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SheetAZ-BULLHEAD-CITY-AZ · Bullhead City, AZ 42,193 pop · income 16th pct · 66 tracts
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 Bullhead City
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Bullhead City on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Danville · lowest
42,778
Danville · lowest
42,778 median HH income
25.0% of the leader · rank #1
Bullhead City · this city
47,717
Bullhead City · this city
47,717 median HH income
27.9% of the leader · rank #2
Elkton · near
47,717
Elkton · near
47,717 median HH income
27.9% of the leader · rank #3
Oneonta · near
47,719
Oneonta · near
47,719 median HH income
27.9% of the leader · rank #4
Hartsville · near
47,720
Hartsville · near
47,720 median HH income
27.9% of the leader · rank #5
Eveleth · near
47,721
Eveleth · near
47,721 median HH income
27.9% of the leader · rank #6
Linton Hall · highest
170,989
Linton Hall · highest
170,989 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 Bullhead City 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: 42,193.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Bullhead City - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Bullhead City lands in the 16th percentile for household income and the 20th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
16th
percentile, household income
42nd
percentile, home value
64th
percentile, median rent
20th
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: Bullhead City, AZ
42,193 people live in Bullhead City, Arizona - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Bullhead City report a median income of $47,717 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 15.2%. Bullhead City's housing stock carries a median value of $196,900, and the median resident age is 53.7 years. About 14.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 39.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 415 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 67% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2647.8 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 74.2°F with 5.4 inches of precipitation per year.
Arizona tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Arizona scores 100.7 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,419 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $215 across Arizona, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 19.8 minutes, with 78.3% driving alone and 7.0% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Bullhead City'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 population change to work and mobility to within-city variation to climate and hazard context to reported crime to schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Bullhead City, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Is Bullhead City growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,501 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 415 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Bullhead City?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.8 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
What can 66 Census tracts reveal inside Bullhead City?
PlainCities matches 66 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Bullhead City?
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.
Within Arizona, the closest population matches are Apache Junction (39,746 residents, $58,619 income); Sierra Vista (45,203 residents, $69,783 income); Sun (38,018 residents, $52,111 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Peachtree Corners, GA (42,184 residents); Moline, IL (42,235 residents); Danville, VA (42,239 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.
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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Bullhead City?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 74.2°F, with 5.4 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Arizona is 84.5 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
84.5
Annual precipitation
5.4 in
Mean temperature
74.2°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Bullhead City?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2647.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 16% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Total reported rate
2647.8
Violent rate
455.3
Property rate
2192.5
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Bullhead City?
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.
The NCES join finds 10 public schools within the city match. 14.6% 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.
Poverty estimate
15.2%
Bachelor's degree+
14.6%
Matched public schools
10
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Bullhead City?
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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 15.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.1×
Home value
$196,900
Household income
$47,717
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Arizona average
F
City profile score · Bullhead City, AZ
23/100
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.
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.
Poverty rate F
15.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
14.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
455 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$47,717
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bullhead City profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 37/100 (F) · 100.7 index
Poverty rate: 22/100 (F) · 15.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 19/100 (F) · 14.6%
Violent crime: 19/100 (F) · 455 /100k
Household income: 17/100 (F) · $47,717
Where Bullhead City sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Bullhead City'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 - Bullhead City highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Bullhead City, AZ (this city): home $196,900, crime 2,648/100k
Moline, IL : home $141,900, crime 3,718/100k
Danville, VA : home $110,200, crime 3,199/100k
Coppell, TX : home $525,300, crime 929/100k
Apache Junction, AZ : home $196,700, crime 1,938/100k
Sierra Vista, AZ : home $239,000, crime 1,881/100k
Prescott, AZ : home $528,500, crime 1,452/100k
Oro Valley, AZ : home $440,400, crime 1,200/100k
Prescott Valley, AZ : home $376,300, crime 994/100k
How does Bullhead City compare to other US cities?
Bullhead City measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income16% higher than other cities
Home value42% pricier than other cities
Median rent64% pricier than other cities
Safety20% 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, Bullhead City ranks #45 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 Bullhead City 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 Bullhead City near the bottom of Arizona's cities
Among the 394 Arizona cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Bullhead City ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Bullhead City only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#227 of 333
32nd percentile in Arizona
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 394
0th percentile in Arizona
Median Home Value
#162 of 327
50th percentile in Arizona
Poverty Rate
#145 of 393
63rd percentile in Arizona
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#199 of 394
49th 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
16th percentile nationally for median household income · 20th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Bullhead City's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Bullhead City'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 Bullhead City's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$196,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 58% 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
Bullhead City's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,046 of 15,516
More affordable than 29% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,084 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.1×, Bullhead City sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,046 of 15,516 and #2,084 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$47,717Bullhead City, AZ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Bullhead City, 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 Bullhead City, AZ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)14.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)15.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)39.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
42,193
Median Income
$47,717
Median Home Value
$196,900
Median Age
53.7
Poverty Rate
15.2%
Labor force participation
39.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
14.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2647.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
455.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2192.5
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
74.2°F
Annual Precipitation
5.4"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Bullhead City's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
41,486 residents
2021
42,187 residents
2022
42,827 residents
2023
43,225 residents
2024
43,512 residents
2025
43,987 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
415
housing units authorized
Single-Family
375
detached homes
Multifamily
40
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
9.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
248
246
2
$57.0M
2020
305
305
0
$65.3M
2021
400
398
2
$88.2M
2022
325
297
28
$69.6M
2023
293
211
82
$52.6M
2024
415
375
40
$81.4M
Permit volume increased 67% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.8 minutes
Drive Alone
78.3%
Carpool
7.9%
Public Transit
0.9%
Walk
1.5%
Work from Home
7.0%
Other
4.4%
Based on 14,034 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 Bullhead City. 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 Bullhead City 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 Bullhead City sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Bullhead City 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.