th 78% above peers
Peoria, AZ $95,815 4th +27% 19th 41% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD $75,970 11th +27% 20th 12% above peers
Mobile, AL $53,558 28th +27% 21st 21% below peers
Tallahassee, FL $57,409 24th +26% 22nd 16% below peers
Columbus, GA $58,073 23rd +25% 23rd 15% below peers
Amarillo, TX $65,912 18th +25% 24th 3% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT $75,090 12th +24% 25th 10% above peers
Birmingham, AL $46,051 31st +23% 26th 32% below peers
Des Moines, IA $65,932 17th +23% 27th 3% below peers
Little Rock, AR $63,003 20th +22% 28th 8% below peers
Overland Park, KS $104,834 2nd +21% 29th 54% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX $81,619 7th +21% 30th 20% above peers
Montgomery, AL $56,811 25th +18% 31st 17% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 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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14 of 54 tracts cover a shorter window (dashed outline; mostly 2020 boundary changes); 2 have too little data to show a change (gray). Each tract's change uses the same two survey periods as the card above and is judged against the tract's own published margins; tracts marked * moved less than their margin. How the tract view works →
▸ Break down by group Race · ACS 2024
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Peers worth a call

3
Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Hialeah, FL up about 59% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Nampa, ID up about 52% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Providence, RI up about 49% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±$2,189 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 0.8 percentage points over the 12 months ending July 2026, faster than 96% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
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.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: 5.5% in July 2026, up from 4.7% a year earlier.
Needs attention 5.5%
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
Brownsville, TX 7.4% (Jul 26) 28th -1.7pp 1st 61% above peers
Providence, RI 4.3% (Jul 26) 12th -1.2pp 2nd 7% below peers
Vancouver, WA 3.9% (Jul 26) 6th -0.8pp 3rd 15% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI 5.2% (Jul 26) 22nd -0.8pp 4th 13% above peers
Des Moines, IA 3.7% (Jul 26) 4th -0.6pp 5th 20% below peers
Modesto, CA 6.7% (Jul 26) 27th -0.6pp 6th 46% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 5.1% (Jul 26) 21st -0.5pp 7th 11% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 6.0% (Jul 26) 25th -0.4pp 8th 30% above peers
Knoxville, TN 3.4% (Jul 26) 2nd -0.4pp 9th 26% below peers
Oxnard, CA 5.4% (Jul 26) 23rd -0.4pp 10th 17% above peers
Chattanooga, TN 3.8% (Jul 26) 5th -0.3pp 11th 17% below peers
Huntington Beach, CA 4.2% (Jul 26) 11th -0.3pp 12th 9% below peers
Columbus, GA 4.0% (Jul 26) 8th -0.2pp 13th 13% below peers
Worcester, MA 4.9% (Jul 26) 19th -0.2pp 14th 7% above peers
Salt Lake City, UT 3.4% (Jul 26) 3rd -0.1pp 15th 26% below peers
Little Rock, AR 4.4% (Jul 26) 13th -0.1pp 16th 4% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD 1.9% (Jul 26) 1st +0.1pp 17th 59% below peers
Overland Park, KS 4.0% (Jul 26) 9th +0.2pp 18th 13% below peers
Yonkers, NY 4.7% (Jul 26) 17th +0.3pp 19th 2% above peers
Tempe, AZ 4.6% (Jul 26) 15th +0.4pp 20th on par with peers
Rochester, NY 6.1% (Jul 26) 26th +0.5pp 21st 33% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 4.8% (Jul 26) 18th +0.5pp 22nd 4% above peers
Amarillo, TX 3.9% (Jul 26) 7th +0.6pp 23rd 15% below peers
Montgomery, AL 4.1% (Jul 26) 10th +0.7pp 24th 11% below peers
Peoria, AZ 4.9% (Jul 26) 20th +0.7pp 25th 7% above peers
Birmingham, AL 4.5% (Jul 26) 14th +0.7pp 26th 2% below peers
Tallahassee, FL 5.5% (Jul 26) 24th +0.8pp 27th 20% above peers
Mobile, AL 4.6% (Jul 26) 16th +0.8pp 28th on par with 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 Real improvement
Compared against How peers are chosen →
What changed

Poverty fell 2.7 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 26.4% to 23.6% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.6pp).

Broader trend
47% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. Tallahassee started among the weakest third of similar-size cities, so some rebound is expected; still, the improvement is sustained and worth investigating.
Longer view
Poverty fell 7.4 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (31.1% to 23.6%).
Bright spot 23.6%
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%
Tempe, AZ 15.8% 15th -4.0pp 1st 7% below peers
Vancouver, WA 10.2% 5th -2.5pp 2nd 40% below peers
Oxnard, CA 11.1% 6th -2.7pp 3rd 35% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 11.7% 7th -2.8pp 4th 31% below peers
Brownsville, TX 23.7% 29th -5.6pp 5th 40% above peers
Providence, RI 20.7% 26th -4.8pp 6th 22% above peers
Salt Lake City, UT 13.6% 11th -3.0pp 7th 20% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI 16.9% 16th -3.5pp 8th on par with peers
Knoxville, TN 20.2% 24th -4.1pp 9th 19% above peers
Augusta, GA 20.1% 23rd -3.0pp 10th 18% above peers
Modesto, CA 13.3% 10th -1.8pp 11th 21% below peers
Mobile, AL 18.4% 19th -2.3pp 12th 9% above peers
Rochester, NY 27.8% 31st -3.5pp 13th 64% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 23.6% 28th -2.7pp 14th 40% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 17.7% 18th -1.6pp 15th 4% above peers
Columbus, GA 19.1% 20th -1.6pp 16th 12% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 9.6% 4th -0.8pp 17th 43% below peers
Yonkers, NY 13.8% 12th -1.1pp 18th 18% below peers
Des Moines, IA 14.9% 13th -1.1pp 19th 12% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 20.2% 25th -1.2pp 20th 19% above peers
Birmingham, AL 24.7% 30th -1.2pp 21st 46% above peers
Huntington Beach, CA 7.8% 2nd -0.3pp 22nd 54% below peers
Worcester, MA 19.6% 22nd -0.4pp 23rd 16% above peers
Spring Valley, NV 12.2% 9th -0.1pp 24th 28% below peers
Montgomery, AL 21.5% 27th +0.9pp 25th 27% above peers
Amarillo, TX 15.8% 14th +0.7pp 26th 7% below peers
Little Rock, AR 17.5% 17th +0.9pp 27th 3% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 12.1% 8th +0.7pp 28th 29% below peers
Chattanooga, TN 19.1% 21st +1.5pp 29th 13% above peers
Peoria, AZ 8.4% 3rd +0.9pp 30th 50% below peers
Overland Park, KS 5.6% 1st +0.8pp 31st 67% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 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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15 of 54 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 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 Gardens, FL down 7.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • North Charleston, SC down 6.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Tyler, TX down 5.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.1pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Share of children below the poverty level

▼ Lower is better No measurable change
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 (24.3% then, 21.6% now; margin ±3.0pp).

