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Place dossier plate
SheetAZ-CHANDLER-AZ · Chandler, AZ 278,123 pop · income 80th 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 Chandler
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Chandler on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Buffalo · lowest
48,050
Buffalo · lowest
48,050 median HH income
39.6% of the leader · rank #1
Palmer Ranch · near
103,682
Palmer Ranch · near
103,682 median HH income
85.4% of the leader · rank #2
Amityville · near
103,684
Amityville · near
103,684 median HH income
85.4% of the leader · rank #3
Chandler · this city
103,691
Chandler · this city
103,691 median HH income
85.4% of the leader · rank #4
Pennsburg · near
103,698
Pennsburg · near
103,698 median HH income
85.5% of the leader · rank #5
Raritan · near
103,699
Raritan · near
103,699 median HH income
85.5% of the leader · rank #6
Gilbert · highest
121,351
Gilbert · highest
121,351 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 Chandler 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: 278,123.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Chandler - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Chandler places in the 80th percentile for household income and the 42nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
80th
percentile, household income
83rd
percentile, home value
64th
percentile, median rent
42nd
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: Chandler, AZ
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 278,123 residents in Chandler, a mid-sized U.S. city within Arizona. Chandler households earn a median of $103,691 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.5%. Chandler's housing stock carries a median value of $469,800, and the median resident age is 37.4 years. Educational attainment runs 46.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 68.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 1,020 residential building permits were authorized in Chandler (Stable), down 1% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Chandler reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1637.8 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as 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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,419 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Arizona's average monthly utility costs around $215 (state average). Workers in Chandler report an average commute of 18.7 minutes, with 65.5% driving alone and 22.7% working from home. 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 Chandler'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 schools and households to comparison shortlist to housing and income to reported crime to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Chandler, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count.
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
Is Chandler growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,338 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,020 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
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 6 public schools within the city match. 46.8% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Chandler?
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 Gilbert (271,118 residents, $121,351 income); Glendale (250,193 residents, $70,139 income); Scottsdale (242,169 residents, $107,372 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Buffalo, NY (276,397 residents); Madison, WI (275,568 residents); Chula Vista, CA (275,030 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Chandler?
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 4.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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 Chandler?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1637.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 28% lower 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
1637.8
Violent rate
133.4
Property rate
1504.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Chandler?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 65.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.7 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. 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.
Drive alone
65.5%
Work from home
22.7%
Public transit
0.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 149,421 workers age 16+.
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Arizona average
C+
City profile score · Chandler, AZ
64/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A-
46.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$103,691
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C+
133 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
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.
Chandler profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 81/100 (A-) · 46.8%
Household income: 79/100 (B+) · $103,691
Poverty rate: 62/100 (C+) · 5.5%
Violent crime: 62/100 (C+) · 133 /100k
Cost of living: 37/100 (F) · 100.7 index
Where Chandler sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Chandler'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 - Chandler highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Chandler, AZ (this city): home $469,800, crime 1,638/100k
Buffalo, NY : home $152,300, crime 4,516/100k
Madison, WI : home $346,900, crime 2,121/100k
Chula Vista, CA : home $697,400, crime 1,508/100k
North Las Vegas, NV : home $372,300, crime 2,350/100k
Reno, NV : home $498,600, crime 2,975/100k
Plano, TX : home $440,600, crime 1,618/100k
Gilbert, AZ : home $518,600, crime 1,100/100k
Glendale, AZ : home $347,000, crime 3,159/100k
Scottsdale, AZ : home $709,900, crime 2,028/100k
Peoria, AZ : home $429,400, crime 1,460/100k
Tempe, AZ : home $421,900, crime 3,364/100k
Surprise, AZ : home $396,000, crime 985/100k
How does Chandler compare to other US cities?
Here's how Chandler stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income80% higher than other cities
Home value83% pricier than other cities
Median rent64% pricier than other cities
Safety42% 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, Chandler ranks #29 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 Chandler 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 Chandler near the bottom of Arizona's cities
Among the 394 Arizona cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Chandler ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Chandler only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#29 of 333
91st percentile in Arizona
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 394
0th percentile in Arizona
Median Home Value
#29 of 327
91st percentile in Arizona
Poverty Rate
#248 of 393
37th percentile in Arizona
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#38 of 394
90th 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
80th percentile nationally for median household income · 42nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Chandler's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Chandler'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 Chandler's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$469,80017th percentilemore affordable than 17% 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
Chandler's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,044 of 15,516
More affordable than 22% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#60 of 117
Large cities (200,000–999,999)
At 4.5×, Chandler sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,044 of 15,516 and #60 of 117large cities (200,000–999,999).
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
$103,691Chandler, AZ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Chandler, 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 Chandler, AZ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)46.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
278,123
Median Income
$103,691
Median Home Value
$469,800
Median Age
37.4
Poverty Rate
5.5%
Labor force participation
68.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
46.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1637.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
133.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1504.4
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Chandler's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
277,410 residents
2021
279,591 residents
2022
280,356 residents
2023
280,300 residents
2024
280,014 residents
2025
278,748 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
1,020
housing units authorized
Single-Family
172
detached homes
Multifamily
848
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1,033
581
452
$311.5M
2020
1,901
821
1,080
$444.3M
2021
2,083
670
1,413
$465.5M
2022
327
203
124
$91.3M
2023
760
233
527
$158.0M
2024
1,020
172
848
$148.0M
Permit volume decreased 1% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.7 minutes
Drive Alone
65.5%
Carpool
8.5%
Public Transit
0.6%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
22.7%
Other
1.8%
Based on 149,421 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 Chandler. 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 Chandler 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 Chandler sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Chandler 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.