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93,438 people (2024) 50k-100k West

Bright spots 10 indicators

Where Bellingham, WA shows a real improvement in recent years, or stands clearly ahead of its peers. How this is calculated →
Vehicle theft
Motor vehicle theft rate
66 /100k
May 2026
▼ 58%
relative change
156 a year earlier
Real, sustained progress Leading peers
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Violent crime
Violent crime rate
46 /100k
May 2026
▼ 37%
relative change
73 a year earlier
Ahead of peers and dropping Leading peers
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Household income
Median household income
$66,755
2020-24
▲ 25%
relative change
$53,396 in 2019
Real improvement Trailing peers
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No vehicle
Households without a vehicle
9.5%
2020-24
▼ 20%
relative change
11.8% in 2019
Real improvement Trailing peers
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Property crime
Property crime rate
2,356 /100k
May 2026
▼ 17%
relative change
2,851 a year earlier
Dropping fast, still behind peers Trailing peers
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College attainment
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher
48.5%
2020-24
▲ 9%
relative change
44.3% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Broadband
Households with a broadband internet subscription
93.9%
2020-24
▲ 6%
relative change
88.5% in 2019
Real improvement Leading peers
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Preschool enrollment
Children ages 3-4 enrolled in preschool
56.6%
2020-24
▲ 2%
relative change
55.5% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Uninsured
People without health insurance
5.3%
2020-24
▲ 4%
relative change
5.1% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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Disconnected youth
Teens not in school and not working
4.5%
2020-24
▲ 57%
relative change
2.9% in 2019
No measurable change Leading peers
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What needs attention 6 indicators

Where Bellingham, WA shows a real worsening in recent years, or trails its peers clearly. How this is calculated →
Child poverty
Share of children below the poverty level
18.8%
2020-24
▲ 57%
relative change
11.9% in 2019
Worsening Trailing peers
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Cost burden
Housing cost-burdened households
47.0%
2020-24
▲ 12%
relative change
42.1% in 2019
Worsening Trailing peers
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Unemployment
Unemployment rate
4.1%
May 2026
▲ 11%
relative change
3.7% a year earlier
Rising, the wrong way Trailing peers
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Homeownership
Homeownership rate
44.6%
2020-24
▼ 2%
relative change
45.4% in 2019
Turning down (early signal) Trailing peers
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Poverty
Share of people below the poverty level
17.8%
2020-24
▼ 10%
relative change
19.7% in 2019
No measurable change Trailing peers
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Inequality
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.48
2020-24
▲ 1%
relative change
0.47 in 2019
No measurable change Trailing peers
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Big shifts 2 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 →
Children
Children's share of the population
13.8%
2020-24
▼ 7%
relative change
14.9% in 2019
Falling Among the lowest of peers
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Population
93,438
2020-24
▲ 5%
relative change
88,764 in 2019
Rising Among the lowest of peers
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All indicators

Public Safety
Public Safety

Violent crime rate

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

Violent crime fell about 37% over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 94% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: violent crime fell about 21% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 100% of similar-size cities. The change does not yet pass the noise and consistency checks, so treat it as a raw signal.
Longer view: violent crime fell less than 1%% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 46 in May 2026, down from 73 a year earlier.
46 per 100k
2018May 2026
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▸ Compare all 18 similar-size cities by change rank
Each place's latest 12 months compares against its prior 12. significant improvement · significant worsening · within chance fluctuation for counts this size (Poisson test at 90%; these are administrative tallies, so the test covers event randomness, not survey error).
Place Latestper 100k Today's rank Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 456 (Apr 26) -9.3%
Roswell, GA 86 (May 26) 3rd -41.5% 1st 66% below peers
Bellingham, WA 46 (May 26) 1st -36.6% 2nd 82% below peers
Reading, PA 253 (May 26) 10th -14.9% 3rd on par with peers
Avondale, AZ 343 (May 26) 13th -14.6% 4th 36% above peers
Norwalk, CT 57 (Apr 26) 2nd -14.3% 5th 77% below peers
Livonia, MI 203 (May 26) 8th -9.6% 6th 20% below peers
Erie, PA 327 (May 26) 12th -8.5% 7th 29% above peers
Merced, CA 708 (May 26) 16th -5.9% 8th 180% above peers
Santa Monica, CA 646 (May 26) 15th -3.2% 9th 156% above peers
Greenville, NC 442 (May 26) 14th +0.9% 10th 75% above peers
Mission Viejo, CA 110 (May 26) 5th +1.8% 11th 57% below peers
Chino, CA 316 (May 26) 11th +3.1% 12th 25% above peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 147 (May 26) 6th +9.2% 13th 42% below peers
Fall River, MA 777 (Apr 26) 17th +9.7% 14th 207% above peers
Asheville, NC 793 (May 26) 18th +10.7% 15th 214% above peers
Sandy, UT 221 (May 26) 9th +17.3% 16th 13% below peers
O'Fallon, MO 97 (May 26) 4th +17.7% 17th 62% below peers
Nashua, NH 155 (Jan 25) 7th +25.4% 18th 39% below peers
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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 →
  • Ames, IA down about 18% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 11% a year · 2021-2026
  • Little Elm, TX down about 16% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 6% a year · 2021-2026
  • Cedar Park, TX down about 14% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 7% 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 17% over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 82% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: property crime fell about 9% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 88% of similar-size cities. The change does not yet pass the noise and consistency checks, so treat it as a raw signal.
Longer view: property crime fell about 2% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 2,356 in May 2026, down from 2,851 a year earlier.
2,356 per 100k
2018May 2026
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▸ Compare all 18 similar-size cities by change rank
Each place's latest 12 months compares against its prior 12. significant improvement · significant worsening · within chance fluctuation for counts this size (Poisson test at 90%; these are administrative tallies, so the test covers event randomness, not survey error).
Place Latestper 100k Today's rank Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 1,987 (Apr 26) -12.2%
Mission Viejo, CA 737 (May 26) 3rd -34.5% 1st 58% below peers
Roswell, GA 663 (May 26) 2nd -30.9% 2nd 62% below peers
Norwalk, CT 997 (Apr 26) 5th -25.8% 3rd 43% below peers
Bellingham, WA 2,356 (May 26) 14th -17.4% 4th 35% above peers
Livonia, MI 1,085 (May 26) 6th -16.8% 5th 38% below peers
Santa Monica, CA 3,848 (May 26) 17th -14.5% 6th 121% above peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 961 (May 26) 4th -10.1% 7th 45% below peers
Avondale, AZ 2,026 (May 26) 13th -9.9% 8th 16% above peers
Erie, PA 1,858 (May 26) 11th -7.0% 9th 7% above peers
Merced, CA 2,452 (May 26) 15th -6.1% 10th 41% above peers
Greenville, NC 2,481 (May 26) 16th -4.4% 11th 42% above peers
Chino, CA 1,988 (May 26) 12th -4.1% 12th 14% above peers
Sandy, UT 1,744 (May 26) 10th -1.6% 13th on par with peers
Reading, PA 1,313 (May 26) 8th +4.7% 14th 25% below peers
O'Fallon, MO 528 (May 26) 1st +8.1% 15th 70% below peers
Asheville, NC 4,447 (May 26) 18th +9.4% 16th 155% above peers
Fall River, MA 1,539 (Apr 26) 9th +11.3% 17th 12% below peers
Nashua, NH 1,267 (Jan 25) 7th +12.8% 18th 27% below peers
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Peers worth a call

3
Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started in the weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. 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 →
  • Corvallis, OR down about 23% over the 12 months ending April 2026 · sustained: down about 12% a year · 2021-2026
  • Brooklyn Park, MN down about 20% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 11% a year · 2021-2026
  • Eagan, MN down about 18% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 13% a year · 2022-2026
Real-Time Crime Index through 2026-04 administrative trend: robust fit about this metric
Public Safety