Broader trend
60% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Child poverty fell 6.9 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (28.4% to 21.6%).
21.6%
20132024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 16.5% -3.6pp
United States ref 16.1%
Salt Lake City, UT 13.2% 6th -7.2pp 1st 43% below peers
Vancouver, WA 12.0% 5th -6.5pp 2nd 48% below peers
Knoxville, TN 23.9% 19th -9.1pp 3rd 4% above peers
Brownsville, TX 30.7% 26th -10.4pp 4th 34% above peers
Oxnard, CA 17.1% 11th -4.5pp 5th 26% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI 23.0% 17th -5.9pp 6th on par with peers
Modesto, CA 16.5% 9th -4.2pp 7th 28% below peers
Providence, RI 28.0% 24th -6.8pp 8th 22% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 16.2% 8th -3.9pp 9th 30% below peers
Huntington Beach, CA 8.3% 2nd -1.8pp 10th 64% below peers
Mobile, AL 27.6% 23rd -5.7pp 11th 20% above peers
Tempe, AZ 16.9% 10th -2.9pp 12th 27% below peers
Worcester, MA 23.3% 18th -3.7pp 13th 1% above peers
Spring Valley, NV 14.9% 7th -2.3pp 14th 35% below peers
Yonkers, NY 19.0% 13th -2.9pp 15th 17% below peers
Rochester, NY 41.3% 31st -6.3pp 16th 80% above peers
Augusta, GA 31.3% 27th -4.8pp 17th 36% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 24.5% 20th -3.5pp 18th 7% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 21.6% 14th -2.8pp 19th 6% below peers
Columbus, GA 25.5% 21st -3.2pp 20th 11% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 12.0% 4th -0.9pp 21st 48% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 29.3% 25th -2.1pp 22nd 27% above peers
Overland Park, KS 5.0% 1st -0.3pp 23rd 78% below peers
Des Moines, IA 22.1% 15th -1.1pp 24th 4% below peers
Birmingham, AL 40.5% 30th -0.4pp 25th 76% above peers
Montgomery, AL 32.5% 29th +0.1pp 26th 41% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 17.7% 12th +0.6pp 27th 23% below peers
Peoria, AZ 9.2% 3rd +0.6pp 28th 60% below peers
Little Rock, AR 26.9% 22nd +3.2pp 29th 17% above peers
Amarillo, TX 23.0% 16th +2.8pp 30th on par with peers
Chattanooga, TN 31.3% 28th +4.6pp 31st 36% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 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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14 of 54 tracts cover a shorter window (dashed outline; mostly 2020 boundary changes); 3 have too little data to show a change (gray). Each tract's change uses the same two survey periods as the card above and is judged against the tract's own published margins; tracts marked * moved less than their margin. How the tract view works →
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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 11.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Lewisville, TX down 7.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • San Angelo, TX down 9.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±2.2pp 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 →
What changed

Broadband rose 2.8 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 88.3% to 91.1% - more than the combined survey margin (±0.8pp).

Broader trend
All similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. Tallahassee started among the stronger third of similar-size cities and kept improving; worth investigating.
Longer view
Broadband rose 6.7 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (84.4% to 91.1%).
Bright spot 91.1%
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%
Brownsville, TX 86.1% 30th +32.9pp 1st 6% below peers
Birmingham, AL 87.1% 28th +15.0pp 2nd 4% below peers
Mobile, AL 87.5% 27th +14.8pp 3rd 4% below peers
Chattanooga, TN 90.5% 19th +12.9pp 4th 1% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 88.7% 25th +12.6pp 5th 3% below peers
Augusta, GA 87.7% 26th +11.5pp 6th 4% below peers
Yonkers, NY 92.2% 11th +12.0pp 7th 1% above peers
Little Rock, AR 91.4% 14th +11.5pp 8th on par with peers
Rochester, NY 86.6% 29th +10.5pp 9th 5% below peers
Columbus, GA 89.4% 23rd +10.8pp 10th 2% below peers
Montgomery, AL 90.4% 20th +10.9pp 11th 1% below peers
Providence, RI 89.8% 22nd +10.6pp 12th 1% below peers
Oxnard, CA 93.2% 8th +10.9pp 13th 2% above peers
Worcester, MA 91.2% 15th +10.6pp 14th on par with peers
Des Moines, IA 90.0% 21st +9.8pp 15th 1% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 93.0% 10th +9.6pp 16th 2% above peers
Amarillo, TX 89.2% 24th +8.8pp 17th 2% below peers
Knoxville, TN 85.0% 31st +7.9pp 18th 7% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI 90.5% 18th +7.8pp 19th 1% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 91.1% 16th +7.0pp 20th on par with peers
Spring Valley, NV 93.1% 9th +7.0pp 21st 2% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 91.5% 13th +6.8pp 22nd on par with peers
Sioux Falls, SD 93.5% 6th +7.0pp 23rd 3% above peers
Huntington Beach, CA 96.0% 2nd +6.2pp 24th 5% above peers
Tempe, AZ 94.3% 5th +5.7pp 25th 3% above peers
Vancouver, WA 93.4% 7th +5.5pp 26th 3% above peers
Modesto, CA 92.1% 12th +5.3pp 27th 1% above peers
Peoria, AZ 94.7% 3rd +4.4pp 28th 4% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 94.7% 4th +4.1pp 29th 4% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 91.1% 17th +2.8pp 30th on par with peers
Overland Park, KS 96.0% 1st +2.5pp 31st 5% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 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…
15 of 54 tracts cover a shorter window (dashed outline; mostly 2020 boundary changes); 1 has too little data to show a change (gray). Each tract's change uses the same two survey periods as the card above and is judged against the tract's own published margins; tracts marked * moved less than their margin. How the tract view works →
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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 →
  • Antioch, CA up 7.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 50% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Carrollton, TX up 6.8pp between its surveys · a smaller real gain than 51% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Clovis, CA up 6.5pp between its surveys · a smaller real gain than 51% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±0.6pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Income inequality (Gini index)

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

Inequality changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (0.50 then, 0.51 now; margin ±0.02).

Broader trend
20% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Inequality fell about 2% from 2014 to 2024 (0.53 to 0.51).
Needs attention 0.51
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 0.49 -0.001
United States ref 0.48 +0.001
Providence, RI 0.50 28th -0.038 1st 8% above peers
Yonkers, NY 0.48 18th -0.020 2nd 2% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 0.43 4th -0.017 3rd 7% below peers
Tempe, AZ 0.45 13th -0.017 4th 4% below peers
Worcester, MA 0.48 19th -0.015 5th 3% above peers
Mobile, AL 0.50 24th -0.012 6th 6% above peers
Brownsville, TX 0.47 16th -0.011 7th on par with peers
Knoxville, TN 0.49 21st -0.010 8th 5% above peers
Des Moines, IA 0.44 6th -0.008 9th 6% below peers
Columbus, GA 0.49 22nd -0.007 10th 5% above peers
Huntington Beach, CA 0.44 8th -0.006 11th 5% below peers
Little Rock, AR 0.53 31st -0.007 12th 13% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 0.44 5th -0.005 13th 6% below peers
Rochester, NY 0.50 25th -0.004 14th 7% above peers
Montgomery, AL 0.49 23rd -0.003 15th 6% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 0.38 1st -0.002 16th 18% below peers
Chattanooga, TN 0.50 26th -0.001 17th 8% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 0.45 12th +0.000 18th 4% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 0.50 27th +0.002 19th 8% above peers
Oxnard, CA 0.40 2nd +0.003 20th 13% below peers
Birmingham, AL 0.51 29th +0.005 21st 10% above peers
Modesto, CA 0.44 9th +0.006 22nd 5% below peers
Tallahassee, FL 0.51 30th +0.009 23rd 10% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 0.45 14th +0.010 24th 3% below peers
Vancouver, WA 0.44 10th +0.010 25th 5% below peers
Overland Park, KS 0.45 11th +0.011 26th 4% below peers
Augusta, GA 0.49 20th +0.014 27th 5% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 0.41 3rd +0.013 28th 12% below peers
Amarillo, TX 0.48 17th +0.017 29th 2% above peers
Peoria, AZ 0.44 7th +0.025 30th 5% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 0.46 15th +0.028 31st on par with peers
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B19083) through 2024 ±0.02 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 (13.4% then, 12.5% now; margin ±1.4pp).

