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Wake Forest, NC
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52,844 people (2024) 50k-100k South

Bright spots 15 indicators

Where Wake Forest, NC shows a real improvement in recent years, or stands clearly ahead of its peers. How this is calculated →
Vehicle theft
Motor vehicle theft rate
53 /100k
May 2026
▼ 40%
relative change
88 a year earlier
Dropping fast  
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Property crime
Property crime rate
909 /100k
May 2026
▼ 36%
relative change
1,418 a year earlier
Dropping fast  
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Household income
Median household income
$123,802
2020-24
▲ 34%
relative change
$92,210 in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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College attainment
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher
59.5%
2020-24
▲ 9%
relative change
54.6% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Unemployment
Unemployment rate
3.0%
May 2026
▼ 6%
relative change
3.2% a year earlier
Holding up better than peers Leading peers
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Broadband
Households with a broadband internet subscription
98.1%
2020-24
▲ 5%
relative change
93.8% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Poverty
Share of people below the poverty level
4.4%
2020-24
▼ 16%
relative change
5.3% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Child poverty
Share of children below the poverty level
4.0%
2020-24
▼ 25%
relative change
5.3% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Inequality
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.39
2020-24
▲ <1%
relative change
0.39 in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Homeownership
Homeownership rate
74.0%
2020-24
▲ 4%
relative change
71.3% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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SNAP
Households receiving SNAP
5.7%
2019-23
▲ <1%
relative change
5.7% in 2018
No measurable change Leading peers
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Child uninsured
Children without health insurance
2.2%
2020-24
▲ 77%
relative change
1.3% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Uninsured
People without health insurance
4.7%
2020-24
▲ 18%
relative change
4.0% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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No vehicle
Households without a vehicle
3.2%
2020-24
▲ 16%
relative change
2.7% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Preschool enrollment
Children ages 3-4 enrolled in preschool
52.6%
2020-24
▼ 13%
relative change
60.3% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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What needs attention 2 indicators

Where Wake Forest, NC shows a real worsening in recent years, or trails its peers clearly. How this is calculated →
Disconnected youth
Teens not in school and not working
8.2%
2020-24
▲ 449%
relative change
1.5% in 2019
No measurable change Trailing peers
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Cost burden
Housing cost-burdened households
22.5%
2020-24
flat
relative change
22.4% in 2019
Turning up (early signal) Leading peers
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Big shifts 5 indicators

Real moves and big gaps, where neither direction is simply good or bad. Biggest relative change first; big-gap cards come last. How this is calculated →
Population
52,844
2020-24
▲ 25%
relative change
42,111 in 2019
Rising Among the lowest of peers
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Children
Children's share of the population
26.5%
2020-24
▼ 13%
relative change
30.5% in 2019
Falling Among the highest of peers
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Starter homes
Starter home value (bottom tier)
$364,168
Jun 2026
▼ 2%
relative change
$372,513 a year earlier
Falling recently Among the highest of peers
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Home value
Typical home value
$515,729
Jun 2026
▼ 1%
relative change
$523,417 a year earlier
Falling recently Among the highest of peers
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Single-parent
Children in single-parent families
17.5%
2020-24
▼ 20%
relative change
22.0% in 2019
No measurable change Among the lowest of peers
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Public Safety
Public Safety

Violent crime rate

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

Violent crime fell about 10% over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 54% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: violent crime is about 24% lower than in 2021 (128 then, 97 now), but the direction has turned: after peaking near 174 in 2024 it has fallen each year since.
Longer view: violent crime rose about 2% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 106 in May 2026, down from 118 a year earlier.
106 per 100k
2018May 2026
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▸ Compare all 14 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). Reporting practices vary by agency, so comparisons are indicative, not definitive; see crime data cautions.
Place Latestper 100k Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 456 (Apr 26) -9.3%
Elyria, OH 179 (May 26) -30.4% 1st
Grand Island, NE 304 (May 26) -29.6% 2nd
Lincoln, CA 92 (May 26) -14.8% 3rd
Battle Creek, MI 1,142 (May 26) -13.2% 4th
Burleson, TX 164 (May 26) -13.2% 5th
West New York, NJ 230 (May 26) -10.9% 6th
Wake Forest, NC 106 (May 26) -10.4% 7th
Joplin, MO 563 (May 26) -9.3% 8th
Mooresville, NC 221 (May 26) -4.1% 9th
Minnetonka, MN 99 (Apr 26) -3.7% 10th
Galveston, TX 504 (May 26) +5.9% 11th
Novato, CA 233 (Apr 26) +7.0% 12th
Normal, IL 353 (May 26) +17.5% 13th
Edina, MN 78 (May 26) +27.3% 14th
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Peers worth a call

3
Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Because this metric moves monthly, each listed city also held or improved over its own most recent 12 months (shown on each row), and the list is ordered by that recent movement. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Flower Mound, TX down about 35% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 15% a year · 2021-2026
  • Cedar Park, TX down about 7% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 7% a year · 2021-2026
  • Orem, UT down about 4% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 8% a year · 2021-2026
Real-Time Crime Index through 2026-04 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
Public Safety

Property crime rate

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

Property crime fell about 36% over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 100% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: property crime is about 6% lower than in 2021 (1,003 then, 941 now), but the direction has turned: after peaking near 1,414 in 2024 it has fallen each year since.
Longer view: property crime fell about 3% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 909 in May 2026, down from 1,418 a year earlier.
909 per 100k
2018May 2026
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▸ Compare all 14 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). Reporting practices vary by agency, so comparisons are indicative, not definitive; see crime data cautions.
Place Latestper 100k Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 1,987 (Apr 26) -12.2%
Wake Forest, NC 909 (May 26) -35.9% 1st
Burleson, TX 649 (May 26) -33.2% 2nd
Minnetonka, MN 1,221 (Apr 26) -23.2% 3rd
West New York, NJ 1,125 (May 26) -20.0% 4th
Lincoln, CA 448 (May 26) -18.7% 5th
Mooresville, NC 1,798 (May 26) -17.7% 6th
Elyria, OH 1,237 (May 26) -15.9% 7th
Joplin, MO 3,613 (May 26) -12.2% 8th
Grand Island, NE 1,613 (May 26) -8.0% 9th
Normal, IL 1,623 (May 26) -4.3% 10th
Galveston, TX 2,251 (May 26) -4.2% 11th
Novato, CA 1,231 (Apr 26) -3.4% 12th
Battle Creek, MI 2,724 (May 26) -1.0% 13th
Edina, MN 1,464 (May 26) -1.0% 14th
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Peers worth a call

3
Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Because this metric moves monthly, each listed city also held or improved over its own most recent 12 months (shown on each row), and the list is ordered by that recent movement. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Roswell, GA down about 31% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 11% a year · 2021-2026
  • Appleton, WI down about 27% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 8% a year · 2021-2026
  • Laguna Niguel, CA down about 24% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 8% a year · 2021-2026
Real-Time Crime Index through 2026-04 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
Public Safety

Homicide rate

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

Homicide rose slightly from 2021 to 2026. That is movement in the wrong direction.

Most recent monthly reading: 4 in May 2026, up from 0 a year earlier.
4 per 100k
2018Apr 2026
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▸ Compare all 14 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). Reporting practices vary by agency, so comparisons are indicative, not definitive; see crime data cautions.
Place Latestper 100k Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 6 (Apr 26) -17.8%
Normal, IL 0 (May 26) -100.0% 1st
Lincoln, CA 2 (May 26) +0.0% 2nd
Elyria, OH 2 (May 26) +0.0% 3rd
Mooresville, NC 2 (May 26) +0.0% 4th
Burleson, TX 5 (May 26) +199.4% 5th
Galveston, TX 13 (May 26) +249.5% 6th
Wake Forest, NC 4 (May 26)
Grand Island, NE 2 (May 26)
Minnetonka, MN 0 (Apr 26)
Joplin, MO 0 (May 26)
Novato, CA 0 (Apr 26)
Edina, MN 6 (May 26)
Battle Creek, MI 6 (May 26)
West New York, NJ 0 (May 26)
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Because this metric moves monthly, each listed city also held or improved over its own most recent 12 months (shown on each row), and the list is ordered by that recent movement. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
Real-Time Crime Index through 2026-04 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
Public Safety

Motor vehicle theft rate

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

Vehicle theft fell about 40% over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 92% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: vehicle theft is about 5% higher than in 2021 (49 then, 51 now), but the direction has turned: after peaking near 108 in 2024 it has fallen each year since.
Longer view: vehicle theft rose about 20% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 53 in May 2026, down from 88 a year earlier.
53 per 100k
2018May 2026
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▸ Compare all 14 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). Reporting practices vary by agency, so comparisons are indicative, not definitive; see crime data cautions.
Place Latestper 100k Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 303 (Apr 26) -22.2%
Burleson, TX 37 (May 26) -70.0% 1st
Wake Forest, NC 53 (May 26) -40.0% 2nd
Normal, IL 47 (May 26) -39.0% 3rd
Grand Island, NE 94 (May 26) -32.4% 4th
Lincoln, CA 36 (May 26) -20.0% 5th
West New York, NJ 92 (May 26) -19.7% 6th
Mooresville, NC 96 (May 26) -16.4% 7th
Battle Creek, MI 228 (May 26) -15.0% 8th
Galveston, TX 220 (May 26) -9.9% 9th
Minnetonka, MN 74 (Apr 26) -9.3% 10th
Joplin, MO 407 (May 26) -4.4% 11th
Edina, MN 146 (May 26) -1.3% 12th
Novato, CA 172 (Apr 26) +34.3% 13th
Elyria, OH 118 (May 26) +37.0% 14th
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started in the strongest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Because this metric moves monthly, each listed city also held or improved over its own most recent 12 months (shown on each row), and the list is ordered by that recent movement. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Laguna Niguel, CA down about 51% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 10% a year · 2021-2026
  • Mission, TX down about 42% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 20% a year · 2023-2026
  • Eden Prairie, MN down about 41% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 17% a year · 2021-2026
Real-Time Crime Index through 2026-04 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
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Economy
Economy

Median household income

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

Household income rose about 34% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from $92,210 to $123,802 (each survey's own dollars, not adjusted for inflation) - more than the combined survey margin (±$7,762). 28 of the 29 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. It started among the stronger third of similar-size cities and kept improving; worth investigating.

