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SheetCA-WOODLAND-CA · Woodland, CA 61,256 pop · income 69th 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 Woodland
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Woodland on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Florence-Grah… · lowest
61,216
Florence-Grah… · lowest
61,216 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #1
Murray · near
87,864
Murray · near
87,864 median HH income
58.4% of the leader · rank #2
Double Horn · near
87,866
Double Horn · near
87,866 median HH income
58.4% of the leader · rank #3
Lake Hamilton · near
87,870
Lake Hamilton · near
87,870 median HH income
58.4% of the leader · rank #4
Woodland · this city
87,880
Woodland · this city
87,880 median HH income
58.4% of the leader · rank #5
West Branch · near
87,891
West Branch · near
87,891 median HH income
58.4% of the leader · rank #6
Encinitas · highest
150,471
Encinitas · highest
150,471 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 Woodland 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: 61,256.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Woodland - the verdict
Woodland ranks in the 69th percentile for household income and the 40th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
69th
percentile, household income
85th
percentile, home value
88th
percentile, median rent
40th
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: Woodland, CA
61,256 people live in Woodland, California - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Woodland report a median income of $87,880 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.8%. Woodland's housing stock carries a median value of $505,200, and the median resident age is 37.0 years. Educational attainment runs 30.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 60.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 136 residential building permits were authorized in Woodland (Construction Slowdown), down 65% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Woodland reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1693.4 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 62.2°F with 20.5 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. 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 Woodland'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 work and mobility to housing and income to reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households to climate and hazard context to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Woodland, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, 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.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Woodland?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.9%. 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Woodland?
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 5.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Woodland?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1693.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 26% 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 Woodland?
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 Montebello (61,376 residents, $74,955 income); Santa Cruz (60,953 residents, $111,427 income); Encinitas (61,585 residents, $150,471 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bristol, CT (61,129 residents); Jupiter, FL (61,097 residents); Palm Harbor, FL (61,454 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.
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 Woodland?
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. 30.2% 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
5.8%
Bachelor's degree+
30.2%
Matched public schools
17
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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 62.2°F, with 20.5 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
88.7
Annual precipitation
20.5 in
Mean temperature
62.2°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Is Woodland growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,520 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 136 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 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.
2020 estimate
60,993
2025 estimate
62,513
Period change
+2.5%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 5.8% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.7 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, California average
D
City profile score · Woodland, 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-
$87,880
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C
30.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
275 /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.
Woodland profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 67/100 (B-) · $87,880
Poverty rate: 60/100 (C+) · 5.8%
Bachelor's+ share: 58/100 (C) · 30.2%
Violent crime: 37/100 (F) · 275 /100k
Cost of living: 6/100 (F) · 110.7 index
Where Woodland sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Woodland'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 - Woodland highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Woodland, CA (this city): home $505,200, crime 1,693/100k
Bristol, CT : home $252,300, crime 1,016/100k
Wellington, FL : home $557,100, crime 925/100k
Springfield, OR : home $323,800, crime 3,097/100k
Marietta, GA : home $401,100, crime 2,109/100k
Montebello, CA : home $660,700, crime 3,108/100k
Santa Cruz, CA : home $1,180,100, crime 3,128/100k
Encinitas, CA : home $1,466,000, crime 1,156/100k
La Mesa, CA : home $738,800, crime 1,795/100k
Pico Rivera, CA : home $621,400, crime 2,485/100k
How does Woodland compare to other US cities?
Here's how Woodland stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income69% higher than other cities
Home value85% pricier than other cities
Median rent88% pricier than other cities
Safety40% 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, Woodland ranks #182 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 Woodland 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 Woodland near the bottom of California's cities
Among the 1,458 California cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Woodland ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Woodland only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#659 of 1,338
51st percentile in California
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,458
0th percentile in California
Median Home Value
#689 of 1,343
49th percentile in California
Poverty Rate
#775 of 1,450
46th percentile in California
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#619 of 1,458
57th 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
69th percentile nationally for median household income · 40th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Woodland's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Woodland'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 Woodland's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$505,20015th 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
Woodland's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,868 of 15,516
More affordable than 11% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#549 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 5.7×, Woodland sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,868 of 15,516 and #549 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
$87,880Woodland, CA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Woodland, 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 Woodland, CA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)30.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
61,256
Median Income
$87,880
Median Home Value
$505,200
Median Age
37.0
Poverty Rate
5.8%
Labor force participation
60.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
30.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1693.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
274.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1418.8
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
62.2°F
Annual Precipitation
20.5"
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
Woodland's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
60,993 residents
2021
61,460 residents
2022
61,818 residents
2023
61,721 residents
2024
62,271 residents
2025
62,513 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
136
housing units authorized
Single-Family
136
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
386
386
0
$121.9M
2020
339
339
0
$111.2M
2021
155
155
0
$43.5M
2022
362
288
74
$109.5M
2023
268
264
4
$104.8M
2024
136
136
0
$53.6M
Permit volume decreased 65% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
73.9%
Carpool
9.8%
Public Transit
1.5%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
12.1%
Other
2.0%
Based on 28,569 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 Woodland. 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 Woodland 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 Woodland sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Woodland 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.