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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-HEMET-CA · Hemet, CA 90,646 pop · income 25th 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 Hemet
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Hemet on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Trenton · lowest
47,102
Trenton · lowest
47,102 median HH income
42.0% of the leader · rank #1
Hemet · this city
53,623
Hemet · this city
53,623 median HH income
47.8% of the leader · rank #2
Merrionette P… · near
53,623
Merrionette P… · near
53,623 median HH income
47.8% of the leader · rank #3
Tuntutuliak · near
53,625
Tuntutuliak · near
53,625 median HH income
47.8% of the leader · rank #4
Groveton · near
53,625
Groveton · near
53,625 median HH income
47.8% of the leader · rank #5
Foot of Ten · near
53,625
Foot of Ten · near
53,625 median HH income
47.8% of the leader · rank #6
Germantown · highest
112,149
Germantown · highest
112,149 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 Hemet 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: 90,646.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Hemet - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Hemet places in the 25th percentile for household income and the 31st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
25th
percentile, household income
67th
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: Hemet, CA
Hemet is a small city in California, home to 90,646 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Hemet households earn a median of $53,623 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 12.8%. Typical homes in Hemet are valued around $314,200, and the median resident age is 39.7 years. 15.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 44.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 410 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 439% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2058.7 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 66.3°F with 11.8 inches of precipitation per year.
California carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, California scores 110.7 (Well Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. 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. 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 Hemet'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 schools and households to work and mobility to climate and hazard context to reported crime to comparison shortlist to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Hemet, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count.
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.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Hemet?
The NCES join finds 23 public schools within the city match. 15.2% 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.
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.
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 66.3°F, with 11.8 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for California is 88.7 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Which cities make useful reference points for Hemet?
Within California, the closest population matches are Indio (90,669 residents, $78,709 income); Westminster (90,147 residents, $82,686 income); Merced (89,766 residents, $59,938 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Avondale, AZ (90,644 residents); Lawton, OK (90,662 residents); Germantown, MD (90,521 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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
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 Hemet?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2058.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 10% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1633.9
Violent rate
424.8
Total reported rate
2058.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3,803 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 410 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+4.2%
2025 estimate
93,649
2020 estimate
89,846
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Hemet?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 12.8%, 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.
Household income
$53,623
Home value
$314,200
Value / income
5.9×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 12.8% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Hemet, CA
21/100
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 F
12.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$53,623
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
15.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
425 /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.
Hemet profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 29/100 (F) · 12.8%
Household income: 25/100 (F) · $53,623
Bachelor's+ share: 21/100 (F) · 15.2%
Violent crime: 21/100 (F) · 425 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Hemet sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Hemet'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 - Hemet highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Hemet, CA (this city): home $314,200, crime 2,059/100k
Avondale, AZ : home $348,700, crime 2,611/100k
Lawton, OK : home $134,200, crime 3,473/100k
Nashua, NH : home $373,100, crime 1,422/100k
Trenton, NJ : home $122,500, crime 3,315/100k
Westminster, CA : home $820,000, crime 2,934/100k
Merced, CA : home $347,700, crime 3,577/100k
Santa Monica, CA : home $1,810,200, crime 5,568/100k
Chino, CA : home $641,500, crime 2,511/100k
South Gate, CA : home $608,500, crime 4,125/100k
How does Hemet compare to other US cities?
Where Hemet sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income25% higher than other cities
Home value67% 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, Hemet ranks #248 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 Hemet 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 Hemet near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Hemet ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Hemet only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,142 of 1,338
15th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#1,043 of 1,343
22nd percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#371 of 1,450
74th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,041 of 1,458
28th 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
25th percentile nationally for median household income · 31st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Hemet's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Hemet'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 Hemet's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$314,20033rd percentilemore affordable than 33% 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
Hemet's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,982 of 15,516
More affordable than 10% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#561 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 5.9×, Hemet sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,982 of 15,516 and #561 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
$53,623Hemet, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Hemet, 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 Hemet, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)12.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)44.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
90,646
Median Income
$53,623
Median Home Value
$314,200
Median Age
39.7
Poverty Rate
12.8%
Labor force participation
44.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2058.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
424.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1633.9
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
66.3°F
Annual Precipitation
11.8"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
23
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Hemet's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
89,846 residents
2021
90,470 residents
2022
91,204 residents
2023
92,156 residents
2024
93,026 residents
2025
93,649 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
410
housing units authorized
Single-Family
410
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
76
76
0
$14.9M
2020
142
116
26
$35.6M
2021
219
219
0
$54.3M
2022
160
155
5
$39.8M
2023
146
146
0
$36.3M
2024
410
410
0
$169.6M
Permit volume increased 439% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.1%
Carpool
13.9%
Public Transit
0.6%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
9.2%
Other
1.3%
Based on 31,461 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 Hemet. 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 Hemet 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 Hemet sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Hemet 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.