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SheetCA-CASTROVILLE-CA · Castroville, CA 6,870 pop · income 71st 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 Castroville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Castroville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mexia · lowest
36,589
Mexia · lowest
36,589 median HH income
27.8% of the leader · rank #1
Castroville · this city
90,486
Castroville · this city
90,486 median HH income
68.9% of the leader · rank #2
Bonita Springs · near
90,486
Bonita Springs · near
90,486 median HH income
68.9% of the leader · rank #3
Soudersburg · near
90,494
Soudersburg · near
90,494 median HH income
68.9% of the leader · rank #4
Meridian · near
90,496
Meridian · near
90,496 median HH income
68.9% of the leader · rank #5
Roca · near
90,500
Roca · near
90,500 median HH income
68.9% of the leader · rank #6
Savannah · highest
131,397
Savannah · highest
131,397 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 Castroville 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: 6,870.
Castroville ranks in the 71st percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
71st
percentile, household income
91st
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: Castroville, CA
Castroville is a small town in California, home to 6,870 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Castroville households earn a median of $90,486 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 13.4%. Castroville's housing stock carries a median value of $648,700, and the median resident age is 29.6 years. Educational attainment runs 5.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 58.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 4 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
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. 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 Castroville'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 schools and households to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Castroville, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Castroville?
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 Ben Lomond (6,849 residents, $120,977 income); Fowler (6,930 residents, $61,071 income); Loomis (6,809 residents, $103,435 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Litchfield Park, AZ (6,871 residents); Walden, NY (6,871 residents); Mexia, TX (6,867 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 education layer cover for Castroville?
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 4 public schools within the city match. 5.7% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Castroville?
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 7.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 13.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Castroville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Above median income · poverty 13.4% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Castroville, CA
30/100
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 B
$90,486
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
13.4%
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
5.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Castroville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 70/100 (B) · $90,486
Poverty rate: 26/100 (F) · 13.4%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Bachelor's+ share: 0/100 (F) · 5.7%
How does Castroville compare to other US cities?
Castroville measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income71% higher than other cities
Home value91% 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 Castroville 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 Castroville near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Castroville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Castroville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#622 of 1,338
54th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#507 of 1,343
62nd percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#348 of 1,450
76th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,320 of 1,458
9th 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
71st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Castroville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$648,7009th percentilemore affordable than 9% 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
Castroville's home-value-to-income ratio: 7.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,747 of 15,516
More affordable than 5% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,844 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 7.2×, Castroville sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,747 of 15,516 and #10,844 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
$90,486Castroville, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Castroville, 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 Castroville, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)5.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)13.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,870
Median Income
$90,486
Median Home Value
$648,700
Median Age
29.6
Poverty Rate
13.4%
Labor force participation
58.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
5.7%
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.1%
Carpool
3.8%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
5.8%
Other
8.9%
Based on 2,550 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 Castroville. 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 Castroville 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 Castroville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Castroville 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, NCES CCD, 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.