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SheetCA-EAST-RANCHO-DOMINGUEZ-CA · East Rancho Dominguez, CA 14,219 pop · income 47th 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 East Rancho Dominguez
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest East Rancho Dominguez on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Natchez · lowest
35,613
Natchez · lowest
35,613 median HH income
14.2% of the leader · rank #1
Katherine · near
67,639
Katherine · near
67,639 median HH income
27.1% of the leader · rank #2
Ester · near
67,640
Ester · near
67,640 median HH income
27.1% of the leader · rank #3
Ossian · near
67,641
Ossian · near
67,641 median HH income
27.1% of the leader · rank #4
Enchanted Hil… · near
67,642
Enchanted Hil… · near
67,642 median HH income
27.1% of the leader · rank #5
East Rancho D… · this city
67,645
East Rancho D… · this city
67,645 median HH income
27.1% of the leader · rank #6
Alamo · highest
250,001
Alamo · highest
250,001 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 East Rancho Dominguez 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: 14,219.
East Rancho Dominguez ranks in the 47th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
47th
percentile, household income
87th
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: East Rancho Dominguez, CA
California's East Rancho Dominguez is a small town, with 14,219 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in East Rancho Dominguez brings in $67,645 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 16.7%. Home values in East Rancho Dominguez run a median of $548,400, and the median resident age is 34.2 years. 7.4% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 56.4% 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $2,053 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts California's average monthly utility costs around $275 (state average). The average commute for East Rancho Dominguez workers runs 29.9 minutes, with 77.2% driving alone and 4.3% 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 East Rancho Dominguez'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 work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For East Rancho Dominguez, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in East Rancho Dominguez?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 29.9 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for East Rancho Dominguez?
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 McFarland (14,138 residents, $51,801 income); Grass Valley (14,126 residents, $48,850 income); Mill Valley (14,064 residents, $208,466 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sierra Vista Southeast, AZ (14,213 residents); North Mankato, MN (14,212 residents); Powell, OH (14,229 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.
How far does income reach against housing in East Rancho Dominguez?
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 8.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 16.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Below median income · poverty 16.7% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · East Rancho Dominguez, CA
21/100
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 D
$67,645
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
16.7%
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
7.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
East Rancho Dominguez profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 46/100 (D) · $67,645
Poverty rate: 19/100 (F) · 16.7%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Bachelor's+ share: 0/100 (F) · 7.4%
How does East Rancho Dominguez compare to other US cities?
Where East Rancho Dominguez sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income47% higher than other cities
Home value87% 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 East Rancho Dominguez 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 East Rancho Dominguez near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, East Rancho Dominguez ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares East Rancho Dominguez only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#952 of 1,338
29th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#649 of 1,343
52nd percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#253 of 1,450
82nd percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,278 of 1,458
12th 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
47th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How East Rancho Dominguez's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$548,40013th percentilemore affordable than 13% 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
East Rancho Dominguez's home-value-to-income ratio: 8.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,072 of 15,516
More affordable than 3% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,204 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 8.1×, East Rancho Dominguez sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,072 of 15,516 and #3,204 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
$67,645East Rancho Dominguez, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context East Rancho Dominguez, 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 East Rancho Dominguez, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)7.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)16.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)56.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
14,219
Median Income
$67,645
Median Home Value
$548,400
Median Age
34.2
Poverty Rate
16.7%
Labor force participation
56.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
7.4%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
29.9 minutes
Drive Alone
77.2%
Carpool
13.2%
Public Transit
2.9%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
4.3%
Other
1.5%
Based on 6,258 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 East Rancho Dominguez. 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 East Rancho Dominguez 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 East Rancho Dominguez sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How East Rancho Dominguez 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.