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Des Moines, IA
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212,421 people (2024) 100k-250k Midwest

Bright spots 12 indicators

Where Des Moines, IA shows a real improvement in recent years, or stands clearly ahead of its peers. How this is calculated →

What needs attention 5 indicators

Where Des Moines, IA shows a real worsening in recent years, or trails its peers clearly. How this is calculated →

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 →

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Public Safety
Public Safety

Violent crime rate

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

Violent crime fell about 1% over the 12 months ending May 2026, slower than 94% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: violent crime fell about 1% a year from 2021 to 2026, slower than 59% of similar-size cities. The change does not yet pass the noise and consistency checks, so treat it as a raw signal.
Longer view: violent crime fell about 2% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 653 in May 2026, down from 660 a year earlier.
653 per 100k
2018May 2026
Compare all 19 similar-size cities by change rank
Each place's latest 12 months compares against its prior 12. significant improvement · significant worsening · within chance fluctuation for counts this size (Poisson test at 90%; these are administrative tallies, so the test covers event randomness, not survey error).
Place Latestper 100k Today's rank Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 456 (Apr 26) -9.3%
Frisco, TX 97 (May 26) 4th -45.0% 1st 82% below peers
Birmingham, AL 37 (May 26) 2nd -37.2% 2nd 93% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 410 (May 26) 7th -37.1% 3rd 24% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 221 (May 26) 6th -30.6% 4th 59% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD 451 (Feb 26) 8th -29.2% 5th 17% below peers
Rochester, NY 541 (May 26) 10th -18.3% 6th on par with peers
Mobile, AL 12 (May 26) 1st -16.3% 7th 98% below peers
Amarillo, TX 1,041 (Mar 26) 17th -15.0% 8th 92% above peers
Tacoma, WA 487 (May 26) 9th -14.5% 9th 10% below peers
Little Rock, AR 1,420 (May 26) 19th -12.3% 10th 162% above peers
McKinney, TX 105 (May 26) 5th -11.8% 11th 81% below peers
San Bernardino, CA 884 (May 25) 15th -9.4% 12th 63% above peers
Baton Rouge, LA 1,388 (May 26) 18th -6.9% 13th 156% above peers
Oxnard, CA 549 (May 26) 11th -4.1% 14th 1% above peers
Salt Lake City, UT 730 (May 26) 14th -2.1% 15th 35% above peers
Des Moines, IA 653 (May 26) 13th -1.1% 16th 21% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 892 (May 26) 16th +6.2% 17th 65% above peers
Fontana, CA 3rd 91% below peers
Worcester, MA 12th 15% above peers

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. Because this metric moves monthly, each listed city also held or improved over its own most recent 12 months (shown on each row), and the list is ordered by that recent movement. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Charleston, SC down about 24% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 7% a year · 2021-2026
  • Santa Rosa, CA down about 17% over the 12 months ending April 2026 · sustained: down about 9% a year · 2021-2026
  • Edinburg, TX down about 11% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 8% a year · 2021-2026
Public Safety

Property crime rate

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

Property crime fell about 19% over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 53% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: property crime fell about 5% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 75% of similar-size cities. It started among the weakest third of similar-size cities, so some rebound is expected; still, the improvement is sustained and worth investigating.
Longer view: property crime fell about 5% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 2,494 in May 2026, down from 3,071 a year earlier.
2,494 per 100k
2018May 2026
Compare all 17 similar-size cities by change rank
Each place's latest 12 months compares against its prior 12. significant improvement · significant worsening · within chance fluctuation for counts this size (Poisson test at 90%; these are administrative tallies, so the test covers event randomness, not survey error).
Place Latestper 100k Today's rank Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 1,987 (Apr 26) -12.2%
Frisco, TX 780 (May 26) 2nd -48.8% 1st 70% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 1,241 (May 26) 4th -45.2% 2nd 52% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 1,732 (May 26) 7th -40.7% 3rd 32% below peers
Oxnard, CA 1,355 (May 26) 5th -29.6% 4th 47% below peers
Rochester, NY 2,562 (May 26) 10th -25.3% 5th on par with peers
Sioux Falls, SD 2,882 (Feb 26) 12th -24.0% 6th 12% above peers
Tacoma, WA 3,700 (May 26) 13th -20.2% 7th 44% above peers
Des Moines, IA 2,494 (May 26) 9th -18.8% 8th 3% below peers
Little Rock, AR 3,982 (May 26) 14th -16.8% 9th 55% above peers
Baton Rouge, LA 4,593 (May 26) 17th -14.2% 10th 79% above peers
San Bernardino, CA 2,640 (May 25) 11th -13.8% 11th 3% above peers
Amarillo, TX 4,318 (Mar 26) 15th -12.6% 12th 69% above peers
Salt Lake City, UT 4,415 (May 26) 16th -10.5% 13th 72% above peers
Fontana, CA 1,105 (May 26) 3rd -10.1% 14th 57% below peers
McKinney, TX 696 (May 26) 1st -5.2% 15th 73% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI 2,263 (May 26) 8th -2.9% 16th 12% below peers
Worcester, MA 6th 39% below peers

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. Because this metric moves monthly, each listed city also held or improved over its own most recent 12 months (shown on each row), and the list is ordered by that recent movement. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Salem, OR down about 41% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 11% a year · 2021-2026
  • Knoxville, TN down about 24% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 10% a year · 2021-2026
  • Tacoma, WA down about 20% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 15% a year · 2021-2026
Public Safety

Homicide rate

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

Homicide rose about 67% over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 100% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: homicide was essentially flat from 2021 to 2026.
Longer view: homicide fell about 7% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 5 in May 2026, up from 3 a year earlier.
5 per 100k
2018May 2026
Compare all 19 similar-size cities by change rank
Each place's latest 12 months compares against its prior 12. significant improvement · significant worsening · within chance fluctuation for counts this size (Poisson test at 90%; these are administrative tallies, so the test covers event randomness, not survey error).
Place Latestper 100k Today's rank Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 6 (Apr 26) -17.8%
Frisco, TX 1 (May 26) 1st -70.3% 1st 90% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 6 (May 26) 10th -68.3% 2nd 20% below peers
Rochester, NY 9 (May 26) 13th -48.6% 3rd 18% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 5 (Feb 26) 9th -40.0% 4th 33% below peers
Birmingham, AL 37 (May 26) 19th -37.2% 5th 378% above peers
Little Rock, AR 15 (May 26) 17th -31.8% 6th 87% above peers
Oxnard, CA 2 (May 26) 2nd -25.0% 7th 81% below peers
Amarillo, TX 10 (Mar 26) 14th -21.5% 8th 32% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 2 (May 26) 3rd -20.7% 9th 70% below peers
San Bernardino, CA 11 (May 25) 15th -16.7% 10th 42% above peers
Mobile, AL 12 (May 26) 16th -16.3% 11th 55% above peers
Tacoma, WA 8 (May 26) 11th -14.4% 12th on par with peers
McKinney, TX 3 (May 26) 4th -11.3% 13th 57% below peers
Baton Rouge, LA 31 (May 26) 18th -5.5% 14th 302% above peers
Fontana, CA 5 (May 26) 8th +22.1% 15th 36% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 4 (May 26) 6th +25.0% 16th 42% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI 8 (May 26) 12th +41.6% 17th 9% above peers
Des Moines, IA 5 (May 26) 7th +66.7% 18th 40% below peers
Worcester, MA 5th 46% below peers

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. Because this metric moves monthly, each listed city also held or improved over its own most recent 12 months (shown on each row), and the list is ordered by that recent movement. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Cedar Rapids, IA down about 75% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 25% a year · 2021-2026
  • Lee's Summit, MO down about 51% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 11% a year · 2022-2026
  • Lynn, MA down about 50% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 7% a year · 2021-2026
Public Safety

Motor vehicle theft rate

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

Vehicle theft fell about 24% over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 53% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: vehicle theft fell about 9% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 75% of similar-size cities. It started among the weakest third of similar-size cities, so some rebound is expected; still, the improvement is sustained and worth investigating.
Longer view: vehicle theft fell about 4% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 370 in May 2026, down from 485 a year earlier.
370 per 100k
2018May 2026
Compare all 17 similar-size cities by change rank
Each place's latest 12 months compares against its prior 12. significant improvement · significant worsening · within chance fluctuation for counts this size (Poisson test at 90%; these are administrative tallies, so the test covers event randomness, not survey error).
Place Latestper 100k Today's rank Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 303 (Apr 26) -22.2%
Grand Prairie, TX 168 (May 26) 4th -58.1% 1st 46% below peers
Frisco, TX 47 (May 26) 1st -53.9% 2nd 85% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 177 (May 26) 5th -50.2% 3rd 43% below peers
Rochester, NY 637 (May 26) 15th -42.2% 4th 104% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 312 (Feb 26) 10th -42.1% 5th on par with peers
Oxnard, CA 219 (May 26) 7th -41.2% 6th 30% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 323 (May 26) 11th -24.8% 7th 4% above peers
Des Moines, IA 370 (May 26) 12th -23.7% 8th 19% above peers
Tacoma, WA 730 (May 26) 17th -23.5% 9th 134% above peers
Baton Rouge, LA 607 (May 26) 14th -21.3% 10th 95% above peers
Little Rock, AR 301 (May 26) 9th -19.3% 11th 4% below peers
Fontana, CA 206 (May 26) 6th -17.6% 12th 34% below peers
Amarillo, TX 414 (Mar 26) 13th -12.8% 13th 33% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 242 (May 26) 8th -11.2% 14th 22% below peers
McKinney, TX 53 (May 26) 2nd -5.3% 15th 83% below peers
San Bernardino, CA 702 (May 25) 16th -4.3% 16th 125% above peers
Worcester, MA 3rd 52% below peers

