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SheetCA-EL-SOBRANTE-CDP-RIVERSIDE-COUNTY-CA · El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County), CA 13,206 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 El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County)
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Orangeburg · lowest
33,066
Orangeburg · lowest
33,066 median HH income
13.4% of the leader · rank #1
West Hempstead · near
160,280
West Hempstead · near
160,280 median HH income
64.8% of the leader · rank #2
Heeia · near
160,294
Heeia · near
160,294 median HH income
64.8% of the leader · rank #3
El Sobrante C… · this city
160,331
El Sobrante C… · this city
160,331 median HH income
64.8% of the leader · rank #4
Cumming · near
160,357
Cumming · near
160,357 median HH income
64.8% of the leader · rank #5
Prestbury · near
160,370
Prestbury · near
160,370 median HH income
64.8% of the leader · rank #6
Palos Verdes… · highest
247,500
Palos Verdes… · highest
247,500 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 El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) 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: 13,206.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) lands in the 95th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
95th
percentile, household income
94th
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: El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County), CA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 13,206 residents in El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County), a small town within California. The typical household in El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) brings in $160,331 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.1%. El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County)'s housing stock carries a median value of $749,300, and the median resident age is 40.2 years. 44.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 66.4% 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. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across California, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County)'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 El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County), city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County)?
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 74.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County)?
Within California, the closest population matches are Carpinteria (13,100 residents, $104,233 income); North Fair Oaks (13,327 residents, $106,690 income); Bonita (13,336 residents, $117,750 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Harrison, AR (13,217 residents); California, MD (13,223 residents); Waconia, MN (13,223 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 El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County)?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.1%, 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.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
B-
City profile score · El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County), CA
67/100
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+
$160,331
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
44.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.1%
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).
El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 99/100 (A+) · $160,331
Bachelor's+ share: 79/100 (B+) · 44.0%
Poverty rate: 78/100 (B+) · 3.1%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
How does El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) compare to other US cities?
El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) 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 value94% 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 El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) 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 El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#145 of 1,338
89th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#401 of 1,343
70th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#1,027 of 1,450
29th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#352 of 1,458
76th 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 El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County)'s home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$749,3006th percentilemore affordable than 6% 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
El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County)'s home-value-to-income ratio: 4.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,330 of 15,516
More affordable than 21% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,453 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.7×, El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,330 of 15,516 and #2,453 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$160,331El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County), CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County), 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 El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County), CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)44.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,206
Median Income
$160,331
Median Home Value
$749,300
Median Age
40.2
Poverty Rate
3.1%
Labor force participation
66.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
44.0%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.0%
Carpool
5.5%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
17.4%
Other
2.6%
Based on 6,628 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 El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County). 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 El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) 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 El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How El Sobrante CDP (Riverside County) 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.