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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-MANTECA-CA · Manteca, CA 86,521 pop · income 74th 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 Manteca
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Manteca on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bryan · lowest
56,861
Bryan · lowest
56,861 median HH income
28.8% of the leader · rank #1
Center City · near
94,712
Center City · near
94,712 median HH income
48.0% of the leader · rank #2
Park · near
94,716
Park · near
94,716 median HH income
48.0% of the leader · rank #3
Manteca · this city
94,718
Manteca · this city
94,718 median HH income
48.0% of the leader · rank #4
Bradley Beach · near
94,722
Bradley Beach · near
94,722 median HH income
48.0% of the leader · rank #5
Sonterra · near
94,728
Sonterra · near
94,728 median HH income
48.0% of the leader · rank #6
San Ramon · highest
197,358
San Ramon · highest
197,358 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 Manteca 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: 86,521.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Manteca - the verdict
Manteca ranks in the 74th percentile for household income and the 37th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
74th
percentile, household income
87th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
37th
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: Manteca, CA
California's Manteca is a small city, with 86,521 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Manteca report a median income of $94,718 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.5%. Home values in Manteca run a median of $561,200, and the median resident age is 36.6 years. About 20.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 57.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 1,294 residential building permits were authorized in Manteca (Building Boom), up 88% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Manteca reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1816.4 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: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, California scores 110.7 (Well Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. 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. 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 Manteca'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 comparison shortlist to reported crime to population change to schools and households to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Manteca, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits.
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
Which cities make useful reference points for Manteca?
Within California, the closest population matches are Citrus Heights (87,036 residents, $77,167 income); Hawthorne (85,933 residents, $72,719 income); Whittier (85,925 residents, $92,374 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Town 'n' Country, FL (86,544 residents); Temple, TX (86,358 residents); Deerfield Beach, FL (86,742 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 can the FBI record say about safety in Manteca?
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 1816.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 20% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +12,638 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +15.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,294 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The NCES join finds 18 public schools within the city match. 20.9% 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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Manteca?
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 7.5%, 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.
Household income
$94,718
Home value
$561,200
Value / income
5.9×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Manteca?
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 74.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
1.5%
Work from home
9.5%
Drive alone
74.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 36,801 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 7.5% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
D
City profile score · Manteca, CA
40/100
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 B
$94,718
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C-
7.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
20.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
348 /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.
Manteca profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 74/100 (B) · $94,718
Poverty rate: 50/100 (C-) · 7.5%
Bachelor's+ share: 37/100 (F) · 20.9%
Violent crime: 26/100 (F) · 348 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Manteca sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Manteca'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 - Manteca highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Manteca, CA (this city): home $561,200, crime 1,816/100k
Temple, TX : home $220,300, crime 2,679/100k
Mission, TX : home $160,800, crime 1,338/100k
Duluth, MN : home $225,700, crime 3,174/100k
Bryan, TX : home $210,600, crime 1,833/100k
Citrus Heights, CA : home $432,100, crime 2,566/100k
Hawthorne, CA : home $813,700, crime 3,193/100k
Whittier, CA : home $751,700, crime 2,866/100k
Livermore, CA : home $1,038,600, crime 2,560/100k
Lake Forest, CA : home $876,300, crime 975/100k
San Ramon, CA : home $1,359,100, crime 1,200/100k
How does Manteca compare to other US cities?
Where Manteca sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income74% higher than other cities
Home value87% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety37% 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: Manteca ranks #199 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 Manteca 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 Manteca near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Manteca ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Manteca only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#574 of 1,338
57th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#631 of 1,343
53rd percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#645 of 1,450
55th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#874 of 1,458
40th 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
74th percentile nationally for median household income · 37th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Manteca's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Manteca'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 Manteca's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$561,20013th 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
Manteca's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,045 of 15,516
More affordable than 9% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#569 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 5.9×, Manteca sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,045 of 15,516 and #569 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
$94,718Manteca, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Manteca, 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 Manteca, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)20.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
86,521
Median Income
$94,718
Median Home Value
$561,200
Median Age
36.6
Poverty Rate
7.5%
Labor force participation
57.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
20.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1816.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
347.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1468.9
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
18
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Manteca's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
84,055 residents
2021
86,341 residents
2022
88,737 residents
2023
91,557 residents
2024
94,379 residents
2025
96,693 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
1,294
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1,294
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
15
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
689
517
172
$190.2M
2020
662
650
12
$216.7M
2021
711
701
10
$229.3M
2022
932
818
114
$352.3M
2023
571
571
0
$223.9M
2024
1,294
1,294
0
$567.9M
Permit volume increased 88% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.4%
Carpool
12.4%
Public Transit
1.5%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
9.5%
Other
1.6%
Based on 36,801 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 Manteca. 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 Manteca 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 Manteca sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Manteca 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.