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SheetCA-CONTRA-COSTA-CENTRE-CA · Contra Costa Centre, CA 7,127 pop · income 90th 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 Contra Costa Centre
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Contra Costa Centre on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Burton · lowest
57,315
Burton · lowest
57,315 median HH income
24.7% of the leader · rank #1
Blairstown · near
127,891
Blairstown · near
127,891 median HH income
55.2% of the leader · rank #2
Mont Belvieu · near
127,902
Mont Belvieu · near
127,902 median HH income
55.2% of the leader · rank #3
Contra Costa… · this city
127,910
Contra Costa… · this city
127,910 median HH income
55.2% of the leader · rank #4
Bridgetown · near
127,917
Bridgetown · near
127,917 median HH income
55.2% of the leader · rank #5
Effort · near
127,929
Effort · near
127,929 median HH income
55.2% of the leader · rank #6
Kentfield · highest
231,875
Kentfield · highest
231,875 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 Contra Costa Centre 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: 7,127.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Contra Costa Centre lands in the 90th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
90th
percentile, household income
93rd
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: Contra Costa Centre, CA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 7,127 residents in Contra Costa Centre, a small town within California. Contra Costa Centre households earn a median of $127,910 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.7%. Home values in Contra Costa Centre run a median of $724,500, and the median resident age is 33.3 years. About 71.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 75.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $2,053 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts California's average monthly utility costs around $275 (state average). Natural-hazard exposure scores 88.7 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Contra Costa Centre'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 to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Contra Costa Centre, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, 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 Contra Costa Centre?
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 Kentfield (7,128 residents, $231,875 income); Piñon Hills (7,149 residents, $65,160 income); Oceano (7,098 residents, $69,448 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Clover Creek, WA (7,128 residents); Marengo, IL (7,123 residents); Burton, SC (7,132 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 Contra Costa Centre?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 43.1%. 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. 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Contra Costa Centre?
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 5.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
C+
City profile score · Contra Costa Centre, CA
64/100
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 A+
71.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A
$127,910
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B-
4.7%
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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Contra Costa Centre profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 98/100 (A+) · 71.5%
Household income: 89/100 (A) · $127,910
Poverty rate: 67/100 (B-) · 4.7%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
How does Contra Costa Centre compare to other US cities?
Where Contra Costa Centre sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income90% higher than other cities
Home value93% 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 Contra Costa Centre 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 Contra Costa Centre near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Contra Costa Centre ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Contra Costa Centre only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#274 of 1,338
80th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#419 of 1,343
69th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#873 of 1,450
39th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#88 of 1,458
94th 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
90th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Contra Costa Centre's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$724,5007th 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
Contra Costa Centre's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,781 of 15,516
More affordable than 11% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,276 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.7×, Contra Costa Centre sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,781 of 15,516 and #10,276 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
$127,910Contra Costa Centre, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Contra Costa Centre, 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 Contra Costa Centre, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)71.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)75.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,127
Median Income
$127,910
Median Home Value
$724,500
Median Age
33.3
Poverty Rate
4.7%
Labor force participation
75.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
71.5%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
43.1%
Carpool
6.1%
Public Transit
21.5%
Walk
2.6%
Work from Home
23.0%
Other
3.7%
Based on 4,756 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 Contra Costa Centre. 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 Contra Costa Centre 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 Contra Costa Centre sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Contra Costa Centre 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.