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SheetCA-SANGER-CA · Sanger, CA 26,515 pop · income 55th 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 Sanger
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sanger on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mansión del M… · lowest
37,256
Mansión del M… · lowest
37,256 median HH income
26.7% of the leader · rank #1
Torrey · near
74,423
Torrey · near
74,423 median HH income
53.3% of the leader · rank #2
Alden · near
74,426
Alden · near
74,426 median HH income
53.3% of the leader · rank #3
Medical Lake · near
74,426
Medical Lake · near
74,426 median HH income
53.3% of the leader · rank #4
Sanger · this city
74,428
Sanger · this city
74,428 median HH income
53.3% of the leader · rank #5
Greenport West · near
74,432
Greenport West · near
74,432 median HH income
53.3% of the leader · rank #6
Paramus · highest
139,707
Paramus · highest
139,707 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 Sanger 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: 26,515.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Sanger - the verdict
Sanger ranks in the 55th percentile for household income and the 44th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
55th
percentile, household income
71st
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
44th
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: Sanger, CA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 26,515 residents in Sanger, a small city within California. Households in Sanger report a median income of $74,428 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 10.4%. Home values in Sanger run a median of $346,000, and the median resident age is 31.0 years. Educational attainment runs 12.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 55.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 110 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 112% from five years earlier. Sanger reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1558.4 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: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, California scores 110.7 (Well Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $2,053 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts California's average monthly utility costs around $275 (state average). 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 Sanger'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income to reported crime to population change to work and mobility to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Sanger, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history.
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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Sanger?
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 Eureka (26,302 residents, $60,253 income); South Pasadena (26,297 residents, $128,105 income); Hercules (26,245 residents, $130,583 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Jenks, OK (26,519 residents); Tumwater, WA (26,519 residents); Rosemount, MN (26,509 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Sanger?
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 4.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Sanger?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1558.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 32% 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +428 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 110 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Sanger?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 80.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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
80.6%
Work from home
5.1%
Public transit
0.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 10,615 workers age 16+.
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 15 public schools within the city match. 12.8% 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.
Poverty estimate
10.4%
Bachelor's degree+
12.8%
Matched public schools
15
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above median income · poverty 10.4% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Sanger, CA
28/100
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 C-
$74,428
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
10.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
484 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
12.8%
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.
Sanger profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 54/100 (C-) · $74,428
Poverty rate: 38/100 (F) · 10.4%
Violent crime: 17/100 (F) · 484 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 14/100 (F) · 12.8%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Sanger sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Sanger'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 - Sanger highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Sanger, CA (this city): home $346,000, crime 1,558/100k
Jenks, OK : home $285,600, crime 1,304/100k
Tumwater, WA : home $438,000, crime 2,274/100k
Rosemount, MN : home $406,100, crime 556/100k
Paramus, NJ : home $736,000, crime 4,928/100k
Marysville, OH : home $271,000, crime 1,181/100k
Eureka, CA : home $375,800, crime 4,187/100k
South Pasadena, CA : home $1,545,100, crime 2,723/100k
Hercules, CA : home $741,200, crime 842/100k
Windsor, CA : home $763,200, crime 967/100k
Benicia, CA : home $778,600, crime 1,164/100k
How does Sanger compare to other US cities?
Sanger measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income55% higher than other cities
Home value71% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety44% 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, Sanger ranks #154 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 Sanger 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 Sanger near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sanger ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sanger only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#858 of 1,338
36th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#967 of 1,343
28th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#470 of 1,450
67th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,122 of 1,458
23rd 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
55th percentile nationally for median household income · 44th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Sanger's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Sanger'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 Sanger's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$346,00029th percentilemore affordable than 29% 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
Sanger's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,277 of 15,516
More affordable than 21% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,435 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.6×, Sanger sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,277 of 15,516 and #2,435 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$74,428Sanger, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sanger, 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 Sanger, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)12.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
26,515
Median Income
$74,428
Median Home Value
$346,000
Median Age
31.0
Poverty Rate
10.4%
Labor force participation
55.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
12.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1558.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
483.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1074.5
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
15
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Sanger's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
26,800 residents
2021
26,758 residents
2022
26,680 residents
2023
26,768 residents
2024
27,047 residents
2025
27,228 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
110
housing units authorized
Single-Family
38
detached homes
Multifamily
72
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
52
52
0
$9.1M
2020
19
19
0
$3.5M
2021
43
7
36
$4.8M
2022
37
37
0
$1.3M
2023
106
22
84
$17.3M
2024
110
38
72
$32.8M
Permit volume increased 112% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
80.6%
Carpool
10.1%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
2.1%
Work from Home
5.1%
Other
1.7%
Based on 10,615 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 Sanger. 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 Sanger 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 Sanger sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sanger 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.