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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-CITRUS-HEIGHTS-CA · Citrus Heights, CA 87,036 pop · income 58th 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 Citrus Heights
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Citrus Heights on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Deerfield Bea… · lowest
56,976
Deerfield Bea… · lowest
56,976 median HH income
37.1% of the leader · rank #1
Brownton · near
77,159
Brownton · near
77,159 median HH income
50.2% of the leader · rank #2
Ravena · near
77,163
Ravena · near
77,163 median HH income
50.2% of the leader · rank #3
Citrus Heights · this city
77,167
Citrus Heights · this city
77,167 median HH income
50.2% of the leader · rank #4
Mount Vernon · near
77,171
Mount Vernon · near
77,171 median HH income
50.2% of the leader · rank #5
Middletown · near
77,174
Middletown · near
77,174 median HH income
50.2% of the leader · rank #6
Livermore · highest
153,602
Livermore · highest
153,602 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 Citrus Heights 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: 87,036.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Citrus Heights - the verdict
Citrus Heights ranks in the 58th percentile for household income and the 21st percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
58th
percentile, household income
80th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
21st
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: Citrus Heights, CA
California's Citrus Heights is a small city, with 87,036 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $77,167 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.9%. Typical homes in Citrus Heights are valued around $432,100, and the median resident age is 38.3 years. 22.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 59.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 6 residential building permits were authorized in Citrus Heights (Construction Slowdown), down 60% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2566.2 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
California carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, California scores 110.7 (Well Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $2,053 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts California's average monthly utility costs around $275 (state average). The average commute for Citrus Heights workers runs 23.9 minutes, with 71.0% driving alone and 15.3% 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 Citrus Heights'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 housing and income to population change to schools and households to reported crime to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Citrus Heights, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates.
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
Which cities make useful reference points for Citrus Heights?
Within California, the closest population matches are Manteca (86,521 residents, $94,718 income); Santa Barbara (88,024 residents, $101,672 income); Hawthorne (85,933 residents, $72,719 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ogden, UT (86,973 residents); Duluth, MN (86,863 residents); Troy, MI (87,307 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 Citrus Heights?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.9%, 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.
Is Citrus Heights 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 -1,185 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 6 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What does the education layer cover for Citrus Heights?
The NCES join finds 12 public schools within the city match. 22.2% 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.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Citrus Heights?
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 2566.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 13% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2126.8
Violent rate
439.3
Total reported rate
2566.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Citrus Heights?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 23.9 minutes.
Public transit
1.5%
Work from home
15.3%
Drive alone
71.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 41,073 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 5.9% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Citrus Heights, CA
38/100
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.
Poverty rate C+
5.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income C
$77,167
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share D
22.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
439 /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.
Citrus Heights profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 60/100 (C+) · 5.9%
Household income: 57/100 (C) · $77,167
Bachelor's+ share: 41/100 (D) · 22.2%
Violent crime: 20/100 (F) · 439 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Citrus Heights sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Citrus Heights'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 - Citrus Heights highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Citrus Heights, CA (this city): home $432,100, crime 2,566/100k
Ogden, UT : home $311,300, crime 2,431/100k
Duluth, MN : home $225,700, crime 3,174/100k
Troy, MI : home $396,800, crime 1,392/100k
Springdale, AR : home $237,200, crime 2,412/100k
Manteca, CA : home $561,200, crime 1,816/100k
Santa Barbara, CA : home $1,466,400, crime 2,458/100k
Hawthorne, CA : home $813,700, crime 3,193/100k
Whittier, CA : home $751,700, crime 2,866/100k
Livermore, CA : home $1,038,600, crime 2,560/100k
Lake Forest, CA : home $876,300, crime 975/100k
How does Citrus Heights compare to other US cities?
Citrus Heights measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income58% higher than other cities
Home value80% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety21% 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: Citrus Heights ranks #320 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 Citrus Heights 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 Citrus Heights near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Citrus Heights ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Citrus Heights only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#824 of 1,338
38th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#815 of 1,343
39th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#765 of 1,450
47th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#825 of 1,458
43rd 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
58th percentile nationally for median household income · 21st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Citrus Heights's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Citrus Heights'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 Citrus Heights's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$432,10020th percentilemore affordable than 20% 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
Citrus Heights's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,702 of 15,516
More affordable than 12% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#533 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 5.6×, Citrus Heights sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,702 of 15,516 and #533 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
$77,167Citrus Heights, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Citrus Heights, 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 Citrus Heights, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)22.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
87,036
Median Income
$77,167
Median Home Value
$432,100
Median Age
38.3
Poverty Rate
5.9%
Labor force participation
59.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
22.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2566.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
439.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2126.8
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.
Schools
Total Schools
12
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Citrus Heights's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
87,533 residents
2021
87,240 residents
2022
86,708 residents
2023
86,692 residents
2024
86,710 residents
2025
86,348 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
6
housing units authorized
Single-Family
6
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
15
15
0
$3.5M
2020
22
22
0
$4.5M
2021
215
215
0
$56.6M
2022
118
118
0
$27.4M
2023
65
65
0
$14.0M
2024
6
6
0
$2.6M
Permit volume decreased 60% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
23.9 minutes
Drive Alone
71.0%
Carpool
9.4%
Public Transit
1.5%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
15.3%
Other
1.6%
Based on 41,073 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 Citrus Heights. 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 Citrus Heights 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 Citrus Heights sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Citrus Heights 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, 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.