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. Because this metric moves monthly, each listed city also held or improved over its own most recent 12 months (shown on each row), and the list is ordered by that recent movement. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Boulder, CO down about 56% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 15% a year · 2021-2026
  • Salem, OR down about 53% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 18% a year · 2021-2026
  • Centennial, CO down about 40% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 18% a year · 2021-2026
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Economy
Economy

Median household income

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

Household income rose about 23% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from $53,525 to $65,932 (each survey's own dollars, not adjusted for inflation) - more than the combined survey margin (±$2,298). 30 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; 30 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: household income rose about 42% from 2014 to 2024 ($46,430 to $65,932).
$65,932
20102024
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
Iowa ref $75,059 +24%
United States ref $80,734 +28%
Hialeah, FL $55,594 26th +59% 1st 21% below peers
San Bernardino, CA $67,415 18th +47% 2nd 4% below peers
Worcester, MA $70,102 16th +46% 3rd on par with peers
Fontana, CA $102,821 4th +41% 4th 47% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA $93,222 6th +41% 5th 33% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI $69,108 17th +38% 6th 1% below peers
Tacoma, WA $85,884 7th +38% 7th 23% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV $58,421 22nd +35% 8th 17% below peers
Huntsville, AL $74,714 14th +35% 9th 7% above peers
Modesto, CA $79,891 10th +35% 10th 14% above peers
McKinney, TX $124,215 2nd +33% 11th 77% above peers
Rochester, NY $47,213 30th +33% 12th 33% below peers
Oxnard, CA $96,212 5th +32% 13th 37% above peers
Yonkers, NY $83,549 8th +31% 14th 19% above peers
Augusta, GA $55,485 27th +30% 15th 21% below peers
Fayetteville, NC $58,407 23rd +30% 16th 17% below peers
Spring Valley, NV $74,511 15th +28% 17th 6% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD $75,970 12th +27% 18th 8% above peers
Cape Coral, FL $78,104 11th +27% 19th 11% above peers
Mobile, AL $53,558 28th +27% 20th 24% below peers
Tallahassee, FL $57,409 25th +26% 21st 18% below peers
Columbus, GA $58,073 24th +25% 22nd 17% below peers
Amarillo, TX $65,912 20th +25% 23rd 6% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT $75,090 13th +24% 24th 7% above peers
Birmingham, AL $46,051 31st +23% 25th 34% below peers
Des Moines, IA $65,932 19th +23% 26th 6% below peers
Little Rock, AR $63,003 21st +22% 27th 10% below peers
Overland Park, KS $104,834 3rd +21% 28th 50% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX $81,619 9th +21% 29th 16% above peers
Frisco, TX $150,212 1st +18% 30th 114% above peers
Baton Rouge, LA $49,994 29th +12% 31st 29% below peers
Where is this changing? 59 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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5 of 59 tracts cover a shorter window (dashed outline; mostly 2020 boundary changes); 1 has too little data to show a change (gray). Each tract's change uses the same two survey periods as the card above and is judged against the tract's own published margins; tracts marked * moved less than their margin. How the tract view works →
Break down by group Race · ACS 2024
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Peers worth a call

3
Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Salinas, CA up about 49% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Lancaster, CA up about 48% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Bend, OR up about 47% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±$1,922 at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Unemployment rate

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

Unemployment rose about 0.3 percentage points a year from 2022 to 2025. That is movement in the wrong direction.

Worsening faster than 78% of similar-size cities over 2022-2025.
Longer view: unemployment held steady from 2015 to 2025.
Most recent monthly reading: 3.3% in May 2026, down from 3.7% a year earlier.
3.3%
1990May 2026
Compare all 28 similar-size cities by change rank
Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Iowa ref 3.2% (May 26) -0.4pp
United States ref 4.2% (Jun 26) +0.1pp
San Bernardino, CA 4.9% (May 26) 22nd -0.7pp 1st 17% above peers
Modesto, CA 5.7% (May 26) 27th -0.6pp 2nd 36% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 4.6% (May 26) 20th -0.5pp 3rd 10% above peers
Des Moines, IA 3.3% (May 26) 4th -0.4pp 4th 21% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 5.0% (May 26) 23rd -0.4pp 5th 19% above peers
Fontana, CA 4.2% (May 26) 14th -0.3pp 6th on par with peers
Worcester, MA 4.3% (May 26) 17th -0.3pp 7th 2% above peers
Oxnard, CA 4.3% (May 26) 18th -0.3pp 8th 2% above peers
Baton Rouge, LA 4.5% (May 26) 19th -0.2pp 9th 7% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 5.3% (May 26) 25th -0.1pp 10th 26% above peers
Columbus, GA 3.9% (May 26) 9th -0.1pp 11th 7% below peers
Little Rock, AR 3.9% (May 26) 10th +0.0pp 12th 7% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD 1.8% (May 26) 1st +0.0pp 13th 57% below peers
Hialeah, FL 2.5% (May 26) 2nd +0.0pp 14th 40% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 3.4% (May 26) 5th +0.2pp 15th 19% below peers
Overland Park, KS 3.6% (May 26) 7th +0.2pp 16th 14% below peers
Frisco, TX 3.8% (May 26) 8th +0.3pp 17th 10% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 4.2% (May 26) 15th +0.3pp 18th on par with peers
McKinney, TX 4.0% (May 26) 11th +0.5pp 19th 5% below peers
Amarillo, TX 3.5% (May 26) 6th +0.5pp 20th 17% below peers
Yonkers, NY 4.1% (May 26) 13th +0.6pp 21st 2% below peers
Tacoma, WA 5.1% (May 26) 24th +0.6pp 22nd 21% above peers
Huntsville, AL 3.0% (May 26) 3rd +0.7pp 23rd 29% below peers
Birmingham, AL 4.0% (May 26) 12th +0.9pp 24th 5% below peers
Mobile, AL 4.2% (May 26) 16th +0.9pp 25th on par with peers
Rochester, NY 5.7% (May 26) 28th +1.0pp 26th 36% above peers
Cape Coral, FL 4.8% (May 26) 21st +1.1pp 27th 14% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 5.3% (May 26) 26th +1.2pp 28th 26% above peers
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 (15.7% then, 14.6% now; margin ±1.4pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 16 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: poverty fell 4.7 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (19.3% to 14.6%).
14.6%
20112024
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
Iowa ref 10.7% -0.4pp
United States ref 12.0%
San Bernardino, CA 18.1% 23rd -6.6pp 1st 24% above peers
Huntsville, AL 12.0% 9th -4.1pp 2nd 18% below peers
Hialeah, FL 16.9% 20th -5.4pp 3rd 16% above peers
Fontana, CA 9.9% 5th -3.0pp 4th 33% below peers
Oxnard, CA 10.9% 7th -2.7pp 5th 25% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 11.6% 8th -2.8pp 6th 21% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 13.1% 13th -3.1pp 7th 11% below peers
McKinney, TX 5.6% 3rd -1.2pp 8th 62% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI 16.4% 19th -3.3pp 9th 12% above peers
Tacoma, WA 12.1% 12th -2.2pp 10th 17% below peers
Augusta, GA 19.1% 26th -2.8pp 11th 31% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 21.6% 28th -3.1pp 12th 48% above peers
Modesto, CA 13.2% 14th -1.8pp 13th 10% below peers
Mobile, AL 17.8% 22nd -2.3pp 14th 22% above peers
Rochester, NY 26.8% 31st -3.3pp 15th 83% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 16.4% 18th -1.6pp 16th 12% above peers
Yonkers, NY 13.7% 15th -1.1pp 17th 7% below peers
Columbus, GA 18.5% 25th -1.4pp 18th 27% above peers
Des Moines, IA 14.6% 16th -1.1pp 19th on par with peers
Sioux Falls, SD 9.4% 4th -0.7pp 20th 36% below peers
Birmingham, AL 23.6% 29th -1.4pp 21st 61% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 20.1% 27th -1.2pp 22nd 38% above peers
Frisco, TX 3.5% 1st -0.1pp 23rd 76% below peers
Worcester, MA 18.2% 24th -0.3pp 24th 25% above peers
Spring Valley, NV 12.1% 11th -0.1pp 25th 17% below peers
Baton Rouge, LA 24.1% 30th +0.2pp 26th 65% above peers
Cape Coral, FL 10.7% 6th +0.3pp 27th 27% below peers
Little Rock, AR 17.1% 21st +0.7pp 28th 17% above peers
Amarillo, TX 15.6% 17th +0.7pp 29th 7% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 12.0% 10th +0.8pp 30th 18% below peers
Overland Park, KS 5.6% 2nd +0.8pp 31st 62% below peers
Where is this changing? 59 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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5 of 59 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 · Age · Sex · ACS 2024
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Peers worth a call

