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SheetCA-KINGSBURG-CA · Kingsburg, CA 12,589 pop · income 64th 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 Kingsburg
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Kingsburg on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mendota · lowest
46,458
Mendota · lowest
46,458 median HH income
23.2% of the leader · rank #1
Arabi · near
82,540
Arabi · near
82,540 median HH income
41.2% of the leader · rank #2
Ontario · near
82,557
Ontario · near
82,557 median HH income
41.2% of the leader · rank #3
Kingsburg · this city
82,562
Kingsburg · this city
82,562 median HH income
41.3% of the leader · rank #4
Durant · near
82,563
Durant · near
82,563 median HH income
41.3% of the leader · rank #5
Perry · near
82,589
Perry · near
82,589 median HH income
41.3% of the leader · rank #6
Lantana · highest
200,147
Lantana · highest
200,147 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 Kingsburg 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: 12,589.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Kingsburg - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Kingsburg lands in the 64th percentile for household income and the 46th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
64th
percentile, household income
73rd
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
46th
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: Kingsburg, CA
12,589 people live in Kingsburg, California - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Kingsburg brings in $82,562 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.2%. Typical homes in Kingsburg are valued around $356,900, and the median resident age is 41.2 years. About 19.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 52.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 56 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 33% from five years earlier. Kingsburg reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1498.0 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
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). 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. Workers in Kingsburg report an average commute of 21.0 minutes, with 86.1% driving alone and 5.6% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 88.7 out of 100 (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Kingsburg'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 housing and income to reported crime to schools and households to comparison shortlist to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Kingsburg, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
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 journey to work look like in Kingsburg?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 86.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.0 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. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
How far does income reach against housing in Kingsburg?
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 4.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Kingsburg?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1498.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 34% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Kingsburg?
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.
Within California, the closest population matches are Lindsay (12,572 residents, $50,563 income); Mendota (12,554 residents, $46,458 income); Diamond Springs (12,642 residents, $83,288 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lantana, TX (12,583 residents); Cloquet, MN (12,582 residents); Guymon, OK (12,596 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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Kingsburg?
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.
The NCES join finds 12 public schools within the city match. 19.8% 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.
Poverty estimate
7.2%
Bachelor's degree+
19.8%
Matched public schools
12
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Kingsburg growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +825 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 56 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
2020 estimate
12,424
2025 estimate
13,249
Period change
+6.6%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 7.2% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
D
City profile score · Kingsburg, CA
43/100
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 C+
$82,562
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime C-
166 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C-
7.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
19.8%
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.
Kingsburg profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 62/100 (C+) · $82,562
Violent crime: 54/100 (C-) · 166 /100k
Poverty rate: 51/100 (C-) · 7.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 34/100 (F) · 19.8%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Kingsburg sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Kingsburg'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 - Kingsburg highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Kingsburg, CA (this city): home $356,900, crime 1,498/100k
Cloquet, MN : home $200,100, crime 700/100k
Guymon, OK : home $171,800, crime 1,216/100k
Dunkirk, NY : home $91,200, crime 2,195/100k
Richton Park, IL : home $200,400, crime 2,437/100k
Ridgefield, WA : home $590,200, crime 1,157/100k
Lindsay, CA : home $268,400, crime 1,904/100k
Mendota, CA : home $250,400, crime 1,359/100k
Big Bear, CA : home $427,700, crime 3,704/100k
Grover Beach, CA : home $691,900, crime 1,481/100k
Marysville, CA : home $282,700, crime 2,806/100k
How does Kingsburg compare to other US cities?
Here's how Kingsburg stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income64% higher than other cities
Home value73% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety46% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just California and the picture shifts: Kingsburg ranks #141 of 441 California cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Kingsburg 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 Kingsburg near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Kingsburg ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Kingsburg only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#740 of 1,338
45th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#944 of 1,343
30th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#665 of 1,450
54th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#907 of 1,458
38th 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
64th percentile nationally for median household income · 46th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Kingsburg's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Kingsburg'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 Kingsburg's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$356,90027th percentilemore affordable than 27% 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
Kingsburg's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,580 of 15,516
More affordable than 25% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,242 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.3×, Kingsburg sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,580 of 15,516 and #2,242 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
$82,562Kingsburg, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Kingsburg, 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 Kingsburg, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)19.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
12,589
Median Income
$82,562
Median Home Value
$356,900
Median Age
41.2
Poverty Rate
7.2%
Labor force participation
52.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
19.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1498.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
166.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1331.5
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
12
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Kingsburg's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
12,424 residents
2021
12,499 residents
2022
12,758 residents
2023
13,082 residents
2024
13,233 residents
2025
13,249 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
56
housing units authorized
Single-Family
56
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
84
33
51
$16.5M
2020
14
12
2
$3.4M
2021
27
27
0
$8.9M
2022
120
73
47
$25.4M
2023
38
38
0
$16.2M
2024
56
56
0
$26.0M
Permit volume decreased 33% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.0 minutes
Drive Alone
86.1%
Carpool
6.5%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
5.6%
Other
0.9%
Based on 5,102 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 Kingsburg. 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 Kingsburg 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 Kingsburg sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Kingsburg 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.