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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-LOS-ALAMITOS-CA · Los Alamitos, CA 11,784 pop · income 77th 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 Los Alamitos
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Los Alamitos on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Smithfield · lowest
37,827
Smithfield · lowest
37,827 median HH income
18.8% of the leader · rank #1
Sadsburyville · near
98,519
Sadsburyville · near
98,519 median HH income
49.1% of the leader · rank #2
Navarre · near
98,522
Navarre · near
98,522 median HH income
49.1% of the leader · rank #3
Shenandoah Re… · near
98,523
Shenandoah Re… · near
98,523 median HH income
49.1% of the leader · rank #4
Los Alamitos · this city
98,539
Los Alamitos · this city
98,539 median HH income
49.1% of the leader · rank #5
Cloverdale · near
98,555
Cloverdale · near
98,555 median HH income
49.1% of the leader · rank #6
Rossmoor · highest
200,833
Rossmoor · highest
200,833 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 Los Alamitos 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: 11,784.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Los Alamitos - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Los Alamitos lands in the 77th percentile for household income and the 28th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
77th
percentile, household income
97th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
28th
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: Los Alamitos, CA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 11,784 residents in Los Alamitos, a small town within California. The typical household in Los Alamitos brings in $98,539 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 7.2%. Typical homes in Los Alamitos are valued around $1,003,900, and the median resident age is 37.2 years. 43.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 63.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 2 residential building permits were authorized in Los Alamitos (Construction Slowdown), down 92% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2185.0 crimes per 100,000 residents, near 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: the state registers 110.7 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $2,053 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in California run around $275, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Los Alamitos'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 population change to comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Los Alamitos, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history, commute-mode shares, 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. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Los Alamitos?
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 74.5%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Is Los Alamitos growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -70 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Los Alamitos?
Within California, the closest population matches are View Park-Windsor Hills (11,744 residents, $120,604 income); Rossmoor (11,895 residents, $200,833 income); University of California-Santa Barbara (11,634 residents, $75,000 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Destrehan, LA (11,786 residents); Woodmere, LA (11,775 residents); Sussex, WI (11,795 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.
What does the education layer cover for Los Alamitos?
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 43.5% 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.
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 Los Alamitos?
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 2185.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 4% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1833.4
Violent rate
351.6
Total reported rate
2185.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Los Alamitos?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 10.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.2%, 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
$98,539
Home value
$1,003,900
Value / income
10.2×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
D
City profile score · Los Alamitos, CA
47/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share B+
43.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$98,539
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C-
7.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
352 /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.
Los Alamitos profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 78/100 (B+) · 43.5%
Household income: 76/100 (B+) · $98,539
Poverty rate: 51/100 (C-) · 7.2%
Violent crime: 26/100 (F) · 352 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Los Alamitos sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Los Alamitos'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 - Los Alamitos highlighted among 25 peers.Read the chart values
Los Alamitos, CA (this city): home $1,003,900, crime 2,185/100k
Smithfield, NC : home $217,000, crime 4,054/100k
Irmo, SC : home $193,100, crime 1,807/100k
Vermillion, SD : home $210,200, crime 1,346/100k
Signal Hill, CA : home $725,500, crime 6,831/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Los Alamitos compare to other US cities?
Where Los Alamitos sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income77% higher than other cities
Home value97% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety28% 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: Los Alamitos ranks #274 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 Los Alamitos 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 Los Alamitos near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Los Alamitos ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Los Alamitos only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#528 of 1,338
61st percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#238 of 1,343
82nd percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#665 of 1,450
54th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#364 of 1,458
75th 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
77th percentile nationally for median household income · 28th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Los Alamitos's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Los Alamitos'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 Los Alamitos's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$1,003,9003rd percentilemore affordable than 3% 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
Los Alamitos's home-value-to-income ratio: 10.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,364 of 15,516
More affordable than 1% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,285 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 10.2×, Los Alamitos sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,364 of 15,516 and #3,285 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$98,539Los Alamitos, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Los Alamitos, 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 Los Alamitos, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)43.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
11,784
Median Income
$98,539
Median Home Value
$1,003,900
Median Age
37.2
Poverty Rate
7.2%
Labor force participation
63.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
43.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2185.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
351.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1833.4
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
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Los Alamitos's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
11,772 residents
2021
11,679 residents
2022
11,769 residents
2023
11,810 residents
2024
11,790 residents
2025
11,702 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
2
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
26
0
26
$5.5M
2020
137
2
135
$23.9M
2021
1
1
0
$0.3M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
2
0
2
$0.4M
Permit volume decreased 92% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.5%
Carpool
4.4%
Public Transit
0.8%
Walk
2.7%
Work from Home
13.8%
Other
3.8%
Based on 5,827 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 Los Alamitos. 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 Los Alamitos 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 Los Alamitos sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Los Alamitos 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.