Improving beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 28 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: household income rose about 60% from 2014 to 2024 ($77,173 to $123,802).
$123,802
20102024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref $72,388 +33%
United States ref $80,734 +28%
Cathedral City, CA $73,572 20th +58% 1st 22% below peers
Huntington Park, CA $59,996 27th +41% 2nd 36% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT $113,648 8th +36% 3rd 21% above peers
Paramount, CA $75,250 19th +35% 4th 20% below peers
Wake Forest, NC $123,802 2nd +34% 5th 32% above peers
Battle Creek, MI $55,693 28th +32% 6th 41% below peers
Aloha, OR $101,934 15th +30% 7th 9% above peers
Wheaton, MD $111,478 12th +30% 8th 19% above peers
Westchester, FL $72,262 21st +30% 9th 23% below peers
Mooresville, NC $89,647 17th +30% 10th 5% below peers
Palm Desert, CA $77,513 18th +29% 11th 17% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD $111,575 11th +28% 12th 19% above peers
Pinellas Park, FL $63,432 26th +28% 13th 32% below peers
West New York, NJ $71,729 22nd +27% 14th 24% below peers
Lincoln, CA $111,990 10th +26% 15th 19% above peers
Minnetonka, MN $119,517 4th +25% 16th 27% above peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ $115,304 7th +24% 17th 23% above peers
Elyria, OH $54,945 30th +24% 18th 42% below peers
Edina, MN $128,767 1st +24% 19th 37% above peers
Placentia, CA $115,929 5th +21% 20th 23% above peers
Kendale Lakes, FL $71,621 23rd +21% 21st 24% below peers
Burleson, TX $93,928 16th +18% 22nd on par with peers
Oak Park, IL $110,820 13th +17% 23rd 18% above peers
Wheaton, IL $120,008 3rd +16% 24th 28% above peers
Grand Island, NE $63,795 25th +16% 25th 32% below peers
Joplin, MO $52,097 31st +15% 26th 45% below peers
Novato, CA $115,736 6th +14% 27th 23% above peers
Galveston, TX $55,631 29th +13% 28th 41% below peers
Normal, IL $64,785 24th +11% 29th 31% below peers
Diamond Bar, CA $108,281 14th +9% 30th 15% above peers
Methuen, MA $113,310 9th 21% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 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 7 tracts cover a shorter window (dashed outline; mostly 2020 boundary changes). Each tract's change uses the same two survey periods as the card above and is judged against the tract's own published margins; tracts marked * moved less than their margin. How the tract view works →
▸ Break down by group Race · ACS 2024
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Peers worth a call

3
Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started in the 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 →
  • Palo Alto, CA up about 46% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 95% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Dublin, CA up about 43% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 92% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Bentonville, AR up about 40% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 88% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±$6,456 at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Unemployment rate

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

Unemployment rose about 0.2 percentage points a year from 2022 to 2025. That is movement in the wrong direction.

Worsening slower than 71% of similar-size cities over 2022-2025.
Longer view: unemployment fell about 0.1 percentage points a year from 2015 to 2025.
Most recent monthly reading: 3.0% in May 2026, down from 3.2% a year earlier.
3.0%
2000May 2026
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▸ Compare all 25 similar-size cities by change rank
Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 3.7% (May 26) -0.1pp
United States ref 4.2% (Jun 26) +0.1pp
Elyria, OH 3.4% (May 26) 3rd -1.2pp 1st 11% below peers
West New York, NJ 3.8% (May 26) 12th -0.7pp 2nd on par with peers
Joplin, MO 3.6% (May 26) 5th -0.5pp 3rd 5% below peers
Cathedral City, CA 3.6% (May 26) 6th -0.5pp 4th 5% below peers
Lincoln, CA 3.7% (May 26) 8th -0.4pp 5th 3% below peers
Grand Island, NE 2.9% (May 26) 1st -0.3pp 6th 24% below peers
Novato, CA 3.7% (May 26) 9th -0.3pp 7th 3% below peers
Wake Forest, NC 3.0% (May 26) 2nd -0.2pp 8th 21% below peers
Palm Desert, CA 4.5% (May 26) 19th -0.2pp 9th 18% above peers
Mooresville, NC 3.6% (May 26) 7th -0.2pp 10th 5% below peers
Battle Creek, MI 5.9% (May 26) 25th -0.2pp 11th 55% above peers
Methuen, MA 4.6% (May 26) 20th -0.1pp 12th 21% above peers
Paramount, CA 5.2% (May 26) 24th +0.0pp 13th 37% above peers
Placentia, CA 3.7% (May 26) 10th +0.1pp 14th 3% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 3.8% (May 26) 13th +0.2pp 15th on par with peers
Burleson, TX 3.5% (May 26) 4th +0.2pp 16th 8% below peers
Huntington Park, CA 4.9% (May 26) 22nd +0.2pp 17th 29% above peers
Diamond Bar, CA 4.7% (May 26) 21st +0.2pp 18th 24% above peers
Galveston, TX 4.2% (May 26) 17th +0.2pp 19th 11% above peers
Minnetonka, MN 3.9% (May 26) 14th +0.4pp 20th 3% above peers
Normal, IL 3.7% (May 26) 11th +0.4pp 21st 3% below peers
Edina, MN 3.9% (May 26) 15th +0.5pp 22nd 3% above peers
Wheaton, IL 4.3% (May 26) 18th +0.7pp 23rd 13% above peers
Pinellas Park, FL 4.1% (May 26) 16th +1.0pp 24th 8% above peers
Oak Park, IL 5.1% (May 26) 23rd +1.0pp 25th 34% above peers
BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics through 2025 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
Economy

Share of people below the poverty level

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

Poverty changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (5.3% then, 4.4% now; margin ±1.8pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 14 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: poverty fell 3.1 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (7.5% to 4.4%).
4.4%
20112024
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▸ Compare all 30 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 12.3% -1.7pp
United States ref 12.0%
Eagle Mountain, UT 3.6% 1st -3.8pp 1st 64% below peers
Westchester, FL 9.3% 13th -5.2pp 2nd 7% below peers
Cathedral City, CA 13.1% 22nd -7.0pp 3rd 30% above peers
Aloha, OR 7.8% 11th -3.9pp 4th 23% below peers
Mooresville, NC 7.2% 9th -2.8pp 5th 28% below peers
Elyria, OH 16.5% 25th -6.3pp 6th 65% above peers
Paramount, CA 12.4% 19th -4.1pp 7th 24% above peers
Huntington Park, CA 18.2% 27th -5.3pp 8th 82% above peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 4.5% 3rd -1.3pp 9th 55% below peers
Battle Creek, MI 17.3% 26th -4.4pp 10th 73% above peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 10.3% 17th -2.3pp 11th 3% above peers
Palm Desert, CA 10.9% 18th -2.2pp 12th 9% above peers
Wake Forest, NC 4.4% 2nd -0.9pp 13th 56% below peers
Normal, IL 18.5% 28th -3.6pp 14th 85% above peers
Lincoln, CA 6.8% 7th -1.0pp 15th 32% below peers
Joplin, MO 16.4% 24th -1.2pp 16th 63% above peers
Pinellas Park, FL 12.7% 20th -0.9pp 17th 27% above peers
Edina, MN 4.6% 4th -0.2pp 18th 54% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD 9.7% 15th -0.4pp 19th 4% below peers
Oak Park, IL 7.4% 10th -0.2pp 20th 26% below peers
West New York, NJ 19.3% 29th -0.5pp 21st 92% above peers
Placentia, CA 7.9% 12th -0.2pp 22nd 21% below peers
Wheaton, IL 5.2% 5th +0.1pp 23rd 48% below peers
Galveston, TX 20.1% 30th +1.6pp 24th 100% above peers
Grand Island, NE 15.0% 23rd +2.4pp 25th 50% above peers
Burleson, TX 7.1% 8th +1.4pp 26th 29% below peers
Wheaton, MD 12.9% 21st +2.8pp 27th 29% above peers
Novato, CA 9.6% 14th +2.7pp 28th 4% below peers
Minnetonka, MN 5.9% 6th +1.9pp 29th 41% below peers
Diamond Bar, CA 10.0% 16th +3.9pp 30th on par with peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 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 7 tracts cover a shorter window (dashed outline; mostly 2020 boundary changes). Each tract's change uses the same two survey periods as the card above and is judged against the tract's own published margins; tracts marked * moved less than their margin. How the tract view works →
▸ Break down by group Race · Age · Sex · ACS 2024
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Peers worth a call

