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SheetCA-SULTANA-CA · Sultana, CA 957 pop · income 10th 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 Sultana
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sultana on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Offerman · lowest
32,000
Offerman · lowest
32,000 median HH income
20.5% of the leader · rank #1
Sultana · this city
42,143
Sultana · this city
42,143 median HH income
27.0% of the leader · rank #2
Onycha · near
42,143
Onycha · near
42,143 median HH income
27.0% of the leader · rank #3
Dunmor · near
42,143
Dunmor · near
42,143 median HH income
27.0% of the leader · rank #4
Mentor · near
42,143
Mentor · near
42,143 median HH income
27.0% of the leader · rank #5
Gasconade · near
42,143
Gasconade · near
42,143 median HH income
27.0% of the leader · rank #6
Tres Pinos · highest
156,250
Tres Pinos · highest
156,250 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 Sultana 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: 957.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Sultana lands in the 10th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
10th
percentile, household income
71st
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: Sultana, CA
957 people live in Sultana, California - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Sultana report a median income of $42,143 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 33.8%. Sultana's housing stock carries a median value of $346,800, and the median resident age is 27.8 years. About 2.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 49.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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). 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. 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 Sultana'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 comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Sultana, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Sultana?
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 8.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 33.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Sultana?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.6%. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Sultana?
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.
Within California, the closest population matches are Inyokern (958 residents, $68,373 income); Amador Pines (960 residents, $85,875 income); Tres Pinos (965 residents, $156,250 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Mountainaire, AZ (957 residents); Haxtun, CO (957 residents); Offerman, GA (957 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.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 33.8% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Sultana, CA
5/100
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
$42,143
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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
33.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
2.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Sultana profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 10/100 (F) · $42,143
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Poverty rate: 0/100 (F) · 33.8%
Bachelor's+ share: 0/100 (F) · 2.9%
How does Sultana compare to other US cities?
Sultana measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income10% higher than other cities
Home value71% 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 Sultana 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 Sultana near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sultana ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sultana only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,266 of 1,338
5th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#966 of 1,343
28th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#66 of 1,450
95th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,389 of 1,458
5th 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
10th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Sultana's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$346,80029th 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
Sultana's home-value-to-income ratio: 8.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,097 of 15,516
More affordable than 3% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#11,077 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 8.2×, Sultana sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,097 of 15,516 and #11,077 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$42,143Sultana, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sultana, 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 Sultana, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)2.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)33.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)49.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
957
Median Income
$42,143
Median Home Value
$346,800
Median Age
27.8
Poverty Rate
33.8%
Labor force participation
49.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
2.9%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
69.6%
Carpool
19.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.2%
Work from Home
2.5%
Other
5.8%
Based on 276 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 Sultana. 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 Sultana 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 Sultana sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sultana 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.