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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-LOS-BANOS-CA · Los Banos, CA 46,776 pop · income 51st 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 Banos
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Los Banos on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Huntsville · lowest
45,401
Huntsville · lowest
45,401 median HH income
27.5% of the leader · rank #1
Sun Valley · near
70,887
Sun Valley · near
70,887 median HH income
43.0% of the leader · rank #2
McSherrystown · near
70,890
McSherrystown · near
70,890 median HH income
43.0% of the leader · rank #3
Los Banos · this city
70,893
Los Banos · this city
70,893 median HH income
43.0% of the leader · rank #4
Granville · near
70,893
Granville · near
70,893 median HH income
43.0% of the leader · rank #5
Manson · near
70,893
Manson · near
70,893 median HH income
43.0% of the leader · rank #6
Newark · highest
164,909
Newark · highest
164,909 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 Banos 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: 46,776.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Los Banos - the verdict
Los Banos ranks in the 51st percentile for household income and the 31st percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
51st
percentile, household income
79th
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: Los Banos, CA
California's Los Banos is a small city, with 46,776 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Los Banos report a median income of $70,893 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 15.9%. Typical homes in Los Banos are valued around $419,600, and the median resident age is 30.4 years. 13.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 52.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 140 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 47% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2046.5 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Los Banos's yearly average temperature at 63.4°F with 9.5 inches of precipitation per year.
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. 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 Los Banos'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 reported crime to work and mobility to housing and income to climate and hazard context 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 Los Banos, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, 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.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Los Banos?
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 17 public schools within the city match. 13.2% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Los Banos?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2046.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 10% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Los Banos?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.0%. 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 Los Banos?
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 Rowland Heights (46,787 residents, $85,202 income); La Mirada (46,945 residents, $110,177 income); Newark (47,145 residents, $164,909 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Beavercreek, OH (46,787 residents); Prescott, AZ (46,744 residents); Gallatin, TN (46,667 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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Los Banos?
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 5.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 15.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
5.9×
Home value
$419,600
Household income
$70,893
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 63.4°F, with 9.5 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
88.7
Annual precipitation
9.5 in
Mean temperature
63.4°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Is Los Banos growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3,876 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +8.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 140 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
45,738
2025 estimate
49,614
Period change
+8.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 15.9% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Los Banos, CA
29/100
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-
$70,893
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime D
214 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
15.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
13.2%
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.
Los Banos profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 50/100 (C-) · $70,893
Violent crime: 46/100 (D) · 214 /100k
Poverty rate: 21/100 (F) · 15.9%
Bachelor's+ share: 15/100 (F) · 13.2%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Los Banos sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Los Banos'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 Banos highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Los Banos, CA (this city): home $419,600, crime 2,047/100k
Beavercreek, OH : home $261,200, crime 2,068/100k
Prescott, AZ : home $528,500, crime 1,452/100k
Gallatin, TN : home $343,700, crime 957/100k
Huntsville, TX : home $225,800, crime 2,045/100k
Goose Creek, SC : home $279,500, crime 1,722/100k
East Providence, RI : home $322,100, crime 755/100k
La Mirada, CA : home $763,200, crime 1,966/100k
Newark, CA : home $1,094,200, crime 4,344/100k
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA : home $907,900, crime 605/100k
Brea, CA : home $874,300, crime 3,076/100k
How does Los Banos compare to other US cities?
Los Banos measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income51% higher than other cities
Home value79% 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.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to California alone, Los Banos ranks #247 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 Los Banos 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 Banos near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Los Banos ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Los Banos only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#906 of 1,338
32nd percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#837 of 1,343
38th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#268 of 1,450
81st percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,107 of 1,458
24th 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
51st percentile nationally for median household income · 31st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Los Banos's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Los Banos'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 Banos's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$419,60021st percentilemore affordable than 21% 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 Banos's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,041 of 15,516
More affordable than 10% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,948 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.9×, Los Banos sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,041 of 15,516 and #2,948 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
$70,893Los Banos, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Los Banos, 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 Banos, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)13.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)15.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
46,776
Median Income
$70,893
Median Home Value
$419,600
Median Age
30.4
Poverty Rate
15.9%
Labor force participation
52.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
13.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2046.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
213.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1832.5
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
63.4°F
Annual Precipitation
9.5"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
17
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Los Banos's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
45,738 residents
2021
46,982 residents
2022
48,064 residents
2023
48,512 residents
2024
49,055 residents
2025
49,614 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
140
housing units authorized
Single-Family
140
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
95
95
0
$47.4M
2020
104
104
0
$51.8M
2021
114
114
0
$56.8M
2022
94
94
0
$29.2M
2023
94
91
3
$29.8M
2024
140
140
0
$47.4M
Permit volume increased 47% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.0%
Carpool
16.0%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
6.2%
Based on 16,654 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 Banos. 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 Banos 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 Banos sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Los Banos 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.