Homicide rate

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

Homicide fell about 34% over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 50% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: homicide was essentially flat from 2021 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 2 in May 2026, down from 3 a year earlier.
2 per 100k
2018May 2026
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▸ Compare all 18 similar-size cities by change rank
Each place's latest 12 months compares against its prior 12. significant improvement · significant worsening · within chance fluctuation for counts this size (Poisson test at 90%; these are administrative tallies, so the test covers event randomness, not survey error).
Place Latestper 100k Today's rank Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 6 (Apr 26) -17.8%
Mission Viejo, CA 0 (May 26) 1st -100.0% 1st 100% below peers
Nashua, NH 0 (Jan 25) 2nd -100.0% 2nd 100% below peers
Roswell, GA 1 (May 26) 7th -50.2% 3rd 48% below peers
Santa Monica, CA 4 (May 26) 12th -50.1% 4th 115% above peers
Asheville, NC 5 (May 26) 13th -50.0% 5th 155% above peers
Sandy, UT 1 (May 26) 9th -50.0% 6th 47% below peers
Chino, CA 1 (May 26) 6th -49.8% 7th 49% below peers
Bellingham, WA 2 (May 26) 10th -33.5% 8th on par with peers
Erie, PA 5 (May 26) 14th -16.6% 9th 163% above peers
Greenville, NC 7 (May 26) 16th -12.4% 10th 253% above peers
O'Fallon, MO 1 (May 26) 5th +0.0% 11th 50% below peers
Fall River, MA 3 (Apr 26) 11th +0.0% 12th 54% above peers
Reading, PA 11 (May 26) 17th +83.4% 13th 438% above peers
Avondale, AZ 6 (May 26) 15th +99.7% 14th 196% above peers
Merced, CA 12 (May 26) 18th +100.2% 15th 492% above peers
Livonia, MI 1 (May 26) 8th 48% below peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 1 (May 26) 4th 50% below peers
Norwalk, CT 0 (Apr 26) 3rd 100% below peers
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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 Verified improver
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Vehicle theft fell about 58% over the 12 months ending May 2026, faster than 100% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: vehicle theft fell about 28% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 100% of similar-size cities. It started among the weakest third of similar-size cities, so some rebound is expected; still, the improvement is sustained and worth investigating.
Longer view: vehicle theft fell about 4% a year from 2018 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: 66 in May 2026, down from 156 a year earlier.
66 per 100k
2018May 2026
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▸ Compare all 18 similar-size cities by change rank
Each place's latest 12 months compares against its prior 12. significant improvement · significant worsening · within chance fluctuation for counts this size (Poisson test at 90%; these are administrative tallies, so the test covers event randomness, not survey error).
Place Latestper 100k Today's rank Changelast 12 months Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
U.S. (RTCI sample) ref 303 (Apr 26) -22.2%
Bellingham, WA 66 (May 26) 3rd -57.6% 1st 43% below peers
Chino, CA 125 (May 26) 11th -39.5% 2nd 8% above peers
Livonia, MI 93 (May 26) 8th -38.6% 3rd 20% below peers
Merced, CA 274 (May 26) 16th -31.8% 4th 137% above peers
Santa Monica, CA 375 (May 26) 18th -29.3% 5th 224% above peers
Avondale, AZ 190 (May 26) 14th -27.8% 6th 64% above peers
Erie, PA 80 (May 26) 5th -27.5% 7th 31% below peers
Sandy, UT 102 (May 26) 9th -26.0% 8th 11% below peers
Fall River, MA 126 (Apr 26) 12th -21.7% 9th 9% above peers
Roswell, GA 49 (May 26) 2nd -21.1% 10th 58% below peers
Norwalk, CT 116 (Apr 26) 10th -18.7% 11th on par with peers
Mission Viejo, CA 90 (May 26) 7th -15.6% 12th 22% below peers
Greenville, NC 159 (May 26) 13th -5.0% 13th 38% above peers
Asheville, NC 336 (May 26) 17th +6.0% 14th 191% above peers
Reading, PA 195 (May 26) 15th +12.1% 15th 69% above peers
O'Fallon, MO 43 (May 26) 1st +20.6% 16th 63% below peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 70 (May 26) 4th +21.4% 17th 39% below peers
Nashua, NH 86 (Jan 25) 6th +36.2% 18th 26% below peers
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Peers worth a call

3
Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started in the weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. 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 →
  • Elkhart, IN down about 55% over the 12 months ending April 2026 · sustained: down about 15% a year · 2021-2026
  • Broomfield, CO down about 39% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 15% a year · 2021-2026
  • Wyoming, MI down about 27% over the 12 months ending May 2026 · sustained: down about 15% 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 25% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from $53,396 to $66,755 (each survey's own dollars, not adjusted for inflation) - more than the combined survey margin (±$4,275). 30 of the 30 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. It started mid-pack and has reached a genuinely better level; worth investigating.

Improving beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 30 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: household income rose about 57% from 2014 to 2024 ($42,440 to $66,755).
$66,755
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
Washington ref $98,141 +33%
United States ref $80,734 +28%
Arden-Arcade, CA $77,321 19th +53% 1st 20% below peers
Compton, CA $78,465 18th +48% 2nd 19% below peers
Hemet, CA $57,719 27th +45% 3rd 40% below peers
Indio, CA $77,167 20th +44% 4th 20% below peers
South Gate, CA $74,571 21st +43% 5th 23% below peers
Asheville, NC $71,102 22nd +42% 6th 26% below peers
Merced, CA $63,122 26th +40% 7th 34% below peers
Avondale, AZ $86,123 17th +39% 8th 11% below peers
San Marcos, CA $109,377 8th +39% 9th 14% above peers
Fort Myers, FL $63,732 25th +37% 10th 34% below peers
Reading, PA $44,091 31st +37% 11th 54% below peers
Alafaya, FL $100,950 13th +34% 12th 5% above peers
Carson, CA $108,703 10th +32% 13th 13% above peers
Fall River, MA $56,673 28th +30% 14th 41% below peers
Redding, CA $70,466 23rd +30% 15th 27% below peers
Roswell, GA $128,654 3rd +29% 16th 34% above peers
Nashua, NH $96,326 16th +28% 17th on par with peers
Kirkland, WA $150,414 1st +28% 18th 56% above peers
Chino, CA $104,682 12th +28% 19th 9% above peers
Norwalk, CT $107,616 11th +25% 20th 12% above peers
Toms River, NJ $100,137 14th +25% 21st 4% above peers
Bellingham, WA $66,755 24th +25% 22nd 31% below peers
Livonia, MI $98,460 15th +23% 23rd 2% above peers
O'Fallon, MO $110,443 7th +23% 24th 15% above peers
Hoover, AL $109,253 9th +22% 25th 13% above peers
Greenville, NC $49,748 29th +22% 26th 48% below peers
Erie, PA $46,113 30th +22% 27th 52% below peers
Mount Pleasant, SC $124,755 4th +21% 28th 30% above peers
Sandy, UT $112,176 6th +19% 29th 16% above peers
Santa Monica, CA $114,885 5th +19% 30th 19% above peers
Mission Viejo, CA $136,123 2nd +15% 31st 41% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 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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12 of 19 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

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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 →
  • Bozeman, MT up about 54% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Malden, MA up about 52% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Plainfield, NJ up about 52% between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±$3,771 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 0.1 percentage points a year from 2022 to 2025. That is movement in the wrong direction.

Worsening slower than 74% 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: 4.1% in May 2026, up from 3.7% a year earlier.
4.1%
1990May 2026
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Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Washington ref 5.2% (May 26) +0.7pp
United States ref 4.2% (Jun 26) +0.1pp
Asheville, NC 3.4% (May 26) 7th -1.6pp 1st 21% below peers
Merced, CA 6.8% (May 26) 28th -0.9pp 2nd 58% above peers
Indio, CA 4.5% (May 26) 16th -0.5pp 3rd 5% above peers
O'Fallon, MO 2.8% (May 26) 2nd -0.4pp 4th 35% below peers
South Gate, CA 4.6% (May 26) 18th -0.4pp 5th 7% above peers
Hemet, CA 6.3% (May 26) 26th -0.4pp 6th 47% above peers
Redding, CA 4.2% (May 26) 13th -0.3pp 7th 2% below peers
Fall River, MA 5.4% (May 26) 22nd -0.3pp 8th 26% above peers
Nashua, NH 3.2% (May 26) 5th -0.3pp 9th 26% below peers
Mission Viejo, CA 3.6% (May 26) 9th -0.2pp 10th 16% below peers
Compton, CA 5.9% (May 26) 25th -0.2pp 11th 37% above peers
Santa Monica, CA 5.4% (May 26) 23rd -0.2pp 12th 26% above peers
Sandy, UT 3.4% (May 26) 8th -0.1pp 13th 21% below peers
San Marcos, CA 3.6% (May 26) 10th -0.1pp 14th 16% below peers
Chino, CA 4.0% (May 26) 11th -0.1pp 15th 7% below peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 2.8% (May 26) 3rd +0.0pp 16th 35% below peers
Greenville, NC 4.3% (May 26) 14th +0.0pp 17th on par with peers
Roswell, GA 2.9% (May 26) 4th +0.1pp 18th 33% below peers
Carson, CA 5.5% (May 26) 24th +0.2pp 19th 28% above peers
Livonia, MI 3.3% (May 26) 6th +0.3pp 20th 23% below peers
Avondale, AZ 4.3% (May 26) 15th +0.3pp 21st on par with peers
Bellingham, WA 4.1% (May 26) 12th +0.4pp 22nd 5% below peers
Erie, PA 4.6% (May 26) 19th +0.6pp 23rd 7% above peers
Hoover, AL 2.6% (May 26) 1st +0.7pp 24th 40% below peers
Kirkland, WA 4.6% (May 26) 20th +0.8pp 25th 7% above peers
Norwalk, CT 4.5% (May 26) 17th +1.0pp 26th 5% above peers
Fort Myers, FL 5.0% (May 26) 21st +1.2pp 27th 16% above peers
Reading, PA 6.3% (May 26) 27th +1.3pp 28th 47% 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 (19.7% then, 17.8% now; margin ±2.2pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 12 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: poverty fell 4.1 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (21.9% to 17.8%).
17.8%
20112024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Washington ref 9.6% -0.7pp
United States ref 12.0%
Indio, CA 11.4% 18th -5.0pp 1st 6% above peers
Hemet, CA 14.8% 22nd -6.2pp 2nd 37% above peers
South Gate, CA 12.7% 19th -4.4pp 3rd 18% above peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 16.8% 24th -5.0pp 4th 56% above peers
Toms River, NJ 5.8% 6th -1.7pp 5th 47% below peers
San Marcos, CA 9.0% 13th -2.2pp 6th 16% below peers
Redding, CA 13.8% 21st -3.3pp 7th 28% above peers
Merced, CA 23.6% 30th -5.3pp 8th 119% above peers
Avondale, AZ 10.8% 16th -2.4pp 9th on par with peers
Greenville, NC 23.2% 29th -5.0pp 10th 115% above peers
Hoover, AL 5.0% 2nd -1.1pp 11th 53% below peers
Nashua, NH 7.7% 11th -1.4pp 12th 28% below peers
Livonia, MI 4.7% 1st -0.8pp 13th 57% below peers
Compton, CA 17.8% 26th -2.6pp 14th 66% above peers
Reading, PA 27.8% 31st -3.9pp 15th 158% above peers
Erie, PA 21.9% 28th -3.0pp 16th 103% above peers
Alafaya, FL 9.3% 15th -1.2pp 17th 14% below peers
Chino, CA 7.7% 10th -1.0pp 18th 28% below peers
Bellingham, WA 17.8% 25th -2.0pp 19th 65% above peers
Norwalk, CT 9.1% 14th -1.0pp 20th 16% below peers
Fort Myers, FL 15.8% 23rd -0.4pp 21st 47% above peers
Roswell, GA 7.5% 9th -0.1pp 22nd 31% below peers
Carson, CA 8.6% 12th -0.1pp 23rd 20% below peers
Kirkland, WA 6.0% 7th -0.0pp 24th 44% below peers
Fall River, MA 19.3% 27th -0.1pp 25th 79% above peers
Asheville, NC 13.8% 20th +0.4pp 26th 28% above peers
Mission Viejo, CA 5.6% 5th +0.3pp 27th 48% below peers
Sandy, UT 5.4% 4th +0.3pp 28th 49% below peers
Santa Monica, CA 11.1% 17th +1.2pp 29th 3% above peers
O'Fallon, MO 5.3% 3rd +0.9pp 30th 50% below peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 6.1% 8th +1.5pp 31st 44% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 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 weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Sanford, FL down 7.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Florin, CA down 9.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Porterville, CA down 10.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.7pp 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 Worsening
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Child poverty rose 6.9 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 11.9% to 18.8% - more than the combined survey margin (±5.0pp). That reverses the previous span, which went down between the 2010-2014 and 2015-2019 surveys. None of the 30 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. That is movement in the wrong direction.

