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SheetCA-TURLOCK-CA · Turlock, CA 72,400 pop · income 61st 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 Turlock
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Turlock on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Gulfport · lowest
46,044
Gulfport · lowest
46,044 median HH income
22.5% of the leader · rank #1
Madeira Beach · near
79,798
Madeira Beach · near
79,798 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #2
Morenci · near
79,800
Morenci · near
79,800 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #3
Turlock · this city
79,807
Turlock · this city
79,807 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #4
Hawaiian Acres · near
79,808
Hawaiian Acres · near
79,808 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #5
Reisterstown · near
79,812
Reisterstown · near
79,812 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #6
Dublin · highest
205,046
Dublin · highest
205,046 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 Turlock 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: 72,400.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Turlock - the verdict
Turlock ranks in the 61st percentile for household income and the 25th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
61st
percentile, household income
81st
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
25th
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: Turlock, CA
72,400 people live in Turlock, California - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $79,807 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.2%. Typical homes in Turlock are valued around $443,900, and the median resident age is 34.6 years. 26.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 57.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 144 residential building permits were authorized in Turlock (Growing), up 13% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2352.3 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 64.0°F with 12.4 inches of precipitation per year.
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. Commute times here average 23.8 minutes, with 81.1% driving alone and 6.8% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 88.7 out of 100 (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Turlock'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 schools and households to comparison shortlist to housing and income to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to population change to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Turlock, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
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. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Turlock?
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 18 public schools within the city match. 26.6% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Turlock?
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 Rocklin (72,340 residents, $120,916 income); Redlands (72,985 residents, $99,158 income); Lake Elsinore (71,516 residents, $96,527 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lakeville, MN (72,480 residents); Mount Vernon, NY (72,528 residents); Gulfport, MS (72,533 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 Turlock?
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 5.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 64.0°F, with 12.4 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for California is 88.7 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
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 Turlock?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 23.8 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. 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
81.1%
Work from home
6.8%
Public transit
0.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 31,456 workers age 16+.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +124 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 144 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
2020 estimate
72,740
2025 estimate
72,864
Period change
+0.2%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Turlock?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2352.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 3% higher 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.
Total reported rate
2352.3
Violent rate
475.8
Property rate
1876.6
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 8.2% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Turlock, CA
37/100
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
$79,807
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C-
26.6%
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 F
476 /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.
Turlock profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 59/100 (C) · $79,807
Bachelor's+ share: 52/100 (C-) · 26.6%
Poverty rate: 47/100 (D) · 8.2%
Violent crime: 17/100 (F) · 476 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Turlock sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Turlock'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 - Turlock highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Turlock, CA (this city): home $443,900, crime 2,352/100k
Lakeville, MN : home $425,200, crime 648/100k
Mount Vernon, NY : home $449,600, crime 2,003/100k
Framingham, MA : home $600,600, crime 1,380/100k
Rocklin, CA : home $673,300, crime 1,068/100k
Redlands, CA : home $583,000, crime 2,450/100k
Lake Elsinore, CA : home $505,700, crime 2,027/100k
Baldwin Park, CA : home $588,100, crime 1,834/100k
Dublin, CA : home $1,224,100, crime 2,072/100k
Camarillo, CA : home $766,100, crime 1,320/100k
How does Turlock compare to other US cities?
Where Turlock sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income61% higher than other cities
Home value81% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety25% 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, Turlock ranks #292 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 Turlock 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 Turlock near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Turlock ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Turlock only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#778 of 1,338
42nd percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#792 of 1,343
41st percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#595 of 1,450
58th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#707 of 1,458
52nd 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
61st percentile nationally for median household income · 25th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Turlock's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Turlock'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 Turlock's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$443,90019th percentilemore affordable than 19% 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
Turlock's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,657 of 15,516
More affordable than 12% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#529 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 5.6×, Turlock sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,657 of 15,516 and #529 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
$79,807Turlock, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Turlock, 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 Turlock, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)26.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
72,400
Median Income
$79,807
Median Home Value
$443,900
Median Age
34.6
Poverty Rate
8.2%
Labor force participation
57.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
26.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2352.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
475.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1876.6
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
64.0°F
Annual Precipitation
12.4"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
18
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Turlock's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
72,740 residents
2021
72,164 residents
2022
72,237 residents
2023
72,498 residents
2024
72,889 residents
2025
72,864 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
144
housing units authorized
Single-Family
117
detached homes
Multifamily
27
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
127
104
23
$35.0M
2020
140
104
36
$28.1M
2021
113
111
2
$30.7M
2022
76
73
3
$20.9M
2023
132
124
8
$34.6M
2024
144
117
27
$30.0M
Permit volume increased 13% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
23.8 minutes
Drive Alone
81.1%
Carpool
7.3%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
2.2%
Work from Home
6.8%
Other
2.1%
Based on 31,456 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 Turlock. 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 Turlock 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 Turlock sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Turlock 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.