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SheetCA-TEMECULA-CA · Temecula, CA 110,404 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 Temecula
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Temecula on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Ponce zona ur… · lowest
18,650
Ponce zona ur… · lowest
18,650 median HH income
13.6% of the leader · rank #1
Lowesville · near
117,835
Lowesville · near
117,835 median HH income
85.7% of the leader · rank #2
Temecula · this city
117,840
Temecula · this city
117,840 median HH income
85.7% of the leader · rank #3
Anthem · near
117,846
Anthem · near
117,846 median HH income
85.7% of the leader · rank #4
Cedro · near
117,846
Cedro · near
117,846 median HH income
85.7% of the leader · rank #5
Franklinville · near
117,847
Franklinville · near
117,847 median HH income
85.7% of the leader · rank #6
Sugar Land · highest
137,511
Sugar Land · highest
137,511 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 Temecula 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: 110,404.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Temecula - the verdict
Temecula ranks in the 86th percentile for household income and the 36th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
86th
percentile, household income
91st
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
36th
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: Temecula, CA
Temecula is a mid-sized U.S. city in California, home to 110,404 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Temecula brings in $117,840 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.2%. Temecula's housing stock carries a median value of $640,400, and the median resident age is 36.3 years. 39.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 60.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 380 residential building permits were authorized in Temecula (Building Boom), up 70% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1830.8 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $2,053 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts California's average monthly utility costs around $275 (state average). Workers in Temecula report an average commute of 30.0 minutes, with 71.6% driving alone and 17.6% working from home. 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 Temecula'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 schools and households to reported crime to housing and income to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Temecula, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits.
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 Temecula?
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 Costa Mesa (110,538 residents, $110,073 income); San Buenaventura (Ventura) (109,900 residents, $100,407 income); Santa Maria (109,880 residents, $84,617 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ponce zona urbana, PR (109,765 residents); Sugar Land, TX (109,735 residents); Everett, WA (111,083 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.
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 31 public schools within the city match. 39.2% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Temecula?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1830.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 20% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Temecula?
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 5.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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 Temecula?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 30.0 minutes.
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.
Drive alone
71.6%
Work from home
17.6%
Public transit
0.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 50,621 workers age 16+.
Is Temecula growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +4,791 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 380 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.
2020 estimate
110,074
2025 estimate
114,865
Period change
+4.4%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
C
City profile score · Temecula, CA
58/100
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
$117,840
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B
39.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C
152 /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.
Temecula profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 85/100 (A) · $117,840
Bachelor's+ share: 74/100 (B) · 39.2%
Poverty rate: 64/100 (C+) · 5.2%
Violent crime: 58/100 (C) · 152 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Temecula sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Temecula'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 - Temecula highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Temecula, CA (this city): home $640,400, crime 1,831/100k
Sugar Land, TX : home $406,600, crime 1,462/100k
Everett, WA : home $532,300, crime 3,484/100k
Miami Gardens, FL : home $337,200, crime 2,844/100k
Greeley, CO : home $369,600, crime 3,690/100k
Pueblo, CO : home $230,900, crime 6,366/100k
Costa Mesa, CA : home $1,054,700, crime 3,574/100k
Santa Maria, CA : home $478,200, crime 2,543/100k
Murrieta, CA : home $606,900, crime 1,127/100k
West Covina, CA : home $712,300, crime 2,338/100k
How does Temecula compare to other US cities?
Where Temecula sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income86% higher than other cities
Home value91% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety36% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to California alone, Temecula ranks #202 of 441 California cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Temecula 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 Temecula near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Temecula ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Temecula only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#344 of 1,338
74th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#524 of 1,343
61st percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#825 of 1,450
43rd percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#439 of 1,458
70th 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 · 36th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Temecula's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Temecula'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 Temecula's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$640,4009th 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
Temecula's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,491 of 15,516
More affordable than 13% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#511 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 5.4×, Temecula sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,491 of 15,516 and #511 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
$117,840Temecula, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Temecula, 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 Temecula, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)39.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
110,404
Median Income
$117,840
Median Home Value
$640,400
Median Age
36.3
Poverty Rate
5.2%
Labor force participation
60.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
39.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1830.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
151.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1679.3
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
31
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Temecula's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
110,074 residents
2021
110,931 residents
2022
110,930 residents
2023
111,412 residents
2024
113,082 residents
2025
114,865 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
380
housing units authorized
Single-Family
246
detached homes
Multifamily
134
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
223
54
169
$25.2M
2020
324
261
63
$50.2M
2021
503
437
66
$92.2M
2022
671
394
277
$94.7M
2023
1,293
592
701
$157.3M
2024
380
246
134
$55.1M
Permit volume increased 70% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
30.0 minutes
Drive Alone
71.6%
Carpool
8.0%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
17.6%
Other
1.3%
Based on 50,621 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 Temecula. 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 Temecula 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 Temecula sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Temecula 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.