3
Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Murfreesboro, TN down 5.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Visalia, CA down 4.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Huntsville, AL down 4.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 95% 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 →

Child poverty changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (23.2% then, 22.1% now; margin ±2.3pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 19 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: child poverty fell 7.5 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (29.6% to 22.1%).
22.1%
20132024
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
Iowa ref 12.8% -0.9pp
United States ref 16.1%
Salt Lake City, UT 13.2% 5th -7.2pp 1st 33% below peers
Hialeah, FL 19.5% 16th -9.9pp 2nd on par with peers
Huntsville, AL 17.0% 12th -8.5pp 3rd 13% below peers
San Bernardino, CA 25.8% 24th -12.1pp 4th 32% above peers
Fontana, CA 13.5% 6th -5.7pp 5th 31% below peers
McKinney, TX 6.7% 3rd -1.8pp 6th 65% below peers
Oxnard, CA 17.1% 13th -4.5pp 7th 12% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI 23.0% 20th -5.9pp 8th 18% above peers
Modesto, CA 16.5% 11th -4.2pp 9th 15% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 16.2% 10th -3.9pp 10th 17% below peers
Mobile, AL 27.6% 26th -5.7pp 11th 41% above peers
Tacoma, WA 16.1% 9th -2.7pp 12th 17% below peers
Worcester, MA 23.3% 21st -3.7pp 13th 19% above peers
Spring Valley, NV 14.9% 8th -2.3pp 14th 23% below peers
Yonkers, NY 19.0% 15th -2.9pp 15th 3% below peers
Rochester, NY 41.3% 31st -6.3pp 16th 112% above peers
Augusta, GA 31.3% 28th -4.8pp 17th 60% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 24.5% 22nd -3.5pp 18th 25% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 21.6% 17th -2.8pp 19th 10% above peers
Columbus, GA 25.5% 23rd -3.2pp 20th 31% above peers
Baton Rouge, LA 32.4% 29th -3.3pp 21st 66% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 12.0% 4th -0.9pp 22nd 39% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 29.3% 27th -2.1pp 23rd 50% above peers
Overland Park, KS 5.0% 2nd -0.3pp 24th 74% below peers
Des Moines, IA 22.1% 18th -1.1pp 25th 13% above peers
Birmingham, AL 40.5% 30th -0.4pp 26th 107% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 17.7% 14th +0.6pp 27th 10% below peers
Frisco, TX 3.2% 1st +0.2pp 28th 84% below peers
Cape Coral, FL 13.8% 7th +0.7pp 29th 29% below peers
Little Rock, AR 26.9% 25th +3.2pp 30th 38% above peers
Amarillo, TX 23.0% 19th +2.8pp 31st 18% above peers
Where is this changing? 59 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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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Murfreesboro, TN down 11.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Lewisville, TX down 7.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Oceanside, CA down 6.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% 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
Economy

Households with a broadband internet subscription

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

Broadband rose 9.8 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 80.2% to 90.1% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.3pp). 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: broadband rose 13.9 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (76.2% to 90.0%).
90.1%
20172024
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
Iowa ref 89.1% +7.7pp
United States ref 91.1%
Hialeah, FL 86.7% 30th +15.7pp 1st 5% below peers
Birmingham, AL 87.1% 29th +15.0pp 2nd 5% below peers
San Bernardino, CA 89.1% 25th +15.2pp 3rd 3% below peers
Mobile, AL 87.5% 28th +14.8pp 4th 4% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 88.7% 26th +12.6pp 5th 3% below peers
Augusta, GA 87.7% 27th +11.5pp 6th 4% below peers
Yonkers, NY 92.2% 12th +12.0pp 7th 1% above peers
Little Rock, AR 91.4% 16th +11.5pp 8th on par with peers
Rochester, NY 86.6% 31st +10.5pp 9th 5% below peers
Columbus, GA 89.4% 22nd +10.8pp 10th 2% below peers
Oxnard, CA 93.2% 7th +10.9pp 11th 2% above peers
Worcester, MA 91.2% 17th +10.6pp 12th on par with peers
Des Moines, IA 90.0% 21st +9.8pp 13th 1% below peers
Fontana, CA 96.3% 2nd +10.4pp 14th 5% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 93.0% 9th +9.6pp 15th 2% above peers
Baton Rouge, LA 89.4% 23rd +8.9pp 16th 2% below peers
Amarillo, TX 89.2% 24th +8.8pp 17th 2% below peers
Tacoma, WA 92.9% 11th +8.9pp 18th 2% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 90.5% 20th +7.8pp 19th 1% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 91.1% 18th +7.0pp 20th on par with peers
Spring Valley, NV 93.1% 8th +7.0pp 21st 2% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 91.5% 15th +6.8pp 22nd on par with peers
Sioux Falls, SD 93.5% 6th +7.0pp 23rd 2% above peers
Huntsville, AL 91.9% 14th +6.4pp 24th 1% above peers
McKinney, TX 95.7% 4th +5.5pp 25th 5% above peers
Modesto, CA 92.1% 13th +5.3pp 26th 1% above peers
Cape Coral, FL 93.0% 10th +4.6pp 27th 2% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 94.7% 5th +4.1pp 28th 4% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 91.1% 19th +2.8pp 29th on par with peers
Overland Park, KS 96.0% 3rd +2.5pp 30th 5% above peers
Frisco, TX 97.7% 1st +1.8pp 31st 7% above peers
Where is this changing? 59 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EconomyHouseholds with a broadband internet subscription
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the 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 →
  • Brownsville, TX up 33.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Ponce zona urbana, PR up 25.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • East Los Angeles, CA up 20.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±0.8pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Income inequality (Gini index)

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

Inequality changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (0.45 then, 0.44 now; margin ±0.01).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 6 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: inequality held roughly steady from 2014 to 2024.
0.44
20102024
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
Iowa ref 0.44 +0.002
United States ref 0.48 +0.001
San Bernardino, CA 0.43 7th -0.018 1st 5% below peers
Yonkers, NY 0.48 20th -0.020 2nd 5% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 0.43 9th -0.017 3rd 4% below peers
Fontana, CA 0.38 1st -0.014 4th 16% below peers
Worcester, MA 0.48 21st -0.015 5th 6% above peers
Tacoma, WA 0.43 10th -0.011 6th 4% below peers
Mobile, AL 0.50 25th -0.012 7th 10% above peers
Huntsville, AL 0.49 22nd -0.010 8th 8% above peers
Des Moines, IA 0.44 12th -0.008 9th 3% below peers
Columbus, GA 0.49 24th -0.007 10th 9% above peers
Little Rock, AR 0.53 30th -0.007 11th 16% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 0.44 11th -0.005 12th 3% below peers
Rochester, NY 0.50 26th -0.004 13th 10% above peers
Hialeah, FL 0.46 17th -0.003 14th 2% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 0.38 2nd -0.002 15th 15% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 0.45 15th +0.000 16th 1% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 0.50 27th +0.002 17th 11% above peers
Oxnard, CA 0.40 3rd +0.003 18th 11% below peers
Birmingham, AL 0.51 28th +0.005 19th 13% above peers
Modesto, CA 0.44 13th +0.006 20th 2% below peers
Tallahassee, FL 0.51 29th +0.009 21st 14% above peers
Frisco, TX 0.42 5th +0.009 22nd 7% below peers
McKinney, TX 0.42 6th +0.009 23rd 7% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD 0.45 16th +0.010 24th on par with peers
Overland Park, KS 0.45 14th +0.011 25th 1% below peers
Cape Coral, FL 0.43 8th +0.011 26th 5% below peers
Augusta, GA 0.49 23rd +0.014 27th 8% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 0.41 4th +0.013 28th 10% below peers
Amarillo, TX 0.48 19th +0.017 29th 5% above peers
Baton Rouge, LA 0.56 31st +0.023 30th 24% above peers
Spring Valley, NV 0.46 18th +0.028 31st 3% above peers
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B19083) through 2024 ±0.01 at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Households receiving SNAP

