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SheetAZ-TONALEA-AZ · Tonalea, AZ 275 pop · income 4th 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 Tonalea
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Tonalea on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Young · lowest
30,956
Young · lowest
30,956 median HH income
26.9% of the leader · rank #1
Estherwood · near
34,028
Estherwood · near
34,028 median HH income
29.6% of the leader · rank #2
Creswell · near
34,028
Creswell · near
34,028 median HH income
29.6% of the leader · rank #3
Plantersville · near
34,034
Plantersville · near
34,034 median HH income
29.6% of the leader · rank #4
Tonalea · this city
34,044
Tonalea · this city
34,044 median HH income
29.6% of the leader · rank #5
Rarden · near
34,063
Rarden · near
34,063 median HH income
29.6% of the leader · rank #6
Menominee · highest
115,000
Menominee · highest
115,000 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Tonalea on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 275.
Tonalea ranks in the 4th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
4th
percentile, household income
64th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Tonalea, AZ
Tonalea is a small town in Arizona, home to 275 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Tonalea households earn a median of $34,044 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 40.0%. The median resident age is 21.9 years. About 4.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 27.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Arizona tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 100.7 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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 Tonalea'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 comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Tonalea, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, 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 Tonalea?
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 60.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Tonalea?
Within Arizona, the closest population matches are Central (273 residents, $94,478 income); Dripping Springs (277 residents, $48,355 income); Palominas (278 residents). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Menominee, IL (275 residents); Pottawattamie Park, IN (275 residents); Prescott, KS (275 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.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 40.0% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
100.7 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Arizona average
F
City profile score · Tonalea, AZ
9/100
4 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.
Household income F
$34,044
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
40.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
4.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Tonalea profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 37/100 (F) · 100.7 index
Household income: 0/100 (F) · $34,044
Poverty rate: 0/100 (F) · 40.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 0/100 (F) · 4.4%
How does Tonalea compare to other US cities?
Here's how Tonalea stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income4% higher than other cities
Median rent64% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Tonalea 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 Tonalea near the bottom of Arizona's cities
Among the 394 Arizona cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Tonalea ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Tonalea only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#297 of 333
11th percentile in Arizona
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 394
0th percentile in Arizona
Poverty Rate
#42 of 393
89th percentile in Arizona
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#327 of 394
16th 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
4th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$34,044Tonalea, AZ median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Tonalea, 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 Tonalea, AZ.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)4.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)40.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)27.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
275
Median Income
$34,044
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
21.9
Poverty Rate
40.0%
Labor force participation
27.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
4.4%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
60.4%
Carpool
0.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
22.9%
Work from Home
16.7%
Based on 48 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 Tonalea. 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 Tonalea 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 Tonalea sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Tonalea 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, 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.