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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-PATTERSON-CA · Patterson, CA 24,306 pop · income 73rd 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 Patterson
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Patterson on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Selma · lowest
55,839
Selma · lowest
55,839 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #1
Goshen · near
93,529
Goshen · near
93,529 median HH income
65.2% of the leader · rank #2
Patterson · this city
93,542
Patterson · this city
93,542 median HH income
65.2% of the leader · rank #3
Falkland · near
93,542
Falkland · near
93,542 median HH income
65.2% of the leader · rank #4
Kuna · near
93,545
Kuna · near
93,545 median HH income
65.2% of the leader · rank #5
Skokie · near
93,550
Skokie · near
93,550 median HH income
65.3% of the leader · rank #6
Palmetto Bay · highest
143,368
Palmetto Bay · highest
143,368 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 Patterson 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: 24,306.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Patterson - the verdict
Nationally, Patterson sits in the 73rd percentile for household income and the 55th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
73rd
percentile, household income
80th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
55th
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: Patterson, CA
Patterson is a small city in California, home to 24,306 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $93,542 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.8%. Patterson's housing stock carries a median value of $427,400, and the median resident age is 30.9 years. About 14.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 60.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 49 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Stable), up 0% from five years earlier. Patterson reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1231.8 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: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts California at 110.7 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Above Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $2,053 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts California's average monthly utility costs around $275 (state average). 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 Patterson'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 housing and income to work and mobility to reported crime to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Patterson, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, 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. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Patterson?
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. 14.2% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Patterson?
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 4.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Patterson?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.0%. 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 Patterson?
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 Bloomington (24,324 residents, $81,220 income); Soledad (24,476 residents, $93,204 income); Bay Point (24,065 residents, $80,684 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Greenfield, IN (24,308 residents); Farragut, TN (24,309 residents); Wadsworth, OH (24,302 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Patterson?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1231.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 46% 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
1231.8
Violent rate
274.6
Property rate
957.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Patterson growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,773 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +11.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 49 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
23,814
2025 estimate
26,587
Period change
+11.6%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 7.8% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Patterson, CA
39/100
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
$93,542
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
7.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
275 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
14.2%
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.
Patterson profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 73/100 (B) · $93,542
Poverty rate: 48/100 (D) · 7.8%
Violent crime: 37/100 (F) · 275 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 18/100 (F) · 14.2%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Patterson sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Patterson'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 - Patterson highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Patterson, CA (this city): home $427,400, crime 1,232/100k
Wadsworth, OH : home $235,600, crime 1,111/100k
Auburn, ME : home $254,600, crime 2,644/100k
Mandan, ND : home $246,300, crime 2,869/100k
Palmetto Bay, FL : home $787,000, crime 2,165/100k
Soledad, CA : home $571,600, crime 785/100k
Selma, CA : home $288,700, crime 2,172/100k
Maywood, CA : home $595,000, crime 1,921/100k
Seal Beach, CA : home $492,200, crime 3,231/100k
How does Patterson compare to other US cities?
Here's how Patterson stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income73% higher than other cities
Home value80% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety55% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at California, Patterson ranks #105 of 441 California cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Patterson 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 Patterson near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Patterson ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Patterson only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#586 of 1,338
56th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#822 of 1,343
39th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#624 of 1,450
56th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,074 of 1,458
26th 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
73rd percentile nationally for median household income · 55th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Patterson's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Patterson'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 Patterson's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$427,40020th percentilemore affordable than 20% 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
Patterson's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,124 of 15,516
More affordable than 22% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,394 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.6×, Patterson sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,124 of 15,516 and #2,394 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$93,542Patterson, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Patterson, 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 Patterson, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)14.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
24,306
Median Income
$93,542
Median Home Value
$427,400
Median Age
30.9
Poverty Rate
7.8%
Labor force participation
60.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
14.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1231.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
274.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
957.2
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
Patterson's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
23,814 residents
2021
24,264 residents
2022
24,780 residents
2023
25,135 residents
2024
25,777 residents
2025
26,587 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
49
housing units authorized
Single-Family
49
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
49
49
0
$5.7M
2020
54
54
0
$6.3M
2021
59
59
0
$6.9M
2022
47
47
0
$5.5M
2023
43
43
0
$5.0M
2024
49
49
0
$5.7M
Permit volume increased 0% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
77.0%
Carpool
12.6%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
8.9%
Other
1.2%
Based on 10,085 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 Patterson. 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 Patterson 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 Patterson sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Patterson 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.