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SheetCA-VALLEJO-CA · Vallejo, CA 124,637 pop · income 70th pct · 100 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 Vallejo
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Vallejo on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Allentown · lowest
53,403
Allentown · lowest
53,403 median HH income
30.7% of the leader · rank #1
Magnolia · near
89,489
Magnolia · near
89,489 median HH income
51.5% of the leader · rank #2
Vallejo · this city
89,496
Vallejo · this city
89,496 median HH income
51.5% of the leader · rank #3
Tyhee · near
89,500
Tyhee · near
89,500 median HH income
51.5% of the leader · rank #4
Laurence Harb… · near
89,500
Laurence Harb… · near
89,500 median HH income
51.5% of the leader · rank #5
Manvel · near
89,500
Manvel · near
89,500 median HH income
51.5% of the leader · rank #6
Santa Clara · highest
173,670
Santa Clara · highest
173,670 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 Vallejo 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: 124,637.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Vallejo - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Vallejo lands in the 70th percentile for household income and the 4th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
70th
percentile, household income
87th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
4th
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: Vallejo, CA
124,637 people live in Vallejo, California - a mid-sized U.S. city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Vallejo brings in $89,496 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.9%. Typical homes in Vallejo are valued around $557,500, and the median resident age is 40.0 years. Educational attainment runs 27.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 58.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 62 residential building permits were authorized in Vallejo (Growing), up 15% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Vallejo's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 4730.1 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Vallejo's yearly average temperature at 61.6°F with 21.5 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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $2,053 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $275 across California, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 32.2 minutes, with 70.5% driving alone and 10.0% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Vallejo'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 climate and hazard context to work and mobility to housing and income to within-city variation to schools and households to reported crime to comparison shortlist to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Vallejo, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What physical conditions frame life in Vallejo?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 61.6°F, with 21.5 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.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Vallejo?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 32.2 minutes.
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.
PlainCities matches 100 Census tracts to this city.
Which cities make useful reference points for Vallejo?
Within California, the closest population matches are Concord (124,260 residents, $109,195 income); Thousand Oaks (125,676 residents, $134,367 income); Simi Valley (125,769 residents, $117,703 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Meridian, ID (124,865 residents); Round Rock, TX (124,288 residents); Palm Bay, FL (125,273 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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Vallejo?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 6.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.9%, 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
$89,496
Home value
$557,500
Value / income
6.2×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
The NCES join finds 26 public schools within the city match. 27.9% 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.
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
26
Bachelor's degree+
27.9%
Poverty estimate
8.9%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Vallejo?
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 4730.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 107% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
3990.3
Violent rate
739.8
Total reported rate
4730.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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 -2,652 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 62 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
-2.1%
2025 estimate
123,287
2020 estimate
125,939
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 8.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Vallejo, CA
36/100
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-
$89,496
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C-
27.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better 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.
Violent crime F
740 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Vallejo profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 69/100 (B-) · $89,496
Bachelor's+ share: 54/100 (C-) · 27.9%
Poverty rate: 44/100 (D) · 8.9%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Violent crime: 4/100 (F) · 740 /100k
Where Vallejo sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Vallejo'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 - Vallejo highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Vallejo, CA (this city): home $557,500, crime 4,730/100k
Meridian, ID : home $485,000, crime 718/100k
Round Rock, TX : home $383,700, crime 2,071/100k
Palm Bay, FL : home $248,000, crime 1,365/100k
Allentown, PA : home $188,900, crime 1,841/100k
Pearland, TX : home $330,900, crime 1,536/100k
Topeka, KS : home $130,600, crime 4,499/100k
Concord, CA : home $755,900, crime 3,371/100k
Thousand Oaks, CA : home $951,200, crime 1,123/100k
Simi Valley, CA : home $753,500, crime 1,053/100k
Clovis, CA : home $453,300, crime 1,911/100k
Berkeley, CA : home $1,351,100, crime 5,868/100k
Santa Clara, CA : home $1,527,900, crime 2,684/100k
How does Vallejo compare to other US cities?
Here's how Vallejo stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income70% higher than other cities
Home value87% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety4% 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: Vallejo ranks #423 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 Vallejo 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 Vallejo near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Vallejo ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Vallejo only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#636 of 1,338
52nd percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#638 of 1,343
52nd percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#562 of 1,450
61st percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#662 of 1,458
54th 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
70th percentile nationally for median household income · 4th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Vallejo's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Vallejo'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 Vallejo's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$557,50013th percentilemore affordable than 13% 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
Vallejo's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,280 of 15,516
More affordable than 8% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#597 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 6.2×, Vallejo sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,280 of 15,516 and #597 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
$89,496Vallejo, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Vallejo, 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 Vallejo, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)27.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
124,637
Median Income
$89,496
Median Home Value
$557,500
Median Age
40.0
Poverty Rate
8.9%
Labor force participation
58.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
27.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
4730.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
739.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3990.3
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
61.6°F
Annual Precipitation
21.5"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
26
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Vallejo's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
125,939 residents
2021
124,881 residents
2022
123,968 residents
2023
123,383 residents
2024
123,611 residents
2025
123,287 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
62
housing units authorized
Single-Family
62
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
54
54
0
$14.8M
2020
27
27
0
$2.9M
2021
30
30
0
$6.7M
2022
17
17
0
$4.7M
2023
49
49
0
$14.3M
2024
62
62
0
$19.1M
Permit volume increased 15% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
32.2 minutes
Drive Alone
70.5%
Carpool
12.6%
Public Transit
3.7%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
10.0%
Other
2.0%
Based on 57,527 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 Vallejo. 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 Vallejo 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 Vallejo sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Vallejo 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.