Broader trend
60% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Snap fell 0.8 percentage points from 2013 to 2023 (13.3% to 12.5%).
Bright spot 12.5%
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
Chattanooga, TN 12.9% 12th -4.7pp 1st 16% below peers
Knoxville, TN 14.7% 15th -4.5pp 2nd 4% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 6.5% 4th -1.9pp 3rd 58% below peers
Providence, RI 25.3% 28th -7.4pp 4th 64% above peers
Overland Park, KS 1.9% 1st -0.6pp 5th 87% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 9.1% 7th -2.5pp 6th 41% below peers
Des Moines, IA 16.2% 18th -4.4pp 7th 5% above peers
Tempe, AZ 6.0% 3rd -1.4pp 8th 61% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI 15.4% 16th -3.5pp 9th on par with peers
Columbus, GA 16.6% 19th -2.3pp 10th 8% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 8.7% 6th -1.1pp 11th 43% below peers
Amarillo, TX 10.7% 10th -1.3pp 12th 30% below peers
Rochester, NY 31.3% 31st -3.5pp 13th 103% above peers
Birmingham, AL 21.8% 26th -1.6pp 14th 42% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 12.5% 11th -0.9pp 15th 19% below peers
Vancouver, WA 16.6% 20th -0.7pp 16th 8% above peers
Mobile, AL 19.4% 23rd -0.2pp 17th 26% above peers
Augusta, GA 21.1% 24th -0.1pp 18th 37% above peers
Peoria, AZ 7.0% 5th +0.0pp 19th 55% below peers
Oxnard, CA 14.1% 13th +0.3pp 20th 8% below peers
Modesto, CA 15.8% 17th +0.6pp 21st 2% above peers
Spring Valley, NV 9.8% 8th +0.4pp 22nd 36% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 24.8% 27th +1.1pp 23rd 61% above peers
Brownsville, TX 29.1% 30th +1.9pp 24th 89% above peers
Montgomery, AL 21.7% 25th +1.6pp 25th 41% above peers
Little Rock, AR 10.7% 9th +1.1pp 26th 31% below peers
Yonkers, NY 18.6% 21st +2.0pp 27th 21% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 19.2% 22nd +2.2pp 28th 25% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 14.5% 14th +1.7pp 29th 6% below peers
Worcester, MA 26.8% 29th +4.7pp 30th 74% above peers
Huntington Beach, CA 5.7% 2nd +1.1pp 31st 63% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 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 (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 ±1.1pp at 90% confidence (2023 estimate) survey trend: 2014-2018 vs 2019-2023 surveys about this metric
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Housing

Typical home value

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

Home value rose about 1% over the 12 months ending August 2026, faster than 52% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: home value rose about 3% a year from 2021 to 2026, slower than 54% of similar-size cities.
Longer view
Home value rose about 7% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: $294,444 in August 2026, up from $290,281 a year earlier.
$294,444
2000August 2026
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▸ Compare all 28 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%
Yonkers, NY $706,055 (Aug 26) 3rd +7.0% 1st 112% above peers
Overland Park, KS $483,940 (Aug 26) 7th +5.5% 2nd 46% above peers
Huntington Beach, CA $1,351,762 (Aug 26) 1st +5.4% 3rd 307% above peers
Rochester, NY $247,040 (Aug 26) 19th +4.6% 4th 26% below peers
Amarillo, TX $211,528 (Aug 26) 22nd +4.0% 5th 36% below peers
Little Rock, AR $221,588 (Aug 26) 21st +3.7% 6th 33% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI $307,094 (Aug 26) 17th +3.2% 7th 8% below peers
Columbus, GA $175,951 (Aug 26) 26th +2.9% 8th 47% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT $572,003 (Aug 26) 4th +2.4% 9th 72% above peers
Providence, RI $434,698 (Aug 26) 12th +2.3% 10th 31% above peers
Montgomery, AL $152,837 (Aug 26) 27th +2.1% 11th 54% below peers
Worcester, MA $435,944 (Aug 26) 11th +1.6% 12th 31% above peers
Brownsville, TX $199,327 (Aug 26) 24th +1.6% 13th 40% below peers
Tallahassee, FL $294,444 (Aug 26) 18th +1.4% 14th 11% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD $332,295 (Aug 26) 14th +1.3% 15th on par with peers
Knoxville, TN $370,699 (Aug 26) 13th +1.1% 16th 12% above peers
Oxnard, CA $759,573 (Aug 26) 2nd +1.0% 17th 129% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA $551,273 (Aug 26) 5th +0.4% 18th 66% above peers
Fayetteville, NC $224,044 (Aug 26) 20th +0.3% 19th 33% below peers
Modesto, CA $442,564 (Aug 26) 10th +0.1% 20th 33% above peers
Vancouver, WA $501,696 (Aug 26) 6th -0.1% 21st 51% above peers
Des Moines, IA $210,572 (Aug 26) 23rd -0.2% 22nd 37% below peers
Tempe, AZ $461,342 (Aug 26) 9th -0.6% 23rd 39% above peers
Mobile, AL $198,189 (Aug 26) 25th -0.6% 24th 40% below peers
Peoria, AZ $480,596 (Aug 26) 8th -0.8% 25th 45% above peers
Chattanooga, TN $319,185 (Aug 26) 15th -1.2% 26th 4% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX $314,397 (Aug 26) 16th -1.3% 27th 5% below peers
Birmingham, AL $136,876 (Aug 26) 28th -2.3% 28th 59% below peers
Zillow Home Value Index through 2026-08 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
Housing

Starter home value (bottom tier)

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

Starter homes rose about 1% over the 12 months ending August 2026, faster than 52% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: starter homes rose about 4% a year from 2021 to 2026, slower than 54% of similar-size cities.
Longer view
Starter homes rose about 9% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: $181,951 in August 2026, up from $179,380 a year earlier.
$181,951
2000August 2026
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▸ Compare all 28 similar-size cities by change rank
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%
Yonkers, NY $358,222 (Aug 26) 8th +8.1% 1st 48% above peers
Overland Park, KS $335,304 (Aug 26) 11th +5.7% 2nd 38% above peers
Amarillo, TX $126,073 (Aug 26) 23rd +5.6% 3rd 48% below peers
Little Rock, AR $116,179 (Aug 26) 24th +5.6% 4th 52% below peers
Huntington Beach, CA $919,906 (Aug 26) 1st +4.5% 5th 280% above peers
Montgomery, AL $67,882 (Aug 26) 27th +4.2% 6th 72% below peers
Rochester, NY $163,825 (Aug 26) 19th +4.2% 7th 32% below peers
Brownsville, TX $135,515 (Aug 26) 22nd +3.5% 8th 44% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI $230,222 (Aug 26) 16th +3.3% 9th 5% below peers
Providence, RI $351,330 (Aug 26) 9th +2.9% 10th 45% above peers
Worcester, MA $345,745 (Aug 26) 10th +2.5% 11th 43% above peers
Fayetteville, NC $155,564 (Aug 26) 20th +2.1% 12th 36% below peers
Oxnard, CA $642,182 (Aug 26) 2nd +2.0% 13th 165% above peers
Tallahassee, FL $181,951 (Aug 26) 18th +1.4% 14th 25% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA $494,959 (Aug 26) 3rd +1.2% 15th 104% above peers
Columbus, GA $92,045 (Aug 26) 26th +1.2% 16th 62% below peers
Knoxville, TN $248,842 (Aug 26) 13th +1.1% 17th 3% above peers
Mobile, AL $94,677 (Aug 26) 25th +1.0% 18th 61% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT $403,783 (Aug 26) 5th +1.0% 19th 67% above peers
Modesto, CA $361,618 (Aug 26) 7th +0.8% 20th 49% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD $242,098 (Aug 26) 14th +0.4% 21st on par with peers
Birmingham, AL $63,068 (Aug 26) 28th -0.1% 22nd 74% below peers
Des Moines, IA $153,884 (Aug 26) 21st -0.2% 23rd 36% below peers
Vancouver, WA $408,333 (Aug 26) 4th -0.4% 24th 69% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX $240,238 (Aug 26) 15th -0.6% 25th 1% below peers
Chattanooga, TN $198,250 (Aug 26) 17th -0.9% 26th 18% below peers
Peoria, AZ $364,173 (Aug 26) 6th -1.3% 27th 50% above peers
Tempe, AZ $333,045 (Aug 26) 12th -2.3% 28th 38% above peers
Zillow Home Value Index through 2026-08 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
Housing