3
Cities of similar size (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Apex, NC down 2.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Eagle Mountain, UT down 3.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Westfield, IN down 2.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% 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
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 (5.3% then, 4.0% now; margin ±2.3pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 20 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: child poverty fell 7.0 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (10.9% to 4.0%).
4.0%
20132024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 17.7% -3.5pp
United States ref 16.1%
Catalina Foothills, AZ 2.2% 1st -5.4pp 1st 79% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 3.6% 2nd -6.2pp 2nd 66% below peers
Westchester, FL 10.0% 13th -10.7pp 3rd 4% below peers
Mooresville, NC 6.4% 8th -6.1pp 4th 38% below peers
Normal, IL 7.4% 9th -5.5pp 5th 29% below peers
Lincoln, CA 6.3% 7th -4.6pp 6th 40% below peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 10.4% 16th -6.2pp 7th on par with peers
Cathedral City, CA 18.6% 22nd -10.5pp 8th 78% above peers
Placentia, CA 7.7% 11th -4.3pp 9th 26% below peers
Aloha, OR 10.2% 14th -5.7pp 10th 2% below peers
Battle Creek, MI 22.6% 26th -12.2pp 11th 117% above peers
Elyria, OH 26.1% 28th -13.1pp 12th 150% above peers
Aspen Hill, MD 10.4% 15th -4.2pp 13th on par with peers
Wake Forest, NC 4.0% 3rd -1.3pp 14th 62% below peers
Huntington Park, CA 25.8% 27th -8.7pp 15th 148% above peers
Joplin, MO 19.1% 25th -5.3pp 16th 83% above peers
Paramount, CA 18.6% 21st -5.1pp 17th 78% above peers
Palm Desert, CA 15.5% 20th -3.3pp 18th 49% above peers
Pinellas Park, FL 13.3% 17th -2.8pp 19th 28% above peers
West New York, NJ 28.7% 29th -3.0pp 20th 175% above peers
Edina, MN 4.5% 4th -0.4pp 21st 57% below peers
Grand Island, NE 18.8% 24th +0.4pp 22nd 80% above peers
Burleson, TX 7.6% 10th +0.5pp 23rd 27% below peers
Wheaton, IL 5.0% 5th +0.5pp 24th 52% below peers
Wheaton, MD 18.6% 23rd +3.0pp 25th 78% above peers
Galveston, TX 35.7% 30th +9.2pp 26th 242% above peers
Minnetonka, MN 5.7% 6th +2.5pp 27th 45% below peers
Novato, CA 13.4% 18th +6.3pp 28th 28% above peers
Diamond Bar, CA 13.6% 19th +7.2pp 29th 30% above peers
Oak Park, IL 8.6% 12th +4.9pp 30th 17% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Westfield, IN down 6.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Catalina Foothills, AZ down 5.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Apex, NC down 4.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.4pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Households with a broadband internet subscription

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

Broadband rose 4.3 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 93.8% to 98.1% - more than the combined survey margin (±2.1pp). 29 of the 29 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. It started among the stronger third of similar-size cities and kept improving; worth investigating.

Improving beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 29 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: broadband rose 7.7 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (90.4% to 98.1%).
98.1%
20172024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 90.2% +9.1pp
United States ref 91.1%
Huntington Park, CA 89.3% 25th +13.9pp 1st 5% below peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 96.2% 5th +13.9pp 2nd 2% above peers
Elyria, OH 87.0% 28th +11.6pp 3rd 8% below peers
Battle Creek, MI 90.6% 23rd +11.8pp 4th 4% below peers
Paramount, CA 90.7% 22nd +10.9pp 5th 4% below peers
Westchester, FL 91.4% 19th +10.7pp 6th 3% below peers
Joplin, MO 88.6% 26th +9.2pp 7th 6% below peers
Galveston, TX 91.5% 18th +9.4pp 8th 3% below peers
Cathedral City, CA 91.4% 20th +8.6pp 9th 3% below peers
Normal, IL 86.8% 30th +8.1pp 10th 8% below peers
West New York, NJ 87.0% 29th +8.1pp 11th 8% below peers
Mooresville, NC 96.9% 3rd +8.7pp 12th 3% above peers
Grand Island, NE 89.7% 24th +7.8pp 13th 5% below peers
Oak Park, IL 94.4% 14th +6.7pp 14th on par with peers
Wheaton, MD 95.9% 8th +6.5pp 15th 2% above peers
Palm Desert, CA 91.3% 21st +6.1pp 16th 3% below peers
Burleson, TX 95.2% 12th +5.9pp 17th 1% above peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 96.8% 4th +5.9pp 18th 3% above peers
Pinellas Park, FL 87.7% 27th +5.1pp 19th 7% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD 94.3% 15th +5.0pp 20th on par with peers
Lincoln, CA 93.6% 16th +4.3pp 21st 1% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 98.4% 1st +4.5pp 22nd 4% above peers
Wake Forest, NC 98.1% 2nd +4.3pp 23rd 4% above peers
Edina, MN 93.4% 17th +4.0pp 24th 1% below peers
Minnetonka, MN 95.8% 9th +3.8pp 25th 2% above peers
Wheaton, IL 95.8% 10th +3.4pp 26th 2% above peers
Novato, CA 94.7% 13th +3.0pp 27th on par with peers
Aloha, OR 96.1% 6th +2.8pp 28th 2% above peers
Placentia, CA 95.4% 11th +2.4pp 29th 1% above peers
Diamond Bar, CA 96.1% 7th +2.1pp 30th 2% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EconomyHouseholds with a broadband internet subscription
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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Wheaton, MD up 6.5pp between its surveys · a smaller real gain than 52% of this group · 2019-2024
  • South San Francisco, CA up 6.3pp between its surveys · a smaller real gain than 54% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Chino, CA up 6.0pp between its surveys · a smaller real gain than 56% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.4pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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 (0.39 then, 0.39 now; margin ±0.03).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 5 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: inequality fell about 2% from 2014 to 2024 (0.40 to 0.39).
0.39
20102024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 0.48 +0.001
United States ref 0.48 +0.001
Cathedral City, CA 0.46 19th -0.059 1st 1% above peers
Lincoln, CA 0.40 5th -0.017 2nd 10% below peers
Battle Creek, MI 0.45 16th -0.018 3rd on par with peers
Palm Desert, CA 0.51 28th -0.020 4th 14% above peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 0.49 26th -0.018 5th 9% above peers
Huntington Park, CA 0.41 8th -0.007 6th 8% below peers
Joplin, MO 0.48 24th -0.008 7th 6% above peers
Edina, MN 0.53 31st -0.008 8th 18% above peers
Aspen Hill, MD 0.42 11th -0.006 9th 6% below peers
Oak Park, IL 0.48 25th -0.006 10th 7% above peers
Wheaton, MD 0.41 6th -0.005 11th 9% below peers
Minnetonka, MN 0.47 23rd -0.006 12th 5% above peers
Mooresville, NC 0.42 9th -0.005 13th 7% below peers
Aloha, OR 0.36 2nd -0.002 14th 20% below peers
Westchester, FL 0.44 14th +0.002 15th 2% below peers
Elyria, OH 0.45 15th +0.003 16th 1% below peers
Wheaton, IL 0.46 20th +0.003 17th 2% above peers
Wake Forest, NC 0.39 3rd +0.003 18th 13% below peers
Pinellas Park, FL 0.44 13th +0.008 19th 3% below peers
Novato, CA 0.47 22nd +0.014 20th 4% above peers
Galveston, TX 0.52 30th +0.017 21st 17% above peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 0.45 17th +0.024 22nd 1% above peers
Placentia, CA 0.42 12th +0.023 23rd 6% below peers
Normal, IL 0.51 29th +0.029 24th 14% above peers
Grand Island, NE 0.47 21st +0.030 25th 4% above peers
Diamond Bar, CA 0.45 18th +0.030 26th 1% above peers
Burleson, TX 0.40 4th +0.028 27th 12% below peers
Paramount, CA 0.41 7th +0.031 28th 9% below peers
West New York, NJ 0.51 27th +0.040 29th 13% above peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 0.33 1st +0.046 30th 27% below peers
Methuen, MA 0.42 10th 7% below peers
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B19083) through 2024 ±0.02 at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Households receiving SNAP

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

SNAP changed less than the survey can measure between the 2014-2018 and 2019-2023 surveys (5.7% then, 5.7% now; margin ±2.8pp).