Worsening beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 17 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: child poverty fell 1.7 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (20.5% to 18.8%).
18.8%
20132024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Washington ref 11.6% -1.9pp
United States ref 16.1%
Toms River, NJ 3.6% 2nd -4.6pp 1st 72% below peers
Livonia, MI 3.2% 1st -3.4pp 2nd 75% below peers
South Gate, CA 14.6% 17th -9.6pp 3rd 15% above peers
Chino, CA 8.8% 14th -5.3pp 4th 31% below peers
Hemet, CA 17.7% 22nd -10.7pp 5th 39% above peers
Carson, CA 8.3% 12th -4.7pp 6th 35% below peers
San Marcos, CA 7.6% 10th -4.1pp 7th 40% below peers
Hoover, AL 5.2% 3rd -2.8pp 8th 59% below peers
Greenville, NC 21.8% 24th -10.8pp 9th 71% above peers
Roswell, GA 7.4% 9th -3.7pp 10th 42% below peers
Redding, CA 15.4% 19th -7.5pp 11th 21% above peers
Indio, CA 17.6% 21st -6.4pp 12th 38% above peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 25.5% 25th -7.1pp 13th 101% above peers
Nashua, NH 9.7% 15th -2.3pp 14th 24% below peers
Avondale, AZ 15.1% 18th -3.4pp 15th 19% above peers
Alafaya, FL 8.5% 13th -1.8pp 16th 33% below peers
Asheville, NC 16.2% 20th -3.1pp 17th 28% above peers
Fall River, MA 26.6% 28th -4.8pp 18th 109% above peers
Merced, CA 33.4% 29th -5.5pp 19th 163% above peers
Reading, PA 39.0% 31st -6.2pp 20th 207% above peers
Sandy, UT 5.7% 7th -0.6pp 21st 55% below peers
Compton, CA 25.9% 27th -2.6pp 22nd 104% above peers
Fort Myers, FL 25.7% 26th -2.3pp 23rd 102% above peers
Erie, PA 34.8% 30th -3.1pp 24th 174% above peers
Norwalk, CT 12.7% 16th -1.1pp 25th on par with peers
Mission Viejo, CA 5.5% 6th -0.3pp 26th 56% below peers
Kirkland, WA 5.3% 4th +0.2pp 27th 58% below peers
O'Fallon, MO 6.2% 8th +0.5pp 28th 51% below peers
Santa Monica, CA 7.7% 11th +2.4pp 29th 39% below peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 5.4% 5th +1.9pp 30th 58% below peers
Bellingham, WA 18.8% 23rd +6.9pp 31st 48% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Somerville, MA down 13.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Southfield, MI down 8.2pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Brentwood, NY down 9.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2017-2022
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±3.9pp 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 5.4 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 88.5% to 93.9% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.7pp). 27 of the 30 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. It started mid-pack and has reached a genuinely better level; worth investigating.

Improving beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 28 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: broadband rose 8.4 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (85.5% to 93.9%).
93.9%
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
Washington ref 93.7% +5.0pp
United States ref 91.1%
Fall River, MA 86.5% 29th +16.1pp 1st 8% below peers
Compton, CA 86.3% 30th +14.0pp 2nd 8% below peers
Reading, PA 86.6% 28th +12.3pp 3rd 8% below peers
Hemet, CA 88.9% 26th +11.8pp 4th 5% below peers
Erie, PA 88.3% 27th +10.7pp 5th 6% below peers
Redding, CA 94.0% 13th +11.0pp 6th on par with peers
Indio, CA 93.2% 18th +10.4pp 7th on par with peers
Fort Myers, FL 90.0% 24th +9.1pp 8th 4% below peers
Greenville, NC 89.7% 25th +8.9pp 9th 4% below peers
South Gate, CA 90.9% 22nd +7.0pp 10th 3% below peers
Asheville, NC 90.6% 23rd +6.6pp 11th 3% below peers
Carson, CA 95.1% 8th +6.8pp 12th 2% above peers
Merced, CA 94.3% 11th +6.6pp 13th 1% above peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 93.8% 15th +6.2pp 14th on par with peers
Chino, CA 95.9% 6th +6.0pp 15th 2% above peers
Avondale, AZ 92.5% 20th +5.6pp 16th 1% below peers
Bellingham, WA 93.9% 14th +5.4pp 17th on par with peers
Livonia, MI 94.6% 10th +5.4pp 18th 1% above peers
Toms River, NJ 91.7% 21st +4.4pp 19th 2% below peers
San Marcos, CA 96.0% 5th +4.0pp 20th 3% above peers
Nashua, NH 93.4% 17th +3.8pp 21st on par with peers
Roswell, GA 96.6% 2nd +3.9pp 22nd 3% above peers
Sandy, UT 93.6% 16th +3.7pp 23rd on par with peers
O'Fallon, MO 95.0% 9th +3.4pp 24th 1% above peers
Santa Monica, CA 94.2% 12th +3.0pp 25th 1% above peers
Hoover, AL 96.4% 3rd +3.0pp 26th 3% above peers
Norwalk, CT 93.0% 19th +2.6pp 27th 1% below peers
Mission Viejo, CA 97.1% 1st +2.5pp 28th 4% above peers
Kirkland, WA 96.4% 4th +2.3pp 29th 3% above peers
Alafaya, FL 95.2% 7th +1.6pp 30th 2% above peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 84.1% 31st -8.8pp 31st 10% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EconomyHouseholds with a broadband internet subscription
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Olympia, WA up 11.9pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 85% of this group · 2019-2024
  • The Hammocks, FL up 11.7pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 82% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Redding, CA up 11.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 81% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±0.6pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Income inequality (Gini index)

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

Inequality changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (0.47 then, 0.48 now; margin ±0.02).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 8 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: inequality rose about 2% from 2014 to 2024 (0.47 to 0.48).
0.48
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
Washington ref 0.47 +0.012
United States ref 0.48 +0.001
Indio, CA 0.43 11th -0.036 1st 5% below peers
Avondale, AZ 0.38 1st -0.023 2nd 17% below peers
Alafaya, FL 0.38 3rd -0.014 3rd 15% below peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 0.51 29th -0.017 4th 12% above peers
San Marcos, CA 0.44 14th -0.011 5th 3% below peers
O'Fallon, MO 0.38 2nd -0.009 6th 16% below peers
Roswell, GA 0.45 16th -0.009 7th on par with peers
Merced, CA 0.47 20th -0.008 8th 3% above peers
Santa Monica, CA 0.54 31st -0.007 9th 20% above peers
Toms River, NJ 0.43 12th -0.005 10th 4% below peers
Norwalk, CT 0.49 27th -0.006 11th 9% above peers
Redding, CA 0.46 17th -0.003 12th 1% above peers
Fall River, MA 0.46 18th -0.003 13th 1% above peers
Fort Myers, FL 0.51 28th -0.001 14th 12% above peers
Nashua, NH 0.44 13th -0.001 15th 4% below peers
Livonia, MI 0.39 4th +0.000 16th 14% below peers
Greenville, NC 0.52 30th +0.001 17th 15% above peers
Erie, PA 0.46 19th +0.003 18th 2% above peers
Mission Viejo, CA 0.41 6th +0.003 19th 10% below peers
Hoover, AL 0.45 15th +0.005 20th 2% below peers
Compton, CA 0.41 7th +0.004 21st 9% below peers
Chino, CA 0.40 5th +0.005 22nd 12% below peers
Bellingham, WA 0.48 23rd +0.005 23rd 5% above peers
Reading, PA 0.47 21st +0.013 24th 4% above peers
South Gate, CA 0.42 8th +0.018 25th 7% below peers
Asheville, NC 0.49 25th +0.026 26th 9% above peers
Hemet, CA 0.47 22nd +0.027 27th 4% above peers
Sandy, UT 0.43 10th +0.028 28th 6% below peers
Carson, CA 0.43 9th +0.031 29th 6% below peers
Kirkland, WA 0.49 26th +0.043 30th 9% above peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 0.49 24th +0.045 31st 7% above peers
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B19083) through 2024 ±0.01 at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Economy

Households receiving SNAP

▼ Lower is better 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 (14.1% then, 12.2% now; margin ±2.1pp).

