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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-ANAHEIM-CA · Anaheim, CA 344,553 pop · income 71st 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 Anaheim
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Anaheim on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
San Juan zona… · lowest
27,500
San Juan zona… · lowest
27,500 median HH income
21.2% of the leader · rank #1
Hindsville · near
90,574
Hindsville · near
90,574 median HH income
69.9% of the leader · rank #2
Samsula-Spruc… · near
90,575
Samsula-Spruc… · near
90,575 median HH income
69.9% of the leader · rank #3
Anaheim · this city
90,583
Anaheim · this city
90,583 median HH income
69.9% of the leader · rank #4
Longview Heig… · near
90,592
Longview Heig… · near
90,592 median HH income
69.9% of the leader · rank #5
Schwana · near
90,592
Schwana · near
90,592 median HH income
69.9% of the leader · rank #6
Irvine · highest
129,647
Irvine · highest
129,647 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 Anaheim 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: 344,553.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Anaheim - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Anaheim lands in the 71st percentile for household income and the 19th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
71st
percentile, household income
94th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
19th
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: Anaheim, CA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 344,553 residents in Anaheim, a mid-sized U.S. city within California. Anaheim households earn a median of $90,583 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.3%. Anaheim's housing stock carries a median value of $771,700, and the median resident age is 35.9 years. Educational attainment runs 28.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 63.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 654 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Stable), down 2% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2728.3 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Anaheim's yearly average temperature at 67.7°F with 13.5 inches of precipitation per year.
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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $2,053 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts California's average monthly utility costs around $275 (state average). Commute times here average 25.5 minutes, with 74.1% driving alone and 9.3% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Anaheim'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 comparison shortlist to population change to housing and income to work and mobility to reported crime to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Anaheim, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates.
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
What does the education layer cover for Anaheim?
The NCES join finds 69 public schools within the city match. 28.8% 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.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Anaheim?
Within California, the closest population matches are Stockton (320,470 residents, $76,851 income); Riverside (316,241 residents, $88,575 income); Santa Ana (311,639 residents, $88,354 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Urban Honolulu, HI (346,323 residents); Henderson, NV (324,523 residents); Cleveland, OH (367,523 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.
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -5,637 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 654 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
How far does income reach against housing in Anaheim?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 8.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.3%, 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. 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.
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 Anaheim?
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%. The reported mean trip to work is 25.5 minutes.
Public transit
1.9%
Work from home
9.3%
Drive alone
74.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 171,161 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Anaheim?
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 2728.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 20% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2132.1
Violent rate
596.2
Total reported rate
2728.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 67.7°F, with 13.5 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for California is 88.7 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.
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.
Mean temperature
67.7°F
Annual precipitation
13.5 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
88.7
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Above median income · poverty 9.3% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Anaheim, CA
38/100
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 B
$90,583
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C
28.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
596 /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.
Anaheim profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 70/100 (B) · $90,583
Bachelor's+ share: 56/100 (C) · 28.8%
Poverty rate: 42/100 (D) · 9.3%
Violent crime: 10/100 (F) · 596 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Anaheim sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Anaheim'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 - Anaheim highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Anaheim, CA (this city): home $771,700, crime 2,728/100k
Henderson, NV : home $465,000, crime 1,987/100k
Cleveland, OH : home $94,100, crime 5,987/100k
Corpus Christi, TX : home $197,100, crime 3,875/100k
Stockton, CA : home $412,900, crime 3,785/100k
Riverside, CA : home $542,100, crime 3,422/100k
Santa Ana, CA : home $657,800, crime 2,195/100k
Irvine, CA : home $1,115,400, crime 1,474/100k
Bakersfield, CA : home $347,300, crime 3,024/100k
Chula Vista, CA : home $697,400, crime 1,508/100k
How does Anaheim compare to other US cities?
Here's how Anaheim stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income71% higher than other cities
Home value94% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety19% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just California and the picture shifts: Anaheim ranks #341 of 441 California cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Anaheim 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 Anaheim near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Anaheim ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Anaheim only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#621 of 1,338
54th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#383 of 1,343
71st percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#535 of 1,450
63rd percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#647 of 1,458
56th 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
71st percentile nationally for median household income · 19th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Anaheim's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Anaheim'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 Anaheim's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$771,7006th percentilemore affordable than 6% 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
Anaheim's home-value-to-income ratio: 8.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,165 of 15,516
More affordable than 2% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#112 of 117
Large cities (200,000–999,999)
At 8.5×, Anaheim sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,165 of 15,516 and #112 of 117large cities (200,000–999,999).
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
$90,583Anaheim, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Anaheim, 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 Anaheim, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)28.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
344,553
Median Income
$90,583
Median Home Value
$771,700
Median Age
35.9
Poverty Rate
9.3%
Labor force participation
63.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
28.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2728.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
596.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2132.1
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
67.7°F
Annual Precipitation
13.5"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
69
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Anaheim's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
346,645 residents
2021
344,858 residents
2022
343,292 residents
2023
342,196 residents
2024
342,688 residents
2025
341,008 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
654
housing units authorized
Single-Family
95
detached homes
Multifamily
559
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
669
123
546
$49.8M
2020
449
86
363
$92.6M
2021
919
85
834
$173.7M
2022
672
48
624
$136.7M
2023
851
84
767
$191.5M
2024
654
95
559
$153.7M
Permit volume decreased 2% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
25.5 minutes
Drive Alone
74.1%
Carpool
10.9%
Public Transit
1.9%
Walk
1.7%
Work from Home
9.3%
Other
2.1%
Based on 171,161 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 Anaheim. 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 Anaheim 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 Anaheim sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Anaheim 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, 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.