Within the survey margin, 2014-2018 vs 2019-2023 surveys; 11 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: snap fell 0.4 percentage points from 2013 to 2023 (6.2% to 5.8%).
5.7%
20102023
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Place Latest2019-2023 survey Today's rank Change2014-2018 → 2019-2023 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 12.5% -0.6pp
United States ref 11.8% -0.5pp
Wheaton, IL 3.6% 4th -1.7pp 1st 62% below peers
Grand Island, NE 9.4% 15th -4.1pp 2nd 1% below peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 17.6% 27th -4.6pp 3rd 86% above peers
Burleson, TX 4.9% 6th -1.1pp 4th 48% below peers
Elyria, OH 16.0% 24th -3.3pp 5th 69% above peers
Battle Creek, MI 16.8% 25th -3.2pp 6th 78% above peers
Galveston, TX 13.0% 20th -2.3pp 7th 38% above peers
West New York, NJ 18.0% 28th -2.7pp 8th 91% above peers
Westchester, FL 23.4% 29th -3.5pp 9th 147% above peers
Aloha, OR 12.1% 19th -1.8pp 10th 28% above peers
Normal, IL 7.3% 14th -0.9pp 11th 23% below peers
Pinellas Park, FL 13.4% 21st -1.6pp 12th 42% above peers
Joplin, MO 15.7% 23rd -0.9pp 13th 66% above peers
Wake Forest, NC 5.8% 7th +0.0pp 14th 39% below peers
Minnetonka, MN 3.4% 3rd +0.0pp 15th 64% below peers
Paramount, CA 17.3% 26th +1.1pp 16th 83% above peers
Oak Park, IL 7.3% 13th +0.6pp 17th 23% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD 10.8% 18th +0.9pp 18th 14% above peers
Wheaton, MD 10.4% 17th +0.9pp 19th 10% above peers
Mooresville, NC 6.6% 10th +0.8pp 20th 30% below peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 2.6% 1st +0.4pp 21st 72% below peers
Huntington Park, CA 24.0% 30th +4.9pp 22nd 154% above peers
Edina, MN 2.7% 2nd +0.6pp 23rd 71% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 5.8% 8th +1.2pp 24th 39% below peers
Placentia, CA 7.0% 12th +1.7pp 25th 26% below peers
Lincoln, CA 4.3% 5th +1.3pp 26th 54% below peers
Cathedral City, CA 13.7% 22nd +4.7pp 27th 45% above peers
Palm Desert, CA 9.4% 16th +4.4pp 28th on par with peers
Diamond Bar, CA 6.2% 9th +3.4pp 29th 35% below peers
Novato, CA 6.8% 11th +3.7pp 30th 28% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2018 to 2023, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EconomyHouseholds receiving SNAP
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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Layton, UT down 4.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2018-2023
  • Logan, UT down 5.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2018-2023
  • Springdale, AR down 5.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2018-2023
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2023 ±2.5pp at 90% confidence (2023 estimate) survey trend: 2014-2018 vs 2019-2023 surveys about this metric
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Housing

Typical home value

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

Home value fell about 1% over the 12 months ending June 2026, faster than 83% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: home value fell less than 1% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 87% of similar-size cities.
Longer view: home value rose about 8% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: $515,729 in June 2026, down from $523,417 a year earlier.
$515,729
2000June 2026
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Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref $340,430 (Jun 26) -0.0%
United States ref $372,995 (Jun 26) +0.8%
Oak Park, IL $492,876 (Jun 26) 13th +10.7% 1st 1% below peers
Wheaton, IL $524,542 (Jun 26) 9th +5.2% 2nd 6% above peers
West New York, NJ $469,254 (Jun 26) 16th +5.0% 3rd 5% below peers
Elyria, OH $191,593 (Jun 26) 23rd +4.7% 4th 61% below peers
Battle Creek, MI $185,143 (Jun 26) 24th +4.0% 5th 63% below peers
Edina, MN $635,999 (Jun 26) 7th +3.9% 6th 28% above peers
Minnetonka, MN $496,328 (Jun 26) 12th +3.5% 7th on par with peers
Paramount, CA $652,714 (Jun 26) 5th +3.0% 8th 32% above peers
Joplin, MO $207,698 (Jun 26) 22nd +1.3% 9th 58% below peers
Huntington Park, CA $674,652 (Jun 26) 4th +1.3% 10th 36% above peers
Placentia, CA $1,117,757 (Jun 26) 1st +1.0% 11th 125% above peers
Grand Island, NE $258,203 (Jun 26) 21st +1.0% 12th 48% below peers
Diamond Bar, CA $1,029,682 (Jun 26) 3rd +0.9% 13th 107% above peers
Novato, CA $1,084,524 (Jun 26) 2nd +0.6% 14th 119% above peers
Mooresville, NC $486,446 (Jun 26) 14th +0.1% 15th 2% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT $512,413 (Jun 26) 11th +0.1% 16th 3% above peers
Normal, IL $269,011 (Jun 26) 20th -0.3% 17th 46% below peers
Lincoln, CA $648,541 (Jun 26) 6th -0.6% 18th 31% above peers
Burleson, TX $342,356 (Jun 26) 17th -1.3% 19th 31% below peers
Wake Forest, NC $515,729 (Jun 26) 10th -1.5% 20th 4% above peers
Palm Desert, CA $545,953 (Jun 26) 8th -2.3% 21st 10% above peers
Cathedral City, CA $479,959 (Jun 26) 15th -3.8% 22nd 3% below peers
Pinellas Park, FL $303,946 (Jun 26) 19th -3.8% 23rd 39% below peers
Galveston, TX $322,876 (Jun 26) 18th -6.5% 24th 35% below peers
Zillow Home Value Index through 2026-06 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
Housing

Starter home value (bottom tier)