Homeownership rate

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

Homeownership changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (40.0% then, 40.6% now; margin ±1.3pp).

Broader trend
40% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Homeownership held roughly steady from 2014 to 2024.
Needs attention 40.6%
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 67.6% +2.2pp
United States ref 65.2%
Providence, RI 41.4% 29th +5.3pp 1st 21% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 50.5% 21st +5.3pp 2nd 4% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 47.4% 22nd +3.2pp 3rd 10% below peers
Modesto, CA 58.9% 8th +3.8pp 4th 12% above peers
Columbus, GA 50.8% 18th +2.8pp 5th 3% below peers
Rochester, NY 38.1% 31st +1.7pp 6th 27% below peers
Tempe, AZ 42.3% 28th +1.7pp 7th 19% below peers
Worcester, MA 42.8% 27th +1.5pp 8th 18% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 51.7% 17th +1.7pp 9th 1% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 63.3% 2nd +1.6pp 10th 21% above peers
Peoria, AZ 76.0% 1st +1.8pp 11th 45% above peers
Oxnard, CA 54.4% 11th +1.2pp 12th 4% above peers
Knoxville, TN 46.6% 23rd +0.8pp 13th 11% below peers
Brownsville, TX 61.7% 3rd +1.0pp 14th 18% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 40.6% 30th +0.6pp 15th 22% below peers
Birmingham, AL 45.5% 26th +0.6pp 16th 13% below peers
Mobile, AL 54.0% 14th +0.7pp 17th 3% above peers
Des Moines, IA 60.5% 5th +0.4pp 18th 15% above peers
Yonkers, NY 46.2% 24th +0.1pp 19th 12% below peers
Chattanooga, TN 52.4% 16th -0.2pp 20th on par with peers
Montgomery, AL 54.4% 12th -0.7pp 21st 4% above peers
Amarillo, TX 59.7% 6th -0.8pp 22nd 14% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 59.5% 7th -1.1pp 23rd 14% above peers
Vancouver, WA 50.8% 20th -0.9pp 24th 3% below peers
Huntington Beach, CA 55.4% 10th -1.2pp 25th 6% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 54.0% 13th -1.4pp 26th 3% above peers
Augusta, GA 50.8% 19th -1.3pp 27th 3% below peers
Little Rock, AR 53.5% 15th -1.8pp 28th 2% above peers
Overland Park, KS 60.5% 4th -2.8pp 29th 16% above peers
Salt Lake City, UT 45.8% 25th -2.2pp 30th 13% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 58.7% 9th -3.9pp 31st 12% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 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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15 of 54 tracts cover a shorter window (dashed outline; mostly 2020 boundary changes); 1 has too little data to show a change (gray). Each tract's change uses the same two survey periods as the card above and is judged against the tract's own published margins; tracts marked * moved less than their margin. How the tract view works →
▸ Break down by group Race · ACS 2024
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Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.0pp 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 2% over the 12 months ending August 2026, slower than 59% of similar-size cities.

Broader trend
Multi-year view: rent rose about 5% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 67% of similar-size cities.
Longer view
Rent rose about 8% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Latest
Most recent monthly reading: $1,470 in August 2026, up from $1,448 a year earlier.
Big move $1,470
2015August 2026
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▸ Compare all 28 similar-size cities by change rank
Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
United States ref $1,948 (Aug 26) +2.5%
Amarillo, TX $1,330 (Aug 26) 22nd +6.3% 1st 17% below peers
Yonkers, NY $2,755 (Aug 26) 3rd +5.3% 2nd 72% above peers
Providence, RI $2,213 (Aug 26) 5th +4.9% 3rd 38% above peers
Brownsville, TX $1,583 (Aug 26) 15th +4.7% 4th 1% below peers
Columbus, GA $1,308 (Aug 26) 24th +4.6% 5th 18% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI $1,580 (Aug 26) 16th +4.2% 6th 1% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD $1,302 (Aug 26) 25th +3.9% 7th 19% below peers
Mobile, AL $1,280 (Aug 26) 26th +3.9% 8th 20% below peers
Huntington Beach, CA $3,081 (Aug 26) 1st +3.5% 9th 92% above peers
Overland Park, KS $1,757 (Aug 26) 10th +3.2% 10th 10% above peers
Rochester, NY $1,476 (Aug 26) 18th +3.1% 11th 8% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA $2,382 (Aug 26) 4th +2.9% 12th 49% above peers
Montgomery, AL $1,338 (Aug 26) 21st +2.6% 13th 17% below peers
Chattanooga, TN $1,513 (Aug 26) 17th +2.2% 14th 6% below peers
Fayetteville, NC $1,367 (Aug 26) 20th +2.1% 15th 15% below peers
Little Rock, AR $1,212 (Aug 26) 27th +2.0% 16th 24% below peers
Tallahassee, FL $1,470 (Aug 26) 19th +1.5% 17th 8% below peers
Birmingham, AL $1,322 (Aug 26) 23rd +1.5% 18th 18% below peers
Des Moines, IA $1,126 (Aug 26) 28th +1.2% 19th 30% below peers
Modesto, CA $2,021 (Aug 26) 7th +1.0% 20th 26% above peers
Oxnard, CA $2,864 (Aug 26) 2nd +0.7% 21st 79% above peers
Vancouver, WA $1,828 (Aug 26) 9th +0.6% 22nd 14% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX $1,647 (Aug 26) 13th +0.6% 23rd 3% above peers
Peoria, AZ $1,870 (Aug 26) 8th +0.5% 24th 17% above peers
Salt Lake City, UT $1,603 (Aug 26) 14th +0.5% 25th on par with peers
Tempe, AZ $1,649 (Aug 26) 12th +0.4% 26th 3% above peers
Worcester, MA $2,130 (Aug 26) 6th +0.4% 27th 33% above peers
Knoxville, TN $1,712 (Aug 26) 11th +0.3% 28th 7% above peers
Zillow Observed Rent Index through 2026-08 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
Housing

Housing cost-burdened households

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

Cost burden changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (44.4% then, 43.7% now; margin ±2.6pp).

