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SheetCA-BERTSCH-OCEANVIEW-CA · Bertsch-Oceanview, CA 2,197 pop · income 54th 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 Bertsch-Oceanview
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Bertsch-Oceanview on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bodfish · lowest
33,295
Bodfish · lowest
33,295 median HH income
24.4% of the leader · rank #1
Delta · near
73,224
Delta · near
73,224 median HH income
53.7% of the leader · rank #2
Bertsch-Ocean… · this city
73,229
Bertsch-Ocean… · this city
73,229 median HH income
53.7% of the leader · rank #3
Cloverland · near
73,229
Cloverland · near
73,229 median HH income
53.7% of the leader · rank #4
Fall River · near
73,229
Fall River · near
73,229 median HH income
53.7% of the leader · rank #5
Ravenna · near
73,233
Ravenna · near
73,233 median HH income
53.7% of the leader · rank #6
Beaver Lake · highest
136,364
Beaver Lake · highest
136,364 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 Bertsch-Oceanview 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: 2,197.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Bertsch-Oceanview lands in the 54th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
54th
percentile, household income
45th
percentile, home value
88th
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: Bertsch-Oceanview, CA
Bertsch-Oceanview is a small town in California, home to 2,197 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $73,229 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.0%. Home values in Bertsch-Oceanview run a median of $208,300, and the median resident age is 48.3 years. Educational attainment runs 15.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 62.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $2,053 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in California run around $275, per EIA 2023 residential energy 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 Bertsch-Oceanview'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 housing and income to 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 Bertsch-Oceanview, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Bertsch-Oceanview?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.0%, 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Bertsch-Oceanview?
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 73.8%. 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 Bertsch-Oceanview?
Within California, the closest population matches are East Quincy (2,198 residents, $71,591 income); Bodfish (2,191 residents, $33,295 income); Shingletown (2,188 residents, $74,242 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bayou L'Ourse, LA (2,197 residents); Wheeler AFB, HI (2,196 residents); Burns Harbor, IN (2,198 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.
Above median income · poverty 8.0% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Bertsch-Oceanview, CA
34/100
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.
Household income C-
$73,229
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
15.4%
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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Bertsch-Oceanview profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 53/100 (C-) · $73,229
Poverty rate: 48/100 (D) · 8.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 21/100 (F) · 15.4%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
How does Bertsch-Oceanview compare to other US cities?
Here's how Bertsch-Oceanview stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income54% higher than other cities
Home value45% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% 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 Bertsch-Oceanview 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 Bertsch-Oceanview near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Bertsch-Oceanview ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Bertsch-Oceanview only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#875 of 1,338
35th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#1,246 of 1,343
7th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#612 of 1,450
57th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,033 of 1,458
29th 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
54th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Bertsch-Oceanview's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$208,300Among the most affordablemore affordable than 55% 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,828 of 15,516
More affordable than 62% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,035 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.8×, Bertsch-Oceanview sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,828 of 15,516 and #5,035 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$73,229Bertsch-Oceanview, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Bertsch-Oceanview, 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 Bertsch-Oceanview, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,197
Median Income
$73,229
Median Home Value
$208,300
Median Age
48.3
Poverty Rate
8.0%
Labor force participation
62.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.4%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
73.8%
Carpool
12.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
12.4%
Other
1.5%
Based on 1,069 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 Bertsch-Oceanview. 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 Bertsch-Oceanview 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 Bertsch-Oceanview sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Bertsch-Oceanview 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, 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.