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

Starter homes fell about 2% over the 12 months ending June 2026, faster than 78% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: starter homes fell less than 1% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 91% of similar-size cities.
Longer view: starter homes rose about 10% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: $364,168 in June 2026, down from $372,513 a year earlier.
$364,168
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Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref $198,660 (Jun 26) +1.7%
United States ref $202,486 (Jun 26) +2.0%
Oak Park, IL $251,868 (Jun 26) 16th +6.4% 1st 23% below peers
Elyria, OH $130,769 (Jun 26) 23rd +5.9% 2nd 60% below peers
Wheaton, IL $347,090 (Jun 26) 11th +5.7% 3rd 6% above peers
Normal, IL $202,576 (Jun 26) 20th +3.5% 4th 38% below peers
Battle Creek, MI $111,016 (Jun 26) 24th +2.5% 5th 66% below peers
Joplin, MO $135,847 (Jun 26) 22nd +2.0% 6th 59% below peers
Minnetonka, MN $312,027 (Jun 26) 13th +1.3% 7th 5% below peers
Grand Island, NE $184,364 (Jun 26) 21st +1.1% 8th 44% below peers
West New York, NJ $286,292 (Jun 26) 14th +0.8% 9th 13% below peers
Huntington Park, CA $571,523 (Jun 26) 4th +0.8% 10th 74% above peers
Mooresville, NC $328,500 (Jun 26) 12th +0.7% 11th on par with peers
Placentia, CA $819,310 (Jun 26) 1st +0.6% 12th 149% above peers
Novato, CA $724,341 (Jun 26) 2nd +0.2% 13th 120% above peers
Eagle Mountain, UT $421,900 (Jun 26) 7th +0.0% 14th 28% above peers
Paramount, CA $501,845 (Jun 26) 6th -0.0% 15th 53% above peers
Diamond Bar, CA $719,346 (Jun 26) 3rd -0.3% 16th 119% above peers
Lincoln, CA $530,010 (Jun 26) 5th -0.8% 17th 61% above peers
Palm Desert, CA $403,115 (Jun 26) 8th -1.9% 18th 23% above peers
Wake Forest, NC $364,168 (Jun 26) 9th -2.2% 19th 11% above peers
Burleson, TX $263,855 (Jun 26) 15th -2.6% 20th 20% below peers
Edina, MN $245,840 (Jun 26) 17th -2.7% 21st 25% below peers
Cathedral City, CA $359,214 (Jun 26) 10th -3.4% 22nd 9% above peers
Pinellas Park, FL $215,851 (Jun 26) 18th -4.7% 23rd 34% below peers
Galveston, TX $202,732 (Jun 26) 19th -7.0% 24th 38% below peers
Zillow Home Value Index through 2026-06 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
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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 (71.3% then, 74.0% now; margin ±3.2pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 9 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: homeownership rose 0.3 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (73.7% to 74.0%).
74.0%
20112024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 66.6% +1.4pp
United States ref 65.2%
West New York, NJ 22.9% 30th +2.5pp 1st 65% below peers
Battle Creek, MI 66.0% 15th +6.4pp 2nd on par with peers
Cathedral City, CA 66.5% 13th +5.7pp 3rd 1% above peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 71.0% 10th +5.3pp 4th 8% above peers
Galveston, TX 46.2% 27th +2.4pp 5th 30% below peers
Lincoln, CA 83.9% 2nd +4.2pp 6th 27% above peers
Paramount, CA 43.0% 28th +2.0pp 7th 35% below peers
Minnetonka, MN 71.6% 9th +2.6pp 8th 8% above peers
Wake Forest, NC 74.0% 5th +2.6pp 9th 12% above peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 76.5% 4th +2.7pp 10th 16% above peers
Palm Desert, CA 65.0% 17th +2.2pp 11th 2% below peers
Edina, MN 72.4% 6th +1.6pp 12th 10% above peers
Burleson, TX 72.1% 7th +1.5pp 13th 9% above peers
Diamond Bar, CA 77.3% 3rd +1.3pp 14th 17% above peers
Pinellas Park, FL 69.0% 11th +1.0pp 15th 4% above peers
Elyria, OH 60.0% 22nd +0.6pp 16th 9% below peers
Oak Park, IL 60.0% 21st +0.5pp 17th 9% below peers
Mooresville, NC 58.3% 23rd +0.1pp 18th 12% below peers
Wheaton, MD 64.6% 19th +0.1pp 19th 2% below peers
Normal, IL 54.8% 25th -0.6pp 20th 17% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD 64.8% 18th -0.8pp 21st 2% below peers
Grand Island, NE 57.8% 24th -1.0pp 22nd 12% below peers
Wheaton, IL 71.7% 8th -1.6pp 23rd 9% above peers
Placentia, CA 63.6% 20th -1.7pp 24th 4% below peers
Novato, CA 66.1% 14th -2.0pp 25th on par with peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 84.7% 1st -2.8pp 26th 28% above peers
Westchester, FL 65.2% 16th -2.9pp 27th 1% below peers
Aloha, OR 67.1% 12th -3.1pp 28th 2% above peers
Joplin, MO 53.4% 26th -4.3pp 29th 19% below peers
Huntington Park, CA 24.2% 29th -3.0pp 30th 63% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 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 ±2.4pp 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, slower than peers
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Rent rose about 1% over the 12 months ending June 2026, slower than 70% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: rent rose about 2% a year from 2021 to 2026, slower than 95% of similar-size cities.
Longer view: rent rose about 6% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: $1,813 in June 2026, up from $1,796 a year earlier.
$1,813
2016June 2026
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Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
United States ref $1,965 (Jun 26) +2.2%
Joplin, MO $1,306 (Jun 26) 22nd +7.9% 1st 38% below peers
Paramount, CA $2,723 (Jun 26) 5th +7.8% 2nd 30% above peers
Battle Creek, MI $1,146 (Jun 26) 23rd +6.1% 3rd 45% below peers
Novato, CA $3,857 (Jun 26) 1st +5.6% 4th 84% above peers
Oak Park, IL $2,160 (Jun 26) 11th +5.5% 5th 3% above peers
Galveston, TX $1,356 (Jun 26) 20th +4.4% 6th 35% below peers
Huntington Park, CA $1,820 (Jun 26) 15th +3.7% 7th 13% below peers
Palm Desert, CA $2,638 (Jun 26) 6th +3.6% 8th 26% above peers
Lincoln, CA $3,006 (Jun 26) 3rd +3.3% 9th 43% above peers
Minnetonka, MN $1,857 (Jun 26) 14th +3.2% 10th 12% below peers
Edina, MN $2,009 (Jun 26) 13th +3.2% 11th 4% below peers
Elyria, OH $1,126 (Jun 26) 24th +3.0% 12th 46% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT $2,265 (Jun 26) 9th +2.9% 13th 8% above peers
Normal, IL $1,403 (Jun 26) 19th +2.0% 14th 33% below peers
Placentia, CA $2,796 (Jun 26) 4th +1.9% 15th 33% above peers
Diamond Bar, CA $3,301 (Jun 26) 2nd +1.0% 16th 57% above peers
Wake Forest, NC $1,813 (Jun 26) 16th +0.9% 17th 14% below peers
Wheaton, IL $2,169 (Jun 26) 10th +0.9% 18th 3% above peers
Grand Island, NE $1,337 (Jun 26) 21st +0.8% 19th 36% below peers
West New York, NJ $2,635 (Jun 26) 7th +0.4% 20th 25% above peers
Mooresville, NC $1,621 (Jun 26) 18th +0.2% 21st 23% below peers
Cathedral City, CA $2,390 (Jun 26) 8th +0.1% 22nd 14% above peers
Burleson, TX $1,737 (Jun 26) 17th -1.4% 23rd 17% below peers
Pinellas Park, FL $2,101 (Jun 26) 12th -2.0% 24th on par with peers
Zillow Observed Rent Index through 2026-06 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
Housing

Housing cost-burdened households

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

Cost burden changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (22.4% then, 22.5% now; margin ±3.9pp). The newest releases lean upward: each of the last 4 annual updates moved the 5-year average the same way - an early signal, not a measured change.*

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 7 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: cost burden fell 4.9 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (27.4% to 22.5%).
22.5%
20102024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 28.8% -0.2pp
United States ref 32.2% +0.4pp
Wheaton, MD 32.2% 15th -7.4pp 1st 2% below peers
Aloha, OR 29.0% 8th -5.3pp 2nd 12% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD 33.1% 17th -4.4pp 3rd on par with peers
Huntington Park, CA 51.1% 31st -4.8pp 4th 55% above peers
Mooresville, NC 28.2% 5th -2.6pp 5th 14% below peers
Elyria, OH 30.2% 9th -2.4pp 6th 8% below peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 23.7% 2nd -1.6pp 7th 28% below peers
Cathedral City, CA 45.0% 26th -3.0pp 8th 36% above peers
Battle Creek, MI 32.0% 13th -1.7pp 9th 3% below peers
Edina, MN 28.7% 7th -0.9pp 10th 13% below peers
Paramount, CA 46.8% 29th -1.1pp 11th 42% above peers
Oak Park, IL 32.1% 14th -0.4pp 12th 3% below peers
Westchester, FL 45.4% 27th -0.5pp 13th 37% above peers
Wake Forest, NC 22.5% 1st +0.0pp 14th 32% below peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 42.5% 22nd +0.3pp 15th 29% above peers
Wheaton, IL 28.5% 6th +1.0pp 16th 14% below peers
Minnetonka, MN 27.7% 3rd +1.1pp 17th 16% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 28.1% 4th +1.5pp 18th 15% below peers
Novato, CA 44.5% 25th +2.6pp 19th 35% above peers
Lincoln, CA 36.8% 20th +2.4pp 20th 12% above peers
Diamond Bar, CA 40.8% 21st +2.7pp 21st 24% above peers
Pinellas Park, FL 36.0% 19th +2.6pp 22nd 9% above peers
West New York, NJ 50.0% 30th +3.6pp 23rd 51% above peers
Joplin, MO 31.7% 12th +2.6pp 24th 4% below peers
Palm Desert, CA 46.4% 28th +4.3pp 25th 41% above peers
Normal, IL 33.0% 16th +3.1pp 26th on par with peers
Placentia, CA 43.0% 23rd +4.5pp 27th 30% above peers
Galveston, TX 43.7% 24th +4.6pp 28th 32% above peers
Grand Island, NE 30.6% 10th +5.4pp 29th 7% below peers
Burleson, TX 31.2% 11th +7.8pp 30th 5% below peers
Methuen, MA 33.3% 18th 1% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started 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 →
  • Tinley Park, IL down 4.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Appleton, WI down 3.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 96% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Decatur, IL down 3.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 93% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (tables B25070 + B25091) through 2024 ±2.8pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys *Early signal: consecutive releases agree on direction only; the size of the newest movement is not measurable from overlapping surveys. about this metric
Housing

Households without a vehicle

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

No vehicle changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (2.7% then, 3.2% now; margin ±1.5pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 4 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: no vehicle fell 1.7 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (4.9% to 3.2%).
3.2%
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
North Carolina ref 5.3% -0.5pp
United States ref 8.3% -0.3pp
Mooresville, NC 2.8% 6th -1.6pp 1st 49% below peers
Palm Desert, CA 3.9% 10th -1.1pp 2nd 29% below peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 3.0% 8th -0.9pp 3rd 45% below peers
Lincoln, CA 1.9% 2nd -0.5pp 4th 65% below peers
Minnetonka, MN 4.1% 11th -0.8pp 5th 26% below peers
Battle Creek, MI 10.7% 26th -1.9pp 6th 95% above peers
Oak Park, IL 11.7% 28th -1.7pp 7th 114% above peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 2.8% 5th -0.4pp 8th 49% below peers
Cathedral City, CA 5.0% 13th -0.6pp 9th 8% below peers
Diamond Bar, CA 2.4% 4th -0.2pp 10th 57% below peers
Elyria, OH 8.9% 24th -0.9pp 11th 63% above peers
Galveston, TX 10.7% 27th -0.6pp 12th 95% above peers
Normal, IL 6.0% 18th -0.3pp 13th 10% above peers
West New York, NJ 40.0% 31st -0.3pp 14th 631% above peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 0.7% 1st +0.0pp 15th 88% below peers
Pinellas Park, FL 7.5% 22nd +0.3pp 16th 37% above peers
Aloha, OR 4.2% 12th +0.2pp 17th 22% below peers
Placentia, CA 2.9% 7th +0.2pp 18th 47% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD 8.2% 23rd +0.5pp 19th 50% above peers
Edina, MN 6.5% 19th +0.4pp 20th 19% above peers
Joplin, MO 9.6% 25th +0.8pp 21st 75% above peers
Paramount, CA 5.5% 16th +0.5pp 22nd on par with peers
Huntington Park, CA 14.3% 30th +1.4pp 23rd 161% above peers
Novato, CA 5.0% 14th +0.7pp 24th 8% below peers
Wake Forest, NC 3.2% 9th +0.4pp 25th 42% below peers
Westchester, FL 6.9% 20th +1.8pp 26th 25% above peers
Wheaton, MD 12.1% 29th +3.2pp 27th 121% above peers
Wheaton, IL 5.4% 15th +1.6pp 28th 1% below peers
Grand Island, NE 7.3% 21st +2.2pp 29th 33% above peers
Burleson, TX 2.1% 3rd +0.7pp 30th 61% below peers
Methuen, MA 6.0% 17th 9% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started 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 →
  • Apopka, FL down 2.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Sandy, UT down 1.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Mount Pleasant, SC down 1.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B08201) through 2024 ±1.2pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Health

