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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-HUNTINGTON-PARK-CA · Huntington Park, CA 53,658 pop · income 30th 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 Huntington Park
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Huntington Park on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Elkhart · lowest
47,885
Elkhart · lowest
47,885 median HH income
40.0% of the leader · rank #1
Sauk Village · near
56,946
Sauk Village · near
56,946 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #2
Ferndale · near
56,951
Ferndale · near
56,951 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #3
Huntington Pa… · this city
56,952
Huntington Pa… · this city
56,952 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #4
Brewster · near
56,953
Brewster · near
56,953 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #5
Baldwinville · near
56,957
Baldwinville · near
56,957 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #6
Wheaton · highest
119,566
Wheaton · highest
119,566 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 Huntington Park 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: 53,658.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Huntington Park - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Huntington Park lands in the 30th percentile for household income and the 8th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
30th
percentile, household income
87th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
8th
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: Huntington Park, CA
Huntington Park is a small city in California, home to 53,658 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Huntington Park households earn a median of $56,952 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 15.5%. Huntington Park's housing stock carries a median value of $557,600, and the median resident age is 34.2 years. Educational attainment runs 8.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 58.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 1 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 67% from five years earlier. Huntington Park's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 3811.7 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. 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 Huntington Park'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 reported crime to housing and income to schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Huntington Park, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, 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. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Huntington Park?
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 3811.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 67% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
How far does income reach against housing in Huntington Park?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 9.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 15.5%, 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.
What does the education layer cover for Huntington Park?
The NCES join finds 25 public schools within the city match. 8.7% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Huntington Park?
Within California, the closest population matches are Diamond Bar (53,750 residents, $106,602 income); Colton (53,798 residents, $69,581 income); Yucaipa (54,348 residents, $92,401 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Elkhart, IN (53,726 residents); Spring Hill, TN (53,585 residents); Aspen Hill, MD (53,752 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Huntington Park?
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 66.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
6.4%
Work from home
5.6%
Drive alone
66.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 23,906 workers age 16+.
Is Huntington Park growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -3,162 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -5.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1 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
-5.8%
2025 estimate
51,544
2020 estimate
54,706
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 15.5% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Huntington Park, CA
15/100
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 F
$56,952
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
15.5%
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 F
691 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
8.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Huntington Park profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 30/100 (F) · $56,952
Poverty rate: 22/100 (F) · 15.5%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Violent crime: 6/100 (F) · 691 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 3/100 (F) · 8.7%
Where Huntington Park sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Huntington Park'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 - Huntington Park highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Huntington Park, CA (this city): home $557,600, crime 3,812/100k
Elkhart, IN : home $126,900, crime 3,595/100k
Spring Hill, TN : home $452,400, crime 663/100k
Wheaton, IL : home $447,700, crime 591/100k
Pinellas Park, FL : home $251,900, crime 2,440/100k
Logan, UT : home $341,000, crime 1,268/100k
Diamond Bar, CA : home $867,000, crime 1,940/100k
Colton, CA : home $411,100, crime 2,498/100k
Yucaipa, CA : home $466,000, crime 1,174/100k
West Sacramento, CA : home $497,100, crime 1,663/100k
Novato, CA : home $1,007,100, crime 1,608/100k
San Jacinto, CA : home $391,600, crime 1,982/100k
How does Huntington Park compare to other US cities?
Here's how Huntington Park stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income30% higher than other cities
Home value87% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety8% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to California alone, Huntington Park ranks #407 of 441 California cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Huntington Park 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 Huntington Park near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Huntington Park ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Huntington Park only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,091 of 1,338
18th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#637 of 1,343
53rd percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#282 of 1,450
80th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,247 of 1,458
14th 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
30th percentile nationally for median household income · 8th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Huntington Park's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Huntington Park'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 Huntington Park's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$557,60013th 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,342 of 15,516
More affordable than 1% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#730 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 9.8×, Huntington Park sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,342 of 15,516 and #730 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
$56,952Huntington Park, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Huntington Park, 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 Huntington Park, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)8.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)15.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
53,658
Median Income
$56,952
Median Home Value
$557,600
Median Age
34.2
Poverty Rate
15.5%
Labor force participation
58.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
8.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3811.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
691.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3120.2
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
25
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Huntington Park's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
54,706 residents
2021
53,537 residents
2022
52,774 residents
2023
52,347 residents
2024
52,070 residents
2025
51,544 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
1
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
3
3
0
$0.1M
2020
3
3
0
$0.1M
2021
3
3
0
$0.1M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
21
21
0
$3.7M
2024
1
1
0
$0.2M
Permit volume decreased 67% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
66.2%
Carpool
14.4%
Public Transit
6.4%
Walk
2.8%
Work from Home
5.6%
Other
4.6%
Based on 23,906 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 Huntington Park. 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 Huntington Park 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 Huntington Park sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Huntington Park 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.