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SheetCA-TRUCKEE-CA · Truckee, CA 16,942 pop · income 89th pct · 1 tracts
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 Truckee
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Truckee on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Millbrook · lowest
64,522
Millbrook · lowest
64,522 median HH income
32.3% of the leader · rank #1
North Amityvi… · near
125,991
North Amityvi… · near
125,991 median HH income
63.1% of the leader · rank #2
Truckee · this city
125,995
Truckee · this city
125,995 median HH income
63.1% of the leader · rank #3
Detroit · near
126,000
Detroit · near
126,000 median HH income
63.1% of the leader · rank #4
Lakeside · near
126,000
Lakeside · near
126,000 median HH income
63.1% of the leader · rank #5
Rutledge · near
126,000
Rutledge · near
126,000 median HH income
63.1% of the leader · rank #6
Moraga · highest
199,800
Moraga · highest
199,800 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 Truckee 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: 16,942.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Truckee - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Truckee places in the 89th percentile for household income and the 63rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
89th
percentile, household income
96th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
63rd
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: Truckee, CA
16,942 people live in Truckee, California - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Truckee report a median income of $125,995 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.4%. Typical homes in Truckee are valued around $884,000, and the median resident age is 42.3 years. Educational attainment runs 59.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 64.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 39 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 78% from five years earlier. Truckee reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1021.5 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
California carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 110.7 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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 Truckee'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to within-city variation 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 Truckee, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Truckee?
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 1021.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 55% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Truckee?
Within California, the closest population matches are Rio Linda (16,951 residents, $96,083 income); Live Oak (16,866 residents, $107,500 income); El Segundo (16,863 residents, $149,149 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Washougal, WA (16,945 residents); Ashwaubenon, WI (16,931 residents); Brunswick, ME (16,928 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 journey to work look like in Truckee?
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 58.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Truckee?
The NCES join finds 7 public schools within the city match. 59.2% 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.
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.
Matched public schools
7
Bachelor's degree+
59.2%
Poverty estimate
4.4%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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 +500 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 39 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
+3.0%
2025 estimate
17,278
2020 estimate
16,778
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Truckee?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 7.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.4%, 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
$125,995
Home value
$884,000
Value / income
7.0×
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 · Truckee, CA
55/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A+
59.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A
$125,995
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B-
4.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
374 /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.
Truckee profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 91/100 (A+) · 59.2%
Household income: 88/100 (A) · $125,995
Poverty rate: 69/100 (B-) · 4.4%
Violent crime: 24/100 (F) · 374 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Truckee sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Truckee'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 - Truckee highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Truckee, CA (this city): home $884,000, crime 1,022/100k
Washougal, WA : home $492,100, crime 1,315/100k
Ashwaubenon, WI : home $245,100, crime 2,448/100k
Brunswick, ME : home $333,500, crime 1,262/100k
Millbrook, AL : home $193,600, crime 3,681/100k
Manassas Park, VA : home $381,200, crime 844/100k
Manor, TX : home $333,800, crime 1,718/100k
El Segundo, CA : home $1,521,600, crime 5,977/100k
Moraga, CA : home $1,597,600, crime 578/100k
How does Truckee compare to other US cities?
Here's how Truckee stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income89% higher than other cities
Home value96% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety63% 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, Truckee ranks #61 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 Truckee 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 Truckee near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Truckee ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Truckee only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#282 of 1,338
79th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#298 of 1,343
78th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#902 of 1,450
37th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#183 of 1,458
87th 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
89th percentile nationally for median household income · 63rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Truckee's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Truckee'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 Truckee's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$884,0004th percentilemore affordable than 4% 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
Truckee's home-value-to-income ratio: 7.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,674 of 15,516
More affordable than 5% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,112 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 7.0×, Truckee sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,674 of 15,516 and #3,112 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
$125,995Truckee, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Truckee, 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 Truckee, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)59.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,942
Median Income
$125,995
Median Home Value
$884,000
Median Age
42.3
Poverty Rate
4.4%
Labor force participation
64.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
59.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1021.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
373.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
647.9
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
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Truckee's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,778 residents
2021
17,159 residents
2022
17,085 residents
2023
17,106 residents
2024
17,226 residents
2025
17,278 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
39
housing units authorized
Single-Family
39
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
177
91
86
$73.0M
2020
91
91
0
$27.0M
2021
116
116
0
$34.4M
2022
131
131
0
$110.9M
2023
57
57
0
$57.7M
2024
39
39
0
$34.9M
Permit volume decreased 78% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
58.7%
Carpool
4.5%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
2.7%
Work from Home
28.8%
Other
4.9%
Based on 8,645 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 Truckee. 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 Truckee 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 Truckee sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Truckee 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.