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SheetCA-ADELANTO-CA · Adelanto, CA 38,010 pop · income 48th 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 Adelanto
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Adelanto on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Hot Springs · lowest
46,441
Hot Springs · lowest
46,441 median HH income
29.6% of the leader · rank #1
Greigsville · near
68,409
Greigsville · near
68,409 median HH income
43.6% of the leader · rank #2
Littlestown · near
68,415
Littlestown · near
68,415 median HH income
43.6% of the leader · rank #3
Adelanto · this city
68,419
Adelanto · this city
68,419 median HH income
43.6% of the leader · rank #4
Oakland Park · near
68,424
Oakland Park · near
68,424 median HH income
43.6% of the leader · rank #5
Laconia · near
68,427
Laconia · near
68,427 median HH income
43.6% of the leader · rank #6
Pacifica · highest
156,819
Pacifica · highest
156,819 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 Adelanto 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: 38,010.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Adelanto - the verdict
Adelanto ranks in the 48th percentile for household income and the 44th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
48th
percentile, household income
68th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
44th
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: Adelanto, CA
Adelanto is a small city in California, home to 38,010 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Adelanto report a median income of $68,419 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 15.8%. Home values in Adelanto run a median of $318,300, and the median resident age is 28.8 years. About 7.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 48.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 34 residential building permits were authorized in Adelanto (Construction Slowdown), down 46% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Adelanto reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1559.8 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
California carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts California at 110.7 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Above Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $2,053 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across California, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 88.7 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Adelanto'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 schools and households to population change to housing and income 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 Adelanto, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, 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. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Adelanto?
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 12 public schools within the city match. 7.8% 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.
Is Adelanto growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +687 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 34 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Adelanto?
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 4.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 15.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Adelanto?
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 California, the closest population matches are Montclair (37,809 residents, $76,338 income); La Quinta (38,299 residents, $97,628 income); Monrovia (37,553 residents, $97,083 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sun, AZ (38,018 residents); Hot Springs, AR (38,023 residents); Riviera Beach, FL (38,032 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Adelanto?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 79.3%. 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
79.3%
Work from home
5.5%
Public transit
0.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 12,645 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Adelanto?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1559.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 32% 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
1559.8
Violent rate
565.3
Property rate
994.5
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Below median income · poverty 15.8% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Adelanto, CA
20/100
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.
Household income D
$68,419
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
15.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
565 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Cost of living F
110.7 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share F
7.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Adelanto profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 47/100 (D) · $68,419
Poverty rate: 21/100 (F) · 15.8%
Violent crime: 12/100 (F) · 565 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Bachelor's+ share: 0/100 (F) · 7.8%
Where Adelanto sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Adelanto'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 - Adelanto highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Adelanto, CA (this city): home $318,300, crime 1,560/100k
Hot Springs, AR : home $156,900, crime 4,697/100k
Riviera Beach, FL : home $311,900, crime 4,575/100k
Northglenn, CO : home $440,900, crime 3,010/100k
Portage, IN : home $210,800, crime 1,344/100k
Holyoke, MA : home $255,300, crime 5,273/100k
Montclair, CA : home $549,600, crime 4,290/100k
La Quinta, CA : home $612,800, crime 2,122/100k
Monrovia, CA : home $891,700, crime 2,612/100k
Calexico, CA : home $281,700, crime 682/100k
Pacifica, CA : home $1,211,700, crime 1,451/100k
La Puente, CA : home $593,200, crime 1,700/100k
How does Adelanto compare to other US cities?
Here's how Adelanto stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income48% higher than other cities
Home value68% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety44% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at California, Adelanto ranks #155 of 441 California cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Adelanto against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to California only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
California-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Adelanto near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Adelanto ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Adelanto only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#939 of 1,338
30th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#1,036 of 1,343
23rd percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#273 of 1,450
81st percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,269 of 1,458
13th percentile in California
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 California only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
48th percentile nationally for median household income · 44th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Adelanto's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Adelanto'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 Adelanto's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$318,30032nd percentilemore affordable than 32% 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
Adelanto's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,286 of 15,516
More affordable than 21% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,439 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.7×, Adelanto sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,286 of 15,516 and #2,439 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
$68,419Adelanto, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Adelanto, CA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Adelanto, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)7.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)15.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)48.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
38,010
Median Income
$68,419
Median Home Value
$318,300
Median Age
28.8
Poverty Rate
15.8%
Labor force participation
48.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
7.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1559.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
565.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
994.5
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.
Schools
Total Schools
12
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Adelanto's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
38,111 residents
2021
38,157 residents
2022
37,406 residents
2023
38,134 residents
2024
38,418 residents
2025
38,798 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
34
housing units authorized
Single-Family
32
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
63
63
0
$16.2M
2020
163
163
0
$17.6M
2021
208
208
0
$39.1M
2022
21
21
0
$3.2M
2023
75
75
0
$14.7M
2024
34
32
2
$6.8M
Permit volume decreased 46% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
79.3%
Carpool
12.5%
Public Transit
0.6%
Walk
0.4%
Work from Home
5.5%
Other
1.7%
Based on 12,645 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
California statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $275
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across California at $275 (electricity about $150 , water and sewer about $70 ).
These are California statewide averages, not a meter reading for Adelanto. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
California's BEA cost-of-living index is 110.7 (Well Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Adelanto is $2,053/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to California statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 88.7 / 100 (Very High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a California statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Adelanto sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Adelanto compares to similar-size California 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.