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SheetCA-TEMPLE-CITY-CA · Temple City, CA 35,749 pop · income 79th 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 Temple City
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Temple City on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Marion · lowest
45,829
Marion · lowest
45,829 median HH income
30.7% of the leader · rank #1
Mosquito Lake · near
102,407
Mosquito Lake · near
102,407 median HH income
68.5% of the leader · rank #2
Tuttle · near
102,417
Tuttle · near
102,417 median HH income
68.6% of the leader · rank #3
Five Corners · near
102,423
Five Corners · near
102,423 median HH income
68.6% of the leader · rank #4
Temple City · this city
102,449
Temple City · this city
102,449 median HH income
68.6% of the leader · rank #5
Potomac Mills · near
102,464
Potomac Mills · near
102,464 median HH income
68.6% of the leader · rank #6
Moorpark · highest
149,403
Moorpark · highest
149,403 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 Temple City 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: 35,749.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Temple City - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Temple City lands in the 79th percentile for household income and the 53rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
79th
percentile, household income
97th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
53rd
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: Temple City, CA
California's Temple City is a small city, with 35,749 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Temple City report a median income of $102,449 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 8.2%. Temple City's housing stock carries a median value of $930,200, and the median resident age is 43.0 years. Educational attainment runs 42.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 58.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 172 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 126% from five years earlier. Temple City reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1274.8 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $2,053 per month. 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 Temple City'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 schools and households to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Temple City, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares, 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. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Temple City?
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 1274.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 44% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the journey to work look like in Temple City?
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 68.4%. 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 Temple City?
Within California, the closest population matches are Moorpark (35,957 residents, $149,403 income); Orangevale (35,219 residents, $98,158 income); West Hollywood (35,090 residents, $94,844 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Franklin, WI (35,751 residents); Midvale, UT (35,736 residents); Salisbury, NC (35,730 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.
What does the education layer cover for Temple City?
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 42.5% 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.
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 Temple City growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -1,239 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 172 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
-3.4%
2025 estimate
35,125
2020 estimate
36,364
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Temple City?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 9.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.2%, 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
$102,449
Home value
$930,200
Value / income
9.1×
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 · Temple City, CA
51/100
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+
$102,449
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
42.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
221 /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.
Temple City profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 78/100 (B+) · $102,449
Bachelor's+ share: 77/100 (B+) · 42.5%
Poverty rate: 47/100 (D) · 8.2%
Violent crime: 45/100 (D) · 221 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Temple City sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Temple City'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 - Temple City highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Temple City, CA (this city): home $930,200, crime 1,275/100k
Franklin, WI : home $343,400, crime 1,258/100k
Salisbury, NC : home $215,200, crime 4,948/100k
Marion, OH : home $105,900, crime 1,767/100k
Inver Grove Heights, MN : home $352,300, crime 1,560/100k
Norristown, PA : home $205,100, crime 2,410/100k
Moorpark, CA : home $852,800, crime 813/100k
West Hollywood, CA : home $969,900, crime 6,375/100k
San Juan Capistrano, CA : home $929,700, crime 1,242/100k
Claremont, CA : home $870,800, crime 2,419/100k
How does Temple City compare to other US cities?
Temple City measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income79% higher than other cities
Home value97% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety53% 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, Temple City ranks #109 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 Temple City 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 Temple City near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Temple City ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Temple City only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#478 of 1,338
64th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#273 of 1,343
80th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#595 of 1,450
58th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#377 of 1,458
74th 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
79th percentile nationally for median household income · 53rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Temple City's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Temple City'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 Temple City's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$930,2003rd percentilemore affordable than 3% 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
Temple City's home-value-to-income ratio: 9.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,255 of 15,516
More affordable than 2% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,253 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 9.1×, Temple City sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,255 of 15,516 and #3,253 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
$102,449Temple City, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Temple City, 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 Temple City, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)42.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
35,749
Median Income
$102,449
Median Home Value
$930,200
Median Age
43.0
Poverty Rate
8.2%
Labor force participation
58.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
42.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1274.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
221.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1053.6
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
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Temple City's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
36,364 residents
2021
35,632 residents
2022
35,184 residents
2023
35,004 residents
2024
35,081 residents
2025
35,125 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
172
housing units authorized
Single-Family
172
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
76
76
0
$21.0M
2020
51
51
0
$9.6M
2021
66
66
0
$10.3M
2022
82
82
0
$13.9M
2023
93
93
0
$16.0M
2024
172
172
0
$43.1M
Permit volume increased 126% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
68.4%
Carpool
9.9%
Public Transit
3.9%
Walk
0.4%
Work from Home
15.6%
Other
1.8%
Based on 16,522 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 Temple City. 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 Temple City 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 Temple City sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Temple City 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.