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SheetAZ-COOLIDGE-AZ · Coolidge, AZ 15,300 pop · income 31st 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 Coolidge
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Coolidge on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Douglas · lowest
39,350
Douglas · lowest
39,350 median HH income
22.9% of the leader · rank #1
Palisade · near
57,159
Palisade · near
57,159 median HH income
33.2% of the leader · rank #2
Hancock · near
57,159
Hancock · near
57,159 median HH income
33.2% of the leader · rank #3
New Wilmington · near
57,159
New Wilmington · near
57,159 median HH income
33.2% of the leader · rank #4
Coolidge · this city
57,161
Coolidge · this city
57,161 median HH income
33.2% of the leader · rank #5
Northumberland · near
57,162
Northumberland · near
57,162 median HH income
33.2% of the leader · rank #6
Franklin Park · highest
172,200
Franklin Park · highest
172,200 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 Coolidge 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: 15,300.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Coolidge - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Coolidge places in the 31st percentile for household income and the 36th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
31st
percentile, household income
44th
percentile, home value
64th
percentile, median rent
36th
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: Coolidge, AZ
15,300 people live in Coolidge, Arizona - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $57,161 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 18.2%. Home values in Coolidge run a median of $203,100, and the median resident age is 34.5 years. Educational attainment runs 13.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 50.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 285 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Growing), up 18% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1834.7 in FBI UCR data, near 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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,419 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $215 across Arizona, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 84.5 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Coolidge'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 work and mobility to population change to comparison shortlist to reported crime to housing and income to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Coolidge, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history.
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. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Coolidge?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Is Coolidge growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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 +6,534 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +48.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 285 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Coolidge?
Within Arizona, the closest population matches are Tanque Verde (15,531 residents, $119,212 income); Fort Mohave (15,716 residents, $65,417 income); Vail (15,722 residents, $121,385 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Fort Leonard Wood, MO (15,317 residents); Franklin Park, PA (15,273 residents); Bradley, IL (15,331 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Coolidge?
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 1834.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 20% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Coolidge?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 18.2%, 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.
Household income
$57,161
Home value
$203,100
Value / income
3.6×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
The NCES join finds 11 public schools within the city match. 13.2% 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.
Matched public schools
11
Bachelor's degree+
13.2%
Poverty estimate
18.2%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 18.2% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.7 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Arizona average
F
City profile score · Coolidge, AZ
27/100
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.
Violent crime F
306 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$57,161
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
18.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
13.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Coolidge profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 37/100 (F) · 100.7 index
Violent crime: 32/100 (F) · 306 /100k
Household income: 30/100 (F) · $57,161
Poverty rate: 17/100 (F) · 18.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 15/100 (F) · 13.2%
Where Coolidge sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Coolidge'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 - Coolidge highlighted among 27 peers.Read the chart values
Coolidge, AZ (this city): home $203,100, crime 1,835/100k
Franklin Park, PA : home $467,700, crime 289/100k
Bradley, IL : home $164,400, crime 2,608/100k
Monroe, GA : home $222,000, crime 1,952/100k
New Haven, IN : home $151,200, crime 1,292/100k
Douglas, AZ : home $138,200, crime 1,647/100k
Somerton, AZ : home $206,100, crime 707/100k
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 Coolidge compare to other US cities?
Coolidge measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income31% higher than other cities
Home value44% pricier than other cities
Median rent64% pricier than other cities
Safety36% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Arizona and the picture shifts: Coolidge ranks #36 of 61 Arizona cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Coolidge 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 Coolidge near the bottom of Arizona's cities
Among the 394 Arizona cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Coolidge ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Coolidge only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#163 of 333
51st percentile in Arizona
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 394
0th percentile in Arizona
Median Home Value
#156 of 327
52nd percentile in Arizona
Poverty Rate
#126 of 393
68th percentile in Arizona
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#215 of 394
45th 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
31st percentile nationally for median household income · 36th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Coolidge's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Coolidge'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 Coolidge's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$203,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 56% 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
Coolidge's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,191 of 15,516
More affordable than 41% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,547 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.6×, Coolidge sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,191 of 15,516 and #1,547 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
$57,161Coolidge, AZ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Coolidge, 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 Coolidge, AZ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)13.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)18.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)50.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
15,300
Median Income
$57,161
Median Home Value
$203,100
Median Age
34.5
Poverty Rate
18.2%
Labor force participation
50.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
13.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1834.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
305.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1528.9
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
11
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Coolidge's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
13,425 residents
2021
14,918 residents
2022
16,712 residents
2023
18,114 residents
2024
19,157 residents
2025
19,959 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
285
housing units authorized
Single-Family
257
detached homes
Multifamily
28
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
18.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
241
194
47
$33.8M
2020
697
529
168
$96.3M
2021
776
631
145
$116.8M
2022
444
404
40
$76.6M
2023
147
141
6
$24.0M
2024
285
257
28
$36.9M
Permit volume increased 18% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.1%
Carpool
14.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.6%
Work from Home
8.0%
Other
1.3%
Based on 6,179 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 Coolidge. 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 Coolidge 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 Coolidge sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Coolidge 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.