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

SNAP fell 4.4 percentage points between the 2014-2018 and 2019-2023 surveys, from 20.6% to 16.2% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.4pp). 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, 2014-2018 vs 2019-2023 surveys; 17 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: snap fell 4.4 percentage points from 2013 to 2023 (20.6% to 16.2%).
16.2%
20102023
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 Latest2019-2023 survey Today's rank Change2014-2018 → 2019-2023 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Iowa ref 9.2% -1.5pp
United States ref 11.8% -0.5pp
Huntsville, AL 9.9% 9th -3.0pp 1st 36% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 6.5% 4th -1.9pp 2nd 58% below peers
Overland Park, KS 1.9% 2nd -0.6pp 3rd 87% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 9.1% 7th -2.5pp 4th 41% below peers
Des Moines, IA 16.2% 18th -4.4pp 5th 5% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 15.4% 16th -3.5pp 6th on par with peers
Cape Coral, FL 7.8% 5th -1.7pp 7th 49% below peers
Tacoma, WA 16.3% 19th -2.6pp 8th 6% above peers
McKinney, TX 2.6% 3rd -0.4pp 9th 83% below peers
Columbus, GA 16.6% 20th -2.3pp 10th 8% above peers
San Bernardino, CA 23.4% 27th -3.2pp 11th 52% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 8.7% 6th -1.1pp 12th 43% below peers
Amarillo, TX 10.7% 11th -1.3pp 13th 30% below peers
Rochester, NY 31.3% 30th -3.5pp 14th 103% above peers
Frisco, TX 1.8% 1st -0.1pp 15th 88% below peers
Birmingham, AL 21.8% 26th -1.6pp 16th 42% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 12.5% 12th -0.9pp 17th 19% below peers
Hialeah, FL 42.1% 31st -2.5pp 18th 174% above peers
Mobile, AL 19.4% 23rd -0.2pp 19th 26% above peers
Augusta, GA 21.1% 25th -0.1pp 20th 37% above peers
Oxnard, CA 14.1% 13th +0.3pp 21st 8% below peers
Modesto, CA 15.8% 17th +0.6pp 22nd 2% above peers
Baton Rouge, LA 20.1% 24th +0.9pp 23rd 30% above peers
Spring Valley, NV 9.8% 8th +0.4pp 24th 36% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 24.8% 28th +1.1pp 25th 61% above peers
Fontana, CA 14.1% 14th +1.2pp 26th 8% below peers
Little Rock, AR 10.7% 10th +1.1pp 27th 31% below peers
Yonkers, NY 18.6% 21st +2.0pp 28th 21% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 19.2% 22nd +2.2pp 29th 25% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 14.5% 15th +1.7pp 30th 6% below peers
Worcester, MA 26.8% 29th +4.7pp 31st 74% above peers
Where is this changing? 59 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2018 to 2023, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Nampa, ID down 6.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2018-2023
  • North Charleston, SC down 5.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2018-2023
  • Chattanooga, TN down 4.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 94% of this group · 2018-2023
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2023 ±1.0pp at 90% confidence (2023 estimate) survey trend: 2014-2018 vs 2019-2023 surveys about this metric
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Housing
Housing

Typical home value

No better direction Rising, faster than peers
Compared against How peers are chosen →

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

Multi-year view: home value rose about 4% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 69% of similar-size cities.
Longer view: home value rose about 8% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: $213,036 in June 2026, up from $212,773 a year earlier.
$213,036
2000June 2026
Compare all 28 similar-size cities by change rank
Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Iowa ref $241,255 (Jun 26) +3.9%
United States ref $372,995 (Jun 26) +0.8%
Yonkers, NY $702,854 (Jun 26) 2nd +6.1% 1st 108% above peers
Overland Park, KS $493,605 (Jun 26) 9th +5.5% 2nd 46% above peers
Rochester, NY $252,192 (Jun 26) 20th +4.3% 3rd 25% below peers
Little Rock, AR $222,779 (Jun 26) 23rd +3.4% 4th 34% below peers
Amarillo, TX $211,834 (Jun 26) 25th +3.2% 5th 37% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI $313,551 (Jun 26) 17th +2.8% 6th 7% below peers
Columbus, GA $177,244 (Jun 26) 27th +2.3% 7th 47% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT $580,299 (Jun 26) 5th +1.7% 8th 72% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD $336,151 (Jun 26) 15th +1.4% 9th on par with peers
Worcester, MA $443,387 (Jun 26) 13th +1.2% 10th 31% above peers
San Bernardino, CA $496,080 (Jun 26) 8th +1.2% 11th 47% above peers
Tallahassee, FL $298,194 (Jun 26) 18th +1.1% 12th 12% below peers
Huntsville, AL $292,728 (Jun 26) 19th +0.7% 13th 13% below peers
Baton Rouge, LA $233,067 (Jun 26) 21st +0.4% 14th 31% below peers
Fayetteville, NC $227,387 (Jun 26) 22nd +0.1% 15th 33% below peers
Des Moines, IA $213,036 (Jun 26) 24th +0.1% 16th 37% below peers
Oxnard, CA $765,564 (Jun 26) 1st +0.1% 17th 127% above peers
Tacoma, WA $498,063 (Jun 26) 7th -0.4% 18th 48% above peers
Fontana, CA $639,380 (Jun 26) 4th -0.6% 19th 90% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA $553,116 (Jun 26) 6th -0.6% 20th 64% above peers
Modesto, CA $449,607 (Jun 26) 11th -0.7% 21st 33% above peers
Mobile, AL $199,106 (Jun 26) 26th -1.1% 22nd 41% below peers
Hialeah, FL $445,331 (Jun 26) 12th -1.5% 23rd 32% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX $319,091 (Jun 26) 16th -1.7% 24th 5% below peers
Birmingham, AL $139,502 (Jun 26) 28th -2.2% 25th 59% below peers
Frisco, TX $656,145 (Jun 26) 3rd -5.0% 26th 95% above peers
Cape Coral, FL $337,346 (Jun 26) 14th -6.0% 27th on par with peers
McKinney, TX $482,599 (Jun 26) 10th -6.7% 28th 43% above peers
Housing

Starter home value (bottom tier)

No better direction Rising, faster than peers
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Starter homes was essentially flat over the 12 months ending June 2026.

Multi-year view: starter homes rose about 5% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 73% of similar-size cities.
Longer view: starter homes rose about 12% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: $156,486 in June 2026, up from $156,196 a year earlier.
$156,486
2000June 2026
Compare all 28 similar-size cities by change rank
Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Iowa ref $132,765 (Jun 26) +4.3%
United States ref $202,486 (Jun 26) +2.0%
Yonkers, NY $355,502 (Jun 26) 10th +6.6% 1st 43% above peers
Overland Park, KS $341,186 (Jun 26) 12th +5.9% 2nd 37% above peers
Little Rock, AR $118,393 (Jun 26) 24th +5.9% 3rd 52% below peers
Amarillo, TX $127,064 (Jun 26) 23rd +4.5% 4th 49% below peers
Rochester, NY $165,884 (Jun 26) 20th +3.8% 5th 33% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI $234,470 (Jun 26) 17th +2.7% 6th 6% below peers
Worcester, MA $350,386 (Jun 26) 11th +2.2% 7th 41% above peers
San Bernardino, CA $408,858 (Jun 26) 5th +1.7% 8th 64% above peers
Fayetteville, NC $158,963 (Jun 26) 21st +1.5% 9th 36% below peers
Oxnard, CA $647,757 (Jun 26) 1st +1.3% 10th 160% above peers
Huntsville, AL $172,185 (Jun 26) 19th +1.2% 11th 31% below peers
Birmingham, AL $64,767 (Jun 26) 28th +1.1% 12th 74% below peers
Tallahassee, FL $183,939 (Jun 26) 18th +1.0% 13th 26% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD $245,487 (Jun 26) 15th +0.8% 14th 1% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA $495,598 (Jun 26) 3rd +0.3% 15th 99% above peers
Fontana, CA $548,361 (Jun 26) 2nd +0.3% 16th 120% above peers
Des Moines, IA $156,486 (Jun 26) 22nd +0.2% 17th 37% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT $408,629 (Jun 26) 6th +0.1% 18th 64% above peers
Modesto, CA $369,767 (Jun 26) 8th +0.1% 19th 49% above peers
Columbus, GA $92,933 (Jun 26) 27th -0.1% 20th 63% below peers
Mobile, AL $94,833 (Jun 26) 26th -0.2% 21st 62% below peers
Tacoma, WA $398,881 (Jun 26) 7th -0.5% 22nd 60% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX $242,614 (Jun 26) 16th -1.4% 23rd 2% below peers
Baton Rouge, LA $117,749 (Jun 26) 25th -1.7% 24th 53% below peers
Frisco, TX $462,723 (Jun 26) 4th -5.3% 25th 86% above peers
Hialeah, FL $248,710 (Jun 26) 14th -5.6% 26th on par with peers
McKinney, TX $365,773 (Jun 26) 9th -6.1% 27th 47% above peers
Cape Coral, FL $259,674 (Jun 26) 13th -6.8% 28th 4% above peers
Housing

