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SheetCA-RANCHO-CUCAMONGA-CA · Rancho Cucamonga, CA 174,693 pop · income 83rd 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 Rancho Cucamonga
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Rancho Cucamonga on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Eugene · lowest
63,836
Eugene · lowest
63,836 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #1
Seabrook · near
109,489
Seabrook · near
109,489 median HH income
84.6% of the leader · rank #2
Rancho Cucamo… · this city
109,511
Rancho Cucamo… · this city
109,511 median HH income
84.6% of the leader · rank #3
Oak Point · near
109,528
Oak Point · near
109,528 median HH income
84.6% of the leader · rank #4
Maryland · near
109,530
Maryland · near
109,530 median HH income
84.6% of the leader · rank #5
East Farmingd… · near
109,531
East Farmingd… · near
109,531 median HH income
84.6% of the leader · rank #6
Cary · highest
129,399
Cary · highest
129,399 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 Rancho Cucamonga 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: 174,693.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Rancho Cucamonga - the verdict
Rancho Cucamonga ranks in the 83rd percentile for household income and the 30th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
83rd
percentile, household income
93rd
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
30th
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: Rancho Cucamonga, CA
California's Rancho Cucamonga is a mid-sized U.S. city, with 174,693 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $109,511 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.7%. Typical homes in Rancho Cucamonga are valued around $694,400, and the median resident age is 37.9 years. 37.3% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 62.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 329 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Slowing), down 24% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2104.8 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $2,053 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in California run around $275, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Rancho Cucamonga report an average commute of 28.4 minutes, with 75.2% driving alone and 11.7% working from home. 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 Rancho Cucamonga'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist to schools and households to population change to reported crime to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Rancho Cucamonga, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, 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. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Rancho Cucamonga?
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 6.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Rancho Cucamonga?
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 Oceanside (172,542 residents, $93,724 income); Santa Rosa (177,216 residents, $97,410 income); Elk Grove (177,221 residents, $122,229 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Salem, OR (176,666 residents); Cary, NC (176,686 residents); Clarksville, TN (171,897 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 education layer cover for Rancho Cucamonga?
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 13 public schools within the city match. 37.3% 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.
Is Rancho Cucamonga growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3,201 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 329 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.
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 Rancho Cucamonga?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2104.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 8% 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
2104.8
Violent rate
293.7
Property rate
1811.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Rancho Cucamonga?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 28.4 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.
Drive alone
75.2%
Work from home
11.7%
Public transit
1.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 83,995 workers age 16+.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
C-
City profile score · Rancho Cucamonga, CA
50/100
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-
$109,511
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B
37.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C-
6.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
294 /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.
Rancho Cucamonga profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 81/100 (A-) · $109,511
Bachelor's+ share: 71/100 (B) · 37.3%
Poverty rate: 54/100 (C-) · 6.7%
Violent crime: 34/100 (F) · 294 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Rancho Cucamonga sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Rancho Cucamonga'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 - Rancho Cucamonga highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Rancho Cucamonga, CA (this city): home $694,400, crime 2,105/100k
Salem, OR : home $382,400, crime 3,336/100k
Cary, NC : home $525,200, crime 1,388/100k
Clarksville, TN : home $236,100, crime 2,042/100k
Eugene, OR : home $435,400, crime 3,574/100k
Fort Collins, CO : home $548,400, crime 2,428/100k
Oceanside, CA : home $702,000, crime 2,131/100k
Santa Rosa, CA : home $685,000, crime 1,663/100k
Elk Grove, CA : home $603,400, crime 1,422/100k
Ontario, CA : home $568,000, crime 2,090/100k
Garden Grove, CA : home $765,500, crime 2,035/100k
Lancaster, CA : home $409,100, crime 2,755/100k
How does Rancho Cucamonga compare to other US cities?
Where Rancho Cucamonga sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income83% higher than other cities
Home value93% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety30% 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, Rancho Cucamonga ranks #256 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 Rancho Cucamonga 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 Rancho Cucamonga near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Rancho Cucamonga ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Rancho Cucamonga only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#411 of 1,338
69th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#452 of 1,343
66th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#711 of 1,450
51st percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#484 of 1,458
67th 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
83rd percentile nationally for median household income · 30th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Rancho Cucamonga's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Rancho Cucamonga'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 Rancho Cucamonga's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$694,4007th percentilemore affordable than 7% 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,348 of 15,516
More affordable than 8% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#609 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 6.3×, Rancho Cucamonga sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,348 of 15,516 and #609 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
$109,511Rancho Cucamonga, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Rancho Cucamonga, 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 Rancho Cucamonga, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)37.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
174,693
Median Income
$109,511
Median Home Value
$694,400
Median Age
37.9
Poverty Rate
6.7%
Labor force participation
62.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
37.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2104.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
293.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1811.1
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.
Schools
Total Schools
13
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Rancho Cucamonga's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
174,655 residents
2021
175,309 residents
2022
175,148 residents
2023
175,732 residents
2024
177,002 residents
2025
177,856 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
329
housing units authorized
Single-Family
80
detached homes
Multifamily
249
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
434
137
297
$77.6M
2020
349
98
251
$65.8M
2021
973
107
866
$129.6M
2022
1,029
121
908
$119.2M
2023
351
91
260
$42.8M
2024
329
80
249
$43.2M
Permit volume decreased 24% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
28.4 minutes
Drive Alone
75.2%
Carpool
9.9%
Public Transit
1.0%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
11.7%
Other
1.7%
Based on 83,995 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 Rancho Cucamonga. 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 Rancho Cucamonga 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 Rancho Cucamonga sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Rancho Cucamonga 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.