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SheetCA-BUTTE-CREEK-CANYON-CA · Butte Creek Canyon, CA 783 pop · income 78th 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 Butte Creek Canyon
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Butte Creek Canyon on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Gibsland · lowest
20,915
Gibsland · lowest
20,915 median HH income
13.2% of the leader · rank #1
Destrehan · near
100,189
Destrehan · near
100,189 median HH income
63.1% of the leader · rank #2
Websters Cros… · near
100,192
Websters Cros… · near
100,192 median HH income
63.1% of the leader · rank #3
Plantersville · near
100,192
Plantersville · near
100,192 median HH income
63.1% of the leader · rank #4
Butte Creek C… · this city
100,197
Butte Creek C… · this city
100,197 median HH income
63.1% of the leader · rank #5
Houston · near
100,208
Houston · near
100,208 median HH income
63.1% of the leader · rank #6
Bradbury · highest
158,750
Bradbury · highest
158,750 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 Butte Creek Canyon 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: 783.
Nationally, Butte Creek Canyon sits in the 78th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
78th
percentile, household income
93rd
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: Butte Creek Canyon, CA
783 people live in Butte Creek Canyon, California - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Butte Creek Canyon brings in $100,197 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 18.7%. Butte Creek Canyon's housing stock carries a median value of $700,700, and the median resident age is 54.4 years. About 48.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 60.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
California carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 110.7 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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. Workers in Butte Creek Canyon report an average commute of 14.0 minutes, with 84.5% driving alone and 15.5% working from home. 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 Butte Creek Canyon'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 Butte Creek Canyon, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Butte Creek Canyon?
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 7.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 18.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Butte Creek Canyon?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 84.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 14.0 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Butte Creek Canyon?
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.
Within California, the closest population matches are Bradbury (788 residents, $158,750 income); Johnson Park (791 residents, $44,015 income); Spring Valley CDP (Lake County) (775 residents, $43,816 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Silver Cliff, CO (783 residents); Albany, IL (783 residents); Grandview, IN (783 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.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
D
City profile score · Butte Creek Canyon, CA
45/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A-
48.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$100,197
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
18.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better 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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Butte Creek Canyon profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 83/100 (A-) · 48.8%
Household income: 77/100 (B+) · $100,197
Poverty rate: 16/100 (F) · 18.7%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
How does Butte Creek Canyon compare to other US cities?
Butte Creek Canyon measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income78% higher than other cities
Home value93% 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 Butte Creek Canyon 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 Butte Creek Canyon near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Butte Creek Canyon ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Butte Creek Canyon only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#509 of 1,338
62nd percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#442 of 1,343
67th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#210 of 1,450
85th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#288 of 1,458
80th 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
78th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Butte Creek Canyon's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$700,7007th percentilemore affordable than 7% 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
Butte Creek Canyon's home-value-to-income ratio: 7.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,666 of 15,516
More affordable than 5% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,800 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 7.0×, Butte Creek Canyon sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,666 of 15,516 and #10,800 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$100,197Butte Creek Canyon, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Butte Creek Canyon, 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 Butte Creek Canyon, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)48.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)18.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
783
Median Income
$100,197
Median Home Value
$700,700
Median Age
54.4
Poverty Rate
18.7%
Labor force participation
60.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
48.8%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
14.0 minutes
Drive Alone
84.5%
Carpool
0.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
15.5%
Based on 401 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 Butte Creek Canyon. 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 Butte Creek Canyon 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 Butte Creek Canyon sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Butte Creek Canyon 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.