Broader trend
30% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Cost burden fell 4.5 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (48.1% to 43.7%).
Needs attention 43.7%
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
Chattanooga, TN 31.6% 5th -2.8pp 1st 16% below peers
Brownsville, TX 32.1% 8th -2.5pp 2nd 15% below peers
Oxnard, CA 42.3% 25th -3.3pp 3rd 12% above peers
Rochester, NY 42.3% 26th -2.5pp 4th 12% above peers
Providence, RI 41.6% 24th -1.9pp 5th 10% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 31.3% 4th -1.3pp 6th 17% below peers
Columbus, GA 36.6% 11th -1.5pp 7th 3% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 39.6% 19th -1.1pp 8th 5% above peers
Augusta, GA 37.6% 14th -0.8pp 9th on par with peers
Tallahassee, FL 43.7% 28th -0.7pp 10th 16% above peers
Yonkers, NY 44.7% 31st -0.7pp 11th 18% above peers
Modesto, CA 40.0% 20th -0.6pp 12th 6% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 25.8% 1st -0.3pp 13th 32% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 43.9% 29th -0.4pp 14th 16% above peers
Little Rock, AR 32.5% 9th -0.0pp 15th 14% below peers
Worcester, MA 43.6% 27th +0.0pp 16th 16% above peers
Des Moines, IA 32.1% 7th +0.2pp 17th 15% below peers
Peoria, AZ 29.2% 3rd +0.5pp 18th 23% below peers
Birmingham, AL 41.0% 22nd +1.1pp 19th 9% above peers
Vancouver, WA 38.2% 18th +1.4pp 20th 1% above peers
Huntington Beach, CA 40.1% 21st +1.4pp 21st 6% above peers
Mobile, AL 37.5% 13th +1.4pp 22nd 1% below peers
Tempe, AZ 37.7% 16th +1.4pp 23rd on par with peers
Knoxville, TN 38.1% 17th +1.6pp 24th 1% above peers
Montgomery, AL 35.4% 10th +2.0pp 25th 6% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 41.1% 23rd +2.6pp 26th 9% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 44.4% 30th +3.3pp 27th 18% above peers
Amarillo, TX 31.8% 6th +2.4pp 28th 16% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 36.8% 12th +4.1pp 29th 2% below peers
Overland Park, KS 27.2% 2nd +3.7pp 30th 28% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 37.6% 15th +8.3pp 31st on par with peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 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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15 of 54 tracts cover a shorter window (dashed outline; mostly 2020 boundary changes); 1 has too little data to show a change (gray). Each tract's change uses the same two survey periods as the card above and is judged against the tract's own published margins; tracts marked * moved less than their margin. How the tract view works →
▸

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 →
  • 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 ±2.0pp 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 (7.7% then, 8.6% now; margin ±1.3pp).

Broader trend
30% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
No vehicle rose 0.1 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (8.4% to 8.6%).
8.6%
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 6.0% -0.4pp
United States ref 8.3% -0.3pp
Montgomery, AL 7.0% 12th -1.8pp 1st 10% below peers
Tempe, AZ 7.7% 15th -1.9pp 2nd 1% below peers
Worcester, MA 16.1% 28th -2.8pp 3rd 106% above peers
Mobile, AL 7.7% 14th -1.2pp 4th 2% below peers
Knoxville, TN 9.1% 21st -1.3pp 5th 17% above peers
Birmingham, AL 12.0% 26th -1.7pp 6th 54% above peers
Brownsville, TX 7.4% 13th -0.9pp 7th 5% below peers
Chattanooga, TN 8.6% 19th -0.9pp 8th 10% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 10.9% 25th -0.8pp 9th 40% above peers
Providence, RI 17.1% 29th -1.3pp 10th 119% above peers
Rochester, NY 23.4% 30th -1.8pp 11th 199% above peers
Yonkers, NY 23.7% 31st -1.7pp 12th 203% above peers
Peoria, AZ 4.4% 4th -0.3pp 13th 44% below peers
Modesto, CA 6.3% 9th -0.2pp 14th 19% below peers
Vancouver, WA 6.9% 11th -0.2pp 15th 12% below peers
Little Rock, AR 8.0% 17th -0.2pp 16th 3% above peers
Des Moines, IA 9.0% 20th -0.1pp 17th 15% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 5.5% 7th -0.0pp 18th 29% below peers
Amarillo, TX 5.9% 8th +0.1pp 19th 24% below peers
Columbus, GA 10.9% 24th +0.4pp 20th 39% above peers
Salt Lake City, UT 10.8% 23rd +0.4pp 21st 38% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 7.8% 16th +0.3pp 22nd on par with peers
Augusta, GA 10.0% 22nd +0.6pp 23rd 28% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 12.1% 27th +1.0pp 24th 55% above peers
Oxnard, CA 4.5% 5th +0.4pp 25th 42% below peers
Tallahassee, FL 8.6% 18th +0.9pp 26th 9% above peers
Huntington Beach, CA 3.6% 1st +0.4pp 27th 54% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 3.9% 2nd +0.6pp 28th 50% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 6.6% 10th +1.0pp 29th 16% below peers
Overland Park, KS 4.3% 3rd +1.2pp 30th 45% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 5.0% 6th +1.8pp 31st 36% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started 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 (8.4% then, 7.8% now; margin ±0.8pp). 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
57% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Uninsured fell 5.3 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (13.1% to 7.8%).
Bright spot 7.8%
20132024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 11.5% -1.3pp
United States ref 8.4% -0.4pp
Oxnard, CA 13.7% 27th -3.3pp 1st 39% above peers
Modesto, CA 4.7% 3rd -1.1pp 2nd 53% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 10.4% 18th -2.2pp 3rd 5% above peers
Brownsville, TX 26.2% 31st -4.9pp 4th 165% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 7.2% 8th -1.3pp 5th 27% below peers
Overland Park, KS 4.6% 2nd -0.9pp 6th 54% below peers
Yonkers, NY 6.3% 6th -1.0pp 7th 37% below peers
Mobile, AL 9.8% 14th -1.5pp 8th on par with peers
Moreno Valley, CA 10.0% 17th -1.0pp 9th 1% above peers
Augusta, GA 11.8% 23rd -1.1pp 10th 20% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 7.8% 12th -0.6pp 11th 21% below peers
Amarillo, TX 15.4% 28th -1.1pp 12th 56% above peers
Rochester, NY 4.9% 4th -0.3pp 13th 50% below peers
Columbus, GA 11.1% 21st -0.4pp 14th 12% above peers
Vancouver, WA 7.6% 11th -0.3pp 15th 23% below peers
Providence, RI 7.4% 9th -0.2pp 16th 25% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 9.9% 15th -0.2pp 17th on par with peers
Grand Prairie, TX 18.5% 30th +0.0pp 18th 87% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 17.6% 29th +0.1pp 19th 78% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 8.1% 13th +0.3pp 20th 18% below peers
Birmingham, AL 12.8% 26th +0.4pp 21st 29% above peers
Des Moines, IA 7.2% 7th +0.3pp 22nd 27% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 12.4% 25th +0.5pp 23rd 26% above peers
Montgomery, AL 11.0% 20th +0.5pp 24th 12% above peers
Huntington Beach, CA 5.5% 5th +0.5pp 25th 44% below peers
Tempe, AZ 9.9% 16th +1.1pp 26th on par with peers
Knoxville, TN 11.6% 22nd +1.5pp 27th 17% above peers
Chattanooga, TN 12.2% 24th +1.8pp 28th 23% above peers
Peoria, AZ 7.5% 10th +1.2pp 29th 24% below peers
Little Rock, AR 10.6% 19th +2.2pp 30th 7% above peers
Worcester, MA 3.9% 1st +1.0pp 31st 60% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 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 mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Downey, CA down 3.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Richmond, CA down 2.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Charleston, SC down 2.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±0.6pp 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
Health

Adult obesity

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

Adult obesity is somewhat below the peer median.