Homeownership rate

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

Homeownership changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (60.1% then, 60.5% now; margin ±1.4pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 16 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: homeownership fell 1.2 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (61.7% to 60.5%).
60.5%
20112024
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
Iowa ref 71.7% +0.6pp
United States ref 65.2%
Spring Valley, NV 50.5% 21st +5.3pp 1st 6% below peers
Tacoma, WA 55.8% 13th +3.8pp 2nd 3% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 47.4% 24th +3.2pp 3rd 12% below peers
Modesto, CA 58.9% 10th +3.8pp 4th 9% above peers
Columbus, GA 50.8% 19th +2.8pp 5th 6% below peers
San Bernardino, CA 50.0% 22nd +2.6pp 6th 7% below peers
Rochester, NY 38.1% 31st +1.7pp 7th 29% below peers
Cape Coral, FL 77.2% 1st +2.7pp 8th 43% above peers
Worcester, MA 42.8% 29th +1.5pp 9th 21% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 51.7% 18th +1.7pp 10th 4% below peers
Huntsville, AL 58.3% 12th +1.6pp 11th 8% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 63.3% 5th +1.6pp 12th 17% above peers
Oxnard, CA 54.4% 14th +1.2pp 13th 1% above peers
Fontana, CA 66.8% 2nd +1.3pp 14th 24% above peers
Hialeah, FL 46.6% 25th +0.9pp 15th 14% below peers
Tallahassee, FL 40.6% 30th +0.6pp 16th 25% below peers
Birmingham, AL 45.5% 28th +0.6pp 17th 16% below peers
Mobile, AL 54.0% 16th +0.7pp 18th on par with peers
Des Moines, IA 60.5% 7th +0.4pp 19th 12% above peers
Yonkers, NY 46.2% 26th +0.1pp 20th 14% below peers
Amarillo, TX 59.7% 8th -0.8pp 21st 11% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 59.5% 9th -1.1pp 22nd 10% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 54.0% 15th -1.4pp 23rd on par with peers
Augusta, GA 50.8% 20th -1.3pp 24th 6% below peers
McKinney, TX 63.8% 4th -2.0pp 25th 18% above peers
Little Rock, AR 53.5% 17th -1.8pp 26th 1% below peers
Baton Rouge, LA 47.8% 23rd -2.0pp 27th 11% below peers
Overland Park, KS 60.5% 6th -2.8pp 28th 12% above peers
Salt Lake City, UT 45.8% 27th -2.2pp 29th 15% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 58.7% 11th -3.9pp 30th 9% above peers
Frisco, TX 65.9% 3rd -5.7pp 31st 22% above peers
Where is this changing? 59 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Break down by group Race · ACS 2024
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Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.0pp 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 →

Rent rose about 3% over the 12 months ending June 2026, faster than 59% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: rent rose about 3% a year from 2021 to 2026, slower than 74% of similar-size cities.
Longer view: rent rose about 4% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: $1,121 in June 2026, up from $1,092 a year earlier.
$1,121
2015June 2026
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 $1,965 (Jun 26) +2.2%
Amarillo, TX $1,278 (Jun 26) 25th +4.8% 1st 22% below peers
Yonkers, NY $2,754 (Jun 26) 3rd +3.9% 2nd 69% above peers
San Bernardino, CA $1,994 (Jun 26) 7th +3.7% 3rd 22% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD $1,327 (Jun 26) 22nd +3.5% 4th 19% below peers
Overland Park, KS $1,800 (Jun 26) 12th +3.2% 5th 10% above peers
Rochester, NY $1,532 (Jun 26) 17th +3.2% 6th 6% below peers
Mobile, AL $1,311 (Jun 26) 24th +3.1% 7th 20% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI $1,627 (Jun 26) 15th +2.9% 8th on par with peers
Baton Rouge, LA $1,383 (Jun 26) 20th +2.8% 9th 15% below peers
Columbus, GA $1,275 (Jun 26) 26th +2.8% 10th 22% below peers
Fayetteville, NC $1,401 (Jun 26) 19th +2.8% 11th 14% below peers
Des Moines, IA $1,121 (Jun 26) 28th +2.7% 12th 31% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA $2,364 (Jun 26) 5th +2.4% 13th 45% above peers
Little Rock, AR $1,220 (Jun 26) 27th +2.3% 14th 25% below peers
Oxnard, CA $2,882 (Jun 26) 2nd +2.0% 15th 77% above peers
Tacoma, WA $1,749 (Jun 26) 13th +1.9% 16th 7% above peers
Fontana, CA $3,042 (Jun 26) 1st +1.8% 17th 87% above peers
Tallahassee, FL $1,507 (Jun 26) 18th +1.5% 18th 7% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT $1,629 (Jun 26) 14th +1.4% 19th on par with peers
Huntsville, AL $1,322 (Jun 26) 23rd +0.9% 20th 19% below peers
Worcester, MA $2,164 (Jun 26) 6th +0.6% 21st 33% above peers
Birmingham, AL $1,359 (Jun 26) 21st +0.5% 22nd 17% below peers
Modesto, CA $1,986 (Jun 26) 8th +0.5% 23rd 22% above peers
Hialeah, FL $2,374 (Jun 26) 4th -0.1% 24th 46% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX $1,610 (Jun 26) 16th -0.3% 25th 1% below peers
Frisco, TX $1,861 (Jun 26) 10th -0.4% 26th 14% above peers
McKinney, TX $1,819 (Jun 26) 11th -1.6% 27th 12% above peers
Cape Coral, FL $1,912 (Jun 26) 9th -1.9% 28th 17% above peers
Housing

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 (31.9% then, 32.1% now; margin ±2.0pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 12 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: cost burden fell 2.8 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (34.9% to 32.1%).
32.1%
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
Iowa ref 24.3% +0.8pp
United States ref 32.2% +0.4pp
Fontana, CA 38.8% 15th -5.0pp 1st 2% below peers
Oxnard, CA 42.3% 23rd -3.3pp 2nd 7% above peers
Hialeah, FL 51.5% 31st -3.9pp 3rd 30% above peers
Rochester, NY 42.3% 24th -2.5pp 4th 7% above peers
Huntsville, AL 27.6% 3rd -1.3pp 5th 30% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI 31.3% 5th -1.3pp 6th 21% below peers
Columbus, GA 36.6% 10th -1.5pp 7th 8% below peers
McKinney, TX 31.3% 6th -0.9pp 8th 21% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 39.6% 16th -1.1pp 9th on par with peers
Augusta, GA 37.6% 13th -0.8pp 10th 5% below peers
Tallahassee, FL 43.7% 26th -0.7pp 11th 10% above peers
Yonkers, NY 44.7% 29th -0.7pp 12th 13% above peers
Modesto, CA 40.0% 18th -0.6pp 13th 1% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 25.8% 1st -0.3pp 14th 35% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 43.9% 27th -0.4pp 15th 11% above peers
Little Rock, AR 32.5% 9th -0.0pp 16th 18% below peers
San Bernardino, CA 47.5% 30th -0.0pp 17th 20% above peers
Worcester, MA 43.6% 25th +0.0pp 18th 10% above peers
Des Moines, IA 32.1% 8th +0.2pp 19th 19% below peers
Tacoma, WA 40.4% 19th +0.4pp 20th 2% above peers
Birmingham, AL 41.0% 21st +1.1pp 21st 3% above peers
Mobile, AL 37.5% 12th +1.4pp 22nd 5% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 41.1% 22nd +2.6pp 23rd 4% above peers
Baton Rouge, LA 40.6% 20th +2.7pp 24th 2% above peers
Frisco, TX 28.7% 4th +2.0pp 25th 27% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 44.4% 28th +3.3pp 26th 12% above peers
Amarillo, TX 31.8% 7th +2.4pp 27th 20% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 36.8% 11th +4.1pp 28th 7% below peers
Overland Park, KS 27.2% 2nd +3.7pp 29th 31% below peers
Cape Coral, FL 39.7% 17th +5.8pp 30th on par with peers
Grand Prairie, TX 37.6% 14th +8.3pp 31st 5% below peers
Where is this changing? 59 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
HousingHousing cost-burdened households
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Rio Rancho, NM down 5.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Joliet, IL down 3.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Housing

Households without a vehicle

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

No vehicle changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (9.1% then, 9.0% now; margin ±1.2pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 10 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: no vehicle held roughly steady from 2014 to 2024.
9.0%
20102024
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
Iowa ref 5.5% -0.4pp
United States ref 8.3% -0.3pp
San Bernardino, CA 6.8% 14th -2.8pp 1st 13% below peers
Huntsville, AL 4.9% 8th -1.3pp 2nd 38% below peers
Worcester, MA 16.1% 29th -2.8pp 3rd 106% above peers
Hialeah, FL 9.8% 21st -1.6pp 4th 26% above peers
Mobile, AL 7.7% 15th -1.2pp 5th 2% below peers
Birmingham, AL 12.0% 27th -1.7pp 6th 54% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 10.9% 25th -0.8pp 7th 40% above peers
Rochester, NY 23.4% 30th -1.8pp 8th 199% above peers
Yonkers, NY 23.7% 31st -1.7pp 9th 203% above peers
Modesto, CA 6.3% 12th -0.2pp 10th 19% below peers
Little Rock, AR 8.0% 17th -0.2pp 11th 3% above peers
Des Moines, IA 9.0% 20th -0.1pp 12th 15% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 5.5% 10th -0.0pp 13th 29% below peers
Tacoma, WA 8.8% 19th +0.2pp 14th 13% above peers
Amarillo, TX 5.9% 11th +0.1pp 15th 24% below peers
Columbus, GA 10.9% 24th +0.4pp 16th 39% above peers
Salt Lake City, UT 10.8% 23rd +0.4pp 17th 38% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 7.8% 16th +0.3pp 18th on par with peers
Augusta, GA 10.0% 22nd +0.6pp 19th 28% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 12.1% 28th +1.0pp 20th 55% above peers
Cape Coral, FL 3.5% 4th +0.3pp 21st 55% below peers
Oxnard, CA 4.5% 7th +0.4pp 22nd 42% below peers
Baton Rouge, LA 12.0% 26th +1.1pp 23rd 53% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 8.6% 18th +0.9pp 24th 9% above peers
Fontana, CA 3.2% 1st +0.4pp 25th 59% below peers
McKinney, TX 3.4% 3rd +0.4pp 26th 57% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 3.9% 5th +0.6pp 27th 50% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 6.6% 13th +1.0pp 28th 16% below peers
Overland Park, KS 4.3% 6th +1.2pp 29th 45% below peers
Frisco, TX 3.3% 2nd +1.1pp 30th 58% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 5.0% 9th +1.8pp 31st 36% below peers
Where is this changing? 59 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 →
  • 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
  • Abilene, TX down 1.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% 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
Health

