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SheetCA-ROSEVILLE-CA · Roseville, CA 152,438 pop · income 86th 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 Roseville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Roseville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Jackson · lowest
43,238
Jackson · lowest
43,238 median HH income
23.8% of the leader · rank #1
Cologne · near
117,344
Cologne · near
117,344 median HH income
64.5% of the leader · rank #2
Granger · near
117,348
Granger · near
117,348 median HH income
64.5% of the leader · rank #3
Savage · near
117,353
Savage · near
117,353 median HH income
64.5% of the leader · rank #4
Roseville · this city
117,354
Roseville · this city
117,354 median HH income
64.5% of the leader · rank #5
Plainsboro Ce… · near
117,363
Plainsboro Ce… · near
117,363 median HH income
64.5% of the leader · rank #6
Sunnyvale · highest
181,862
Sunnyvale · highest
181,862 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 Roseville 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: 152,438.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Roseville - the verdict
Roseville ranks in the 86th percentile for household income and the 42nd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
86th
percentile, household income
90th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
42nd
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: Roseville, CA
California's Roseville is a mid-sized U.S. city, with 152,438 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Roseville households earn a median of $117,354 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.3%. Typical homes in Roseville are valued around $630,600, and the median resident age is 39.8 years. About 44.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 61.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 1,905 residential building permits were authorized in Roseville (Building Boom), up 57% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Roseville reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1639.6 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: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts California at 110.7 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Above Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $2,053 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in California run around $275, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Roseville'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 reported crime to work and mobility to population change 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 Roseville, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, 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.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Roseville?
The NCES join finds 38 public schools within the city match. 44.1% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Roseville?
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 1639.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 28% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the journey to work look like in Roseville?
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 69.0%. 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 Roseville?
Within California, the closest population matches are Sunnyvale (153,455 residents, $181,862 income); Escondido (149,913 residents, $84,477 income); Pomona (148,391 residents, $78,869 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Charleston, SC (152,014 residents); Hollywood, FL (152,935 residents); Bellevue, WA (151,199 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.
Population change
Is Roseville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +18,785 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +12.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,905 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
+12.6%
2025 estimate
167,302
2020 estimate
148,517
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Roseville?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.3%, 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. 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
$117,354
Home value
$630,600
Value / income
5.4×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
C
City profile score · Roseville, CA
57/100
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
$117,354
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
44.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B
4.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
219 /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.
Roseville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 85/100 (A) · $117,354
Bachelor's+ share: 79/100 (B+) · 44.1%
Poverty rate: 70/100 (B) · 4.3%
Violent crime: 45/100 (D) · 219 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Roseville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Roseville'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 - Roseville highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Roseville, CA (this city): home $630,600, crime 1,640/100k
Charleston, SC : home $469,100, crime 2,379/100k
Bellevue, WA : home $1,203,100, crime 3,478/100k
Springfield, MA : home $222,700, crime 3,727/100k
Kansas City, KS : home $147,100, crime 4,654/100k
Sunnyvale, CA : home $1,816,600, crime 2,154/100k
Escondido, CA : home $663,500, crime 1,919/100k
Pomona, CA : home $569,600, crime 3,469/100k
Corona, CA : home $656,500, crime 1,973/100k
Hayward, CA : home $820,700, crime 4,134/100k
Torrance, CA : home $1,036,600, crime 3,087/100k
How does Roseville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Roseville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income86% higher than other cities
Home value90% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety42% 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, Roseville ranks #172 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 Roseville 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 Roseville near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Roseville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Roseville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#352 of 1,338
74th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#537 of 1,343
60th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#915 of 1,450
36th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#351 of 1,458
76th 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
86th percentile nationally for median household income · 42nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Roseville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Roseville'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 Roseville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$630,60010th percentilemore affordable than 10% 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
Roseville's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,410 of 15,516
More affordable than 14% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#502 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 5.4×, Roseville sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,410 of 15,516 and #502 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
$117,354Roseville, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Roseville, 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 Roseville, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)44.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
152,438
Median Income
$117,354
Median Home Value
$630,600
Median Age
39.8
Poverty Rate
4.3%
Labor force participation
61.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
44.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1639.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
219.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1420.4
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
38
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Roseville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
148,517 residents
2021
152,538 residents
2022
156,070 residents
2023
159,436 residents
2024
163,543 residents
2025
167,302 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
1,905
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1,216
detached homes
Multifamily
689
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
12.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1,213
998
215
$277.0M
2020
1,636
1,264
372
$376.1M
2021
1,883
1,883
0
$474.6M
2022
1,802
1,578
224
$416.4M
2023
1,966
1,213
753
$417.8M
2024
1,905
1,216
689
$397.1M
Permit volume increased 57% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
69.0%
Carpool
6.4%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
21.3%
Other
1.7%
Based on 73,945 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 Roseville. 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 Roseville 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 Roseville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Roseville 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.