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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-CAMP-PENDLETON-MAINSIDE-CA · Camp Pendleton Mainside, CA 9,801 pop · income 29th 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 Camp Pendleton Mainside
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Camp Pendleton Mainside on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Uniontown · lowest
35,451
Uniontown · lowest
35,451 median HH income
23.8% of the leader · rank #1
Camp Pendleto… · this city
56,250
Camp Pendleto… · this city
56,250 median HH income
37.8% of the leader · rank #2
St. Florian · near
56,250
St. Florian · near
56,250 median HH income
37.8% of the leader · rank #3
Koliganek · near
56,250
Koliganek · near
56,250 median HH income
37.8% of the leader · rank #4
Newhalen · near
56,250
Newhalen · near
56,250 median HH income
37.8% of the leader · rank #5
St. Michael · near
56,250
St. Michael · near
56,250 median HH income
37.8% of the leader · rank #6
Fairview · highest
148,801
Fairview · highest
148,801 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 Camp Pendleton Mainside 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: 9,801.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Camp Pendleton Mainside places in the 29th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
29th
percentile, household income
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: Camp Pendleton Mainside, CA
Camp Pendleton Mainside is a small town in California, home to 9,801 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $56,250 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.9%. The median resident age is 21.6 years. Educational attainment runs 27.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 8.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $2,053 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across California, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Camp Pendleton Mainside report an average commute of 11.3 minutes, with 26.8% driving alone and 1.3% 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 Camp Pendleton Mainside'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Camp Pendleton Mainside, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Camp Pendleton Mainside?
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 Capitola (9,813 residents, $96,412 income); Madera Acres (9,758 residents, $76,033 income); Orange Cove (9,607 residents, $38,447 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Thomaston, GA (9,798 residents); DeRidder, LA (9,812 residents); Wakefield-Peace Dale, RI (9,812 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Camp Pendleton Mainside?
Walking is the largest reported mode at 42.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 11.3 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.
Below 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 · Camp Pendleton Mainside, CA
29/100
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 C-
27.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$56,250
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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).
Camp Pendleton Mainside profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 53/100 (C-) · 27.0%
Poverty rate: 32/100 (F) · 11.9%
Household income: 29/100 (F) · $56,250
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
How does Camp Pendleton Mainside compare to other US cities?
Where Camp Pendleton Mainside sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income29% higher 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 Camp Pendleton Mainside 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 Camp Pendleton Mainside near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Camp Pendleton Mainside ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Camp Pendleton Mainside only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,099 of 1,338
18th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#404 of 1,450
72nd percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#689 of 1,458
53rd 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
29th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$56,250Camp Pendleton Mainside, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Camp Pendleton Mainside, 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 Camp Pendleton Mainside, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)27.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)8.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,801
Median Income
$56,250
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
21.6
Poverty Rate
11.9%
Labor force participation
8.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
27.0%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
11.3 minutes
Drive Alone
26.8%
Carpool
28.3%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
42.2%
Work from Home
1.3%
Other
0.9%
Based on 6,836 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 Camp Pendleton Mainside. 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 Camp Pendleton Mainside 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 Camp Pendleton Mainside sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Camp Pendleton Mainside 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.