People without health insurance

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

Uninsured changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (6.9% then, 7.2% now; margin ±0.7pp). The newest releases lean upward: each of the last 3 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; 15 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: uninsured fell 3.5 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (10.7% to 7.2%).
7.2%
20122024
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
Iowa ref 4.9% +0.3pp
United States ref 8.2% -0.4pp
Hialeah, FL 15.0% 28th -5.6pp 1st 54% above peers
McKinney, TX 8.1% 12th -2.1pp 2nd 16% below peers
Oxnard, CA 13.7% 27th -3.2pp 3rd 41% above peers
Modesto, CA 4.7% 3rd -1.0pp 4th 52% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 10.3% 20th -2.2pp 5th 6% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 7.1% 8th -1.3pp 6th 27% below peers
Overland Park, KS 4.6% 2nd -0.9pp 7th 53% below peers
Yonkers, NY 6.2% 5th -1.0pp 8th 36% below peers
Mobile, AL 9.7% 16th -1.4pp 9th on par with peers
San Bernardino, CA 10.1% 19th -1.3pp 10th 4% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 9.9% 17th -1.0pp 11th 2% above peers
Augusta, GA 11.2% 23rd -1.1pp 12th 15% above peers
Cape Coral, FL 11.6% 24th -1.0pp 13th 20% above peers
Huntsville, AL 8.9% 14th -0.7pp 14th 8% below peers
Tallahassee, FL 7.7% 10th -0.6pp 15th 20% below peers
Amarillo, TX 15.3% 29th -1.1pp 16th 58% above peers
Frisco, TX 6.3% 6th -0.4pp 17th 35% below peers
Fontana, CA 9.1% 15th -0.5pp 18th 7% below peers
Rochester, NY 4.9% 4th -0.3pp 19th 50% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 8.5% 13th -0.3pp 20th 12% below peers
Columbus, GA 10.6% 22nd -0.3pp 21st 9% above peers
Tacoma, WA 7.0% 7th -0.2pp 22nd 28% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 18.4% 31st -0.0pp 23rd 90% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 17.6% 30th +0.1pp 24th 81% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 8.0% 11th +0.2pp 25th 18% below peers
Birmingham, AL 12.6% 26th +0.4pp 26th 30% above peers
Des Moines, IA 7.2% 9th +0.3pp 27th 26% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 12.4% 25th +0.5pp 28th 28% above peers
Baton Rouge, LA 10.0% 18th +0.4pp 29th 3% above peers
Little Rock, AR 10.5% 21st +2.2pp 30th 8% above peers
Worcester, MA 3.9% 1st +1.0pp 31st 60% below peers
Where is this changing? 59 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

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 →
  • Vacaville, CA down 1.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Burbank, CA down 2.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Roseville, CA down 1.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 96% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±0.5pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys *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 →

Adult obesity is somewhat above the peer median.

40.3%
20202022
Compare all 31 similar-size cities best first
Place Latest Today's rank History Latest vs. peers
Iowa ref 38.7%
United States ref 33.4%
Frisco, TX 26.6% 1st 28% below peers
Yonkers, NY 30.3% 2nd 17% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 30.3% 3rd 17% below peers
Overland Park, KS 30.4% 4th 17% below peers
Cape Coral, FL 30.7% 5th 16% below peers
McKinney, TX 30.9% 6th 16% below peers
Hialeah, FL 31.5% 7th 14% below peers
Oxnard, CA 32.1% 8th 13% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 33.0% 9th 10% below peers
Tallahassee, FL 33.7% 10th 8% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD 34.9% 11th 5% below peers
Modesto, CA 35.0% 12th 5% below peers
Fontana, CA 35.3% 13th 4% below peers
Amarillo, TX 35.9% 14th 2% below peers
Worcester, MA 36.2% 15th 1% below peers
Tacoma, WA 36.7% 16th on par with peers
Grand Prairie, TX 36.7% 17th on par with peers
Moreno Valley, CA 37.2% 18th 1% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 37.2% 19th 1% above peers
Huntsville, AL 37.5% 20th 2% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 37.9% 21st 3% above peers
Little Rock, AR 38.4% 22nd 5% above peers
San Bernardino, CA 39.5% 23rd 8% above peers
Baton Rouge, LA 40.2% 24th 10% above peers
Des Moines, IA 40.3% 25th 10% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 40.4% 26th 10% above peers
Columbus, GA 41.7% 27th 14% above peers
Augusta, GA 43.6% 28th 19% above peers
Rochester, NY 44.2% 29th 20% above peers
Mobile, AL 44.2% 30th 20% above peers
Birmingham, AL 44.9% 31st 22% above peers
CDC PLACES through 2022 modeled tract map about this metric
Health

Children without health insurance

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

Child uninsured changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (3.5% then, 3.0% now; margin ±0.9pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 8 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: child uninsured fell 0.7 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (3.7% to 3.0%).
3.0%
20122024
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
Iowa ref 3.3% +0.3pp
United States ref 5.5% +0.4pp
Oxnard, CA 3.7% 9th -2.5pp 1st 24% below peers
Mobile, AL 2.1% 2nd -1.0pp 2nd 56% below peers
Huntsville, AL 3.0% 6th -1.2pp 3rd 37% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 8.8% 26th -3.0pp 4th 82% above peers
Modesto, CA 1.9% 1st -0.6pp 5th 60% below peers
Overland Park, KS 3.2% 7th -0.9pp 6th 33% below peers
McKinney, TX 6.1% 23rd -1.6pp 7th 26% above peers
Hialeah, FL 5.8% 22nd -1.1pp 8th 21% above peers
Des Moines, IA 3.0% 5th -0.5pp 9th 38% below peers
Augusta, GA 5.0% 19th -0.7pp 10th 3% above peers
Frisco, TX 4.0% 11th -0.4pp 11th 17% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 5.2% 20th -0.2pp 12th 7% above peers
San Bernardino, CA 4.6% 15th -0.1pp 13th 5% below peers
Amarillo, TX 10.2% 28th -0.1pp 14th 112% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 4.3% 13th +0.1pp 15th 11% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 11.7% 30th +1.2pp 16th 142% above peers
Fontana, CA 4.1% 12th +0.5pp 17th 15% below peers
Tacoma, WA 3.3% 8th +0.4pp 18th 32% below peers
Columbus, GA 4.5% 14th +0.7pp 19th 6% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD 5.8% 21st +0.9pp 20th 21% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 14.0% 31st +2.4pp 21st 190% above peers
Cape Coral, FL 10.5% 29th +1.9pp 22nd 118% above peers
Birmingham, AL 4.8% 17th +0.9pp 23rd 1% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 4.8% 18th +1.0pp 24th 1% above peers
Spring Valley, NV 9.5% 27th +1.9pp 25th 98% above peers
Yonkers, NY 3.9% 10th +0.9pp 26th 20% below peers
Rochester, NY 2.7% 4th +0.7pp 27th 44% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 4.8% 16th +1.5pp 28th on par with peers
Little Rock, AR 8.5% 25th +3.7pp 29th 76% above peers
Worcester, MA 2.4% 3rd +1.2pp 30th 51% below peers
Baton Rouge, LA 8.1% 24th +4.6pp 31st 67% above peers
Where is this changing? 59 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

