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SheetCA-ROHNERT-PARK-CA · Rohnert Park, CA 44,461 pop · income 76th 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 Rohnert Park
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Rohnert Park on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Alexandria · lowest
47,357
Alexandria · lowest
47,357 median HH income
21.2% of the leader · rank #1
Renton · near
96,626
Renton · near
96,626 median HH income
43.3% of the leader · rank #2
Schertz · near
96,633
Schertz · near
96,633 median HH income
43.3% of the leader · rank #3
Rohnert Park · this city
96,635
Rohnert Park · this city
96,635 median HH income
43.3% of the leader · rank #4
Quasset Lake · near
96,641
Quasset Lake · near
96,641 median HH income
43.3% of the leader · rank #5
Dennisville · near
96,641
Dennisville · near
96,641 median HH income
43.3% of the leader · rank #6
Danville · highest
223,206
Danville · highest
223,206 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 Rohnert Park 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: 44,461.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Rohnert Park - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Rohnert Park places in the 76th percentile for household income and the 45th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
76th
percentile, household income
91st
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
45th
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: Rohnert Park, CA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 44,461 residents in Rohnert Park, a small city within California. Median household income here is $96,635 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.4%. Rohnert Park's housing stock carries a median value of $634,900, and the median resident age is 34.9 years. Educational attainment runs 30.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 68.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 245 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 26% from five years earlier. Rohnert Park reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1521.1 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $2,053 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across California, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Rohnert Park'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 reported crime to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to population change to schools and households to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Rohnert Park, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
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. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Rohnert Park?
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 1521.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 33% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the journey to work look like in Rohnert Park?
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 74.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Rohnert Park?
Within California, the closest population matches are Oakley (44,311 residents, $132,067 income); El Centro (44,186 residents, $56,093 income); Palm Springs (44,998 residents, $71,979 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Cutler Bay, FL (44,483 residents); Fond du Lac, WI (44,491 residents); Sicklerville, NJ (44,500 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.
Is Rohnert Park growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +348 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 245 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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 Rohnert Park?
The NCES join finds 13 public schools within the city match. 30.1% 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.
Matched public schools
13
Bachelor's degree+
30.1%
Poverty estimate
6.4%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Rohnert Park?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 6.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.4%, 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.
Household income
$96,635
Home value
$634,900
Value / income
6.6×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
D
City profile score · Rohnert Park, CA
48/100
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+
$96,635
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C
30.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
258 /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.
Rohnert Park profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 75/100 (B+) · $96,635
Bachelor's+ share: 58/100 (C) · 30.1%
Poverty rate: 56/100 (C) · 6.4%
Violent crime: 39/100 (F) · 258 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Rohnert Park sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Rohnert Park'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 - Rohnert Park highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Rohnert Park, CA (this city): home $634,900, crime 1,521/100k
Cutler Bay, FL : home $420,800, crime 1,511/100k
Fond du Lac, WI : home $161,300, crime 2,491/100k
Bremerton, WA : home $409,500, crime 3,249/100k
Alexandria, LA : home $182,800, crime 9,310/100k
Fairfield, OH : home $218,100, crime 1,659/100k
Oakley, CA : home $632,800, crime 1,113/100k
El Centro, CA : home $291,100, crime 1,596/100k
Palm Springs, CA : home $567,300, crime 3,817/100k
Lompoc, CA : home $433,800, crime 1,957/100k
Morgan Hill, CA : home $1,127,600, crime 1,704/100k
Danville, CA : home $1,583,300, crime 647/100k
How does Rohnert Park compare to other US cities?
Here's how Rohnert Park stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income76% higher than other cities
Home value91% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety45% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just California and the picture shifts: Rohnert Park ranks #150 of 441 California cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Rohnert Park 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 Rohnert Park near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Rohnert Park ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Rohnert Park only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#552 of 1,338
59th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#531 of 1,343
60th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#732 of 1,450
49th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#625 of 1,458
57th 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
76th percentile nationally for median household income · 45th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Rohnert Park's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Rohnert Park'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 Rohnert Park's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$634,9009th percentilemore affordable than 9% 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
Rohnert Park's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,467 of 15,516
More affordable than 7% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,056 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 6.6×, Rohnert Park sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,467 of 15,516 and #3,056 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
$96,635Rohnert Park, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Rohnert Park, 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 Rohnert Park, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)30.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
44,461
Median Income
$96,635
Median Home Value
$634,900
Median Age
34.9
Poverty Rate
6.4%
Labor force participation
68.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
30.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1521.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
258.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1263.1
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
Rohnert Park's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
44,463 residents
2021
44,586 residents
2022
44,450 residents
2023
44,623 residents
2024
44,828 residents
2025
44,811 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
245
housing units authorized
Single-Family
185
detached homes
Multifamily
60
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
195
195
0
$42.6M
2020
245
209
36
$45.7M
2021
272
226
46
$53.5M
2022
244
184
60
$46.5M
2023
232
167
65
$44.1M
2024
245
185
60
$46.8M
Permit volume increased 26% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.6%
Carpool
10.3%
Public Transit
1.1%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
10.9%
Other
2.2%
Based on 24,283 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 Rohnert Park. 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 Rohnert Park 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 Rohnert Park sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Rohnert Park 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.