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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-DOS-PALOS-CA · Dos Palos, CA 5,757 pop · income 20th 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 Dos Palos
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Dos Palos on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Plymouth · lowest
42,348
Plymouth · lowest
42,348 median HH income
20.7% of the leader · rank #1
Dos Palos · this city
50,556
Dos Palos · this city
50,556 median HH income
24.7% of the leader · rank #2
Winchester · near
50,556
Winchester · near
50,556 median HH income
24.7% of the leader · rank #3
Canton · near
50,556
Canton · near
50,556 median HH income
24.7% of the leader · rank #4
Chokio · near
50,556
Chokio · near
50,556 median HH income
24.7% of the leader · rank #5
Zena · near
50,556
Zena · near
50,556 median HH income
24.7% of the leader · rank #6
Villa Park · highest
204,750
Villa Park · highest
204,750 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 Dos Palos 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: 5,757.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Dos Palos - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Dos Palos places in the 20th percentile for household income and the 21st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
20th
percentile, household income
62nd
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: Dos Palos, CA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 5,757 residents in Dos Palos, a small town within California. Median household income here is $50,556 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 7.8%. Home values in Dos Palos run a median of $285,300, and the median resident age is 36.5 years. 11.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 37.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 2 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Stable), up 0% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2621.9 in FBI UCR data, near the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. 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 Dos Palos'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 reported crime to population change to schools and households 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 Dos Palos, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, 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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Dos Palos?
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.
Within California, the closest population matches are Villa Park (5,776 residents, $204,750 income); Bear Valley Springs (5,787 residents, $121,069 income); Silver Lakes (5,789 residents, $111,857 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Paola, KS (5,757 residents); Deschutes River Woods, OR (5,755 residents); Campbelltown, PA (5,759 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 can the FBI record say about safety in Dos Palos?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2621.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 15% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Is Dos Palos growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -59 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
What does the education layer cover for Dos Palos?
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.
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 11.5% 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.
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 Dos Palos?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.6%. 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. 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.
Drive alone
77.6%
Work from home
8.4%
Public transit
0.9%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,640 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Dos Palos?
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 5.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
5.6×
Home value
$285,300
Household income
$50,556
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Dos Palos, CA
19/100
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 D
7.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$50,556
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
11.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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 F
739 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Dos Palos profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 48/100 (D) · 7.8%
Household income: 21/100 (F) · $50,556
Bachelor's+ share: 11/100 (F) · 11.5%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Violent crime: 4/100 (F) · 739 /100k
Where Dos Palos sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Dos Palos'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 - Dos Palos highlighted among 24 peers.Read the chart values
Dos Palos, CA (this city): home $285,300, crime 2,622/100k
Paola, KS : home $195,000, crime 1,382/100k
Plymouth, PA : home $85,400, crime 2,745/100k
Villa Park, CA : home $1,686,200, crime 749/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Dos Palos compare to other US cities?
Here's how Dos Palos stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income20% higher than other cities
Home value62% 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: Dos Palos ranks #327 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 Dos Palos 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 Dos Palos near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Dos Palos ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Dos Palos only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,180 of 1,338
12th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#1,085 of 1,343
19th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#624 of 1,450
56th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,163 of 1,458
20th 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
20th percentile nationally for median household income · 21st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Dos Palos's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Dos Palos'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 Dos Palos's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$285,30038th percentilemore affordable than 38% 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
Dos Palos's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,757 of 15,516
More affordable than 11% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,262 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.6×, Dos Palos sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,757 of 15,516 and #10,262 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
$50,556Dos Palos, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Dos Palos, 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 Dos Palos, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)11.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)37.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,757
Median Income
$50,556
Median Home Value
$285,300
Median Age
36.5
Poverty Rate
7.8%
Labor force participation
37.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
11.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2621.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
739.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1882.8
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Dos Palos's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,756 residents
2021
5,756 residents
2022
5,736 residents
2023
5,720 residents
2024
5,727 residents
2025
5,697 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
2
housing units authorized
Single-Family
2
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
2
2
0
$0.3M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
2
2
0
$0.4M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
1
1
0
$0.2M
2024
2
2
0
$0.3M
Permit volume increased 0% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
77.6%
Carpool
8.5%
Public Transit
0.9%
Walk
4.7%
Work from Home
8.4%
Based on 1,640 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 Dos Palos. 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 Dos Palos 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 Dos Palos sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Dos Palos 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.