People without health insurance

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

Uninsured changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (4.0% then, 4.7% now; margin ±1.5pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 12 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: uninsured fell 3.5 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (8.2% to 4.7%).
4.7%
20122024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 9.4% -0.9pp
United States ref 8.2% -0.4pp
Minnetonka, MN 1.3% 1st -1.1pp 1st 80% below peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 8.0% 18th -6.3pp 2nd 19% above peers
Diamond Bar, CA 3.4% 7th -2.4pp 3rd 49% below peers
Wheaton, IL 2.2% 3rd -1.3pp 4th 67% below peers
Westchester, FL 9.4% 21st -4.5pp 5th 41% above peers
Lincoln, CA 2.5% 4th -1.0pp 6th 63% below peers
Cathedral City, CA 9.1% 20th -3.5pp 7th 36% above peers
Edina, MN 1.7% 2nd -0.5pp 8th 75% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 6.7% 16th -2.0pp 9th on par with peers
Palm Desert, CA 5.5% 13th -0.8pp 10th 18% below peers
Elyria, OH 6.7% 15th -0.9pp 11th on par with peers
Galveston, TX 15.9% 29th -1.9pp 12th 137% above peers
Battle Creek, MI 5.2% 12th -0.3pp 13th 22% below peers
Oak Park, IL 3.0% 5th -0.1pp 14th 54% below peers
West New York, NJ 21.4% 31st +0.0pp 15th 219% above peers
Burleson, TX 10.6% 22nd +0.0pp 16th 58% above peers
Mooresville, NC 7.7% 17th +0.0pp 17th 15% above peers
Huntington Park, CA 17.9% 30th +0.5pp 18th 168% above peers
Placentia, CA 6.4% 14th +0.3pp 19th 4% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD 13.6% 25th +0.6pp 20th 104% above peers
Joplin, MO 11.6% 23rd +0.5pp 21st 73% above peers
Pinellas Park, FL 11.8% 24th +1.0pp 22nd 76% above peers
Wheaton, MD 14.3% 26th +1.4pp 23rd 114% above peers
Grand Island, NE 14.3% 27th +1.8pp 24th 114% above peers
Wake Forest, NC 4.7% 9th +0.7pp 25th 30% below peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 3.5% 8th +0.6pp 26th 48% below peers
Normal, IL 4.8% 10th +0.9pp 27th 28% below peers
Aloha, OR 8.7% 19th +2.0pp 28th 29% above peers
Paramount, CA 15.1% 28th +3.6pp 29th 125% above peers
Novato, CA 4.8% 11th +1.3pp 30th 28% below peers
Methuen, MA 3.3% 6th 50% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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▸ Break down by group Race · Age · Sex · ACS 2024
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started in the 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 →
  • Mountain View, CA down 2.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Brookline, MA down 1.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Minnetonka, MN down 1.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.3pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Health

Adult obesity

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

Adult obesity is somewhat below the peer median.

25.8%
20202022
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Place Latest Today's rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 33.6%
United States ref 33.4%
Diamond Bar, CA 17.6% 1st 45% below peers
Edina, MN 23.8% 2nd 25% below peers
Minnetonka, MN 24.8% 3rd 22% below peers
Novato, CA 25.3% 4th 20% below peers
Wake Forest, NC 25.8% 5th 19% below peers
Placentia, CA 26.0% 6th 18% below peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 26.3% 7th 17% below peers
Lincoln, CA 26.6% 8th 16% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD 27.0% 9th 15% below peers
Wheaton, MD 27.4% 10th 14% below peers
Westchester, FL 28.7% 11th 10% below peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 29.0% 12th 9% below peers
Wheaton, IL 29.0% 13th 9% below peers
Oak Park, IL 29.3% 14th 8% below peers
Mooresville, NC 31.7% 15th on par with peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 31.8% 16th on par with peers
Pinellas Park, FL 31.8% 17th on par with peers
Paramount, CA 31.8% 18th on par with peers
Aloha, OR 32.5% 19th 2% above peers
Palm Desert, CA 32.6% 20th 3% above peers
Huntington Park, CA 33.4% 21st 5% above peers
West New York, NJ 34.9% 22nd 10% above peers
Cathedral City, CA 35.8% 23rd 13% above peers
Normal, IL 36.0% 24th 13% above peers
Joplin, MO 36.4% 25th 14% above peers
Burleson, TX 38.2% 26th 20% above peers
Grand Island, NE 38.3% 27th 20% above peers
Battle Creek, MI 40.3% 28th 27% above peers
Elyria, OH 42.5% 29th 34% above peers
Galveston, TX 43.1% 30th 36% 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 (1.3% then, 2.2% now; margin ±1.3pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 12 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: child uninsured fell 3.6 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (5.8% to 2.2%).
2.2%
20122024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 5.5% +0.5pp
United States ref 5.5% +0.4pp
Wheaton, IL 0.8% 1st -2.3pp 1st 79% below peers
Diamond Bar, CA 2.0% 6th -2.6pp 2nd 50% below peers
Cathedral City, CA 3.0% 15th -3.8pp 3rd 27% below peers
Minnetonka, MN 1.0% 2nd -1.1pp 4th 75% below peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 2.9% 13th -2.9pp 5th 30% below peers
Lincoln, CA 2.1% 7th -1.0pp 6th 49% below peers
Normal, IL 1.4% 3rd -0.6pp 7th 66% below peers
Palm Desert, CA 2.5% 10th -1.1pp 8th 40% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 5.6% 22nd -2.1pp 9th 37% above peers
Elyria, OH 2.6% 11th -0.5pp 10th 36% below peers
Joplin, MO 4.1% 16th -0.6pp 11th on par with peers
Edina, MN 1.9% 5th -0.2pp 12th 54% below peers
Mooresville, NC 2.3% 9th -0.3pp 13th 44% below peers
Burleson, TX 7.0% 26th -0.1pp 14th 72% above peers
Galveston, TX 11.2% 31st -0.1pp 15th 173% above peers
Placentia, CA 2.9% 14th +0.1pp 16th 29% below peers
Grand Island, NE 6.7% 24th +0.4pp 17th 64% above peers
Aspen Hill, MD 6.6% 23rd +0.5pp 18th 61% above peers
Westchester, FL 5.5% 21st +0.9pp 19th 33% above peers
Aloha, OR 5.5% 20th +0.9pp 20th 33% above peers
Huntington Park, CA 8.0% 28th +3.0pp 21st 95% above peers
Oak Park, IL 2.7% 12th +1.2pp 22nd 35% below peers
Wake Forest, NC 2.2% 8th +1.0pp 23rd 45% below peers
Wheaton, MD 7.0% 25th +3.2pp 24th 70% above peers
Battle Creek, MI 4.7% 18th +2.2pp 25th 15% above peers
West New York, NJ 10.3% 30th +4.9pp 26th 151% above peers
Paramount, CA 7.7% 27th +3.8pp 27th 88% above peers
Pinellas Park, FL 8.7% 29th +4.6pp 28th 112% above peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 5.4% 19th +3.5pp 29th 31% above peers
Novato, CA 4.5% 17th +3.4pp 30th 10% above peers
Methuen, MA 1.5% 4th 64% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started 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 →
  • Newport Beach, CA down 1.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Royal Oak, MI down 1.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Troy, NY down 1.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 97% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B27001) through 2024 ±1.1pp 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 4.9 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 54.6% to 59.5% - more than the combined survey margin (±4.5pp). 18 of the 29 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. It started among the stronger third of similar-size cities and kept improving; worth investigating.

