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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-CORONADO-CA · Coronado, CA 18,558 pop · income 91st 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 Coronado
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Coronado on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Arcata · lowest
48,731
Arcata · lowest
48,731 median HH income
23.2% of the leader · rank #1
Duck Key · near
135,000
Duck Key · near
135,000 median HH income
64.2% of the leader · rank #2
Mountain Park · near
135,000
Mountain Park · near
135,000 median HH income
64.2% of the leader · rank #3
Walden · near
135,000
Walden · near
135,000 median HH income
64.2% of the leader · rank #4
Havensville · near
135,046
Havensville · near
135,046 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #5
Coronado · this city
135,056
Coronado · this city
135,056 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #6
Franklin Farm · highest
210,169
Franklin Farm · highest
210,169 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 Coronado 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: 18,558.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Coronado - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Coronado lands in the 91st percentile for household income and the 34th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
91st
percentile, household income
99th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
34th
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: Coronado, CA
18,558 people live in Coronado, California - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $135,056 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.7%. Home values in Coronado run a median of $1,998,900, and the median resident age is 41.9 years. Educational attainment runs 66.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 41.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 36 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Growing), up 13% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 1946.6 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).
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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in California run around $275, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Coronado'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 population change to comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime 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 Coronado, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, 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.
1. Population change
Is Coronado 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 -1,341 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -6.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 36 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 Coronado?
Within California, the closest population matches are Arcata (18,578 residents, $48,731 income); Castaic (18,479 residents, $132,153 income); Arroyo Grande (18,412 residents, $103,258 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ocean Springs, MS (18,561 residents); Bensenville, IL (18,576 residents); Preakness, NJ (18,538 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.
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 66.2% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Coronado?
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 1946.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 15% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Coronado?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 14.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.7%, 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.
Household income
$135,056
Home value
$1,998,900
Value / income
14.8×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Coronado?
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 52.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.6%
Work from home
18.2%
Drive alone
52.6%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 9,025 workers age 16+.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
C+
City profile score · Coronado, CA
60/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
66.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A+
$135,056
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
345 /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.
Coronado profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 95/100 (A+) · 66.2%
Household income: 92/100 (A+) · $135,056
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.7%
Violent crime: 26/100 (F) · 345 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Coronado sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Coronado'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 - Coronado highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Coronado, CA (this city): home $1,998,900, crime 1,947/100k
Bensenville, IL : home $259,300, crime 1,290/100k
Round Lake, IL : home $257,400, crime 681/100k
Westerly, RI : home $400,200, crime 977/100k
Arcata, CA : home $466,600, crime 2,271/100k
Arroyo Grande, CA : home $758,100, crime 952/100k
Pinole, CA : home $697,100, crime 2,458/100k
Chowchilla, CA : home $331,500, crime 1,866/100k
How does Coronado compare to other US cities?
Here's how Coronado stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income91% higher than other cities
Home value99% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety34% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at California, Coronado ranks #230 of 441 California cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Coronado 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 Coronado near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Coronado ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Coronado only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#236 of 1,338
82nd percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#63 of 1,343
95th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#1,060 of 1,450
26th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#134 of 1,458
91st 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
91st percentile nationally for median household income · 34th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Coronado's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Coronado'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 Coronado's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$1,998,9001st percentilemore affordable than 1% 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
Coronado's home-value-to-income ratio: 14.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,489 of 15,516
More affordable than 0% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,312 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 14.8×, Coronado sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,489 of 15,516 and #3,312 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$135,056Coronado, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Coronado, 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 Coronado, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)66.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)41.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
18,558
Median Income
$135,056
Median Home Value
$1,998,900
Median Age
41.9
Poverty Rate
2.7%
Labor force participation
41.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
66.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1946.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
345.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1601.5
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Coronado's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
22,435 residents
2021
21,284 residents
2022
20,915 residents
2023
21,025 residents
2024
20,353 residents
2025
21,094 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
36
housing units authorized
Single-Family
24
detached homes
Multifamily
12
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
32
22
10
$23.8M
2020
30
22
8
$27.3M
2021
31
26
5
$31.0M
2022
14
14
0
$19.9M
2023
22
12
10
$22.0M
2024
36
24
12
$39.0M
Permit volume increased 13% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
52.6%
Carpool
6.7%
Public Transit
0.6%
Walk
15.5%
Work from Home
18.2%
Other
6.4%
Based on 9,025 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 Coronado. 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 Coronado 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 Coronado sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Coronado 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.