Within the survey margin, 2014-2018 vs 2019-2023 surveys; 17 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: snap fell 4.2 percentage points from 2013 to 2023 (16.5% to 12.2%).
12.2%
20102023
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2019-2023 survey Today's rank Change2014-2018 → 2019-2023 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Washington ref 11.4% -1.2pp
United States ref 11.8% -0.5pp
Roswell, GA 3.2% 3rd -2.8pp 1st 73% below peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 1.2% 1st -1.0pp 2nd 90% below peers
Nashua, NH 7.2% 12th -2.6pp 3rd 39% below peers
Sandy, UT 2.9% 2nd -0.8pp 4th 76% below peers
Fort Myers, FL 12.8% 21st -3.4pp 5th 8% above peers
Avondale, AZ 12.0% 17th -2.6pp 6th 1% above peers
Bellingham, WA 12.2% 18th -1.8pp 7th 3% above peers
Reading, PA 38.5% 31st -5.4pp 8th 226% above peers
Alafaya, FL 8.6% 14th -0.8pp 9th 28% below peers
Chino, CA 7.7% 13th -0.4pp 10th 35% below peers
Toms River, NJ 5.4% 9th -0.1pp 11th 55% below peers
Kirkland, WA 3.6% 4th -0.1pp 12th 69% below peers
Greenville, NC 14.8% 22nd +0.1pp 13th 25% above peers
Erie, PA 30.2% 29th +1.0pp 14th 156% above peers
Hoover, AL 4.1% 5th +0.2pp 15th 65% below peers
Livonia, MI 4.8% 7th +0.4pp 16th 59% below peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 17.5% 24th +1.8pp 17th 48% above peers
Hemet, CA 19.9% 25th +2.5pp 18th 68% above peers
Asheville, NC 11.8% 16th +1.5pp 19th on par with peers
Fall River, MA 31.6% 30th +4.0pp 20th 167% above peers
Redding, CA 12.7% 20th +1.8pp 21st 8% above peers
O'Fallon, MO 4.5% 6th +0.6pp 22nd 62% below peers
Merced, CA 30.0% 28th +4.9pp 23rd 153% above peers
South Gate, CA 20.3% 26th +3.6pp 24th 71% above peers
San Marcos, CA 7.1% 11th +1.4pp 25th 40% below peers
Norwalk, CT 10.2% 15th +2.3pp 26th 14% below peers
Compton, CA 25.0% 27th +5.7pp 27th 111% above peers
Carson, CA 12.7% 19th +5.1pp 28th 7% above peers
Santa Monica, CA 6.0% 10th +3.2pp 29th 49% below peers
Indio, CA 17.3% 23rd +9.4pp 30th 46% above peers
Mission Viejo, CA 4.9% 8th +3.2pp 31st 59% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 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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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started mid-pack, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • 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 ±1.6pp at 90% confidence (2023 estimate) survey trend: 2014-2018 vs 2019-2023 surveys about this metric
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Housing

Typical home value

No better direction Rising
Compared against How peers are chosen →

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

Multi-year view: home value rose about 3% a year from 2021 to 2026, slower than 63% of similar-size cities.
Longer view: home value rose about 11% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: $674,798 in June 2026, down from $677,073 a year earlier.
$674,798
2001June 2026
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▸ Compare all 28 similar-size cities by change rank
Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Washington ref $603,303 (Jun 26) -0.6%
United States ref $372,995 (Jun 26) +0.8%
Erie, PA $209,960 (Jun 26) 28th +5.9% 1st 59% below peers
Norwalk, CT $679,881 (Jun 26) 9th +5.0% 2nd 31% above peers
Toms River, NJ $470,769 (Jun 26) 16th +3.7% 3rd 9% below peers
Nashua, NH $517,357 (Jun 26) 14th +3.3% 4th on par with peers
Reading, PA $268,714 (Jun 26) 26th +3.2% 5th 48% below peers
Hoover, AL $445,051 (Jun 26) 20th +2.9% 6th 14% below peers
Livonia, MI $323,035 (Jun 26) 24th +2.8% 7th 38% below peers
Compton, CA $640,999 (Jun 26) 13th +2.6% 8th 24% above peers
South Gate, CA $701,329 (Jun 26) 8th +2.4% 9th 36% above peers
Fall River, MA $459,250 (Jun 26) 18th +2.3% 10th 11% below peers
Sandy, UT $670,855 (Jun 26) 11th +1.8% 11th 30% above peers
Greenville, NC $238,644 (Jun 26) 27th +1.3% 12th 54% below peers
Carson, CA $798,573 (Jun 26) 6th +1.1% 13th 54% above peers
Roswell, GA $666,641 (Jun 26) 12th +0.9% 14th 29% above peers
Santa Monica, CA $1,698,037 (Jun 26) 1st +0.8% 15th 228% above peers
Mission Viejo, CA $1,224,499 (Jun 26) 3rd +0.8% 16th 137% above peers
Mount Pleasant, SC $887,149 (Jun 26) 5th +0.4% 17th 71% above peers
Hemet, CA $445,921 (Jun 26) 19th -0.1% 18th 14% below peers
Bellingham, WA $674,798 (Jun 26) 10th -0.3% 19th 30% above peers
Chino, CA $758,989 (Jun 26) 7th -0.7% 20th 47% above peers
Redding, CA $394,739 (Jun 26) 23rd -1.0% 21st 24% below peers
San Marcos, CA $957,606 (Jun 26) 4th -1.1% 22nd 85% above peers
Merced, CA $397,690 (Jun 26) 22nd -1.5% 23rd 23% below peers
Indio, CA $513,884 (Jun 26) 15th -1.5% 24th 1% below peers
Avondale, AZ $398,215 (Jun 26) 21st -1.8% 25th 23% below peers
Asheville, NC $464,131 (Jun 26) 17th -5.2% 26th 10% below peers
Kirkland, WA $1,227,283 (Jun 26) 2nd -5.3% 27th 137% above peers
Fort Myers, FL $309,562 (Jun 26) 25th -7.3% 28th 40% 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 Rising recently
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Starter homes rose about 1% over the 12 months ending June 2026, faster than 56% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: starter homes rose about 2% a year from 2021 to 2026, slower than 78% of similar-size cities.
Longer view: starter homes rose about 13% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: $486,485 in June 2026, up from $483,818 a year earlier.
$486,485
2001June 2026
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Place Latest Today's rank Changelast 12 months Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Washington ref $396,406 (Jun 26) -0.1%
United States ref $202,486 (Jun 26) +2.0%
Erie, PA $129,940 (Jun 26) 28th +6.8% 1st 67% below peers
Reading, PA $176,564 (Jun 26) 26th +5.5% 2nd 55% below peers
Norwalk, CT $439,024 (Jun 26) 13th +4.8% 3rd 11% above peers
Compton, CA $570,408 (Jun 26) 8th +3.9% 4th 45% above peers
Nashua, NH $387,942 (Jun 26) 15th +3.5% 5th 2% below peers
Hoover, AL $316,421 (Jun 26) 22nd +3.4% 6th 20% below peers
Fall River, MA $370,359 (Jun 26) 16th +3.4% 7th 6% below peers
Livonia, MI $248,896 (Jun 26) 24th +3.4% 8th 37% below peers
South Gate, CA $637,011 (Jun 26) 6th +3.0% 9th 62% above peers
Toms River, NJ $329,204 (Jun 26) 19th +2.2% 10th 16% below peers
Sandy, UT $511,817 (Jun 26) 10th +1.3% 11th 30% above peers
Greenville, NC $157,988 (Jun 26) 27th +0.9% 12th 60% below peers
Bellingham, WA $486,485 (Jun 26) 11th +0.6% 13th 23% above peers
Roswell, GA $477,657 (Jun 26) 12th +0.5% 14th 21% above peers
Carson, CA $668,515 (Jun 26) 5th +0.4% 15th 70% above peers
Mission Viejo, CA $879,254 (Jun 26) 2nd +0.2% 16th 123% above peers
Indio, CA $394,123 (Jun 26) 14th +0.0% 17th on par with peers
Mount Pleasant, SC $557,254 (Jun 26) 9th -0.1% 18th 41% above peers
Chino, CA $619,935 (Jun 26) 7th -0.4% 19th 57% above peers
Merced, CA $324,862 (Jun 26) 21st -0.6% 20th 18% below peers
Redding, CA $304,862 (Jun 26) 23rd -0.8% 21st 23% below peers
Hemet, CA $345,970 (Jun 26) 18th -0.9% 22nd 12% below peers
San Marcos, CA $706,614 (Jun 26) 3rd -1.1% 23rd 79% above peers
Santa Monica, CA $956,112 (Jun 26) 1st -1.2% 24th 143% above peers
Avondale, AZ $347,883 (Jun 26) 17th -1.8% 25th 12% below peers
Asheville, NC $325,051 (Jun 26) 20th -4.7% 26th 18% below peers
Kirkland, WA $698,475 (Jun 26) 4th -5.2% 27th 77% above peers
Fort Myers, FL $191,148 (Jun 26) 25th -9.5% 28th 52% below peers
Zillow Home Value Index through 2026-06 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
Housing

Homeownership rate

▲ Higher is better Turning down (early signal)
Compared against How peers are chosen →

Homeownership changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (45.4% then, 44.6% now; margin ±2.1pp). The newest releases lean downward: each of the last 4 annual updates moved the 5-year average the same way - an early signal, not a measured change.*

