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SheetCA-UPLAND-CA · Upland, CA 78,940 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 Upland
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Upland on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bloomington · lowest
48,918
Bloomington · lowest
48,918 median HH income
27.7% of the leader · rank #1
Englewood · near
101,398
Englewood · near
101,398 median HH income
57.3% of the leader · rank #2
Mountlake Ter… · near
101,404
Mountlake Ter… · near
101,404 median HH income
57.3% of the leader · rank #3
Upland · this city
101,407
Upland · this city
101,407 median HH income
57.3% of the leader · rank #4
Golden Triang… · near
101,411
Golden Triang… · near
101,411 median HH income
57.4% of the leader · rank #5
Hampden · near
101,417
Hampden · near
101,417 median HH income
57.4% of the leader · rank #6
Milpitas · highest
176,822
Milpitas · highest
176,822 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 Upland 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: 78,940.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Upland - the verdict
Upland ranks in the 79th percentile for household income and the 29th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
79th
percentile, household income
92nd
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
29th
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: Upland, CA
Upland is a small city in California, home to 78,940 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Upland report a median income of $101,407 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.7%. Home values in Upland run a median of $688,800, and the median resident age is 37.5 years. 35.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 62.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 66 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 86% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2163.3 in FBI UCR data, near the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as 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. 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 Upland report an average commute of 26.9 minutes, with 71.9% driving alone and 12.3% working from home. 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 Upland'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 housing and income to reported crime to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Upland, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, 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. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Upland?
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 6.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Upland?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2163.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 5% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Upland?
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 Tustin (79,035 residents, $108,435 income); Napa (78,816 residents, $102,231 income); Perris (79,349 residents, $82,523 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Georgetown, TX (78,803 residents); Bloomington, IN (78,791 residents); Auburn, AL (78,738 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Upland?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 26.9 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.
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 Upland?
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 14 public schools within the city match. 35.7% 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.
Poverty estimate
6.7%
Bachelor's degree+
35.7%
Matched public schools
14
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +420 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 66 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
79,026
2025 estimate
79,446
Period change
+0.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
D
City profile score · Upland, CA
46/100
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+
$101,407
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B-
35.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C-
6.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
370 /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.
Upland profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 77/100 (B+) · $101,407
Bachelor's+ share: 68/100 (B-) · 35.7%
Poverty rate: 54/100 (C-) · 6.7%
Violent crime: 24/100 (F) · 370 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Upland sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Upland'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 - Upland highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Upland, CA (this city): home $688,800, crime 2,163/100k
Georgetown, TX : home $398,600, crime 1,361/100k
Bloomington, IN : home $289,700, crime 3,005/100k
Auburn, AL : home $342,400, crime 1,087/100k
Jonesboro, AR : home $213,400, crime 3,765/100k
Lynchburg, VA : home $211,800, crime 2,095/100k
Tustin, CA : home $890,600, crime 2,316/100k
Napa, CA : home $824,500, crime 1,671/100k
Perris, CA : home $431,900, crime 2,163/100k
Milpitas, CA : home $1,180,000, crime 3,497/100k
Chino Hills, CA : home $830,000, crime 1,113/100k
How does Upland compare to other US cities?
Where Upland sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income79% higher than other cities
Home value92% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety29% 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, Upland ranks #268 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 Upland 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 Upland near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Upland ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Upland only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#491 of 1,338
63rd percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#456 of 1,343
66th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#711 of 1,450
51st percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#509 of 1,458
65th 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 · 29th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Upland's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Upland'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 Upland's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$688,8008th percentilemore affordable than 8% 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
Upland's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,581 of 15,516
More affordable than 6% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#637 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 6.8×, Upland sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,581 of 15,516 and #637 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
$101,407Upland, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Upland, 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 Upland, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)35.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
78,940
Median Income
$101,407
Median Home Value
$688,800
Median Age
37.5
Poverty Rate
6.7%
Labor force participation
62.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
35.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2163.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
370.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1793.0
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
14
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Upland's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
79,026 residents
2021
79,238 residents
2022
79,248 residents
2023
79,400 residents
2024
79,698 residents
2025
79,446 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
66
housing units authorized
Single-Family
42
detached homes
Multifamily
24
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
483
134
349
$70.9M
2020
60
45
15
$14.2M
2021
112
50
62
$29.0M
2022
173
56
117
$34.7M
2023
95
68
27
$22.3M
2024
66
42
24
$12.7M
Permit volume decreased 86% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
26.9 minutes
Drive Alone
71.9%
Carpool
10.1%
Public Transit
1.5%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
12.3%
Other
3.2%
Based on 38,882 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 Upland. 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 Upland 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 Upland sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Upland 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.