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SheetCA-GRIZZLY-FLATS-CA · Grizzly Flats, CA 1,387 pop · income 71st 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 Grizzly Flats
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Grizzly Flats on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lone Pine · lowest
49,063
Lone Pine · lowest
49,063 median HH income
22.2% of the leader · rank #1
Bagtown · near
89,688
Bagtown · near
89,688 median HH income
40.5% of the leader · rank #2
North Fork · near
89,700
North Fork · near
89,700 median HH income
40.5% of the leader · rank #3
Middle Island · near
89,702
Middle Island · near
89,702 median HH income
40.5% of the leader · rank #4
Grizzly Flats · this city
89,705
Grizzly Flats · this city
89,705 median HH income
40.5% of the leader · rank #5
Mount Hood Vi… · near
89,717
Mount Hood Vi… · near
89,717 median HH income
40.5% of the leader · rank #6
Trabuco Canyon · highest
221,458
Trabuco Canyon · highest
221,458 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 Grizzly Flats 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: 1,387.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Grizzly Flats lands in the 71st percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
71st
percentile, household income
74th
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: Grizzly Flats, CA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 1,387 residents in Grizzly Flats, a small town within California. Grizzly Flats households earn a median of $89,705 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. Home values in Grizzly Flats run a median of $369,100, and the median resident age is 44.2 years. Educational attainment runs 28.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 62.4% 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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts California's average monthly utility costs around $275 (state average). Commute times here average 42.7 minutes, with 74.1% driving alone and 25.9% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 88.7 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Grizzly Flats'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Grizzly Flats, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits; 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 Grizzly Flats?
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 4.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Grizzly Flats?
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 Niland (1,388 residents); Inverness (1,396 residents, $78,199 income); Trabuco Canyon (1,378 residents, $221,458 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Woodsville, NH (1,387 residents); Pine Knoll Shores, NC (1,387 residents); Continental, OH (1,387 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 does the journey to work look like in Grizzly Flats?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 42.7 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.
Above median income · poverty 0.0% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
C
City profile score · Grizzly Flats, CA
58/100
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.
Poverty rate A+
0.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income B-
$89,705
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C
28.5%
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 N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Grizzly Flats profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) · 0.0%
Household income: 69/100 (B-) · $89,705
Bachelor's+ share: 55/100 (C) · 28.5%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
How does Grizzly Flats compare to other US cities?
Where Grizzly Flats sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income71% higher than other cities
Home value74% 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 Grizzly Flats 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 Grizzly Flats near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Grizzly Flats ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Grizzly Flats only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#633 of 1,338
53rd percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#914 of 1,343
32nd percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#1,194 of 1,450
0th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#649 of 1,458
55th 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
71st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Grizzly Flats's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$369,10026th percentilemore affordable than 26% 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
Grizzly Flats's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,020 of 15,516
More affordable than 29% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,569 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.1×, Grizzly Flats sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,020 of 15,516 and #8,569 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$89,705Grizzly Flats, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Grizzly Flats, 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 Grizzly Flats, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)28.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,387
Median Income
$89,705
Median Home Value
$369,100
Median Age
44.2
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
62.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
28.5%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
42.7 minutes
Drive Alone
74.1%
Carpool
0.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
25.9%
Based on 591 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 Grizzly Flats. 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 Grizzly Flats 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 Grizzly Flats sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Grizzly Flats 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.