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 11 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: homeownership fell 1.1 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (45.7% to 44.6%).
44.6%
20112024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Washington ref 63.8% +0.8pp
United States ref 65.2%
Avondale, AZ 61.6% 15th +6.6pp 1st 1% above peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 46.1% 24th +4.7pp 2nd 24% below peers
Merced, CA 45.9% 25th +4.6pp 3rd 25% below peers
Asheville, NC 51.9% 22nd +3.7pp 4th 15% below peers
Hemet, CA 62.3% 14th +3.8pp 5th 3% above peers
Erie, PA 54.1% 21st +3.3pp 6th 11% below peers
South Gate, CA 45.3% 26th +2.5pp 7th 25% below peers
Roswell, GA 71.9% 8th +3.6pp 8th 18% above peers
Compton, CA 56.4% 17th +2.6pp 9th 7% below peers
Toms River, NJ 81.8% 2nd +2.5pp 10th 35% above peers
Reading, PA 40.6% 28th +1.2pp 11th 33% below peers
Alafaya, FL 64.4% 11th +1.7pp 12th 6% above peers
Hoover, AL 71.1% 9th +1.7pp 13th 17% above peers
San Marcos, CA 63.7% 13th +1.4pp 14th 5% above peers
Nashua, NH 55.8% 18th +1.0pp 15th 8% below peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 73.6% 7th +1.2pp 16th 21% above peers
Chino, CA 64.0% 12th +0.9pp 17th 5% above peers
Livonia, MI 87.2% 1st +1.1pp 18th 43% above peers
Carson, CA 74.0% 6th +0.9pp 19th 22% above peers
Redding, CA 54.8% 20th +0.6pp 20th 10% below peers
Mission Viejo, CA 76.9% 4th -0.0pp 21st 26% above peers
Fort Myers, FL 49.1% 23rd -0.5pp 22nd 19% below peers
O'Fallon, MO 81.0% 3rd -1.1pp 23rd 33% above peers
Greenville, NC 32.7% 30th -0.5pp 24th 46% below peers
Bellingham, WA 44.6% 27th -0.8pp 25th 27% below peers
Fall River, MA 35.3% 29th -1.0pp 26th 42% below peers
Santa Monica, CA 27.9% 31st -1.1pp 27th 54% below peers
Kirkland, WA 60.8% 16th -2.6pp 28th on par with peers
Norwalk, CT 55.6% 19th -2.4pp 29th 9% below peers
Sandy, UT 75.2% 5th -3.4pp 30th 24% above peers
Indio, CA 67.1% 10th -3.5pp 31st 10% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
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▸ Break down by group Race · ACS 2024
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Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±1.5pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys *Early signal: consecutive releases agree on direction only; the size of the newest movement is not measurable from overlapping surveys. about this metric
Housing

Typical asking rent

No better direction Rising recently, slower than peers
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Rent rose about 1% over the 12 months ending June 2026, slower than 67% of similar-size cities.

Multi-year view: rent rose about 5% a year from 2021 to 2026, faster than 64% of similar-size cities.
Longer view: rent rose about 9% a year from 2016 to 2026.
Most recent monthly reading: $1,976 in June 2026, up from $1,953 a year earlier.
$1,976
2015June 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%
South Gate, CA $2,002 (Jun 26) 13th +9.0% 1st 1% above peers
Mission Viejo, CA $3,074 (Jun 26) 4th +7.7% 2nd 56% above peers
Indio, CA $2,616 (Jun 26) 9th +7.2% 3rd 32% above peers
Greenville, NC $1,346 (Jun 26) 27th +4.5% 4th 32% below peers
Reading, PA $1,395 (Jun 26) 25th +4.4% 5th 29% below peers
Fall River, MA $1,811 (Jun 26) 17th +3.3% 6th 8% below peers
Erie, PA $1,036 (Jun 26) 28th +3.3% 7th 48% below peers
Livonia, MI $1,662 (Jun 26) 23rd +3.2% 8th 16% below peers
Redding, CA $1,642 (Jun 26) 24th +2.9% 9th 17% below peers
Nashua, NH $2,216 (Jun 26) 12th +2.7% 10th 12% above peers
Chino, CA $3,388 (Jun 26) 2nd +2.7% 11th 71% above peers
Toms River, NJ $2,797 (Jun 26) 6th +2.4% 12th 42% above peers
Merced, CA $1,964 (Jun 26) 15th +2.3% 13th 1% below peers
Kirkland, WA $2,626 (Jun 26) 8th +2.2% 14th 33% above peers
Norwalk, CT $2,718 (Jun 26) 7th +2.0% 15th 38% above peers
San Marcos, CA $3,258 (Jun 26) 3rd +1.9% 16th 65% above peers
Mount Pleasant, SC $2,425 (Jun 26) 11th +1.6% 17th 23% above peers
Santa Monica, CA $3,517 (Jun 26) 1st +1.5% 18th 78% above peers
Bellingham, WA $1,976 (Jun 26) 14th +1.2% 19th on par with peers
Hoover, AL $1,378 (Jun 26) 26th +1.0% 20th 30% below peers
Asheville, NC $1,688 (Jun 26) 21st +0.5% 21st 15% below peers
Roswell, GA $1,730 (Jun 26) 20th +0.3% 22nd 12% below peers
Hemet, CA $1,939 (Jun 26) 16th +0.2% 23rd 2% below peers
Carson, CA $2,953 (Jun 26) 5th -0.1% 24th 49% above peers
Avondale, AZ $1,809 (Jun 26) 18th -0.6% 25th 8% below peers
Sandy, UT $1,681 (Jun 26) 22nd -0.9% 26th 15% below peers
Fort Myers, FL $1,779 (Jun 26) 19th -1.6% 27th 10% below peers
Compton, CA $2,500 (Jun 26) 10th -3.8% 28th 27% above peers
Zillow Observed Rent Index through 2026-06 modeled trend: robust fit about this metric
Housing

Housing cost-burdened households

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

Cost burden rose 4.9 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 42.1% to 47.0% - more than the combined survey margin (±3.7pp). 3 of the 30 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. That is movement in the wrong direction.

Worsening beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 6 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: cost burden rose 1.7 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (45.2% to 47.0%).
47.0%
20102024
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▸ Compare all 31 similar-size cities by change rank
Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Washington ref 33.3% +0.9pp
United States ref 32.2% +0.4pp
Toms River, NJ 30.6% 6th -6.2pp 1st 23% below peers
South Gate, CA 45.1% 27th -5.8pp 2nd 14% above peers
Compton, CA 48.1% 31st -4.4pp 3rd 21% above peers
Asheville, NC 36.1% 13th -3.0pp 4th 9% below peers
Indio, CA 41.4% 18th -3.4pp 5th 4% above peers
Greenville, NC 40.8% 17th -2.9pp 6th 3% above peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 44.8% 25th -1.7pp 7th 13% above peers
Merced, CA 43.4% 22nd -0.6pp 8th 10% above peers
Hemet, CA 46.6% 29th -0.5pp 9th 18% above peers
Carson, CA 34.5% 11th -0.4pp 10th 13% below peers
Roswell, GA 26.8% 5th -0.3pp 11th 32% below peers
Norwalk, CT 41.7% 19th -0.4pp 12th 5% above peers
Nashua, NH 33.8% 10th -0.3pp 13th 15% below peers
Redding, CA 39.6% 16th -0.2pp 14th on par with peers
Hoover, AL 24.2% 3rd +0.0pp 15th 39% below peers
San Marcos, CA 43.8% 23rd +0.6pp 16th 11% above peers
Reading, PA 45.7% 28th +1.0pp 17th 15% above peers
Santa Monica, CA 42.5% 21st +1.0pp 18th 7% above peers
Chino, CA 42.5% 20th +1.2pp 19th 7% above peers
Alafaya, FL 32.6% 8th +1.0pp 20th 18% below peers
Erie, PA 36.1% 14th +1.5pp 21st 9% below peers
Sandy, UT 24.4% 4th +1.1pp 22nd 38% below peers
Avondale, AZ 35.2% 12th +1.6pp 23rd 11% below peers
Livonia, MI 20.5% 1st +0.9pp 24th 48% below peers
O'Fallon, MO 21.0% 2nd +1.2pp 25th 47% below peers
Mission Viejo, CA 37.5% 15th +2.8pp 26th 5% below peers
Fall River, MA 44.8% 26th +3.8pp 27th 13% above peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 31.2% 7th +2.8pp 28th 21% below peers
Bellingham, WA 47.0% 30th +4.9pp 29th 19% above peers
Kirkland, WA 32.9% 9th +4.0pp 30th 17% below peers
Fort Myers, FL 44.6% 24th +5.7pp 31st 13% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
HousingHousing cost-burdened households
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started in the weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Brentwood, NY down 14.5pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2017-2022
  • Delano, CA down 11.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Wheaton, MD down 7.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (tables B25070 + B25091) through 2024 ±2.7pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Housing

Households without a vehicle

▼ Lower is better Real improvement
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No vehicle fell 2.3 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 11.8% to 9.5% - more than the combined survey margin (±1.9pp). 2 of the 30 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction. It started among the weakest third of similar-size cities, so some rebound is expected; still, the improvement is sustained and worth investigating.

