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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-LEMOORE-STATION-CA · Lemoore Station, CA 5,847 pop · income 44th 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 Lemoore Station
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lemoore Station on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Woodstock · lowest
61,364
Woodstock · lowest
61,364 median HH income
30.0% of the leader · rank #1
Homeland · near
65,769
Homeland · near
65,769 median HH income
32.1% of the leader · rank #2
Pheasant Run · near
65,769
Pheasant Run · near
65,769 median HH income
32.1% of the leader · rank #3
Channelview · near
65,775
Channelview · near
65,775 median HH income
32.1% of the leader · rank #4
Lemoore Stati… · this city
65,781
Lemoore Stati… · this city
65,781 median HH income
32.1% of the leader · rank #5
West Odessa · near
65,782
West Odessa · near
65,782 median HH income
32.1% of the leader · rank #6
Villa Park · highest
204,750
Villa Park · highest
204,750 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 Lemoore Station 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: 5,847.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Lemoore Station lands in the 44th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
44th
percentile, household income
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: Lemoore Station, CA
California's Lemoore Station is a small town, with 5,847 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Lemoore Station report a median income of $65,781 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.9%. The median resident age is 24.2 years. About 17.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 17.5% 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $2,053 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across California, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Lemoore Station'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; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lemoore Station, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, 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 Lemoore Station?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 83.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Lemoore Station?
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 Bonadelle Ranchos (5,879 residents, $132,292 income); Pleasure Point (5,813 residents, $117,776 income); Hidden Valley Lake (5,896 residents, $72,365 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Big Flats, NY (5,846 residents); Eagleton, TN (5,849 residents); Rincon Valley, AZ (5,851 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.
Below median income · poverty 6.9% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Lemoore Station, CA
33/100
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 C-
6.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income D
$65,781
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.9%
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).
Lemoore Station profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 53/100 (C-) · 6.9%
Household income: 43/100 (D) · $65,781
Bachelor's+ share: 28/100 (F) · 17.9%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
How does Lemoore Station compare to other US cities?
Lemoore Station measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income44% higher 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 Lemoore Station 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 Lemoore Station near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lemoore Station ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lemoore Station only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#975 of 1,338
27th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#694 of 1,450
52nd percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#953 of 1,458
34th 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
44th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$65,781Lemoore Station, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lemoore Station, 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 Lemoore Station, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)17.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,847
Median Income
$65,781
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
24.2
Poverty Rate
6.9%
Labor force participation
17.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.9%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
83.0%
Carpool
6.1%
Public Transit
0.8%
Walk
3.8%
Work from Home
5.9%
Based on 3,434 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 Lemoore Station. 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 Lemoore Station 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 Lemoore Station sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lemoore Station 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.