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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-NEWMAN-CA · Newman, CA 12,299 pop · income 57th 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 Newman
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Newman on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Webster · lowest
60,384
Webster · lowest
60,384 median HH income
25.4% of the leader · rank #1
Somerset · near
75,337
Somerset · near
75,337 median HH income
31.6% of the leader · rank #2
Lake Nebagamon · near
75,341
Lake Nebagamon · near
75,341 median HH income
31.6% of the leader · rank #3
Newman · this city
75,344
Newman · this city
75,344 median HH income
31.6% of the leader · rank #4
Central Heigh… · near
75,347
Central Heigh… · near
75,347 median HH income
31.6% of the leader · rank #5
Fort Atkinson · near
75,350
Fort Atkinson · near
75,350 median HH income
31.6% of the leader · rank #6
Tamalpais-Hom… · highest
238,158
Tamalpais-Hom… · highest
238,158 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 Newman 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: 12,299.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Newman - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Newman lands in the 57th percentile for household income and the 83rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
57th
percentile, household income
76th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
83rd
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: Newman, CA
Newman is a small town in California, home to 12,299 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Newman report a median income of $75,344 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 14.4%. Home values in Newman run a median of $381,900, and the median resident age is 35.3 years. Educational attainment runs 8.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 60.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 14 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 75% from five years earlier. Newman reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 543.4 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 65.0°F with 11.7 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. 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. Workers in Newman report an average commute of 34.9 minutes, with 81.6% driving alone and 6.1% 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 Newman'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 work and mobility to population change to housing and income to schools and households to reported crime to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Newman, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history, 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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Newman?
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 San Marino (12,279 residents, $187,633 income); Tehachapi (12,366 residents, $67,785 income); Fortuna (12,413 residents, $61,603 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Webster, MA (12,300 residents); Crestwood, MO (12,298 residents); Fairfax Station, VA (12,298 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Newman?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 34.9 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. 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +64 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 14 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Newman?
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 5.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 14.4%, 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Newman?
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 8 public schools within the city match. 8.5% 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
14.4%
Bachelor's degree+
8.5%
Matched public schools
8
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Newman?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 543.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 76% 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.
Total reported rate
543.4
Violent rate
115.3
Property rate
428.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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 65.0°F, with 11.7 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
11.7 in
Mean temperature
65.0°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Above median income · poverty 14.4% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Newman, CA
33/100
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.
Violent crime B-
115 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income C
$75,344
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
14.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better 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.
Bachelor's+ share F
8.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Newman profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 67/100 (B-) · 115 /100k
Household income: 55/100 (C) · $75,344
Poverty rate: 24/100 (F) · 14.4%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Bachelor's+ share: 2/100 (F) · 8.5%
Where Newman sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Newman'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 - Newman highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Newman, CA (this city): home $381,900, crime 543/100k
Webster, MA : home $303,900, crime 1,438/100k
Crestwood, MO : home $291,400, crime 1,586/100k
Londonderry, NH : home $433,100, crime 486/100k
Webster, TX : home $284,900, crime 6,532/100k
San Marino, CA : home $2,000,000+, crime 1,210/100k
Tehachapi, CA : home $344,700, crime 3,124/100k
Fortuna, CA : home $353,200, crime 1,400/100k
Scotts Valley, CA : home $1,092,000, crime 1,904/100k
Big Bear, CA : home $427,700, crime 3,704/100k
How does Newman compare to other US cities?
Here's how Newman stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income57% higher than other cities
Home value76% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety83% 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, Newman ranks #9 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 Newman 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 Newman near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Newman ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Newman only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#847 of 1,338
37th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#892 of 1,343
34th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#307 of 1,450
79th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,252 of 1,458
14th 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
57th percentile nationally for median household income · 83rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Newman's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Newman'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 Newman's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$381,90024th percentilemore affordable than 24% 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
Newman's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,018 of 15,516
More affordable than 16% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,650 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.1×, Newman sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,018 of 15,516 and #2,650 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
$75,344Newman, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Newman, 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 Newman, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)8.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)14.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
12,299
Median Income
$75,344
Median Home Value
$381,900
Median Age
35.3
Poverty Rate
14.4%
Labor force participation
60.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
8.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
543.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
115.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
428.1
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
65.0°F
Annual Precipitation
11.7"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
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
Newman's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
12,389 residents
2021
12,363 residents
2022
12,295 residents
2023
12,281 residents
2024
12,363 residents
2025
12,453 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
14
housing units authorized
Single-Family
14
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
56
56
0
$13.9M
2020
1
1
0
$0.2M
2021
1
1
0
$0.2M
2022
5
5
0
$2.4M
2023
41
41
0
$11.5M
2024
14
14
0
$3.8M
Permit volume decreased 75% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
34.9 minutes
Drive Alone
81.6%
Carpool
8.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
3.4%
Work from Home
6.1%
Based on 5,675 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 Newman. 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 Newman 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 Newman sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Newman 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.