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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-DEL-MONTE-FOREST-CA · Del Monte Forest, CA 3,576 pop · income 95th 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 Del Monte Forest
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Del Monte Forest on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Planada · lowest
45,588
Planada · lowest
45,588 median HH income
29.4% of the leader · rank #1
Sag Harbor · near
154,583
Sag Harbor · near
154,583 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #2
Briar Chapel · near
154,583
Briar Chapel · near
154,583 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #3
New Hampshire · near
154,643
New Hampshire · near
154,643 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #4
Del Monte For… · this city
154,730
Del Monte For… · this city
154,730 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #5
Falls Church · near
154,734
Falls Church · near
154,734 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #6
Evendale · highest
154,896
Evendale · highest
154,896 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 Del Monte Forest 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: 3,576.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Del Monte Forest places in the 95th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
95th
percentile, household income
99th
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: Del Monte Forest, CA
California's Del Monte Forest is a small town, with 3,576 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Del Monte Forest households earn a median of $154,730 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.9%. Del Monte Forest's housing stock carries a median value of $1,796,900, and the median resident age is 60.5 years. About 70.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 40.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $2,053 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across California, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Del Monte Forest'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 work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Del Monte Forest, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Del Monte Forest?
Within California, the closest population matches are Squaw Valley (3,584 residents, $81,094 income); Palo Cedro (3,561 residents, $118,542 income); Marin (3,597 residents, $73,077 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are St. Augusta, MN (3,576 residents); Silt, CO (3,575 residents); Perham, MN (3,577 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Del Monte Forest?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 11.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.9%, 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Del Monte Forest?
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 59.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Top-decile income · poverty 3.9% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
B-
City profile score · Del Monte Forest, CA
68/100
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 A+
$154,730
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
70.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B
3.9%
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).
Del Monte Forest profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 98/100 (A+) · $154,730
Bachelor's+ share: 98/100 (A+) · 70.5%
Poverty rate: 72/100 (B) · 3.9%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
How does Del Monte Forest compare to other US cities?
Del Monte Forest measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income95% higher than other cities
Home value99% 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 Del Monte Forest 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 Del Monte Forest near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Del Monte Forest ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Del Monte Forest only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#161 of 1,338
88th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#79 of 1,343
94th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#955 of 1,450
34th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#98 of 1,458
93rd 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
95th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Del Monte Forest's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$1,796,9001st 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
Del Monte Forest's home-value-to-income ratio: 11.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,445 of 15,516
More affordable than 0% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#11,275 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 11.6×, Del Monte Forest sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,445 of 15,516 and #11,275 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
$154,730Del Monte Forest, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Del Monte Forest, 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 Del Monte Forest, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)70.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)40.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,576
Median Income
$154,730
Median Home Value
$1,796,900
Median Age
60.5
Poverty Rate
3.9%
Labor force participation
40.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
70.5%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
59.9%
Carpool
0.6%
Public Transit
2.7%
Walk
7.3%
Work from Home
28.5%
Other
1.0%
Based on 1,352 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 Del Monte Forest. 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 Del Monte Forest 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 Del Monte Forest sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Del Monte Forest 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.