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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-BALDWIN-PARK-CA · Baldwin Park, CA 70,720 pop · income 61st 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 Baldwin Park
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Baldwin Park on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lafayette · lowest
52,946
Lafayette · lowest
52,946 median HH income
25.8% of the leader · rank #1
Kachina · near
79,085
Kachina · near
79,085 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #2
Baldwin Park · this city
79,087
Baldwin Park · this city
79,087 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #3
North Hornell · near
79,091
North Hornell · near
79,091 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #4
Huntington · near
79,091
Huntington · near
79,091 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #5
Catalina · near
79,092
Catalina · near
79,092 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #6
Dublin · highest
205,046
Dublin · highest
205,046 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 Baldwin Park 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: 70,720.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Baldwin Park - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Baldwin Park places in the 61st percentile for household income and the 36th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
61st
percentile, household income
89th
percentile, home value
88th
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: Baldwin Park, CA
70,720 people live in Baldwin Park, California - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $79,087 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.9%. Home values in Baldwin Park run a median of $588,100, and the median resident age is 37.4 years. Educational attainment runs 14.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 57.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 130 residential building permits were authorized in Baldwin Park (Building Boom), up 550% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1833.6 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
California carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, California scores 110.7 (Well Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. 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 27.8 minutes, with 73.8% driving alone and 5.9% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 88.7 out of 100 (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Baldwin Park'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 reported crime to housing and income to comparison shortlist to population change to work and mobility to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Baldwin Park, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares, 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 can the FBI record say about safety in Baldwin Park?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1833.6 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.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Baldwin Park?
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 7.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Baldwin Park?
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 Dublin (70,542 residents, $205,046 income); Camarillo (70,244 residents, $109,390 income); Eastvale (70,179 residents, $161,322 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Casas Adobes, AZ (70,770 residents); Waukesha, WI (70,779 residents); Lafayette, IN (70,650 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.
Is Baldwin Park growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -3,082 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -4.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 130 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 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.
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 Baldwin Park?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 27.8 minutes.
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
73.8%
Work from home
5.9%
Public transit
2.9%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 32,072 workers age 16+.
What does the education layer cover for Baldwin Park?
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 18 public schools within the city match. 14.3% 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.
Poverty estimate
11.9%
Bachelor's degree+
14.3%
Matched public schools
18
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above median income · poverty 11.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Baldwin Park, CA
29/100
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 C
$79,087
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
404 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
14.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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.
Baldwin Park profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 58/100 (C) · $79,087
Poverty rate: 32/100 (F) · 11.9%
Violent crime: 22/100 (F) · 404 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 18/100 (F) · 14.3%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Baldwin Park sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Baldwin Park'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 - Baldwin Park highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Baldwin Park, CA (this city): home $588,100, crime 1,834/100k
Waukesha, WI : home $286,600, crime 989/100k
Lafayette, IN : home $157,600, crime 2,642/100k
Ankeny, IA : home $311,300, crime 1,188/100k
Maple Grove, MN : home $397,400, crime 1,877/100k
Dublin, CA : home $1,224,100, crime 2,072/100k
Camarillo, CA : home $766,100, crime 1,320/100k
Eastvale, CA : home $752,000, crime 1,823/100k
Tulare, CA : home $301,200, crime 2,415/100k
Lake Elsinore, CA : home $505,700, crime 2,027/100k
Redondo Beach, CA : home $1,225,400, crime 2,835/100k
How does Baldwin Park compare to other US cities?
Where Baldwin Park sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income61% higher than other cities
Home value89% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety36% 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, Baldwin Park ranks #203 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 Baldwin Park 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 Baldwin Park near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Baldwin Park ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Baldwin Park only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#790 of 1,338
41st percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#594 of 1,343
56th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#404 of 1,450
72nd percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,072 of 1,458
26th 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
61st percentile nationally for median household income · 36th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Baldwin Park's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Baldwin Park'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 Baldwin Park's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$588,10011th percentilemore affordable than 11% 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
Baldwin Park's home-value-to-income ratio: 7.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,865 of 15,516
More affordable than 4% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#673 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 7.4×, Baldwin Park sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,865 of 15,516 and #673 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$79,087Baldwin Park, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Baldwin Park, 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 Baldwin Park, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)14.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
70,720
Median Income
$79,087
Median Home Value
$588,100
Median Age
37.4
Poverty Rate
11.9%
Labor force participation
57.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
14.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1833.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
404.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1429.4
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
18
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Baldwin Park's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
71,962 residents
2021
70,495 residents
2022
69,682 residents
2023
69,315 residents
2024
69,214 residents
2025
68,880 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
130
housing units authorized
Single-Family
74
detached homes
Multifamily
56
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
20
12
8
$2.7M
2020
2
2
0
$0.6M
2021
41
24
17
$8.4M
2022
76
51
25
$18.8M
2023
43
38
5
$11.9M
2024
130
74
56
$32.6M
Permit volume increased 550% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
27.8 minutes
Drive Alone
73.8%
Carpool
14.9%
Public Transit
2.9%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
5.9%
Other
1.8%
Based on 32,072 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 Baldwin Park. 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 Baldwin Park 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 Baldwin Park sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Baldwin Park 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.