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SheetCA-VICTORVILLE-CA · Victorville, CA 135,983 pop · income 50th 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 Victorville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Victorville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Dayton · lowest
43,454
Dayton · lowest
43,454 median HH income
25.0% of the leader · rank #1
Ama · near
70,652
Ama · near
70,652 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #2
Idalou · near
70,655
Idalou · near
70,655 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #3
Fitchburg · near
70,659
Fitchburg · near
70,659 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #4
Humboldt · near
70,661
Humboldt · near
70,661 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #5
Victorville · this city
70,663
Victorville · this city
70,663 median HH income
40.7% 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 Victorville 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: 135,983.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Victorville - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Victorville lands in the 50th percentile for household income and the 14th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
50th
percentile, household income
71st
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
14th
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: Victorville, CA
California's Victorville is a mid-sized U.S. city, with 135,983 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Victorville brings in $70,663 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 16.4%. Victorville's housing stock carries a median value of $342,500, and the median resident age is 32.0 years. About 12.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 50.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 461 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Growing), up 5% from five years earlier. Victorville's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3144.5 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Victorville's yearly average temperature at 61.9°F with 5.6 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $2,053 per month. 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 Victorville'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 population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households to housing and income to climate and hazard context to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Victorville, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
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. Population change
Is Victorville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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 +6,748 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 461 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Victorville?
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 3144.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 38% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Victorville?
Within California, the closest population matches are Pasadena (136,462 residents, $103,778 income); Orange (138,723 residents, $116,945 income); Fullerton (141,278 residents, $104,219 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Miramar, FL (135,986 residents); Elizabeth, NJ (135,887 residents); Stamford, CT (135,806 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 education layer cover for Victorville?
The NCES join finds 39 public schools within the city match. 12.4% 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.
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 Victorville?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 16.4%, 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
$70,663
Home value
$342,500
Value / income
4.8×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What physical conditions frame life in Victorville?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 61.9°F, with 5.6 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.
Mean temperature
61.9°F
Annual precipitation
5.6 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
88.7
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the journey to work look like in Victorville?
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 76.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
1.0%
Work from home
8.2%
Drive alone
76.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 49,161 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 16.4% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
F
City profile score · Victorville, CA
20/100
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-
$70,663
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
16.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
12.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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
1,016 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Victorville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 50/100 (C-) · $70,663
Poverty rate: 20/100 (F) · 16.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 13/100 (F) · 12.4%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 1,016 /100k
Where Victorville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Victorville'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 - Victorville highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Victorville, CA (this city): home $342,500, crime 3,145/100k
Elizabeth, NJ : home $393,500, crime 3,066/100k
Stamford, CT : home $614,300, crime 1,383/100k
Dayton, OH : home $93,200, crime 5,673/100k
Cedar Rapids, IA : home $177,100, crime 2,951/100k
Kent, WA : home $537,500, crime 4,261/100k
Pasadena, CA : home $1,045,000, crime 3,177/100k
Orange, CA : home $900,700, crime 1,514/100k
Fullerton, CA : home $859,600, crime 2,479/100k
Visalia, CA : home $340,600, crime 2,566/100k
Santa Clara, CA : home $1,527,900, crime 2,684/100k
Torrance, CA : home $1,036,600, crime 3,087/100k
How does Victorville compare to other US cities?
Victorville measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income50% higher than other cities
Home value71% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety14% 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, Victorville ranks #372 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 Victorville 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 Victorville near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Victorville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Victorville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#912 of 1,338
32nd percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#979 of 1,343
27th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#258 of 1,450
82nd percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,135 of 1,458
22nd 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
50th percentile nationally for median household income · 14th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Victorville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Victorville'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 Victorville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$342,50029th percentilemore affordable than 29% 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
Victorville's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,622 of 15,516
More affordable than 19% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#433 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 4.8×, Victorville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,622 of 15,516 and #433 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$70,663Victorville, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Victorville, 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 Victorville, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)12.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)16.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)50.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
135,983
Median Income
$70,663
Median Home Value
$342,500
Median Age
32.0
Poverty Rate
16.4%
Labor force participation
50.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
12.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3144.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
1015.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2128.9
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
61.9°F
Annual Precipitation
5.6"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
39
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Victorville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
134,647 residents
2021
136,028 residents
2022
137,578 residents
2023
139,460 residents
2024
141,038 residents
2025
141,395 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
461
housing units authorized
Single-Family
461
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
439
439
0
$129.4M
2020
504
504
0
$153.3M
2021
642
642
0
$200.3M
2022
578
578
0
$194.6M
2023
509
509
0
$184.5M
2024
461
461
0
$111.4M
Permit volume increased 5% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.0%
Carpool
13.2%
Public Transit
1.0%
Walk
0.3%
Work from Home
8.2%
Other
1.3%
Based on 49,161 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 Victorville. 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 Victorville 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 Victorville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Victorville 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.