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SheetAZ-CHINO-VALLEY-AZ · Chino Valley, AZ 13,372 pop · income 35th 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 Chino Valley
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Chino Valley on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Washington · lowest
52,350
Washington · lowest
52,350 median HH income
22.2% of the leader · rank #1
Spearfish · near
59,731
Spearfish · near
59,731 median HH income
25.3% of the leader · rank #2
Westville · near
59,732
Westville · near
59,732 median HH income
25.3% of the leader · rank #3
Chino Valley · this city
59,733
Chino Valley · this city
59,733 median HH income
25.3% of the leader · rank #4
West Brookfie… · near
59,734
West Brookfie… · near
59,734 median HH income
25.3% of the leader · rank #5
Virgil · near
59,735
Virgil · near
59,735 median HH income
25.3% of the leader · rank #6
Paradise Vall… · highest
236,250
Paradise Vall… · highest
236,250 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 Chino Valley 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: 13,372.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Chino Valley - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Chino Valley places in the 35th percentile for household income and the 83rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
35th
percentile, household income
72nd
percentile, home value
64th
percentile, median rent
83rd
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: Chino Valley, AZ
13,372 people live in Chino Valley, Arizona - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Chino Valley report a median income of $59,733 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.4%. Typical homes in Chino Valley are valued around $352,100, and the median resident age is 49.9 years. Educational attainment runs 21.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 46.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 82 residential building permits were authorized in Chino Valley (Growing), up 5% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Chino Valley reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 547.7 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 57.0°F.
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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,419 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Arizona run around $215, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 84.5 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Chino Valley'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 housing and income to climate and hazard context to schools and households to population change to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Chino Valley, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
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.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Chino Valley?
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 5.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What physical conditions frame life in Chino Valley?
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 57.0°F. 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.
What does the education layer cover for Chino Valley?
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. 21.6% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Chino Valley?
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 Valencia West (13,834 residents, $90,758 income); Tucson Estates (12,687 residents, $66,813 income); Sun Lakes (14,079 residents, $63,545 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sault Ste. Marie, MI (13,373 residents); Blue Ash, OH (13,374 residents); Pottsville, PA (13,374 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.
Population change
Is Chino Valley growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +723 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 82 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.
2020 estimate
13,109
2025 estimate
13,832
Period change
+5.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Chino Valley?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.5%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Drive alone
74.5%
Work from home
10.8%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 5,051 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Chino Valley?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 547.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 76% 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
547.7
Violent rate
78.2
Property rate
469.5
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Below median income · poverty 7.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.7 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Arizona average
D
City profile score · Chino Valley, AZ
47/100
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.
Violent crime B+
78 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C-
7.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
21.6%
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.
Household income F
$59,733
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Chino Valley profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 76/100 (B+) · 78 /100k
Poverty rate: 50/100 (C-) · 7.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 39/100 (F) · 21.6%
Cost of living: 37/100 (F) · 100.7 index
Household income: 34/100 (F) · $59,733
Where Chino Valley sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Chino Valley'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 - Chino Valley highlighted among 26 peers.Read the chart values
Chino Valley, AZ (this city): home $352,100, crime 548/100k
Sault Ste. Marie, MI : home $127,300, crime 1,510/100k
Blue Ash, OH : home $365,700, crime 1,976/100k
Pottsville, PA : home $97,700, crime 1,677/100k
Moody, AL : home $222,500, crime 1,013/100k
Paradise Valley, AZ : home $2,000,000+, crime 1,069/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Chino Valley compare to other US cities?
Here's how Chino Valley stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income35% higher than other cities
Home value72% pricier than other cities
Median rent64% pricier than other cities
Safety83% 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, Chino Valley ranks #3 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 Chino Valley 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 Chino Valley near the bottom of Arizona's cities
Among the 394 Arizona cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Chino Valley ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Chino Valley only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#151 of 333
55th percentile in Arizona
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 394
0th percentile in Arizona
Median Home Value
#65 of 327
80th percentile in Arizona
Poverty Rate
#220 of 393
44th percentile in Arizona
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#130 of 394
67th 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
35th percentile nationally for median household income · 83rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Chino Valley's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Chino Valley'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 Chino Valley's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$352,10028th percentilemore affordable than 28% 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
Chino Valley's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,020 of 15,516
More affordable than 10% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,940 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.9×, Chino Valley sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,020 of 15,516 and #2,940 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$59,733Chino Valley, AZ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Chino Valley, 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 Chino Valley, AZ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)46.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,372
Median Income
$59,733
Median Home Value
$352,100
Median Age
49.9
Poverty Rate
7.4%
Labor force participation
46.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
547.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
78.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
469.5
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
57.0°F
Annual Precipitation
N/A
Annual Snowfall
N/A
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
Chino Valley's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
13,109 residents
2021
13,488 residents
2022
13,676 residents
2023
13,834 residents
2024
13,866 residents
2025
13,832 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
82
housing units authorized
Single-Family
82
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
6.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
78
78
0
$12.9M
2020
116
116
0
$18.2M
2021
90
90
0
$16.9M
2022
175
79
96
$23.2M
2023
34
34
0
$6.4M
2024
82
82
0
$11.5M
Permit volume increased 5% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.5%
Carpool
10.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.9%
Work from Home
10.8%
Other
1.0%
Based on 5,051 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 Chino Valley. 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 Chino Valley 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 Chino Valley sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Chino Valley 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.