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 →
  • New Bedford, MA down 1.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Cedar Rapids, IA down 1.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Salem, OR down 1.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 96% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B27001) through 2024 ±0.7pp 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 3.0 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 26.7% to 29.7% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.5pp). 30 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; 30 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: college attainment rose 5.0 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (24.7% to 29.7%).
29.7%
20102024
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
Iowa ref 31.4% +2.9pp
United States ref 35.7% +3.5pp
Hialeah, FL 22.1% 25th +6.4pp 1st 29% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 30.0% 19th +6.4pp 2nd 3% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 31.4% 15th +6.2pp 3rd 1% above peers
Rochester, NY 30.0% 18th +4.9pp 4th 3% below peers
Fontana, CA 21.4% 26th +3.4pp 5th 31% below peers
Columbus, GA 30.5% 17th +4.7pp 6th 2% below peers
Worcester, MA 35.2% 12th +5.0pp 7th 13% above peers
Tacoma, WA 34.5% 13th +4.8pp 8th 11% above peers
Cape Coral, FL 26.9% 22nd +3.6pp 9th 13% below peers
Grand Rapids, MI 41.6% 8th +5.2pp 10th 34% above peers
McKinney, TX 54.1% 3rd +6.7pp 11th 74% above peers
Augusta, GA 24.7% 24th +3.1pp 12th 21% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 12.0% 31st +1.4pp 13th 61% below peers
Birmingham, AL 31.1% 16th +3.7pp 14th on par with peers
Modesto, CA 21.2% 27th +2.5pp 15th 32% below peers
Amarillo, TX 26.6% 23rd +3.0pp 16th 14% below peers
Des Moines, IA 29.7% 20th +3.0pp 17th 4% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 51.5% 4th +4.9pp 18th 66% above peers
San Bernardino, CA 13.1% 30th +1.2pp 19th 58% below peers
Baton Rouge, LA 36.6% 10th +3.3pp 20th 18% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 17.8% 29th +1.5pp 21st 43% below peers
Mobile, AL 32.0% 14th +2.6pp 22nd 3% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 38.1% 9th +2.9pp 23rd 23% above peers
Oxnard, CA 19.5% 28th +1.5pp 24th 37% below peers
Huntsville, AL 47.2% 6th +3.1pp 25th 52% above peers
Little Rock, AR 44.6% 7th +2.8pp 26th 44% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 51.3% 5th +3.2pp 27th 65% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 29.0% 21st +1.8pp 28th 7% below peers
Yonkers, NY 35.7% 11th +2.2pp 29th 15% above peers
Frisco, TX 67.5% 1st +4.1pp 30th 117% above peers
Overland Park, KS 63.7% 2nd +2.1pp 31st 105% above peers
Where is this changing? 59 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

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 →
  • Miramar, FL up 10.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Conroe, TX up 7.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • St. George, UT up 7.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 95% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.2pp 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 (37.3% then, 33.2% now; margin ±7.2pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 13 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: preschool enrollment fell 6.0 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (39.2% to 33.2%).
33.2%
20112024
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
Iowa ref 43.4% -3.2pp
United States ref 45.5%
McKinney, TX 62.0% 2nd +6.9pp 1st 50% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 28.1% 26th +2.2pp 2nd 32% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 38.1% 18th +3.0pp 3rd 8% below peers
Hialeah, FL 51.7% 7th +3.9pp 4th 25% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 49.6% 11th +0.8pp 5th 20% above peers
Birmingham, AL 55.9% 3rd +0.2pp 6th 35% above peers
Tacoma, WA 44.8% 14th -0.0pp 7th 9% above peers
Rochester, NY 48.1% 13th -2.1pp 8th 17% above peers
Yonkers, NY 62.2% 1st -3.1pp 9th 51% above peers
Augusta, GA 41.6% 15th -3.0pp 10th 1% above peers
Salt Lake City, UT 50.0% 10th -3.6pp 11th 21% above peers
Little Rock, AR 52.9% 5th -5.6pp 12th 28% above peers
Des Moines, IA 33.2% 22nd -4.1pp 13th 20% below peers
Mobile, AL 49.2% 12th -6.6pp 14th 19% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 24.1% 29th -3.2pp 15th 42% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 35.5% 20th -4.9pp 16th 14% below peers
Frisco, TX 55.6% 4th -8.7pp 17th 35% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 33.0% 23rd -6.0pp 18th 20% below peers
Fontana, CA 27.5% 28th -5.0pp 19th 33% below peers
Baton Rouge, LA 50.5% 9th -12.1pp 20th 22% above peers
Modesto, CA 32.2% 24th -7.8pp 21st 22% below peers
Overland Park, KS 51.8% 6th -13.6pp 22nd 25% above peers
Huntsville, AL 41.2% 16th -11.0pp 23rd on par with peers
Tallahassee, FL 50.8% 8th -16.5pp 24th 23% above peers
Worcester, MA 36.7% 19th -12.6pp 25th 11% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 27.5% 27th -9.9pp 26th 33% below peers
Amarillo, TX 33.7% 21st -13.7pp 27th 18% below peers
Cape Coral, FL 38.2% 17th -17.2pp 28th 7% below peers
Oxnard, CA 22.6% 30th -16.6pp 29th 45% below peers
San Bernardino, CA 20.5% 31st -15.5pp 30th 50% below peers
Columbus, GA 28.6% 25th -24.6pp 31st 31% below peers
Where is this changing? 59 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EducationChildren ages 3-4 enrolled in preschool
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (100k-250k) that started in the weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Nampa, ID up 14.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Edinburg, TX up 13.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Norman, OK up 14.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±5.4pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Education

Teens not in school and not working

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

Disconnected youth changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (7.4% then, 6.5% now; margin ±2.7pp). The newest releases lean downward: each of the last 4 annual updates moved the 5-year average the same way - an early signal, not a measured change.*

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 5 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: disconnected youth fell 1.7 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (8.2% to 6.5%).
6.5%
20102024
Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Iowa ref 5.3% +0.3pp
United States ref 6.9% +0.3pp
Tallahassee, FL 1.3% 2nd -4.2pp 1st 84% below peers
Overland Park, KS 1.1% 1st -1.5pp 2nd 87% below peers
Fontana, CA 6.2% 7th -3.5pp 3rd 22% below peers
Huntsville, AL 4.0% 4th -1.8pp 4th 49% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 7.0% 10th -2.2pp 5th 13% below peers
Baton Rouge, LA 6.9% 9th -1.7pp 6th 14% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 8.8% 19th -1.3pp 7th 11% above peers
Des Moines, IA 6.5% 8th -0.9pp 8th 19% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 9.7% 24th -0.8pp 9th 21% above peers
Hialeah, FL 8.0% 16th -0.6pp 10th on par with peers
Birmingham, AL 10.1% 26th -0.7pp 11th 27% above peers
Augusta, GA 9.8% 25th -0.4pp 12th 23% above peers
San Bernardino, CA 8.6% 18th -0.4pp 13th 8% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 7.8% 14th -0.3pp 14th 3% below peers
Rochester, NY 10.2% 27th -0.3pp 15th 28% above peers
Cape Coral, FL 7.1% 11th -0.2pp 16th 11% below peers
Tacoma, WA 8.6% 17th +0.0pp 17th 8% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 14.4% 29th +0.4pp 18th 81% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 5.1% 5th +0.2pp 19th 37% below peers
Oxnard, CA 9.4% 22nd +1.4pp 20th 18% above peers
Frisco, TX 3.1% 3rd +0.5pp 21st 61% below peers
Modesto, CA 9.4% 23rd +1.6pp 22nd 18% above peers
Amarillo, TX 10.8% 28th +2.1pp 23rd 36% above peers
Yonkers, NY 9.0% 20th +1.8pp 24th 13% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 8.0% 15th +2.2pp 25th on par with peers
Mobile, AL 9.2% 21st +2.7pp 26th 15% above peers
Worcester, MA 5.7% 6th +1.7pp 27th 28% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 7.7% 13th +2.9pp 28th 3% below peers
McKinney, TX 7.5% 12th +2.9pp 29th 5% below peers
Little Rock, AR 16.0% 31st +6.8pp 30th 100% above peers
Columbus, GA 14.9% 30th +7.7pp 31st 87% above peers
Where is this changing? 59 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 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 →
  • Lewisville, TX down 4.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Tallahassee, FL down 4.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Temecula, CA down 4.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B14005) through 2024 ±2.1pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys *Early signal: consecutive releases agree on direction only; the size of the newest movement is not measurable from overlapping surveys. about this metric
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Demographics
Demographics

Population

No better direction Falling
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Population fell about 1% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 215,636 to 212,421 - more than the combined survey margin (±229). That reverses the previous span, which went up between the 2010-2014 and 2015-2019 surveys. 4 of the 30 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction.

