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Place dossier plate
SheetCA-REDONDO-BEACH-CA · Redondo Beach, CA 69,814 pop · income 93rd 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 Redondo Beach
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Redondo Beach on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Canton · lowest
39,754
Canton · lowest
39,754 median HH income
19.4% of the leader · rank #1
Redondo Beach · this city
144,588
Redondo Beach · this city
144,588 median HH income
70.5% of the leader · rank #2
Ravensdale · near
144,615
Ravensdale · near
144,615 median HH income
70.5% of the leader · rank #3
Fall · near
144,625
Fall · near
144,625 median HH income
70.5% of the leader · rank #4
Flourtown · near
144,634
Flourtown · near
144,634 median HH income
70.5% of the leader · rank #5
Longmeadow · near
144,639
Longmeadow · near
144,639 median HH income
70.5% of the leader · rank #6
Dublin · highest
205,046
Dublin · highest
205,046 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 Redondo Beach 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: 69,814.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Redondo Beach - the verdict
Redondo Beach ranks in the 93rd percentile for household income and the 18th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
93rd
percentile, household income
98th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
18th
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: Redondo Beach, CA
69,814 people live in Redondo Beach, California - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Redondo Beach households earn a median of $144,588 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.1%. Typical homes in Redondo Beach are valued around $1,225,400, and the median resident age is 40.7 years. Educational attainment runs 66.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 67.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 111 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Stable), down 4% from five years earlier. Redondo Beach's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2835.1 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 62.5°F with 13.8 inches of precipitation per year.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across California, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 88.7 out of 100 (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Redondo Beach'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 work and mobility to schools and households to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to reported crime to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Redondo Beach, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
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
How far does income reach against housing in Redondo Beach?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 8.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.1%, 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. 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Redondo Beach?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 65.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What does the education layer cover for Redondo Beach?
The NCES join finds 14 public schools within the city match. 66.4% 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.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Redondo Beach?
Within California, the closest population matches are Walnut Creek (69,790 residents, $135,665 income); Tulare (69,984 residents, $69,517 income); Yuba City (69,545 residents, $72,322 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lakewood, NJ (69,884 residents); West Des Moines, IA (69,893 residents); St. Cloud, MN (69,926 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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Redondo Beach?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 62.5°F, with 13.8 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.
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.
Mean temperature
62.5°F
Annual precipitation
13.8 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
88.7
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Redondo Beach?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2835.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 24% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2585.9
Violent rate
249.3
Total reported rate
2835.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Redondo Beach growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -4,106 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -5.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 111 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-5.8%
2025 estimate
67,281
2020 estimate
71,387
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
C+
City profile score · Redondo Beach, CA
64/100
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+
$144,588
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
66.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
2.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
249 /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.
Redondo Beach profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 95/100 (A+) · $144,588
Bachelor's+ share: 95/100 (A+) · 66.4%
Poverty rate: 85/100 (A) · 2.1%
Violent crime: 40/100 (D) · 249 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Redondo Beach sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Redondo Beach'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 - Redondo Beach highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Redondo Beach, CA (this city): home $1,225,400, crime 2,835/100k
West Des Moines, IA : home $286,300, crime 1,879/100k
St. Cloud, MN : home $212,800, crime 3,323/100k
Passaic, NJ : home $406,500, crime 2,557/100k
Canton, OH : home $94,400, crime 4,576/100k
Walnut Creek, CA : home $1,031,100, crime 3,178/100k
Tulare, CA : home $301,200, crime 2,415/100k
Yuba City, CA : home $405,900, crime 2,082/100k
Eastvale, CA : home $752,000, crime 1,823/100k
Camarillo, CA : home $766,100, crime 1,320/100k
Dublin, CA : home $1,224,100, crime 2,072/100k
How does Redondo Beach compare to other US cities?
Here's how Redondo Beach stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income93% higher than other cities
Home value98% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety18% 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, Redondo Beach ranks #348 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 Redondo Beach 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 Redondo Beach near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Redondo Beach ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Redondo Beach only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#193 of 1,338
86th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#141 of 1,343
90th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#1,108 of 1,450
23rd percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#130 of 1,458
91st 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
93rd percentile nationally for median household income · 18th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Redondo Beach's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Redondo Beach'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 Redondo Beach's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$1,225,4002nd percentilemore affordable than 2% 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
Redondo Beach's home-value-to-income ratio: 8.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,152 of 15,516
More affordable than 2% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#702 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 8.5×, Redondo Beach sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,152 of 15,516 and #702 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
$144,588Redondo Beach, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Redondo Beach, 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 Redondo Beach, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)66.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
69,814
Median Income
$144,588
Median Home Value
$1,225,400
Median Age
40.7
Poverty Rate
2.1%
Labor force participation
67.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
66.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2835.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
249.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2585.9
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
62.5°F
Annual Precipitation
13.8"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
14
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Redondo Beach's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
71,387 residents
2021
69,911 residents
2022
68,884 residents
2023
68,322 residents
2024
67,970 residents
2025
67,281 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
111
housing units authorized
Single-Family
96
detached homes
Multifamily
15
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
116
94
22
$40.7M
2020
46
34
12
$16.3M
2021
117
76
41
$39.8M
2022
237
120
117
$50.7M
2023
130
110
20
$55.7M
2024
111
96
15
$47.2M
Permit volume decreased 4% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
65.2%
Carpool
3.9%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
1.5%
Work from Home
26.4%
Other
2.3%
Based on 36,606 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 Redondo Beach. 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 Redondo Beach 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 Redondo Beach sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Redondo Beach 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.