Improving beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 18 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: college attainment rose 9.0 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (50.5% to 59.5%).
59.5%
20102024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 35.6% +4.4pp
United States ref 35.7% +3.5pp
Huntington Park, CA 8.5% 31st +2.1pp 1st 78% below peers
Paramount, CA 14.9% 30th +3.6pp 2nd 61% below peers
Burleson, TX 34.0% 19th +7.6pp 3rd 10% below peers
Galveston, TX 36.0% 17th +6.8pp 4th 5% below peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 31.6% 21st +4.7pp 5th 17% below peers
Lincoln, CA 40.0% 14th +5.8pp 6th 6% above peers
Pinellas Park, FL 25.5% 25th +3.6pp 7th 32% below peers
Elyria, OH 17.8% 29th +2.3pp 8th 53% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 37.8% 16th +4.9pp 9th on par with peers
Cathedral City, CA 24.5% 26th +2.8pp 10th 35% below peers
Mooresville, NC 45.5% 10th +5.3pp 11th 20% above peers
Placentia, CA 44.2% 11th +4.9pp 12th 17% above peers
Aloha, OR 34.5% 18th +3.4pp 13th 9% below peers
West New York, NJ 33.5% 20th +3.3pp 14th 11% below peers
Palm Desert, CA 40.7% 13th +3.8pp 15th 8% above peers
Normal, IL 52.9% 7th +4.5pp 16th 40% above peers
Wake Forest, NC 59.5% 6th +4.9pp 17th 58% above peers
Wheaton, MD 38.7% 15th +3.1pp 18th 2% above peers
Minnetonka, MN 65.0% 4th +4.8pp 19th 72% above peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 71.4% 3rd +3.7pp 20th 89% above peers
Novato, CA 48.9% 9th +2.4pp 21st 29% above peers
Edina, MN 72.7% 1st +2.9pp 22nd 92% above peers
Westchester, FL 30.2% 23rd +1.1pp 23rd 20% below peers
Oak Park, IL 72.5% 2nd +2.5pp 24th 92% above peers
Grand Island, NE 20.9% 28th +0.3pp 25th 45% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD 43.3% 12th +0.3pp 26th 14% above peers
Joplin, MO 26.6% 24th +0.2pp 27th 29% below peers
Wheaton, IL 64.5% 5th +0.3pp 28th 71% above peers
Battle Creek, MI 21.9% 27th +0.0pp 29th 42% below peers
Diamond Bar, CA 52.8% 8th -2.1pp 30th 40% above peers
Methuen, MA 31.0% 22nd 18% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 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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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Leander, TX up 12.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 95% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Grapevine, TX up 9.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 87% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Lakewood, OH up 8.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 85% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±3.4pp 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 (60.3% then, 52.6% now; margin ±14.7pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 7 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: preschool enrollment fell 11.1 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (63.7% to 52.6%).
52.6%
20112024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 39.6% -3.4pp
United States ref 45.5%
Placentia, CA 60.8% 5th +21.8pp 1st 25% above peers
Wheaton, MD 50.5% 13th +15.9pp 2nd 4% above peers
Grand Island, NE 45.6% 17th +13.3pp 3rd 6% below peers
Normal, IL 57.0% 8th +11.3pp 4th 17% above peers
Novato, CA 67.7% 1st +8.4pp 5th 39% above peers
Palm Desert, CA 59.4% 7th +6.5pp 6th 22% above peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 42.6% 20th +4.7pp 7th 13% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD 33.9% 27th +3.6pp 8th 31% below peers
Elyria, OH 48.8% 15th +3.8pp 9th on par with peers
Lincoln, CA 48.8% 14th +0.3pp 10th on par with peers
West New York, NJ 64.8% 3rd -0.0pp 11th 33% above peers
Mooresville, NC 47.9% 16th -1.4pp 12th 2% below peers
Aloha, OR 34.4% 26th -2.5pp 13th 29% below peers
Paramount, CA 36.3% 24th -2.8pp 14th 26% below peers
Battle Creek, MI 35.2% 25th -3.0pp 15th 28% below peers
Westchester, FL 56.4% 10th -5.6pp 16th 16% above peers
Huntington Park, CA 41.3% 22nd -4.3pp 17th 15% below peers
Edina, MN 66.6% 2nd -7.9pp 18th 37% above peers
Galveston, TX 43.5% 19th -5.4pp 19th 11% below peers
Wake Forest, NC 52.6% 12th -7.7pp 20th 8% above peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 60.6% 6th -10.0pp 21st 24% above peers
Pinellas Park, FL 37.5% 23rd -6.6pp 22nd 23% below peers
Cathedral City, CA 29.5% 28th -5.6pp 23rd 40% below peers
Oak Park, IL 62.2% 4th -13.3pp 24th 28% above peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 56.7% 9th -12.4pp 25th 16% above peers
Wheaton, IL 54.2% 11th -18.7pp 26th 11% above peers
Joplin, MO 21.9% 30th -8.0pp 27th 55% below peers
Diamond Bar, CA 45.1% 18th -20.2pp 28th 7% below peers
Burleson, TX 24.3% 29th -19.2pp 29th 50% below peers
Minnetonka, MN 41.7% 21st -36.0pp 30th 14% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 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 (50k-100k) 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 →
  • Vineland, NJ up 20.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 94% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Livermore, CA up 16.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 92% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Brookhaven, GA up 18.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 91% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±8.8pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Education

Teens not in school and not working

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

Disconnected youth changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (1.5% then, 8.2% now; margin ±7.2pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 2 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: disconnected youth rose 5.3 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (2.9% to 8.2%).
8.2%
20102024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 7.0% -0.2pp
United States ref 6.9% +0.3pp
Catalina Foothills, AZ 0.0% 1st -3.3pp 1st 100% below peers
Westchester, FL 4.0% 10th -9.9pp 2nd 38% below peers
Palm Desert, CA 4.5% 11th -7.3pp 3rd 30% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD 3.6% 9th -2.9pp 4th 43% below peers
Paramount, CA 7.1% 20th -5.6pp 5th 11% above peers
Oak Park, IL 1.3% 3rd -0.9pp 6th 80% below peers
Novato, CA 4.7% 12th -3.3pp 7th 28% below peers
Lincoln, CA 3.6% 8th -2.3pp 8th 45% below peers
Pinellas Park, FL 6.5% 16th -1.3pp 9th on par with peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 7.6% 22nd -1.0pp 10th 18% above peers
Cathedral City, CA 12.1% 26th -0.9pp 11th 87% above peers
Aloha, OR 6.3% 15th -0.2pp 12th 3% below peers
Burleson, TX 14.2% 28th +0.1pp 13th 120% above peers
Mooresville, NC 7.1% 19th +0.5pp 14th 10% above peers
Joplin, MO 5.2% 13th +0.8pp 15th 19% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 7.3% 21st +1.2pp 16th 13% above peers
Wheaton, IL 1.3% 4th +0.2pp 17th 80% below peers
Elyria, OH 18.2% 30th +3.6pp 18th 182% above peers
Grand Island, NE 6.7% 17th +1.8pp 19th 3% above peers
Galveston, TX 10.2% 24th +3.2pp 20th 57% above peers
Huntington Park, CA 14.2% 29th +5.0pp 21st 120% above peers
Minnetonka, MN 2.6% 6th +1.0pp 22nd 59% below peers
Battle Creek, MI 13.1% 27th +5.9pp 23rd 103% above peers
Edina, MN 3.3% 7th +1.5pp 24th 49% below peers
Diamond Bar, CA 2.3% 5th +1.1pp 25th 65% below peers
Wheaton, MD 10.4% 25th +5.0pp 26th 61% above peers
Placentia, CA 6.8% 18th +3.9pp 27th 5% above peers
West New York, NJ 23.0% 31st +13.5pp 28th 257% above peers
Normal, IL 0.8% 2nd +0.6pp 29th 87% below peers
Wake Forest, NC 8.2% 23rd +6.7pp 30th 27% above peers
Methuen, MA 6.3% 14th 3% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EducationTeens not in school and not working
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Census ACS 5-year survey (table B14005) through 2024 ±6.5pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Demographics

Population

No better direction Rising
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Population rose about 25% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 42,111 to 52,844 - more than the combined survey margin (±424). 14 of the 29 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction.

Rising beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 24 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: population rose about 59% from 2014 to 2024 (33,319 to 52,844).
52,844
20102024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Westchester, FL 52,032 29th +75% 1st 2% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 53,290 8th +64% 2nd 1% above peers
Mooresville, NC 52,381 25th +38% 3rd 1% below peers
Wake Forest, NC 52,844 18th +25% 4th on par with peers
Burleson, TX 52,918 16th +15% 5th on par with peers
Lincoln, CA 52,956 14th +12% 6th on par with peers
Galveston, TX 53,424 5th +6% 7th 1% above peers
Wheaton, MD 52,926 15th +5% 8th on par with peers
Joplin, MO 52,593 21st +4% 9th 1% below peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 52,593 22nd +4% 10th 1% below peers
Grand Island, NE 52,884 17th +3% 11th on par with peers
Edina, MN 53,262 10th +3% 12th 1% above peers
Battle Creek, MI 52,374 26th +2% 13th 1% below peers
Oak Park, IL 53,292 7th +2% 14th 1% above peers
Placentia, CA 52,826 19th +2% 15th on par with peers
Pinellas Park, FL 53,560 2nd +1% 16th 1% above peers
Wheaton, IL 53,557 3rd +1% 17th 1% above peers
Aspen Hill, MD 53,279 9th +0% 18th 1% above peers
Minnetonka, MN 53,064 12th +0% 19th on par with peers
Palm Desert, CA 51,990 31st -1% 20th 2% below peers
West New York, NJ 52,004 30th -1% 21st 2% below peers
Elyria, OH 53,035 13th -1% 22nd on par with peers
Normal, IL 53,569 1st -2% 23rd 1% above peers
Aloha, OR 52,389 24th -3% 24th 1% below peers
Cathedral City, CA 52,267 27th -4% 25th 1% below peers
Paramount, CA 52,050 28th -5% 26th 2% below peers
Diamond Bar, CA 53,355 6th -5% 27th 1% above peers
Novato, CA 52,546 23rd -6% 28th 1% below peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 52,622 20th -6% 29th 1% below peers
Huntington Park, CA 53,108 11th -9% 30th on par with peers
Methuen, MA 53,475 4th 1% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 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 ±42 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 Falling
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Children fell 4.0 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 30.5% to 26.5% - more than the combined survey margin (±2.3pp). 11 of the 29 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction.

