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SheetCA-CALISTOGA-CA · Calistoga, CA 5,159 pop · income 66th 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 Calistoga
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Calistoga on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Camilla · lowest
26,720
Camilla · lowest
26,720 median HH income
10.7% of the leader · rank #1
Bemiss · near
84,886
Bemiss · near
84,886 median HH income
34.0% of the leader · rank #2
Cudjoe Key · near
84,890
Cudjoe Key · near
84,890 median HH income
34.0% of the leader · rank #3
Calistoga · this city
84,892
Calistoga · this city
84,892 median HH income
34.0% of the leader · rank #4
Howard · near
84,896
Howard · near
84,896 median HH income
34.0% of the leader · rank #5
Indian Head · near
84,898
Indian Head · near
84,898 median HH income
34.0% of the leader · rank #6
Woodside · highest
250,001
Woodside · highest
250,001 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 Calistoga 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: 5,159.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Calistoga - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Calistoga places in the 66th percentile for household income and the 50th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
66th
percentile, household income
93rd
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
50th
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: Calistoga, CA
Calistoga is a small town in California, home to 5,159 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Calistoga report a median income of $84,892 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.9%. Home values in Calistoga run a median of $702,700, and the median resident age is 48.9 years. 29.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 59.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 4 residential building permits were authorized in Calistoga (Slowing), down 20% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Calistoga reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1358.6 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Calistoga's yearly average temperature at 60.1°F with 38.6 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. 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 Calistoga'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 work and mobility to climate and hazard context to comparison shortlist to housing and income to population change to reported crime to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Calistoga, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
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. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Calistoga?
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 77.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 60.1°F, with 38.6 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Calistoga?
Within California, the closest population matches are Mayfair (5,173 residents, $59,638 income); Woodside (5,181 residents, $250,000+ income); Yosemite Lakes (5,095 residents, $100,227 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Camilla, GA (5,158 residents); Bangor, PA (5,158 residents); Smithville, TN (5,158 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Calistoga?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 8.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.9%, 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.
Population change
Is Calistoga growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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 -273 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -5.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 4 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-5.2%
2025 estimate
4,954
2020 estimate
5,227
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Calistoga?
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 1358.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 40% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1058.9
Violent rate
299.7
Total reported rate
1358.6
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Calistoga?
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 29.8% 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.
Matched public schools
3
Bachelor's degree+
29.8%
Poverty estimate
6.9%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above median income · poverty 6.9% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
D
City profile score · Calistoga, CA
43/100
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+
$84,892
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C
29.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C-
6.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
300 /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.
Calistoga profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 64/100 (C+) · $84,892
Bachelor's+ share: 58/100 (C) · 29.8%
Poverty rate: 53/100 (C-) · 6.9%
Violent crime: 33/100 (F) · 300 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Calistoga sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Calistoga'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 - Calistoga highlighted among 27 peers.Read the chart values
Calistoga, CA (this city): home $702,700, crime 1,359/100k
Camilla, GA : home $74,400, crime 1,679/100k
Bangor, PA : home $167,100, crime 1,135/100k
Smithville, TN : home $153,500, crime 1,650/100k
Cherokee, IA : home $119,400, crime 543/100k
Berlin, MD : home $345,100, crime 974/100k
Buellton, CA : home $704,200, crime 1,418/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Calistoga compare to other US cities?
Here's how Calistoga stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income66% higher than other cities
Home value93% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety50% 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: Calistoga ranks #119 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 Calistoga 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 Calistoga near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Calistoga ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Calistoga only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#701 of 1,338
48th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#438 of 1,343
67th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#694 of 1,450
52nd percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#633 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
66th percentile nationally for median household income · 50th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Calistoga's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Calistoga'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 Calistoga's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$702,7007th 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
Calistoga's home-value-to-income ratio: 8.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,110 of 15,516
More affordable than 3% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#11,085 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 8.3×, Calistoga sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,110 of 15,516 and #11,085 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
$84,892Calistoga, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Calistoga, 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 Calistoga, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)29.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,159
Median Income
$84,892
Median Home Value
$702,700
Median Age
48.9
Poverty Rate
6.9%
Labor force participation
59.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
29.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1358.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
299.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1058.9
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
60.1°F
Annual Precipitation
38.6"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Calistoga's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,227 residents
2021
5,185 residents
2022
5,104 residents
2023
5,068 residents
2024
5,014 residents
2025
4,954 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
4
housing units authorized
Single-Family
4
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
5
5
0
$2.6M
2020
1
1
0
$0.9M
2021
15
15
0
$4.1M
2022
12
6
6
$5.4M
2023
3
3
0
$0.9M
2024
4
4
0
$1.5M
Permit volume decreased 20% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
77.8%
Carpool
4.4%
Public Transit
2.0%
Walk
7.0%
Work from Home
5.7%
Other
3.1%
Based on 2,545 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 Calistoga. 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 Calistoga 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 Calistoga sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Calistoga 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.