33.7%
20202022
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Place Latest Today's rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 32.6%
United States ref 33.4%
Huntington Beach, CA 25.3% 1st 30% below peers
Yonkers, NY 30.3% 2nd 16% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 30.3% 3rd 16% below peers
Overland Park, KS 30.4% 4th 16% below peers
Peoria, AZ 32.0% 5th 12% below peers
Oxnard, CA 32.1% 6th 11% below peers
Tempe, AZ 32.3% 7th 11% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 33.0% 8th 9% below peers
Tallahassee, FL 33.7% 9th 7% below peers
Vancouver, WA 34.6% 10th 4% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD 34.9% 11th 4% below peers
Modesto, CA 35.0% 12th 3% below peers
Providence, RI 35.3% 13th 2% below peers
Chattanooga, TN 35.6% 14th 2% below peers
Amarillo, TX 35.9% 15th 1% below peers
Worcester, MA 36.2% 16th on par with peers
Grand Prairie, TX 36.7% 17th 1% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 37.2% 18th 3% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 37.2% 19th 3% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 37.9% 20th 5% above peers
Little Rock, AR 38.4% 21st 6% above peers
Des Moines, IA 40.3% 22nd 11% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 40.4% 23rd 12% above peers
Knoxville, TN 41.0% 24th 13% above peers
Columbus, GA 41.7% 25th 15% above peers
Augusta, GA 43.6% 26th 20% above peers
Rochester, NY 44.2% 27th 22% above peers
Mobile, AL 44.2% 28th 22% above peers
Montgomery, AL 44.8% 29th 24% above peers
Birmingham, AL 44.9% 30th 24% above peers
Brownsville, TX 47.6% 31st 31% 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 (4.2% then, 4.3% now; margin ±1.3pp).

Broader trend
40% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Child uninsured fell 0.4 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (4.6% to 4.3%).
Bright spot 4.3%
20122024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Florida ref 7.5% +0.3pp
United States ref 5.5% +0.4pp
Oxnard, CA 3.7% 8th -2.5pp 1st 25% below peers
Mobile, AL 2.1% 2nd -1.0pp 2nd 56% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 8.8% 26th -3.0pp 3rd 80% above peers
Modesto, CA 1.9% 1st -0.6pp 4th 60% below peers
Overland Park, KS 3.2% 6th -0.9pp 5th 33% below peers
Brownsville, TX 13.8% 30th -3.3pp 6th 185% above peers
Des Moines, IA 3.0% 5th -0.5pp 7th 39% below peers
Augusta, GA 5.0% 18th -0.7pp 8th 2% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 5.2% 19th -0.2pp 9th 6% above peers
Amarillo, TX 10.2% 28th -0.1pp 10th 111% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 4.3% 11th +0.1pp 11th 12% below peers
Vancouver, WA 3.5% 7th +0.1pp 12th 27% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 11.7% 29th +1.2pp 13th 141% above peers
Columbus, GA 4.5% 12th +0.7pp 14th 7% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD 5.8% 21st +0.9pp 15th 20% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 14.0% 31st +2.4pp 16th 188% above peers
Birmingham, AL 4.8% 16th +0.9pp 17th on par with peers
Grand Rapids, MI 4.8% 17th +1.0pp 18th on par with peers
Spring Valley, NV 9.5% 27th +1.9pp 19th 96% above peers
Tempe, AZ 8.2% 24th +1.7pp 20th 69% above peers
Yonkers, NY 3.9% 9th +0.9pp 21st 21% below peers
Rochester, NY 2.7% 4th +0.7pp 22nd 44% below peers
Huntington Beach, CA 3.9% 10th +1.2pp 23rd 19% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 4.8% 15th +1.5pp 24th 1% below peers
Montgomery, AL 4.5% 13th +1.8pp 25th 7% below peers
Providence, RI 5.5% 20th +2.3pp 26th 12% above peers
Little Rock, AR 8.5% 25th +3.7pp 27th 75% above peers
Knoxville, TN 4.6% 14th +2.0pp 28th 5% below peers
Peoria, AZ 8.2% 23rd +3.9pp 29th 68% above peers
Chattanooga, TN 7.5% 22nd +3.8pp 30th 55% above peers
Worcester, MA 2.4% 3rd +1.2pp 31st 51% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 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 →
  • Burbank, CA down 2.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Carolina zona urbana, PR down 2.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Glendale, CA down 1.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B27001) through 2024 ±1.0pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Education 3 indicators
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Education

Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher

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

College attainment rose 3.2 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 48.2% to 51.3% - more than the combined survey margin (±2.3pp).

Broader trend
97% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. Tallahassee started among the stronger third of similar-size cities and kept improving; worth investigating.
Longer view
College attainment rose 3.9 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (47.5% to 51.3%).
Bright spot 51.3%
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
Brownsville, TX 24.5% 27th +5.6pp 1st 24% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 30.0% 22nd +6.4pp 2nd 7% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 31.4% 18th +6.2pp 3rd 3% below peers
Chattanooga, TN 36.0% 10th +5.9pp 4th 11% above peers
Rochester, NY 30.0% 21st +4.9pp 5th 7% below peers
Columbus, GA 30.5% 20th +4.7pp 6th 6% below peers
Worcester, MA 35.2% 12th +5.0pp 7th 9% above peers
Huntington Beach, CA 49.0% 5th +6.4pp 8th 51% above peers
Providence, RI 34.6% 13th +4.5pp 9th 7% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 41.6% 7th +5.2pp 10th 29% above peers
Augusta, GA 24.7% 26th +3.1pp 11th 24% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 12.0% 31st +1.4pp 12th 63% below peers
Birmingham, AL 31.1% 19th +3.7pp 13th 4% below peers
Modesto, CA 21.2% 28th +2.5pp 14th 34% below peers
Amarillo, TX 26.6% 25th +3.0pp 15th 18% below peers
Des Moines, IA 29.7% 23rd +3.0pp 16th 8% below peers
Vancouver, WA 32.4% 16th +3.1pp 17th on par with peers
Salt Lake City, UT 51.5% 2nd +4.9pp 18th 59% above peers
Peoria, AZ 36.3% 9th +3.4pp 19th 12% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 17.8% 30th +1.5pp 20th 45% below peers
Mobile, AL 32.0% 17th +2.6pp 21st 1% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD 38.1% 8th +2.9pp 22nd 18% above peers
Oxnard, CA 19.5% 29th +1.5pp 23rd 40% below peers
Tempe, AZ 50.0% 4th +3.4pp 24th 54% above peers
Little Rock, AR 44.6% 6th +2.8pp 25th 38% above peers
Knoxville, TN 34.6% 14th +2.2pp 26th 7% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 51.3% 3rd +3.2pp 27th 59% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 29.0% 24th +1.8pp 28th 10% below peers
Yonkers, NY 35.7% 11th +2.2pp 29th 10% above peers
Overland Park, KS 63.7% 1st +2.1pp 30th 97% above peers
Montgomery, AL 33.8% 15th +1.0pp 31st 4% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EducationAdults with a bachelor's degree or higher
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▸ Break down by group Sex · ACS 2024
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the 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 →
  • Arvada, CO up 10.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 96% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Bend, OR up 8.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 88% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Gainesville, FL up 8.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 86% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.8pp 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 16.5 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 67.3% to 50.8% - more than the combined survey margin (±10.5pp). 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
23% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction.
Longer view
Preschool enrollment fell 8.6 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (59.3% to 50.8%).
Needs attention 50.8%
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%
Brownsville, TX 54.8% 4th +6.1pp 1st 32% above peers
Peoria, AZ 46.9% 12th +5.0pp 2nd 13% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 28.1% 28th +2.2pp 3rd 32% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 38.1% 18th +3.0pp 4th 8% below peers
Huntington Beach, CA 63.1% 1st +4.8pp 5th 52% above peers
Vancouver, WA 41.7% 14th +2.1pp 6th on par with peers
Grand Rapids, MI 49.6% 9th +0.8pp 7th 19% above peers
Birmingham, AL 55.9% 3rd +0.2pp 8th 34% above peers
Rochester, NY 48.1% 11th -2.1pp 9th 16% above peers
Yonkers, NY 62.2% 2nd -3.1pp 10th 50% above peers
Montgomery, AL 41.6% 15th -2.4pp 11th on par with peers
Knoxville, TN 40.8% 17th -2.5pp 12th 2% below peers
Augusta, GA 41.6% 16th -3.0pp 13th on par with peers
Salt Lake City, UT 50.0% 8th -3.6pp 14th 20% above peers
Little Rock, AR 52.9% 5th -5.6pp 15th 27% above peers
Des Moines, IA 33.2% 23rd -4.1pp 16th 20% below peers
Tempe, AZ 45.4% 13th -6.0pp 17th 9% above peers
Mobile, AL 49.2% 10th -6.6pp 18th 18% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 24.1% 30th -3.2pp 19th 42% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 35.5% 20th -4.9pp 20th 14% below peers
Providence, RI 35.1% 21st -6.3pp 21st 15% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD 33.0% 24th -6.0pp 22nd 21% below peers
Modesto, CA 32.2% 25th -7.8pp 23rd 23% below peers
Overland Park, KS 51.8% 6th -13.6pp 24th 25% above peers
Chattanooga, TN 31.8% 26th -8.6pp 25th 23% below peers
Tallahassee, FL 50.8% 7th -16.5pp 26th 22% above peers
Worcester, MA 36.7% 19th -12.6pp 27th 12% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 27.5% 29th -9.9pp 28th 34% below peers
Amarillo, TX 33.7% 22nd -13.7pp 29th 19% below peers
Oxnard, CA 22.6% 31st -16.6pp 30th 46% below peers
Columbus, GA 28.6% 27th -24.6pp 31st 31% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 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 ±8.4pp 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 →
What changed

