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SheetCA-WILDOMAR-CA · Wildomar, CA 36,953 pop · income 75th 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 Wildomar
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Wildomar on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Muskogee · lowest
48,735
Muskogee · lowest
48,735 median HH income
29.8% of the leader · rank #1
Blucksberg Mo… · near
95,658
Blucksberg Mo… · near
95,658 median HH income
58.4% of the leader · rank #2
Henderson · near
95,673
Henderson · near
95,673 median HH income
58.5% of the leader · rank #3
Wildomar · this city
95,677
Wildomar · this city
95,677 median HH income
58.5% of the leader · rank #4
Coopers Plains · near
95,694
Coopers Plains · near
95,694 median HH income
58.5% of the leader · rank #5
Honey Brook · near
95,694
Honey Brook · near
95,694 median HH income
58.5% of the leader · rank #6
Oakton · highest
163,662
Oakton · highest
163,662 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 Wildomar 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: 36,953.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Wildomar - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Wildomar lands in the 75th percentile for household income and the 59th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
75th
percentile, household income
85th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
59th
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: Wildomar, CA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 36,953 residents in Wildomar, a small city within California. The typical household in Wildomar brings in $95,677 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 12.0%. Home values in Wildomar run a median of $511,900, and the median resident age is 35.1 years. Educational attainment runs 17.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 54.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 374 residential building permits were authorized in Wildomar (Building Boom), up 5243% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Wildomar reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1122.6 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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. 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. Natural-hazard exposure scores 88.7 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Wildomar'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 reported crime to housing and income to work and mobility to schools and households 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 Wildomar, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count.
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. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Wildomar?
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 1122.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 51% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
How far does income reach against housing in Wildomar?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 12.0%, 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Wildomar?
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 77.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Wildomar?
Within California, the closest population matches are Martinez (36,926 residents, $125,436 income); La Presa (36,669 residents, $88,479 income); Foothill Farms (37,332 residents, $68,042 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Tucker, GA (37,022 residents); Hanover Park, IL (36,850 residents); Kearns metro township, UT (37,058 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Wildomar?
The NCES join finds 7 public schools within the city match. 17.8% 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
7
Bachelor's degree+
17.8%
Poverty estimate
12.0%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Wildomar 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 +966 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 374 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
+2.6%
2025 estimate
37,889
2020 estimate
36,923
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 12.0% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
D
City profile score · Wildomar, CA
45/100
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+
$95,677
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B
102 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
12.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.8%
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.
Wildomar profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 75/100 (B+) · $95,677
Violent crime: 70/100 (B) · 102 /100k
Poverty rate: 32/100 (F) · 12.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 28/100 (F) · 17.8%
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Wildomar sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Wildomar'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 - Wildomar highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Wildomar, CA (this city): home $511,900, crime 1,123/100k
Hanover Park, IL : home $260,900, crime 542/100k
Muskogee, OK : home $124,900, crime 3,935/100k
Rock Island, IL : home $118,400, crime 3,259/100k
Martinez, CA : home $824,700, crime 1,506/100k
Claremont, CA : home $870,800, crime 2,419/100k
La Puente, CA : home $593,200, crime 1,700/100k
Pacifica, CA : home $1,211,700, crime 1,451/100k
How does Wildomar compare to other US cities?
Here's how Wildomar stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income75% higher than other cities
Home value85% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety59% 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, Wildomar ranks #81 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 Wildomar 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 Wildomar near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Wildomar ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Wildomar only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#561 of 1,338
58th percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#678 of 1,343
50th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#398 of 1,450
72nd percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#956 of 1,458
34th 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
75th percentile nationally for median household income · 59th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Wildomar's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Wildomar'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 Wildomar's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$511,90015th percentilemore affordable than 15% 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
Wildomar's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,382 of 15,516
More affordable than 14% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,759 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.4×, Wildomar sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,382 of 15,516 and #2,759 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
$95,677Wildomar, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Wildomar, 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 Wildomar, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)12.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
36,953
Median Income
$95,677
Median Home Value
$511,900
Median Age
35.1
Poverty Rate
12.0%
Labor force participation
54.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1122.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
102.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1020.3
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.
Schools
Total Schools
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Wildomar's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
36,923 residents
2021
37,156 residents
2022
37,131 residents
2023
37,347 residents
2024
37,720 residents
2025
37,889 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
374
housing units authorized
Single-Family
111
detached homes
Multifamily
263
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
10.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
7
7
0
$1.6M
2020
50
50
0
$11.3M
2021
52
52
0
$12.9M
2022
120
97
23
$27.3M
2023
600
134
466
$87.1M
2024
374
111
263
$94.1M
Permit volume increased 5243% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
77.0%
Carpool
8.7%
Public Transit
0.9%
Walk
0.3%
Work from Home
11.1%
Other
2.0%
Based on 15,501 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 Wildomar. 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 Wildomar 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 Wildomar sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Wildomar 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.