Falling beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 12 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: children fell 5.1 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (31.6% to 26.5%).
26.5%
20172024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 21.1% -0.7pp
United States ref 21.6% -0.7pp
Novato, CA 20.5% 21st +1.8pp 1st 7% below peers
Minnetonka, MN 21.4% 17th +1.1pp 2nd 3% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD 25.6% 5th +1.0pp 3rd 17% above peers
Lincoln, CA 23.0% 12th +0.7pp 4th 5% above peers
Burleson, TX 28.8% 2nd +0.9pp 5th 31% above peers
Grand Island, NE 28.2% 3rd +0.2pp 6th 29% above peers
Placentia, CA 23.2% 11th -0.2pp 7th 6% above peers
Oak Park, IL 23.9% 10th -0.4pp 8th 9% above peers
Battle Creek, MI 24.9% 7th -0.6pp 9th 13% above peers
Elyria, OH 21.9% 16th -0.8pp 10th on par with peers
Edina, MN 22.4% 14th -1.1pp 11th 2% above peers
Wheaton, IL 22.0% 15th -1.2pp 12th on par with peers
Diamond Bar, CA 19.0% 24th -1.1pp 13th 13% below peers
Normal, IL 16.1% 26th -1.0pp 14th 26% below peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 15.6% 27th -1.1pp 15th 29% below peers
West New York, NJ 19.5% 23rd -1.4pp 16th 11% below peers
Joplin, MO 20.9% 19th -1.6pp 17th 5% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 43.4% 1st -3.4pp 18th 98% above peers
Mooresville, NC 24.3% 9th -1.9pp 19th 11% above peers
Wheaton, MD 22.5% 13th -2.1pp 20th 3% above peers
Pinellas Park, FL 17.1% 25th -1.8pp 21st 22% below peers
Palm Desert, CA 12.8% 31st -1.6pp 22nd 42% below peers
Huntington Park, CA 24.7% 8th -3.4pp 23rd 13% above peers
Paramount, CA 25.1% 6th -3.5pp 24th 14% above peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 15.2% 28th -2.1pp 25th 31% below peers
Wake Forest, NC 26.5% 4th -4.0pp 26th 21% above peers
Galveston, TX 14.8% 29th -2.4pp 27th 33% below peers
Cathedral City, CA 20.0% 22nd -3.2pp 28th 9% below peers
Aloha, OR 20.5% 20th -4.2pp 29th 6% below peers
Westchester, FL 13.4% 30th -2.7pp 30th 39% below peers
Methuen, MA 21.3% 18th 3% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: blue tracts rose, orange tracts fell. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
DemographicsChildren's share of the population
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Demographics

Children in single-parent families

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

Single-parent changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (21.9% then, 17.5% now; margin ±5.7pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 5 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: single-parent rose 1.3 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (16.1% to 17.5%).
17.5%
20102024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 31.3% -1.4pp
United States ref 29.9% -0.2pp
Diamond Bar, CA 20.8% 23rd +5.0pp 1st 17% below peers
Oak Park, IL 22.7% 20th +5.5pp 2nd 9% below peers
Edina, MN 15.1% 28th +3.5pp 3rd 40% below peers
Joplin, MO 40.9% 6th +9.4pp 4th 63% above peers
Novato, CA 23.8% 19th +5.2pp 5th 5% below peers
Palm Desert, CA 37.2% 8th +7.9pp 6th 48% above peers
Huntington Park, CA 51.4% 1st +7.2pp 7th 105% above peers
Westchester, FL 35.7% 10th +3.5pp 8th 42% above peers
Paramount, CA 36.1% 9th +2.9pp 9th 44% above peers
West New York, NJ 42.1% 5th +2.8pp 10th 68% above peers
Mooresville, NC 24.0% 18th +0.6pp 11th 4% below peers
Galveston, TX 42.9% 4th -0.8pp 12th 71% above peers
Wheaton, MD 31.2% 14th -1.1pp 13th 24% above peers
Aloha, OR 25.1% 16th -1.0pp 14th on par with peers
Battle Creek, MI 49.1% 3rd -2.3pp 15th 96% above peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 33.2% 12th -1.7pp 16th 33% above peers
Lincoln, CA 16.6% 26th -1.0pp 17th 34% below peers
Pinellas Park, FL 33.2% 13th -2.1pp 18th 32% above peers
Grand Island, NE 38.2% 7th -4.4pp 19th 52% above peers
Elyria, OH 49.9% 2nd -7.7pp 20th 99% above peers
Placentia, CA 18.5% 24th -3.2pp 21st 26% below peers
Wheaton, IL 10.1% 30th -1.8pp 22nd 60% below peers
Normal, IL 22.6% 21st -4.2pp 23rd 10% below peers
Wake Forest, NC 17.5% 25th -4.5pp 24th 30% below peers
Cathedral City, CA 26.3% 15th -7.3pp 25th 5% above peers
Minnetonka, MN 16.2% 27th -4.7pp 26th 36% below peers
Burleson, TX 22.5% 22nd -7.2pp 27th 10% below peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 14.3% 29th -4.8pp 28th 43% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD 24.4% 17th -9.0pp 29th 2% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 6.5% 31st -4.0pp 30th 74% below peers
Methuen, MA 33.9% 11th 35% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 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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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 (57.8% then, 68.0% now; margin ±13.7pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 9 of 29 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: working parents rose 2.0 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (66.0% to 68.0%).
68.0%
20102024
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
North Carolina ref 66.9% +1.0pp
United States ref 68.1% +1.9pp
Palm Desert, CA 66.5% 23rd +16.4pp 1st 8% below peers
Wheaton, IL 73.0% 14th +15.4pp 2nd 1% above peers
Diamond Bar, CA 72.6% 15th +15.1pp 3rd on par with peers
Aloha, OR 72.3% 16th +13.7pp 4th on par with peers
Joplin, MO 73.6% 13th +13.7pp 5th 2% above peers
Catalina Foothills, AZ 74.6% 10th +13.5pp 6th 3% above peers
Novato, CA 69.8% 18th +12.0pp 7th 3% below peers
Eagle Mountain, UT 49.8% 31st +8.6pp 8th 31% below peers
Aspen Hill, MD 82.2% 1st +13.4pp 9th 14% above peers
Wake Forest, NC 68.0% 21st +10.2pp 10th 6% below peers
Oak Park, IL 79.5% 4th +10.1pp 11th 10% above peers
Cathedral City, CA 64.8% 26th +7.6pp 12th 10% below peers
West New York, NJ 63.3% 27th +7.1pp 13th 12% below peers
Kendale Lakes, FL 82.0% 2nd +9.0pp 14th 13% above peers
Burleson, TX 72.2% 17th +6.5pp 15th on par with peers
Pinellas Park, FL 77.0% 6th +6.1pp 16th 7% above peers
Elyria, OH 67.5% 22nd +3.0pp 17th 7% below peers
Battle Creek, MI 74.2% 11th +3.0pp 18th 3% above peers
Normal, IL 76.8% 7th +3.0pp 19th 6% above peers
Huntington Park, CA 68.6% 20th +2.5pp 20th 5% below peers
Lincoln, CA 66.0% 24th +1.8pp 21st 9% below peers
Placentia, CA 69.4% 19th +1.8pp 22nd 4% below peers
Paramount, CA 60.9% 29th +1.5pp 23rd 16% below peers
Wheaton, MD 74.7% 9th +1.7pp 24th 3% above peers
Minnetonka, MN 78.9% 5th +1.7pp 25th 9% above peers
Mooresville, NC 65.6% 25th -0.5pp 26th 9% below peers
Westchester, FL 81.7% 3rd -1.1pp 27th 13% above peers
Grand Island, NE 75.0% 8th -3.0pp 28th 4% above peers
Edina, MN 63.1% 28th -10.5pp 29th 13% below peers
Galveston, TX 56.9% 30th -17.9pp 30th 21% below peers
Methuen, MA 73.8% 12th 2% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 7 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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5 of 7 tracts cover a shorter window (dashed outline; mostly 2020 boundary changes). Each tract's change uses the same two survey periods as the card above and is judged against the tract's own published margins; tracts marked * moved less than their margin. How the tract view works →
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B23008) through 2024 ±9.9pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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