Falling beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 29 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: population rose about 3% from 2014 to 2024 (206,702 to 212,421).
212,421
20102024
Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Frisco, TX 219,304 6th +24% 1st 5% above peers
Cape Coral, FL 215,536 9th +17% 2nd 3% above peers
McKinney, TX 210,600 14th +16% 3rd 1% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 201,469 26th +14% 4th 3% below peers
Huntsville, AL 222,791 2nd +14% 5th 7% above peers
Worcester, MA 207,055 18th +12% 6th 1% below peers
Mobile, AL 203,416 21st +7% 7th 3% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 219,187 8th +6% 8th 5% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 201,875 24th +6% 9th 3% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 208,007 17th +5% 10th on par with peers
Yonkers, NY 209,978 15th +5% 11th 1% above peers
Overland Park, KS 200,306 28th +5% 12th 4% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 201,883 23rd +5% 13th 3% below peers
Tacoma, WA 222,758 4th +5% 14th 7% above peers
Columbus, GA 203,711 19th +4% 15th 2% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 200,218 29th +3% 16th 4% below peers
Modesto, CA 219,215 7th +3% 17th 5% above peers
San Bernardino, CA 222,724 5th +3% 18th 7% above peers
Little Rock, AR 203,436 20th +3% 19th 3% below peers
Augusta, GA 201,528 25th +2% 20th 3% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 211,666 12th +2% 21st 1% above peers
Fontana, CA 214,169 10th +2% 22nd 3% above peers
Amarillo, TX 201,885 22nd +1% 23rd 3% below peers
Rochester, NY 208,772 16th +1% 24th on par with peers
Fayetteville, NC 210,815 13th +0% 25th 1% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 198,535 30th +0% 26th 5% below peers
Baton Rouge, LA 222,771 3rd -1% 27th 7% above peers
Des Moines, IA 212,421 11th -1% 28th 2% above peers
Oxnard, CA 200,928 27th -3% 29th 4% below peers
Hialeah, FL 226,165 1st -4% 30th 8% above peers
Birmingham, AL 198,173 31st -7% 31st 5% below peers
Where is this changing? 59 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 ±197 at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Demographics

Children's share of the population

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

Children changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (23.8% then, 23.2% now; margin ±0.8pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 22 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: children fell 1.3 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (24.4% to 23.2%).
23.2%
20172024
Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Iowa ref 22.8% -0.3pp
United States ref 21.6% -0.7pp
Mobile, AL 22.2% 17th +1.1pp 1st 3% below peers
Little Rock, AR 24.3% 13th +1.0pp 2nd 7% above peers
Worcester, MA 19.6% 24th +0.8pp 3rd 14% below peers
Modesto, CA 26.2% 6th +0.7pp 4th 15% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 23.8% 14th +0.3pp 5th 4% above peers
Columbus, GA 24.9% 11th +0.2pp 6th 9% above peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 27.3% 1st -0.1pp 7th 20% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 16.6% 30th -0.1pp 8th 27% below peers
Augusta, GA 22.8% 16th -0.3pp 9th on par with peers
Sioux Falls, SD 24.4% 12th -0.6pp 10th 7% above peers
Des Moines, IA 23.2% 15th -0.6pp 11th 2% above peers
Cape Coral, FL 17.6% 28th -0.6pp 12th 23% below peers
Baton Rouge, LA 20.9% 20th -0.7pp 13th 8% below peers
Hialeah, FL 16.8% 29th -0.6pp 14th 26% below peers
Amarillo, TX 26.0% 8th -0.9pp 15th 14% above peers
Overland Park, KS 21.9% 18th -1.0pp 16th 4% below peers
Fontana, CA 27.3% 2nd -1.4pp 17th 20% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 26.8% 4th -1.5pp 18th 17% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 21.0% 19th -1.2pp 19th 8% below peers
Oxnard, CA 25.6% 10th -1.5pp 20th 12% above peers
Huntsville, AL 19.4% 25th -1.2pp 21st 15% below peers
Birmingham, AL 18.9% 26th -1.2pp 22nd 17% below peers
Rochester, NY 20.9% 21st -1.8pp 23rd 8% below peers
Moreno Valley, CA 25.9% 9th -2.3pp 24th 13% above peers
Tacoma, WA 19.8% 22nd -1.8pp 25th 13% below peers
McKinney, TX 26.2% 7th -2.5pp 26th 15% above peers
Yonkers, NY 19.6% 23rd -2.0pp 27th 14% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 18.5% 27th -1.8pp 28th 19% below peers
San Bernardino, CA 26.7% 5th -2.9pp 29th 17% above peers
Frisco, TX 27.2% 3rd -3.2pp 30th 19% above peers
Salt Lake City, UT 16.4% 31st -3.9pp 31st 28% below peers
Where is this changing? 59 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 ±0.6pp 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 →

Single-parent changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (43.7% then, 42.6% now; margin ±4.2pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 3 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: single-parent rose 2.0 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (40.6% to 42.6%).
42.6%
20102024
Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Iowa ref 27.1% -0.6pp
United States ref 29.9% -0.2pp
Moreno Valley, CA 38.9% 17th +5.9pp 1st 1% below peers
Amarillo, TX 35.7% 20th +5.4pp 2nd 9% below peers
Salt Lake City, UT 32.1% 24th +3.8pp 3rd 18% below peers
Tacoma, WA 38.4% 18th +4.3pp 4th 2% below peers
Tallahassee, FL 48.4% 7th +5.2pp 5th 24% above peers
Oxnard, CA 35.2% 22nd +2.7pp 6th 10% below peers
Cape Coral, FL 29.0% 26th +2.0pp 7th 26% below peers
Hialeah, FL 46.8% 9th +3.1pp 8th 19% above peers
Fontana, CA 27.7% 27th +1.8pp 9th 29% below peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 50.5% 6th +3.0pp 10th 29% above peers
Augusta, GA 59.6% 3rd +3.2pp 11th 52% above peers
Columbus, GA 47.6% 8th +2.0pp 12th 22% above peers
Birmingham, AL 66.9% 2nd +1.4pp 13th 71% above peers
Spring Valley, NV 40.0% 15th +0.8pp 14th 2% above peers
Baton Rouge, LA 53.2% 4th -0.1pp 15th 36% above peers
Modesto, CA 33.3% 23rd -0.1pp 16th 15% below peers
McKinney, TX 17.8% 30th -0.2pp 17th 55% below peers
San Bernardino, CA 45.4% 10th -0.9pp 18th 16% above peers
Fayetteville, NC 43.4% 13th -0.9pp 19th 11% above peers
Mobile, AL 52.7% 5th -1.1pp 20th 35% above peers
Rochester, NY 69.5% 1st -1.8pp 21st 77% above peers
Des Moines, IA 42.6% 14th -1.1pp 22nd 9% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 39.2% 16th -2.2pp 23rd on par with peers
Overland Park, KS 18.0% 29th -1.1pp 24th 54% below peers
Yonkers, NY 36.5% 19th -2.3pp 25th 7% below peers
Sioux Falls, SD 29.3% 25th -1.8pp 26th 25% below peers
Little Rock, AR 43.5% 12th -3.4pp 27th 11% above peers
Grand Prairie, TX 27.5% 28th -2.3pp 28th 30% below peers
Huntsville, AL 35.6% 21st -3.2pp 29th 9% below peers
Frisco, TX 11.9% 31st -1.1pp 30th 70% below peers
Worcester, MA 45.0% 11th -4.2pp 31st 15% above peers
Where is this changing? 59 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 ±3.3pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Demographics

Young children with all parents in the labor force

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

Working parents changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (73.6% then, 70.7% now; margin ±6.8pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 2 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: working parents fell 0.9 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (71.6% to 70.7%).
70.7%
20102024
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
Iowa ref 75.9% +0.8pp
United States ref 68.1% +1.9pp
Frisco, TX 70.6% 15th +8.8pp 1st 1% above peers
Augusta, GA 72.8% 4th +7.0pp 2nd 5% above peers
Moreno Valley, CA 61.4% 27th +5.8pp 3rd 12% below peers
Yonkers, NY 78.2% 2nd +7.4pp 4th 12% above peers
Tacoma, WA 67.4% 23rd +6.1pp 5th 3% below peers
Cape Coral, FL 73.3% 3rd +6.6pp 6th 5% above peers
Sioux Falls, SD 82.6% 1st +7.3pp 7th 19% above peers
Overland Park, KS 72.3% 9th +6.3pp 8th 4% above peers
McKinney, TX 69.2% 18th +5.9pp 9th on par with peers
Salt Lake City, UT 65.2% 24th +5.4pp 10th 6% below peers
Amarillo, TX 68.8% 20th +5.0pp 11th 1% below peers
Spring Valley, NV 70.7% 13th +4.6pp 12th 2% above peers
Tallahassee, FL 72.6% 6th +4.4pp 13th 4% above peers
Oxnard, CA 72.1% 10th +3.6pp 14th 4% above peers
Huntsville, AL 70.8% 12th +2.5pp 15th 2% above peers
Grand Rapids, MI 69.2% 19th +2.5pp 16th 1% below peers
Mobile, AL 72.6% 7th +2.0pp 17th 4% above peers
Little Rock, AR 68.7% 21st +1.3pp 18th 1% below peers
Grand Prairie, TX 68.4% 22nd +0.4pp 19th 2% below peers
Worcester, MA 69.6% 16th -0.2pp 20th on par with peers
Sunrise Manor, NV 64.2% 25th -0.4pp 21st 8% below peers
Hialeah, FL 71.5% 11th -1.3pp 22nd 3% above peers
Rochester, NY 69.4% 17th -1.6pp 23rd on par with peers
Modesto, CA 58.1% 29th -2.0pp 24th 16% below peers
Fontana, CA 57.0% 31st -2.0pp 25th 18% below peers
Des Moines, IA 70.7% 14th -2.9pp 26th 2% above peers
San Bernardino, CA 60.3% 28th -2.8pp 27th 13% below peers
Columbus, GA 62.5% 26th -3.5pp 28th 10% below peers
Fayetteville, NC 57.4% 30th -4.0pp 29th 17% below peers
Baton Rouge, LA 72.3% 8th -5.2pp 30th 4% above peers
Birmingham, AL 72.7% 5th -7.0pp 31st 4% above peers
Where is this changing? 59 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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4 of 59 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 →
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B23008) through 2024 ±5.2pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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