Improving beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 3 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: no vehicle fell 1.3 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (10.8% to 9.5%).
9.5%
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
Washington ref 7.0% +0.2pp
United States ref 8.3% -0.3pp
Sandy, UT 2.5% 2nd -1.8pp 1st 65% below peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 2.6% 3rd -1.6pp 2nd 62% below peers
Alafaya, FL 1.6% 1st -0.5pp 3rd 78% below peers
San Marcos, CA 3.5% 8th -1.0pp 4th 50% below peers
Roswell, GA 3.5% 7th -0.9pp 5th 50% below peers
Bellingham, WA 9.5% 25th -2.3pp 6th 36% above peers
Livonia, MI 3.2% 5th -0.7pp 7th 55% below peers
Merced, CA 8.9% 23rd -1.8pp 8th 27% above peers
Fort Myers, FL 10.2% 26th -1.7pp 9th 45% above peers
Redding, CA 7.7% 19th -1.1pp 10th 10% above peers
Fall River, MA 16.4% 29th -2.0pp 11th 134% above peers
Reading, PA 23.4% 31st -2.2pp 12th 233% above peers
Erie, PA 17.2% 30th -1.4pp 13th 145% above peers
Compton, CA 7.0% 16th -0.6pp 14th on par with peers
Avondale, AZ 4.6% 11th -0.2pp 15th 34% below peers
South Gate, CA 7.7% 18th -0.3pp 16th 9% above peers
Greenville, NC 10.7% 27th -0.4pp 17th 53% above peers
Kirkland, WA 4.8% 14th -0.2pp 18th 32% below peers
Toms River, NJ 6.1% 15th -0.2pp 19th 14% below peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 8.4% 21st -0.2pp 20th 20% above peers
Mission Viejo, CA 2.8% 4th -0.0pp 21st 60% below peers
Indio, CA 4.0% 9th -0.0pp 22nd 43% below peers
Nashua, NH 7.9% 20th -0.0pp 23rd 12% above peers
Hemet, CA 9.0% 24th -0.0pp 24th 28% above peers
Asheville, NC 7.6% 17th +0.0pp 25th 9% above peers
Santa Monica, CA 11.4% 28th +0.9pp 26th 63% above peers
Norwalk, CT 8.5% 22nd +1.7pp 27th 21% above peers
Carson, CA 4.6% 10th +1.0pp 28th 35% below peers
Hoover, AL 3.4% 6th +0.9pp 29th 52% below peers
Chino, CA 4.6% 12th +1.2pp 30th 34% below peers
O'Fallon, MO 4.7% 13th +1.6pp 31st 33% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 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.
HousingHouseholds without a vehicle
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started in the weakest third, like this city, and whose improvement is sustained over several years, larger than the data's normal noise, and big enough to matter. Referral candidates to investigate, not proven interventions. How we pick these →
  • Manhattan, KS down 4.1pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 100% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Racine, WI down 5.4pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Plainfield, NJ down 8.3pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 98% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey (table B08201) through 2024 ±1.1pp 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 (5.1% then, 5.3% now; margin ±1.1pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 14 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: uninsured fell 6.5 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (11.7% to 5.3%).
5.3%
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
Washington ref 6.2% +0.2pp
United States ref 8.2% -0.4pp
Norwalk, CT 10.3% 25th -6.3pp 1st 53% above peers
Roswell, GA 8.4% 22nd -3.8pp 2nd 26% above peers
Sandy, UT 5.3% 11th -1.9pp 3rd 21% below peers
Mission Viejo, CA 3.2% 2nd -1.1pp 4th 53% below peers
Santa Monica, CA 3.5% 3rd -1.0pp 5th 48% below peers
Hemet, CA 7.0% 17th -1.8pp 6th 4% above peers
Alafaya, FL 8.1% 21st -1.8pp 7th 21% above peers
Toms River, NJ 4.8% 7th -1.0pp 8th 28% below peers
San Marcos, CA 7.1% 18th -1.4pp 9th 5% above peers
South Gate, CA 12.8% 28th -2.3pp 10th 90% above peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 4.0% 6th -0.7pp 11th 40% below peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 5.1% 9th -0.9pp 12th 24% below peers
Erie, PA 5.7% 12th -0.8pp 13th 16% below peers
Livonia, MI 2.5% 1st -0.2pp 14th 63% below peers
Chino, CA 6.7% 16th -0.5pp 15th on par with peers
Carson, CA 6.6% 15th -0.5pp 16th 1% below peers
O'Fallon, MO 3.9% 5th -0.3pp 17th 42% below peers
Hoover, AL 5.0% 8th -0.3pp 18th 25% below peers
Kirkland, WA 3.8% 4th -0.1pp 19th 43% below peers
Greenville, NC 9.4% 24th +0.0pp 20th 39% above peers
Merced, CA 7.5% 19th +0.1pp 21st 12% above peers
Bellingham, WA 5.3% 10th +0.2pp 22nd 22% below peers
Compton, CA 12.4% 27th +0.8pp 23rd 85% above peers
Redding, CA 6.5% 14th +0.5pp 24th 3% below peers
Asheville, NC 11.6% 26th +1.0pp 25th 72% above peers
Fort Myers, FL 17.3% 31st +2.1pp 26th 158% above peers
Indio, CA 9.0% 23rd +1.2pp 27th 34% above peers
Avondale, AZ 13.3% 29th +2.1pp 28th 98% above peers
Nashua, NH 7.9% 20th +1.9pp 29th 18% above peers
Fall River, MA 5.7% 13th +1.4pp 30th 15% below peers
Reading, PA 14.6% 30th +4.8pp 31st 118% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 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.
HealthPeople without health insurance
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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 ±0.8pp 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.

29.0%
20202022
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Place Latest Today's rank History Latest vs. peers
Washington ref 31.1%
United States ref 33.4%
Kirkland, WA 22.4% 1st 28% below peers
Santa Monica, CA 23.0% 2nd 26% below peers
Mission Viejo, CA 25.0% 3rd 20% below peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 25.3% 4th 19% below peers
San Marcos, CA 25.7% 5th 17% below peers
Carson, CA 25.9% 6th 17% below peers
Roswell, GA 26.6% 7th 14% below peers
Norwalk, CT 26.7% 8th 14% below peers
Asheville, NC 28.1% 9th 10% below peers
Bellingham, WA 29.0% 10th 7% below peers
Redding, CA 29.0% 11th 7% below peers
Livonia, MI 29.4% 12th 5% below peers
Alafaya, FL 30.3% 13th 3% below peers
Nashua, NH 31.0% 14th on par with peers
Sandy, UT 31.1% 15th on par with peers
Toms River, NJ 31.1% 16th on par with peers
South Gate, CA 31.6% 17th 2% above peers
Chino, CA 31.9% 18th 3% above peers
Hoover, AL 32.5% 19th 5% above peers
Fort Myers, FL 33.9% 20th 9% above peers
Compton, CA 34.2% 21st 10% above peers
Merced, CA 34.4% 22nd 11% above peers
O'Fallon, MO 35.5% 23rd 14% above peers
Fall River, MA 36.0% 24th 16% above peers
Avondale, AZ 36.2% 25th 16% above peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 36.3% 26th 17% above peers
Indio, CA 36.7% 27th 18% above peers
Hemet, CA 38.3% 28th 23% above peers
Greenville, NC 38.8% 29th 25% above peers
Erie, PA 40.8% 30th 31% above peers
Reading, PA 43.3% 31st 39% 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 (2.2% then, 3.6% now; margin ±1.9pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 13 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: child uninsured rose 0.2 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (3.3% to 3.6%).
3.6%
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
Washington ref 3.2% +0.4pp
United States ref 5.5% +0.4pp
Norwalk, CT 5.6% 27th -17.1pp 1st 58% above peers
Roswell, GA 3.8% 18th -3.9pp 2nd 6% above peers
Chino, CA 3.4% 12th -3.4pp 3rd 5% below peers
Santa Monica, CA 2.2% 5th -2.0pp 4th 38% below peers
Mission Viejo, CA 2.1% 3rd -1.7pp 5th 41% below peers
Livonia, MI 0.9% 1st -0.7pp 6th 74% below peers
O'Fallon, MO 2.1% 4th -1.2pp 7th 40% below peers
Sandy, UT 3.5% 13th -1.9pp 8th 2% below peers
Hemet, CA 4.4% 24th -2.3pp 9th 23% above peers
South Gate, CA 4.2% 22nd -2.1pp 10th 16% above peers
Alafaya, FL 4.1% 21st -1.9pp 11th 16% above peers
Erie, PA 2.4% 7th -1.0pp 12th 34% below peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 1.6% 2nd -0.4pp 13th 54% below peers
Asheville, NC 3.9% 19th -0.4pp 14th 10% above peers
San Marcos, CA 2.6% 9th -0.1pp 15th 28% below peers
Toms River, NJ 3.5% 15th -0.1pp 16th 1% below peers
Merced, CA 3.4% 11th +0.5pp 17th 5% below peers
Hoover, AL 2.5% 8th +0.4pp 18th 29% below peers
Carson, CA 3.6% 17th +0.6pp 19th 1% above peers
Redding, CA 4.6% 26th +1.0pp 20th 29% above peers
Fall River, MA 2.3% 6th +0.6pp 21st 35% below peers
Compton, CA 4.6% 25th +1.2pp 22nd 28% above peers
Fort Myers, FL 15.2% 31st +4.2pp 23rd 327% above peers
Avondale, AZ 11.4% 30th +3.4pp 24th 220% above peers
Bellingham, WA 3.6% 16th +1.4pp 25th on par with peers
Indio, CA 3.5% 14th +1.4pp 26th 1% below peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 4.2% 23rd +1.6pp 27th 16% above peers
Greenville, NC 4.0% 20th +1.8pp 28th 11% above peers
Reading, PA 7.8% 29th +4.2pp 29th 118% above peers
Kirkland, WA 3.1% 10th +1.9pp 30th 13% below peers
Nashua, NH 6.8% 28th +5.1pp 31st 89% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
HealthChildren without health insurance
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Cities of similar size (50k-100k) that started 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 ±1.4pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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Education

Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher

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

College attainment rose 4.2 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 44.3% to 48.5% - more than the combined survey margin (±2.8pp). 20 of the 30 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; 20 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: college attainment rose 7.8 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (40.7% to 48.5%).
48.5%
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
Washington ref 39.6% +3.6pp
United States ref 35.7% +3.5pp
Hemet, CA 15.5% 28th +4.4pp 1st 60% below peers
Compton, CA 10.6% 31st +2.0pp 2nd 73% below peers
Merced, CA 20.2% 26th +3.7pp 3rd 48% below peers
South Gate, CA 11.3% 30th +1.8pp 4th 71% below peers
Indio, CA 20.5% 25th +3.3pp 5th 48% below peers
Chino, CA 27.2% 21st +4.2pp 6th 30% below peers
San Marcos, CA 43.8% 12th +6.8pp 7th 12% above peers
Alafaya, FL 50.0% 8th +6.8pp 8th 28% above peers
Toms River, NJ 36.4% 18th +4.8pp 9th 7% below peers
Avondale, AZ 21.3% 24th +2.8pp 10th 45% below peers
Nashua, NH 41.2% 15th +5.1pp 11th 6% above peers
Roswell, GA 66.0% 4th +7.9pp 12th 69% above peers
Livonia, MI 41.9% 14th +4.5pp 13th 7% above peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 38.5% 17th +3.7pp 14th 1% below peers
Sandy, UT 46.0% 10th +4.2pp 15th 18% above peers
Bellingham, WA 48.5% 9th +4.2pp 16th 24% above peers
Asheville, NC 53.4% 6th +4.5pp 17th 37% above peers
Hoover, AL 62.6% 5th +5.0pp 18th 60% above peers
Kirkland, WA 66.3% 3rd +5.0pp 19th 70% above peers
Fort Myers, FL 32.0% 19th +2.3pp 20th 18% below peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 68.4% 2nd +4.5pp 21st 75% above peers
Erie, PA 23.1% 23rd +1.5pp 22nd 41% below peers
Fall River, MA 16.4% 27th +1.0pp 23rd 58% below peers
Mission Viejo, CA 52.1% 7th +3.0pp 24th 33% above peers
Reading, PA 11.4% 29th +0.6pp 25th 71% below peers
Redding, CA 26.9% 22nd +1.2pp 26th 31% below peers
O'Fallon, MO 43.3% 13th +1.8pp 27th 11% above peers
Santa Monica, CA 70.7% 1st +2.8pp 28th 81% above peers
Carson, CA 29.3% 20th +1.1pp 29th 25% below peers
Greenville, NC 39.1% 16th +1.4pp 30th on par with peers
Norwalk, CT 44.8% 11th +1.4pp 31st 15% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: green tracts improved, red tracts moved the wrong way. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
EducationAdults with a bachelor's degree or higher
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▸ Break down by group Sex · ACS 2024
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Peers worth a call

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Cities of similar size (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 ±2.0pp 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 (55.5% then, 56.6% now; margin ±16.8pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 14 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: preschool enrollment rose 9.2 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (47.5% to 56.6%).
56.6%
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
Washington ref 42.9% -1.5pp
United States ref 45.5%
Reading, PA 36.1% 25th +14.0pp 1st 18% below peers
Toms River, NJ 70.6% 3rd +11.2pp 2nd 60% above peers
Greenville, NC 53.1% 10th +4.9pp 3rd 21% above peers
Livonia, MI 62.8% 5th +5.2pp 4th 43% above peers
Chino, CA 45.2% 14th +3.2pp 5th 3% above peers
Norwalk, CT 75.6% 1st +5.3pp 6th 72% above peers
Roswell, GA 66.5% 4th +2.3pp 7th 51% above peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 43.5% 18th +1.2pp 8th 1% below peers
Bellingham, WA 56.6% 8th +1.1pp 9th 29% above peers
Erie, PA 44.9% 15th -1.2pp 10th 2% above peers
Redding, CA 50.0% 13th -2.2pp 11th 14% above peers
O'Fallon, MO 55.7% 9th -3.5pp 12th 27% above peers
Santa Monica, CA 71.9% 2nd -5.0pp 13th 63% above peers
Sandy, UT 51.2% 11th -4.6pp 14th 16% above peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 62.6% 6th -8.9pp 15th 42% above peers
Carson, CA 43.7% 17th -8.1pp 16th 1% below peers
Kirkland, WA 57.9% 7th -11.4pp 17th 32% above peers
South Gate, CA 37.4% 21st -7.4pp 18th 15% below peers
San Marcos, CA 50.5% 12th -14.5pp 19th 15% above peers
Compton, CA 37.9% 20th -11.7pp 20th 14% below peers
Fall River, MA 37.1% 22nd -11.9pp 21st 16% below peers
Hemet, CA 22.6% 29th -11.4pp 22nd 49% below peers
Nashua, NH 39.2% 19th -20.5pp 23rd 11% below peers
Merced, CA 36.2% 23rd -19.4pp 24th 18% below peers
Asheville, NC 36.1% 24th -20.9pp 25th 18% below peers
Mission Viejo, CA 44.0% 16th -25.8pp 26th on par with peers
Hoover, AL 36.1% 26th -24.8pp 27th 18% below peers
Fort Myers, FL 33.2% 27th -23.2pp 28th 25% below peers
Indio, CA 21.5% 30th -16.3pp 29th 51% below peers
Alafaya, FL 31.9% 28th -31.7pp 30th 28% below peers
Avondale, AZ 14.8% 31st -22.2pp 31st 66% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 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 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 →
  • West Haven, CT up 35.0pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 99% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Castle Rock, CO up 21.6pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 96% of this group · 2019-2024
  • Cedar Park, TX up 20.8pp between its surveys · a larger real gain than 94% of this group · 2019-2024
Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±14.5pp 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 (2.9% then, 4.5% now; margin ±2.7pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 4 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: disconnected youth rose 0.9 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (3.6% to 4.5%).
4.5%
20102024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Washington ref 7.6% +1.1pp
United States ref 6.9% +0.3pp
Chino, CA 2.7% 6th -7.8pp 1st 48% below peers
Norwalk, CT 2.0% 4th -5.1pp 2nd 61% below peers
Avondale, AZ 4.2% 9th -6.6pp 3rd 19% below peers
Alafaya, FL 1.5% 2nd -2.2pp 4th 72% below peers
Mission Viejo, CA 1.1% 1st -1.5pp 5th 78% below peers
Hemet, CA 7.9% 21st -5.8pp 6th 52% above peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 5.2% 16th -3.2pp 7th on par with peers
Hoover, AL 1.7% 3rd -1.0pp 8th 67% below peers
Livonia, MI 3.5% 8th -1.5pp 9th 31% below peers
San Marcos, CA 4.3% 11th -1.5pp 10th 17% below peers
Greenville, NC 2.7% 5th -0.5pp 11th 49% below peers
Fall River, MA 7.2% 20th -1.4pp 12th 38% above peers
Nashua, NH 5.4% 17th -0.4pp 13th 4% above peers
Fort Myers, FL 8.6% 23rd -0.5pp 14th 67% above peers
Compton, CA 13.2% 31st -0.3pp 15th 155% above peers
Toms River, NJ 4.5% 13th -0.0pp 16th 13% below peers
Merced, CA 11.9% 30th +0.8pp 17th 130% above peers
Indio, CA 9.1% 25th +0.6pp 18th 75% above peers
Kirkland, WA 3.1% 7th +0.3pp 19th 40% below peers
South Gate, CA 9.4% 26th +1.0pp 20th 81% above peers
Erie, PA 9.8% 27th +1.6pp 21st 89% above peers
Redding, CA 8.3% 22nd +1.4pp 22nd 61% above peers
Carson, CA 10.0% 28th +2.1pp 23rd 94% above peers
Asheville, NC 5.7% 18th +1.4pp 24th 10% above peers
Sandy, UT 5.0% 15th +1.4pp 25th 2% below peers
Santa Monica, CA 4.8% 14th +1.4pp 26th 6% below peers
Reading, PA 8.9% 24th +2.8pp 27th 73% above peers
Roswell, GA 6.7% 19th +2.1pp 28th 30% above peers
O'Fallon, MO 4.2% 10th +1.5pp 29th 18% below peers
Bellingham, WA 4.5% 12th +1.6pp 30th 13% below peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 10.8% 29th +9.9pp 31st 109% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 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 ±2.1pp 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 5% between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 88,764 to 93,438 - more than the combined survey margin (±83). 19 of the 30 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction.

Rising beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 29 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: population rose about 14% from 2014 to 2024 (82,080 to 93,438).
93,438
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Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Fort Myers, FL 95,051 2nd +19% 1st 2% above peers
Merced, CA 91,953 26th +11% 2nd 1% below peers
Avondale, AZ 92,477 22nd +9% 3rd on par with peers
Hoover, AL 92,642 19th +9% 4th on par with peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 93,993 9th +8% 5th 1% above peers
Hemet, CA 91,326 29th +8% 6th 2% below peers
Reading, PA 95,242 1st +8% 7th 3% above peers
O'Fallon, MO 93,801 12th +8% 8th 1% above peers
Toms River, NJ 94,956 4th +6% 9th 2% above peers
Bellingham, WA 93,438 13th +5% 10th 1% above peers
Fall River, MA 94,082 8th +5% 11th 1% above peers
Norwalk, CT 92,187 24th +4% 12th 1% below peers
Kirkland, WA 92,621 20th +4% 13th on par with peers
Chino, CA 92,652 18th +3% 14th on par with peers
Asheville, NC 94,535 6th +3% 15th 2% above peers
Nashua, NH 91,294 30th +3% 16th 2% below peers
Indio, CA 91,950 27th +3% 17th 1% below peers
Redding, CA 93,409 14th +2% 18th 1% above peers
Alafaya, FL 92,449 23rd +2% 19th on par with peers
Greenville, NC 92,857 16th +1% 20th on par with peers
Carson, CA 92,871 15th +1% 21st on par with peers
Livonia, MI 93,851 10th -0% 22nd 1% above peers
Santa Monica, CA 91,169 31st -0% 23rd 2% below peers
San Marcos, CA 94,882 5th -0% 24th 2% above peers
Sandy, UT 94,291 7th -2% 25th 2% above peers
Roswell, GA 92,621 21st -2% 26th on par with peers
South Gate, CA 91,483 28th -3% 27th 1% below peers
Erie, PA 93,850 11th -4% 28th 1% above peers
Mission Viejo, CA 92,151 25th -4% 29th 1% below peers
Compton, CA 92,698 17th -4% 30th on par with peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 94,994 3rd -8% 31st 2% above peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 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 ±64 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 1.1 percentage points between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys, from 14.9% to 13.8% - more than the combined survey margin (±0.9pp). 10 of the 30 similar-size cities show a real change in the same direction.