Disconnected youth fell 4.2 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 5.5% to 1.3% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.5pp).

Broader trend
3% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction; 13% moved the other way. Tallahassee started among the stronger third of similar-size cities and kept improving; worth investigating.
Longer view
Disconnected youth fell 2.7 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (4.0% to 1.3%).
Bright spot 1.3%
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
Tallahassee, FL 1.3% 2nd -4.2pp 1st 85% below peers
Overland Park, KS 1.1% 1st -1.5pp 2nd 88% below peers
Tempe, AZ 2.6% 3rd -2.1pp 3rd 70% below peers
Brownsville, TX 8.7% 16th -4.5pp 4th on par with peers
Knoxville, TN 3.5% 4th -1.6pp 5th 60% below peers
Peoria, AZ 6.5% 10th -2.9pp 6th 26% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 7.0% 12th -2.2pp 7th 20% below peers
Montgomery, AL 9.0% 18th -2.3pp 8th 3% above peers
Providence, RI 5.0% 6th -0.8pp 9th 43% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 8.8% 17th -1.3pp 10th 1% above peers
Des Moines, IA 6.5% 11th -0.9pp 11th 26% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 9.7% 23rd -0.8pp 12th 11% above peers
Chattanooga, TN 5.4% 8th -0.4pp 13th 38% below peers
Birmingham, AL 10.1% 25th -0.7pp 14th 16% above peers
Augusta, GA 9.8% 24th -0.4pp 15th 12% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 7.8% 14th -0.3pp 16th 11% below peers
Rochester, NY 10.2% 26th -0.3pp 17th 17% above peers
Huntington Beach, CA 4.1% 5th +0.0pp 18th 53% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 14.4% 29th +0.4pp 19th 65% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 5.1% 7th +0.2pp 20th 42% below peers
Oxnard, CA 9.4% 21st +1.4pp 21st 8% above peers
Modesto, CA 9.4% 22nd +1.6pp 22nd 8% above peers
Amarillo, TX 10.8% 27th +2.1pp 23rd 24% above peers
Yonkers, NY 9.0% 19th +1.8pp 24th 3% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 8.0% 15th +2.2pp 25th 9% below peers
Mobile, AL 9.2% 20th +2.7pp 26th 5% above peers
Worcester, MA 5.7% 9th +1.7pp 27th 34% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 7.7% 13th +2.9pp 28th 11% below peers
Little Rock, AR 16.0% 31st +6.8pp 29th 83% above peers
Vancouver, WA 10.9% 28th +4.7pp 30th 26% above peers
Columbus, GA 14.9% 30th +7.7pp 31st 71% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EducationTeens not in school and not working
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the 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 ±0.7pp 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 6% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 191,279 to 201,875 - more than the combined survey margin (±114).

Broader trend
80% of similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction; 17% moved the other way.
Longer view
Population rose about 9% from 2014 to 2024 (185,395 to 201,875).
Big move 201,875
20102024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Peoria, AZ 196,906 24th +17% 1st 2% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD 201,469 17th +14% 2nd on par with peers
Worcester, MA 207,055 9th +12% 3rd 3% above peers
Vancouver, WA 195,300 25th +8% 4th 3% below peers
Providence, RI 191,767 28th +7% 5th 5% below peers
Mobile, AL 203,416 12th +7% 6th 1% above peers
Spring Valley, NV 219,187 2nd +6% 7th 9% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 201,875 15th +6% 8th on par with peers
Salt Lake City, UT 208,007 8th +5% 9th 3% above peers
Yonkers, NY 209,978 6th +5% 10th 4% above peers
Overland Park, KS 200,306 19th +5% 11th 1% below peers
Knoxville, TN 195,185 27th +5% 12th 3% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 201,883 14th +5% 13th on par with peers
Columbus, GA 203,711 10th +4% 14th 1% above peers
Brownsville, TX 189,177 29th +4% 15th 6% below peers
Chattanooga, TN 185,783 31st +3% 16th 8% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 200,218 20th +3% 17th 1% below peers
Modesto, CA 219,215 1st +3% 18th 9% above peers
Little Rock, AR 203,436 11th +3% 19th 1% above peers
Augusta, GA 201,528 16th +2% 20th on par with peers
Moreno Valley, CA 211,666 4th +2% 21st 5% above peers
Amarillo, TX 201,885 13th +1% 22nd on par with peers
Rochester, NY 208,772 7th +1% 23rd 4% above peers
Tempe, AZ 188,065 30th +0% 24th 7% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 210,815 5th +0% 25th 5% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 198,535 21st +0% 26th 1% below peers
Montgomery, AL 197,494 23rd -1% 27th 2% below peers
Des Moines, IA 212,421 3rd -1% 28th 5% above peers
Huntington Beach, CA 195,240 26th -3% 29th 3% below peers
Oxnard, CA 200,928 18th -3% 30th on par with peers
Birmingham, AL 198,173 22nd -7% 31st 2% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 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 ±90 at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Demographics

Children's share of the population

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

Children changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (16.7% then, 16.6% now; margin ±0.6pp).

