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SheetCA-UKIAH-CA · Ukiah, CA 16,419 pop · income 46th pct · 24 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 Ukiah
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Ukiah on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Clearlake · lowest
41,580
Clearlake · lowest
41,580 median HH income
17.5% of the leader · rank #1
Olin · near
67,120
Olin · near
67,120 median HH income
28.2% of the leader · rank #2
New Haven · near
67,121
New Haven · near
67,121 median HH income
28.2% of the leader · rank #3
Ukiah · this city
67,122
Ukiah · this city
67,122 median HH income
28.2% of the leader · rank #4
Brillion · near
67,122
Brillion · near
67,122 median HH income
28.2% of the leader · rank #5
Altona · near
67,125
Altona · near
67,125 median HH income
28.2% of the leader · rank #6
Rye · highest
237,727
Rye · highest
237,727 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 Ukiah 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: 16,419.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Ukiah - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Ukiah places in the 46th percentile for household income and the 34th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
46th
percentile, household income
81st
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
34th
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: Ukiah, CA
California's Ukiah is a small town, with 16,419 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Ukiah households earn a median of $67,122 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 10.7%. Typical homes in Ukiah are valued around $448,100, and the median resident age is 39.3 years. About 22.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 55.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 8 residential building permits were authorized in Ukiah (Building Boom), up 100% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1922.7 in FBI UCR data, near the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 58.9°F with 38.9 inches of precipitation per year.
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. 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). 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 Ukiah'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 climate and hazard context to reported crime to within-city variation to housing and income to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Ukiah, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Ukiah?
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 17 public schools within the city match. 22.9% 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 Ukiah?
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 Kerman (16,492 residents, $57,556 income); Bostonia (16,545 residents, $73,549 income); Clearlake (16,604 residents, $41,580 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Country Club Hills, IL (16,419 residents); Jasper, IN (16,421 residents); Three Lakes, FL (16,426 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 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 58.9°F, with 38.9 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.
PlainCities matches 24 Census tracts to this city.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Ukiah?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1922.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 16% 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.
Total reported rate
1922.7
Violent rate
552.9
Property rate
1369.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Ukiah?
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 6.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
6.7×
Home value
$448,100
Household income
$67,122
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -472 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 8 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 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.
2020 estimate
16,540
2025 estimate
16,068
Period change
-2.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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.
Drive alone
69.6%
Work from home
9.0%
Public transit
1.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 7,096 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 10.7% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Ukiah, CA
29/100
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 D
$67,122
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share D
22.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
10.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
553 /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.
Ukiah profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 45/100 (D) · $67,122
Bachelor's+ share: 43/100 (D) · 22.9%
Poverty rate: 37/100 (F) · 10.7%
Violent crime: 13/100 (F) · 553 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Ukiah sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Ukiah'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 - Ukiah highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Ukiah, CA (this city): home $448,100, crime 1,923/100k
Country Club Hills, IL : home $180,600, crime 2,876/100k
Jasper, IN : home $203,300, crime 726/100k
Rye, NY : home $1,785,400, crime 267/100k
Crawfordsville, IN : home $134,100, crime 828/100k
Kerman, CA : home $331,500, crime 1,852/100k
Clearlake, CA : home $204,500, crime 2,413/100k
Fillmore, CA : home $567,500, crime 855/100k
Ripon, CA : home $666,400, crime 1,034/100k
Moraga, CA : home $1,597,600, crime 578/100k
How does Ukiah compare to other US cities?
Here's how Ukiah stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income46% higher than other cities
Home value81% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety34% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just California and the picture shifts: Ukiah ranks #225 of 441 California cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Ukiah 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 Ukiah near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Ukiah ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Ukiah only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#957 of 1,338
28th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#788 of 1,343
41st percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#452 of 1,450
68th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#803 of 1,458
45th 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
46th percentile nationally for median household income · 34th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Ukiah's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Ukiah'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 Ukiah's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$448,10019th 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
Ukiah's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,515 of 15,516
More affordable than 6% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,069 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 6.7×, Ukiah sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,515 of 15,516 and #3,069 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
$67,122Ukiah, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Ukiah, 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 Ukiah, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)22.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,419
Median Income
$67,122
Median Home Value
$448,100
Median Age
39.3
Poverty Rate
10.7%
Labor force participation
55.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
22.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1922.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
552.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1369.8
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
58.9°F
Annual Precipitation
38.9"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
17
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Ukiah's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,540 residents
2021
16,509 residents
2022
16,302 residents
2023
16,131 residents
2024
16,058 residents
2025
16,068 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
8
housing units authorized
Single-Family
8
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
4
4
0
$0.4M
2020
5
5
0
$0.5M
2021
1
1
0
$0.2M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
9
9
0
$3.4M
2024
8
8
0
$3.1M
Permit volume increased 100% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
69.6%
Carpool
9.7%
Public Transit
1.2%
Walk
8.7%
Work from Home
9.0%
Other
1.8%
Based on 7,096 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 Ukiah. 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 Ukiah 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 Ukiah sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Ukiah 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.