Falling beyond the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 12 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: children fell 1.9 percentage points from 2017 to 2024 (15.8% to 13.8%).
13.8%
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
Washington ref 21.1% -0.5pp
United States ref 21.6% -0.7pp
Chino, CA 24.6% 8th +4.4pp 1st 10% above peers
Indio, CA 24.8% 7th +2.4pp 2nd 11% above peers
Mission Viejo, CA 20.4% 20th +1.1pp 3rd 8% below peers
Sandy, UT 26.4% 5th +1.2pp 4th 19% above peers
Greenville, NC 18.8% 26th +0.6pp 5th 16% below peers
Merced, CA 29.9% 1st +0.4pp 6th 34% above peers
Toms River, NJ 22.3% 16th +0.2pp 7th on par with peers
Livonia, MI 18.7% 27th +0.2pp 8th 16% below peers
Redding, CA 22.2% 17th +0.2pp 9th on par with peers
Carson, CA 20.1% 21st -0.1pp 10th 10% below peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 22.8% 13th -0.4pp 11th 3% above peers
Roswell, GA 24.5% 9th -0.6pp 12th 10% above peers
Reading, PA 28.4% 2nd -0.9pp 13th 28% above peers
Fall River, MA 19.9% 22nd -0.8pp 14th 11% below peers
San Marcos, CA 25.2% 6th -1.0pp 15th 13% above peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 22.8% 14th -1.0pp 16th 2% above peers
Nashua, NH 18.6% 28th -0.8pp 17th 16% below peers
Kirkland, WA 19.3% 23rd -1.1pp 18th 13% below peers
Norwalk, CT 18.8% 25th -1.3pp 19th 15% below peers
Compton, CA 27.4% 3rd -1.9pp 20th 23% above peers
Erie, PA 21.4% 18th -1.6pp 21st 4% below peers
Hoover, AL 24.4% 10th -1.8pp 22nd 10% above peers
Alafaya, FL 21.2% 19th -1.6pp 23rd 5% below peers
Bellingham, WA 13.8% 30th -1.1pp 24th 38% below peers
Santa Monica, CA 13.8% 31st -1.1pp 25th 38% below peers
Fort Myers, FL 19.1% 24th -1.6pp 26th 14% below peers
Avondale, AZ 26.8% 4th -2.4pp 27th 20% above peers
O'Fallon, MO 24.2% 11th -2.9pp 28th 9% above peers
Hemet, CA 23.1% 12th -3.1pp 29th 4% above peers
South Gate, CA 22.6% 15th -4.4pp 30th 2% above peers
Asheville, NC 14.8% 29th -3.0pp 31st 33% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 census tracts
Each tract is colored and ranked by its change from 2019 to 2024, between the same two survey periods as the card above, as a share of its own starting level: blue tracts rose, orange tracts fell. Tracts marked * moved less than their own survey margin, so their color is a direction, not a claim. Hover a tract for its numbers and history, or a table row to find that tract on the map; click either for its location or its data in the Explorer.
DemographicsChildren's share of the population
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Census ACS 5-year survey through 2024 ±0.6pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Demographics

Children in single-parent families

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

Single-parent changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (27.7% then, 29.1% now; margin ±7.3pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 5 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: single-parent fell 7.6 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (36.6% to 29.1%).
29.1%
20102024
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Change is measured between each place's two non-overlapping survey periods against its published margins (90% confidence). significant improvement · significant worsening · not significant (within the margin). Change rank orders every measured change; read it with the dot beside it, ranks among hollow-dot rows are ordering values inside their margins. Today's rank orders current values in the metric's better direction.
Place Latest2020-2024 survey Today's rank Change2015-2019 → 2020-2024 Sig. Change rank History Latest vs. peers
Washington ref 25.3% -0.2pp
United States ref 29.9% -0.2pp
Sandy, UT 20.5% 22nd +5.2pp 1st 29% below peers
Livonia, MI 19.2% 27th +3.6pp 2nd 33% below peers
Santa Monica, CA 25.9% 19th +4.4pp 3rd 10% below peers
Hemet, CA 39.1% 8th +6.6pp 4th 36% above peers
Greenville, NC 56.0% 4th +8.4pp 5th 95% above peers
Erie, PA 62.3% 2nd +5.6pp 6th 117% above peers
Merced, CA 48.8% 5th +3.9pp 7th 70% above peers
Reading, PA 66.1% 1st +5.1pp 8th 130% above peers
Fall River, MA 57.9% 3rd +3.5pp 9th 102% above peers
Asheville, NC 32.2% 12th +2.0pp 10th 12% above peers
Redding, CA 35.0% 10th +2.1pp 11th 22% above peers
Hoover, AL 19.7% 24th +1.2pp 12th 31% below peers
Bellingham, WA 29.1% 15th +1.3pp 13th 1% above peers
O'Fallon, MO 20.5% 23rd +0.7pp 14th 29% below peers
Nashua, NH 30.4% 14th +0.8pp 15th 6% above peers
Norwalk, CT 28.7% 16th +0.5pp 16th on par with peers
South Gate, CA 40.3% 7th +0.7pp 17th 40% above peers
Carson, CA 27.9% 18th +0.3pp 18th 3% below peers
Kirkland, WA 15.2% 29th +0.0pp 19th 47% below peers
Avondale, AZ 34.9% 11th -0.6pp 20th 21% above peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 13.9% 30th -0.3pp 21st 52% below peers
Compton, CA 38.0% 9th -1.2pp 22nd 32% above peers
Fort Myers, FL 45.2% 6th -1.8pp 23rd 57% above peers
San Marcos, CA 20.8% 21st -2.5pp 24th 28% below peers
Chino, CA 21.2% 20th -2.7pp 25th 26% below peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 30.9% 13th -5.6pp 26th 8% above peers
Indio, CA 28.1% 17th -5.4pp 27th 2% below peers
Roswell, GA 19.3% 26th -4.1pp 28th 33% below peers
Toms River, NJ 19.3% 25th -5.3pp 29th 33% below peers
Alafaya, FL 18.6% 28th -7.1pp 30th 35% below peers
Mission Viejo, CA 10.4% 31st -5.5pp 31st 64% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 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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12 of 19 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 B09002) through 2024 ±5.7pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
Demographics

Young children with all parents in the labor force

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Working parents changed less than the survey can measure between the 2015-2019 and 2020-2024 surveys (63.7% then, 68.9% now; margin ±14.4pp).

Within the survey margin, 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys; 5 of 30 similar-size cities show a real change.
Longer view: working parents rose 10.4 percentage points from 2014 to 2024 (58.5% to 68.9%).
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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
Washington ref 62.8% +2.2pp
United States ref 68.1% +1.9pp
Santa Monica, CA 86.6% 1st +21.8pp 1st 25% above peers
Arden-Arcade, CA 69.3% 16th +14.3pp 2nd on par with peers
Asheville, NC 79.4% 2nd +15.2pp 3rd 15% above peers
Sandy, UT 65.3% 23rd +10.8pp 4th 6% below peers
Merced, CA 64.6% 25th +10.6pp 5th 7% below peers
Norwalk, CT 76.9% 5th +9.7pp 6th 11% above peers
Roswell, GA 76.6% 6th +9.3pp 7th 11% above peers
Carson, CA 75.7% 9th +8.0pp 8th 9% above peers
Kirkland, WA 65.8% 21st +6.7pp 9th 5% below peers
Redding, CA 67.7% 18th +6.8pp 10th 2% below peers
Livonia, MI 73.9% 12th +7.4pp 11th 7% above peers
Fall River, MA 75.5% 10th +7.1pp 12th 9% above peers
Greenville, NC 76.9% 4th +6.2pp 13th 11% above peers
Nashua, NH 78.2% 3rd +6.0pp 14th 13% above peers
San Marcos, CA 71.3% 14th +5.5pp 15th 3% above peers
Compton, CA 64.7% 24th +4.9pp 16th 7% below peers
Bellingham, WA 68.9% 17th +5.1pp 17th 1% below peers
Mission Viejo, CA 70.3% 15th +5.1pp 18th 1% above peers
Chino, CA 63.5% 30th +4.0pp 19th 8% below peers
Hemet, CA 64.3% 28th +3.6pp 20th 7% below peers
O'Fallon, MO 75.7% 8th +4.2pp 21st 9% above peers
Avondale, AZ 67.6% 19th +2.9pp 22nd 2% below peers
Toms River, NJ 76.0% 7th +3.0pp 23rd 10% above peers
Hoover, AL 74.2% 11th +2.5pp 24th 7% above peers
South Gate, CA 73.5% 13th +1.8pp 25th 6% above peers
Erie, PA 66.2% 20th -4.5pp 26th 4% below peers
Indio, CA 64.5% 26th -5.4pp 27th 7% below peers
Mount Pleasant, SC 64.4% 27th -6.0pp 28th 7% below peers
Fort Myers, FL 65.4% 22nd -7.2pp 29th 6% below peers
Reading, PA 64.0% 29th -7.6pp 30th 8% below peers
Alafaya, FL 61.9% 31st -9.1pp 31st 11% below peers
▸ Where is this changing? 19 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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12 of 19 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 ±10.4pp at 90% confidence (2024 estimate) survey trend: 2015-2019 vs 2020-2024 surveys about this metric
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