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SheetCA-RANCHO-TEHAMA-RESERVE-CA · Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA 1,102 pop · income 11th 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 Tehama Reserve
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Rancho Tehama Reserve on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Fowler · lowest
42,083
Fowler · lowest
42,083 median HH income
16.8% of the leader · rank #1
Rancho Tehama… · this city
43,750
Rancho Tehama… · this city
43,750 median HH income
17.5% of the leader · rank #2
Brookside · near
43,750
Brookside · near
43,750 median HH income
17.5% of the leader · rank #3
Colony · near
43,750
Colony · near
43,750 median HH income
17.5% of the leader · rank #4
Midway · near
43,750
Midway · near
43,750 median HH income
17.5% of the leader · rank #5
Nunapitchuk · near
43,750
Nunapitchuk · near
43,750 median HH income
17.5% of the leader · rank #6
La Honda · highest
250,001
La Honda · highest
250,001 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Rancho Tehama Reserve on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 1,102.
Nationally, Rancho Tehama Reserve sits in the 11th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
11th
percentile, household income
27th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
📝 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 Tehama Reserve, CA
California's Rancho Tehama Reserve is a small town, with 1,102 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $43,750 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 29.3%. Home values in Rancho Tehama Reserve run a median of $149,000, and the median resident age is 56.1 years. About 9.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 29.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. 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 Tehama Reserve'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 work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Rancho Tehama Reserve, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Rancho Tehama Reserve?
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 75.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in Rancho Tehama Reserve?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 29.3%, 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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
Which cities make useful reference points for Rancho Tehama Reserve?
Within California, the closest population matches are La Honda (1,094 residents, $250,000+ income); Teviston (1,092 residents, $46,914 income); Knights Landing (1,113 residents, $47,328 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pierce, CO (1,102 residents); Leland, IL (1,102 residents); Potomac Heights, MD (1,102 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.
Low income · poverty 29.3% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA
7/100
4 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 F
$43,750
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
9.7%
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.
Poverty rate F
29.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Rancho Tehama Reserve profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 12/100 (F) · $43,750
Bachelor's+ share: 6/100 (F) · 9.7%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Poverty rate: 1/100 (F) · 29.3%
How does Rancho Tehama Reserve compare to other US cities?
Rancho Tehama Reserve measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income11% higher than other cities
Home value27% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Rancho Tehama Reserve 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 Tehama Reserve near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Rancho Tehama Reserve ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Rancho Tehama Reserve only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,250 of 1,338
7th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#1,303 of 1,343
3rd percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#87 of 1,450
94th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,219 of 1,458
16th 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
11th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Rancho Tehama Reserve's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$149,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 73% 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
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,594 of 15,516
More affordable than 45% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,975 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.4×, Rancho Tehama Reserve sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,594 of 15,516 and #6,975 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$43,750Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Rancho Tehama Reserve, 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 Tehama Reserve, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)9.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)29.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)29.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,102
Median Income
$43,750
Median Home Value
$149,000
Median Age
56.1
Poverty Rate
29.3%
Labor force participation
29.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
9.7%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.8%
Carpool
15.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
8.3%
Based on 277 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 Tehama Reserve. 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 Tehama Reserve 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 Tehama Reserve sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Rancho Tehama Reserve 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, 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.