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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-CHINO-CA · Chino, CA 91,775 pop · income 80th 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 Chino
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Chino on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Hemet · lowest
53,623
Hemet · lowest
53,623 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #1
Centennial · near
103,828
Centennial · near
103,828 median HH income
72.3% of the leader · rank #2
Providence · near
103,831
Providence · near
103,831 median HH income
72.3% of the leader · rank #3
Overland Park · near
103,838
Overland Park · near
103,838 median HH income
72.3% of the leader · rank #4
Chino · this city
103,845
Chino · this city
103,845 median HH income
72.3% of the leader · rank #5
Eagle · near
103,850
Eagle · near
103,850 median HH income
72.4% of the leader · rank #6
Kirkland · highest
143,533
Kirkland · highest
143,533 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 Chino 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: 91,775.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Chino - the verdict
Chino ranks in the 80th percentile for household income and the 22nd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
80th
percentile, household income
91st
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
22nd
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: Chino, CA
91,775 people live in Chino, California - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $103,845 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.4%. Typical homes in Chino are valued around $641,500, and the median resident age is 36.8 years. About 28.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 60.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 601 residential building permits were authorized in Chino (Growing), up 13% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2511.2 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 66.1°F with 10.0 inches of precipitation per year.
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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $2,053 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in California run around $275, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 29.7 minutes, with 74.8% driving alone and 13.5% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Chino'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 schools and households to population change to work and mobility to climate and hazard context to comparison shortlist to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Chino, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
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.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Chino?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 6.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.4%, 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.
The NCES join finds 17 public schools within the city match. 28.5% 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.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +5,468 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 601 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Chino?
Within California, the closest population matches are South Gate (91,836 residents, $71,315 income); Santa Monica (91,535 residents, $109,739 income); Mission Viejo (92,415 residents, $136,071 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Fort Myers, FL (91,730 residents); Kirkland, WA (91,614 residents); Norwalk, CT (91,375 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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Chino?
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 74.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 29.7 minutes.
Public transit
0.9%
Work from home
13.5%
Drive alone
74.8%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 42,596 workers age 16+.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 66.1°F, with 10.0 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.
Mean temperature
66.1°F
Annual precipitation
10.0 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
88.7
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Chino?
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 2511.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 10% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2211.7
Violent rate
299.5
Total reported rate
2511.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
D
City profile score · Chino, CA
47/100
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 B+
$103,845
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C
28.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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.
Chino profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 79/100 (B+) · $103,845
Poverty rate: 56/100 (C) · 6.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 55/100 (C) · 28.5%
Violent crime: 33/100 (F) · 300 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Chino sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Chino'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 - Chino highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Chino, CA (this city): home $641,500, crime 2,511/100k
Kirkland, WA : home $1,022,500, crime 2,073/100k
Norwalk, CT : home $535,000, crime 1,590/100k
Bellingham, WA : home $577,400, crime 4,107/100k
Hoover, AL : home $391,300, crime 1,335/100k
Nashua, NH : home $373,100, crime 1,422/100k
South Gate, CA : home $608,500, crime 4,125/100k
Santa Monica, CA : home $1,810,200, crime 5,568/100k
Mission Viejo, CA : home $946,300, crime 1,285/100k
Hemet, CA : home $314,200, crime 2,059/100k
Redding, CA : home $363,800, crime 2,393/100k
How does Chino compare to other US cities?
Chino measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income80% higher than other cities
Home value91% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety22% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to California alone, Chino ranks #310 of 441 California cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Chino 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 Chino near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Chino ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Chino only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#468 of 1,338
65th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#521 of 1,343
61st percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#732 of 1,450
49th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#649 of 1,458
55th 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
80th percentile nationally for median household income · 22nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Chino's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Chino'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 Chino's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$641,5009th 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
Chino's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,231 of 15,516
More affordable than 8% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#592 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 6.2×, Chino sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,231 of 15,516 and #592 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$103,845Chino, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Chino, 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 Chino, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)28.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
91,775
Median Income
$103,845
Median Home Value
$641,500
Median Age
36.8
Poverty Rate
6.4%
Labor force participation
60.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
28.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2511.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
299.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2211.7
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
66.1°F
Annual Precipitation
10.0"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
17
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Chino's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
91,489 residents
2021
92,074 residents
2022
93,939 residents
2023
93,886 residents
2024
95,310 residents
2025
96,957 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
601
housing units authorized
Single-Family
441
detached homes
Multifamily
160
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
6.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
531
531
0
$127.2M
2020
440
438
2
$109.5M
2021
575
399
176
$142.0M
2022
538
538
0
$209.0M
2023
232
160
72
$56.3M
2024
601
441
160
$163.4M
Permit volume increased 13% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
29.7 minutes
Drive Alone
74.8%
Carpool
9.2%
Public Transit
0.9%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
13.5%
Other
1.0%
Based on 42,596 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 Chino. 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 Chino 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 Chino sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Chino 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.