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Place dossier plate
SheetAZ-BUCKEYE-AZ · Buckeye, AZ 99,844 pop · income 77th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Buckeye
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Buckeye on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Albany · lowest
59,485
Albany · lowest
59,485 median HH income
44.2% of the leader · rank #1
Pupukea · near
98,771
Pupukea · near
98,771 median HH income
73.4% of the leader · rank #2
Buckeye · this city
98,778
Buckeye · this city
98,778 median HH income
73.4% of the leader · rank #3
Boiling Sprin… · near
98,796
Boiling Sprin… · near
98,796 median HH income
73.4% of the leader · rank #4
Dixon · near
98,798
Dixon · near
98,798 median HH income
73.4% of the leader · rank #5
Firthcliffe · near
98,801
Firthcliffe · near
98,801 median HH income
73.4% of the leader · rank #6
Carmel · highest
134,602
Carmel · highest
134,602 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Buckeye on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 99,844.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Buckeye - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Buckeye places in the 77th percentile for household income and the 67th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
77th
percentile, household income
76th
percentile, home value
64th
percentile, median rent
67th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Buckeye, AZ
Arizona's Buckeye is a small city, with 99,844 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Buckeye brings in $98,778 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.9%. Buckeye's housing stock carries a median value of $384,100, and the median resident age is 35.4 years. About 24.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 54.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 3,111 residential building permits were authorized in Buckeye (Growing), up 17% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Buckeye reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 937.9 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Arizona tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Arizona at 100.7 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,419 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Arizona's average monthly utility costs around $215 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 84.5 out of 100 (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Buckeye's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from schools and households to work and mobility to housing and income to reported crime to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Buckeye, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Buckeye?
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 24.1% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
What does the journey to work look like in Buckeye?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in Buckeye?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
Which cities make useful reference points for Buckeye?
Within Arizona, the closest population matches are Yuma (98,461 residents, $62,546 income); Goodyear (102,891 residents, $101,814 income); San Tan Valley (105,231 residents, $93,642 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Albany, NY (100,081 residents); Hesperia, CA (100,141 residents); San Angelo, TX (99,507 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Buckeye?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 937.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 59% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
771.1
Violent rate
166.8
Total reported rate
937.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +32,023 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +34.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 3,111 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+34.3%
2025 estimate
125,445
2020 estimate
93,422
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Arizona average
C
City profile score · Buckeye, AZ
57/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income B+
$98,778
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B-
4.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C-
167 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share D
24.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living F
100.7 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Buckeye profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 76/100 (B+) · $98,778
Poverty rate: 66/100 (B-) · 4.9%
Violent crime: 54/100 (C-) · 167 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 46/100 (D) · 24.1%
Cost of living: 37/100 (F) · 100.7 index
Where Buckeye sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Buckeye's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Buckeye highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Buckeye, AZ (this city): home $384,100, crime 938/100k
Albany, NY : home $223,000, crime 3,665/100k
Hesperia, CA : home $366,800, crime 1,946/100k
San Angelo, TX : home $179,300, crime 2,704/100k
Federal Way, WA : home $499,600, crime 4,918/100k
Carmel, IN : home $455,500, crime 879/100k
St. George, UT : home $456,900, crime 1,213/100k
Yuma, AZ : home $209,100, crime 1,671/100k
Goodyear, AZ : home $441,900, crime 1,645/100k
Avondale, AZ : home $348,700, crime 2,611/100k
Flagstaff, AZ : home $503,400, crime 2,695/100k
How does Buckeye compare to other US cities?
Where Buckeye sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income77% higher than other cities
Home value76% pricier than other cities
Median rent64% pricier than other cities
Safety67% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Arizona alone, Buckeye ranks #10 of 61 Arizona cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Buckeye against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Arizona only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Arizona-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Buckeye near the bottom of Arizona's cities
Among the 394 Arizona cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Buckeye ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Buckeye only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#35 of 333
89th percentile in Arizona
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 394
0th percentile in Arizona
Median Home Value
#55 of 327
83rd percentile in Arizona
Poverty Rate
#256 of 393
35th percentile in Arizona
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#117 of 394
70th percentile in Arizona
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Arizona only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
77th percentile nationally for median household income · 67th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Buckeye's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Buckeye's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Buckeye's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$384,10024th percentilemore affordable than 24% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Buckeye's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,354 of 15,516
More affordable than 33% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#292 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.9×, Buckeye sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,354 of 15,516 and #292 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$98,778Buckeye, AZ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Buckeye, AZ median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Buckeye, AZ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
99,844
Median Income
$98,778
Median Home Value
$384,100
Median Age
35.4
Poverty Rate
4.9%
Labor force participation
54.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
937.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
166.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
771.1
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Buckeye's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
93,422 residents
2021
102,140 residents
2022
108,877 residents
2023
112,100 residents
2024
118,893 residents
2025
125,445 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
3,111
housing units authorized
Single-Family
2,747
detached homes
Multifamily
364
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
31.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
2,652
2,652
0
$710.7M
2020
3,341
3,341
0
$943.2M
2021
2,618
2,618
0
$727.8M
2022
2,193
2,193
0
$589.5M
2023
2,411
2,129
282
$630.0M
2024
3,111
2,747
364
$703.0M
Permit volume increased 17% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
69.9%
Carpool
10.0%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
17.5%
Other
1.6%
Based on 40,863 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Arizona statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $215
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Arizona at $215 (electricity about $131 , water and sewer about $50 ).
These are Arizona statewide averages, not a meter reading for Buckeye. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Arizona's BEA cost-of-living index is 100.7 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Buckeye is $1,419/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Arizona statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 84.5 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Arizona statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Buckeye sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Buckeye compares to similar-size Arizona cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.