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SheetCA-DUBLIN-CA · Dublin, CA 70,542 pop · income 98th 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 Dublin
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Dublin on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Decatur · lowest
50,809
Decatur · lowest
50,809 median HH income
24.7% of the leader · rank #1
Robertsville · near
204,421
Robertsville · near
204,421 median HH income
99.3% of the leader · rank #2
Independent H… · near
204,500
Independent H… · near
204,500 median HH income
99.4% of the leader · rank #3
Bald Head Isl… · near
205,000
Bald Head Isl… · near
205,000 median HH income
99.6% of the leader · rank #4
Dublin · this city
205,046
Dublin · this city
205,046 median HH income
99.6% of the leader · rank #5
Botsford · near
205,469
Botsford · near
205,469 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #6
Jacksontown · highest
205,833
Jacksontown · highest
205,833 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 Dublin 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: 70,542.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Dublin - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Dublin lands in the 98th percentile for household income and the 31st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
98th
percentile, household income
98th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
31st
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: Dublin, CA
70,542 people live in Dublin, California - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Dublin report a median income of $205,046 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.3%. Dublin's housing stock carries a median value of $1,224,100, and the median resident age is 37.3 years. 69.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 66.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 91 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 62% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2072.0 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: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts California at 110.7 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Above Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $2,053 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in California run around $275, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Dublin workers runs 25.9 minutes, with 51.3% driving alone and 31.6% 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 Dublin'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 housing and income to population change to schools and households to comparison shortlist 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 Dublin, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history, 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.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Dublin?
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 6.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -580 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 91 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
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 14 public schools within the city match. 69.5% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Dublin?
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 Baldwin Park (70,720 residents, $79,087 income); Camarillo (70,244 residents, $109,390 income); Eastvale (70,179 residents, $161,322 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ankeny, IA (70,542 residents); Maple Grove, MN (70,539 residents); Bayonne, NJ (70,468 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.
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 Dublin?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2072.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 9% lower 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.
Total reported rate
2072.0
Violent rate
154.2
Property rate
1917.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Dublin?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 51.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 25.9 minutes.
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.
Drive alone
51.3%
Work from home
31.6%
Public transit
7.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 35,595 workers age 16+.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
B-
City profile score · Dublin, CA
67/100
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.
Household income A+
$205,046
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
69.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C
154 /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.
Dublin profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $205,046
Bachelor's+ share: 97/100 (A+) · 69.5%
Poverty rate: 76/100 (B+) · 3.3%
Violent crime: 57/100 (C) · 154 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Dublin sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Dublin'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 - Dublin highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Dublin, CA (this city): home $1,224,100, crime 2,072/100k
Ankeny, IA : home $311,300, crime 1,188/100k
Maple Grove, MN : home $397,400, crime 1,877/100k
Lafayette, IN : home $157,600, crime 2,642/100k
Decatur, IL : home $97,300, crime 3,470/100k
North Richland Hills, TX : home $324,800, crime 2,456/100k
Baldwin Park, CA : home $588,100, crime 1,834/100k
Camarillo, CA : home $766,100, crime 1,320/100k
Eastvale, CA : home $752,000, crime 1,823/100k
Tulare, CA : home $301,200, crime 2,415/100k
Redondo Beach, CA : home $1,225,400, crime 2,835/100k
Walnut Creek, CA : home $1,031,100, crime 3,178/100k
How does Dublin compare to other US cities?
Dublin measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income98% higher than other cities
Home value98% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety31% 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, Dublin ranks #249 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 Dublin 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 Dublin near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Dublin ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Dublin only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#67 of 1,338
95th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#142 of 1,343
89th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#1,010 of 1,450
30th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#105 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
98th percentile nationally for median household income · 31st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Dublin's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Dublin'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 Dublin's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$1,224,1002nd percentilemore affordable than 2% 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
Dublin's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,076 of 15,516
More affordable than 9% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#576 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 6.0×, Dublin sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,076 of 15,516 and #576 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
$205,046Dublin, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Dublin, 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 Dublin, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)69.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
70,542
Median Income
$205,046
Median Home Value
$1,224,100
Median Age
37.3
Poverty Rate
3.3%
Labor force participation
66.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
69.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2072.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
154.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1917.8
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
14
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Dublin's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
72,182 residents
2021
70,654 residents
2022
69,994 residents
2023
69,759 residents
2024
70,288 residents
2025
71,602 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
91
housing units authorized
Single-Family
60
detached homes
Multifamily
31
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
241
145
96
$100.9M
2020
496
146
350
$175.3M
2021
770
101
669
$230.3M
2022
176
133
43
$74.8M
2023
386
171
215
$158.8M
2024
91
60
31
$35.9M
Permit volume decreased 62% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
25.9 minutes
Drive Alone
51.3%
Carpool
6.6%
Public Transit
7.1%
Walk
1.6%
Work from Home
31.6%
Other
1.8%
Based on 35,595 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 Dublin. 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 Dublin 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 Dublin sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Dublin 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.