Broader trend
77% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Children fell 0.3 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (16.9% to 16.6%).
Big move 16.6%
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
Chattanooga, TN 21.0% 18th +1.6pp 1st 5% below peers
Mobile, AL 22.2% 16th +1.1pp 2nd on par with peers
Little Rock, AR 24.3% 10th +1.0pp 3rd 9% above peers
Worcester, MA 19.6% 24th +0.8pp 4th 12% below peers
Modesto, CA 26.2% 4th +0.7pp 5th 18% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 23.8% 12th +0.3pp 6th 7% above peers
Montgomery, AL 24.0% 11th +0.2pp 7th 8% above peers
Columbus, GA 24.9% 8th +0.2pp 8th 12% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 27.3% 2nd -0.1pp 9th 23% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 16.6% 29th -0.1pp 10th 25% below peers
Augusta, GA 22.8% 14th -0.3pp 11th 3% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 24.4% 9th -0.6pp 12th 10% above peers
Des Moines, IA 23.2% 13th -0.6pp 13th 4% above peers
Amarillo, TX 26.0% 5th -0.9pp 14th 17% above peers
Overland Park, KS 21.9% 17th -1.0pp 15th 1% below peers
Tempe, AZ 14.1% 31st -0.6pp 16th 36% below peers
Peoria, AZ 22.7% 15th -1.0pp 17th 2% above peers
Knoxville, TN 17.9% 27th -0.9pp 18th 20% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 26.8% 3rd -1.5pp 19th 21% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 21.0% 19th -1.2pp 20th 5% below peers
Oxnard, CA 25.6% 7th -1.5pp 21st 15% above peers
Birmingham, AL 18.9% 25th -1.2pp 22nd 15% below peers
Brownsville, TX 28.4% 1st -2.0pp 23rd 28% above peers
Vancouver, WA 20.7% 21st -1.6pp 24th 7% below peers
Rochester, NY 20.9% 20th -1.8pp 25th 6% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 25.9% 6th -2.3pp 26th 16% above peers
Huntington Beach, CA 17.6% 28th -1.6pp 27th 21% below peers
Yonkers, NY 19.6% 23rd -2.0pp 28th 12% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 18.5% 26th -1.8pp 29th 17% below peers
Providence, RI 20.1% 22nd -2.3pp 30th 10% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 16.4% 30th -3.9pp 31st 26% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: blue tracts rose, orange tracts fell. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
DemographicsChildren's share of the population
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Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±0.5pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Demographics

Children in single-parent families

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

Single-parent changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (43.2% then, 48.4% now; margin ±5.5pp).

Broader trend
7% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Single-parent rose 4.8 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (43.7% to 48.4%).
Big move 48.4%
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
Moreno Valley, CA 38.9% 18th +5.9pp 1st 3% below peers
Amarillo, TX 35.7% 21st +5.4pp 2nd 11% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 32.1% 26th +3.8pp 3rd 20% below peers
Tallahassee, FL 48.4% 7th +5.2pp 4th 21% above peers
Vancouver, WA 33.8% 24th +2.8pp 5th 16% below peers
Oxnard, CA 35.2% 22nd +2.7pp 6th 12% below peers
Peoria, AZ 25.4% 29th +1.7pp 7th 36% below peers
Montgomery, AL 55.2% 4th +3.3pp 8th 38% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 50.5% 6th +3.0pp 9th 26% above peers
Augusta, GA 59.6% 3rd +3.2pp 10th 49% above peers
Columbus, GA 47.6% 9th +2.0pp 11th 19% above peers
Birmingham, AL 66.9% 2nd +1.4pp 12th 67% above peers
Spring Valley, NV 40.0% 16th +0.8pp 13th on par with peers
Huntington Beach, CA 22.7% 30th +0.3pp 14th 43% below peers
Chattanooga, TN 42.2% 15th +0.5pp 15th 5% above peers
Brownsville, TX 36.3% 20th -0.0pp 16th 9% below peers
Modesto, CA 33.3% 25th -0.1pp 17th 17% below peers
Tempe, AZ 34.1% 23rd -0.5pp 18th 15% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 43.4% 13th -0.9pp 19th 8% above peers
Mobile, AL 52.7% 5th -1.1pp 20th 32% above peers
Rochester, NY 69.5% 1st -1.8pp 21st 74% above peers
Des Moines, IA 42.6% 14th -1.1pp 22nd 6% above peers
Knoxville, TN 44.3% 11th -1.3pp 23rd 11% above peers
Providence, RI 47.8% 8th -1.6pp 24th 19% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 39.2% 17th -2.2pp 25th 2% below peers
Overland Park, KS 18.0% 31st -1.1pp 26th 55% below peers
Yonkers, NY 36.5% 19th -2.3pp 27th 9% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD 29.3% 27th -1.8pp 28th 27% below peers
Little Rock, AR 43.5% 12th -3.4pp 29th 9% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 27.5% 28th -2.3pp 30th 31% below peers
Worcester, MA 45.0% 10th -4.2pp 31st 13% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 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 ±4.5pp 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 (68.2% then, 72.6% now; margin ±8.2pp).

Broader trend
10% of similar-size cities show a real change in either direction.
Longer view
Working parents rose 5.4 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (67.3% to 72.6%).
Big move 72.6%
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
Vancouver, WA 68.0% 23rd +9.9pp 1st 2% below peers
Brownsville, TX 60.6% 29th +8.8pp 2nd 13% below peers
Augusta, GA 72.8% 4th +7.0pp 3rd 5% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 61.4% 28th +5.8pp 4th 11% below peers
Yonkers, NY 78.2% 2nd +7.4pp 5th 13% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 82.6% 1st +7.3pp 6th 19% above peers
Overland Park, KS 72.3% 9th +6.3pp 7th 4% above peers
Salt Lake City, UT 65.2% 24th +5.4pp 8th 6% below peers
Amarillo, TX 68.8% 19th +5.0pp 9th 1% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 70.7% 11th +4.6pp 10th 2% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 72.6% 6th +4.4pp 11th 5% above peers
Providence, RI 72.6% 7th +4.2pp 12th 5% above peers
Oxnard, CA 72.1% 10th +3.6pp 13th 4% above peers
Tempe, AZ 70.7% 13th +3.4pp 14th 2% above peers
Montgomery, AL 73.8% 3rd +2.7pp 15th 6% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 69.2% 17th +2.5pp 16th on par with peers
Mobile, AL 72.6% 8th +2.0pp 17th 5% above peers
Peoria, AZ 68.8% 20th +1.5pp 18th 1% below peers
Little Rock, AR 68.7% 21st +1.3pp 19th 1% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 68.4% 22nd +0.4pp 20th 1% below peers
Huntington Beach, CA 69.1% 18th +0.3pp 21st on par with peers
Worcester, MA 69.6% 14th -0.2pp 22nd on par with peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 64.2% 25th -0.4pp 23rd 8% below peers
Chattanooga, TN 69.4% 16th -0.8pp 24th on par with peers
Rochester, NY 69.4% 15th -1.6pp 25th on par with peers
Knoxville, TN 63.9% 26th -2.0pp 26th 8% below peers
Modesto, CA 58.1% 30th -2.0pp 27th 16% below peers
Des Moines, IA 70.7% 12th -2.9pp 28th 2% above peers
Columbus, GA 62.5% 27th -3.5pp 29th 10% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 57.4% 31st -4.0pp 30th 17% below peers
Birmingham, AL 72.7% 5th -7.0pp 31st 5% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 54 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 ±6.3pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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