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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-MARTINEZ-CA · Martinez, CA 36,926 pop · income 89th 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 Martinez
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Martinez on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Muskogee · lowest
48,735
Muskogee · lowest
48,735 median HH income
29.8% of the leader · rank #1
Fayetteville · near
125,417
Fayetteville · near
125,417 median HH income
76.6% of the leader · rank #2
Peninsula · near
125,417
Peninsula · near
125,417 median HH income
76.6% of the leader · rank #3
Mickleton · near
125,430
Mickleton · near
125,430 median HH income
76.6% of the leader · rank #4
Martinez · this city
125,436
Martinez · this city
125,436 median HH income
76.6% of the leader · rank #5
Atlantic High… · near
125,438
Atlantic High… · near
125,438 median HH income
76.6% of the leader · rank #6
Oakton · highest
163,662
Oakton · highest
163,662 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 Martinez 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: 36,926.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Martinez - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Martinez places in the 89th percentile for household income and the 46th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
89th
percentile, household income
95th
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: Martinez, CA
Martinez is a small city in California, home to 36,926 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Martinez brings in $125,436 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.0%. Martinez's housing stock carries a median value of $824,700, and the median resident age is 42.3 years. Educational attainment runs 45.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 63.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 9 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 125% from five years earlier. Martinez reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1505.6 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not 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. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across California, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Martinez report an average commute of 24.3 minutes, with 65.1% driving alone and 19.5% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 88.7 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Martinez'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 population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist to housing and income to work and mobility to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Martinez, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, 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
Is Martinez growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -322 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 9 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Martinez?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1505.6 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 Martinez?
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 Wildomar (36,953 residents, $95,677 income); La Presa (36,669 residents, $88,479 income); Claremont (36,553 residents, $122,127 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Hanover Park, IL (36,850 residents); Tucker, GA (37,022 residents); Muskogee, OK (36,819 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Martinez?
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 6.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Martinez?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 65.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 24.3 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. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Drive alone
65.1%
Work from home
19.5%
Public transit
3.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 18,835 workers age 16+.
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 10 public schools within the city match. 45.5% 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.
Poverty estimate
4.0%
Bachelor's degree+
45.5%
Matched public schools
10
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
C
City profile score · Martinez, CA
57/100
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 A
$125,436
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A-
45.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B
4.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
277 /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.
Martinez profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 88/100 (A) · $125,436
Bachelor's+ share: 80/100 (A-) · 45.5%
Poverty rate: 72/100 (B) · 4.0%
Violent crime: 36/100 (F) · 277 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Martinez sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Martinez'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 - Martinez highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Martinez, CA (this city): home $824,700, crime 1,506/100k
Hanover Park, IL : home $260,900, crime 542/100k
Muskogee, OK : home $124,900, crime 3,935/100k
Rock Island, IL : home $118,400, crime 3,259/100k
Wildomar, CA : home $511,900, crime 1,123/100k
Claremont, CA : home $870,800, crime 2,419/100k
La Puente, CA : home $593,200, crime 1,700/100k
Pacifica, CA : home $1,211,700, crime 1,451/100k
How does Martinez compare to other US cities?
Here's how Martinez stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income89% higher than other cities
Home value95% 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.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to California alone, Martinez ranks #145 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 Martinez 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 Martinez near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Martinez ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Martinez only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#285 of 1,338
79th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#342 of 1,343
75th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#940 of 1,450
34th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#333 of 1,458
77th 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
89th percentile nationally for median household income · 46th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Martinez's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Martinez'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 Martinez's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$824,7005th percentilemore affordable than 5% 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
Martinez's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,469 of 15,516
More affordable than 7% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,057 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 6.6×, Martinez sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,469 of 15,516 and #3,057 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
$125,436Martinez, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Martinez, 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 Martinez, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)45.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
36,926
Median Income
$125,436
Median Home Value
$824,700
Median Age
42.3
Poverty Rate
4.0%
Labor force participation
63.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
45.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1505.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
276.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1228.8
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
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Martinez's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
37,171 residents
2021
36,937 residents
2022
36,659 residents
2023
36,734 residents
2024
36,923 residents
2025
36,849 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
9
housing units authorized
Single-Family
5
detached homes
Multifamily
4
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
4
4
0
$0.9M
2020
18
6
12
$1.9M
2021
63
63
0
$14.2M
2022
42
42
0
$13.3M
2023
83
83
0
$23.8M
2024
9
5
4
$1.4M
Permit volume increased 125% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
24.3 minutes
Drive Alone
65.1%
Carpool
7.5%
Public Transit
3.4%
Walk
2.8%
Work from Home
19.5%
Other
1.7%
Based on 18,835 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 Martinez. 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 Martinez 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 Martinez sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Martinez 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.