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SheetIA-CORALVILLE-IA · Coralville, IA 22,846 pop · income 45th 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 Coralville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Coralville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Burlington · lowest
55,274
Burlington · lowest
55,274 median HH income
24.2% of the leader · rank #1
Silver Creek · near
66,500
Silver Creek · near
66,500 median HH income
29.1% of the leader · rank #2
Sturgeon · near
66,500
Sturgeon · near
66,500 median HH income
29.1% of the leader · rank #3
Sprague · near
66,500
Sprague · near
66,500 median HH income
29.1% of the leader · rank #4
Coralville · this city
66,508
Coralville · this city
66,508 median HH income
29.1% of the leader · rank #5
Grand Ledge · near
66,515
Grand Ledge · near
66,515 median HH income
29.1% of the leader · rank #6
Garden City · highest
228,807
Garden City · highest
228,807 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 Coralville 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: 22,846.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Coralville - the verdict
Nationally, Coralville sits in the 45th percentile for household income and the 28th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
45th
percentile, household income
63rd
percentile, home value
11th
percentile, median rent
28th
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: Coralville, IA
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 22,846 residents in Coralville, a small city within Iowa. Median household income here is $66,508 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.4%. Typical homes in Coralville are valued around $286,000, and the median resident age is 33.1 years. 57.3% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 68.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 120 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Stable), up 3% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2197.0 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Iowa run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Iowa at 87.8 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $989 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Iowa's average monthly utility costs around $212 (state average). The average commute for Coralville workers runs 17.7 minutes, with 73.5% driving alone and 12.8% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 39.7 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Coralville'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Coralville, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits, 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 Coralville?
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 2197.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 4% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Coralville?
Within Iowa, the closest population matches are Muscatine (23,567 residents, $59,332 income); Burlington (23,800 residents, $55,274 income); Johnston (24,196 residents, $103,430 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Leesylvania, VA (22,848 residents); Watertown, SD (22,859 residents); Winchester, MA (22,862 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 journey to work look like in Coralville?
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 73.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 17.7 minutes.
What does the education layer cover for Coralville?
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 57.3% 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.
Population change
Is Coralville 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 +1,639 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +7.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 120 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
+7.3%
2025 estimate
23,960
2020 estimate
22,321
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Coralville?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.4%, 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
$66,508
Home value
$286,000
Value / income
4.3×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 7.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
87.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Iowa average
B-
City profile score · Coralville, IA
66/100
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.
Cost of living A+
87.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share A+
57.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime C+
133 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C-
7.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income D
$66,508
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Coralville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 94/100 (A+) · 87.8 index
Bachelor's+ share: 90/100 (A+) · 57.3%
Violent crime: 63/100 (C+) · 133 /100k
Poverty rate: 50/100 (C-) · 7.4%
Household income: 44/100 (D) · $66,508
Where Coralville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Coralville'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 - Coralville highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Coralville, IA (this city): home $286,000, crime 2,197/100k
Watertown, SD : home $212,300, crime 1,328/100k
Winchester, MA : home $1,181,700, crime 400/100k
Corinth, TX : home $351,200, crime 740/100k
Muscatine, IA : home $146,900, crime 1,474/100k
Burlington, IA : home $115,800, crime 2,239/100k
Johnston, IA : home $346,200, crime 826/100k
Clinton, IA : home $115,400, crime 3,086/100k
Fort Dodge, IA : home $128,900, crime 4,257/100k
North Liberty, IA : home $300,000, crime 467/100k
How does Coralville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Coralville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income45% higher than other cities
Home value63% pricier than other cities
Median rent11% pricier than other cities
Safety28% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Iowa and the picture shifts: Coralville ranks #123 of 141 Iowa cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Coralville against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Iowa only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Iowa-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Coralville near the bottom of Iowa's cities
Among the 858 Iowa cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Coralville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Coralville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#398 of 845
53rd percentile in Iowa
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 858
0th percentile in Iowa
Median Home Value
#42 of 849
95th percentile in Iowa
Poverty Rate
#345 of 858
59th percentile in Iowa
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#16 of 858
98th percentile in Iowa
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 Iowa only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
45th percentile nationally for median household income · 28th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Coralville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Coralville'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 Coralville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$286,00037th percentilemore affordable than 37% 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
Coralville's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,526 of 15,516
More affordable than 26% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,224 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.3×, Coralville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,526 of 15,516 and #2,224 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$66,508Coralville, IA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Coralville, IA median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Coralville, IA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)57.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
22,846
Median Income
$66,508
Median Home Value
$286,000
Median Age
33.1
Poverty Rate
7.4%
Labor force participation
68.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
57.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2197.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
133.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2063.8
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.
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Coralville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
22,321 residents
2021
22,923 residents
2022
23,164 residents
2023
23,640 residents
2024
23,770 residents
2025
23,960 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
120
housing units authorized
Single-Family
59
detached homes
Multifamily
61
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
116
17
99
$15.8M
2020
315
24
291
$33.7M
2021
174
42
132
$31.3M
2022
397
69
328
$70.7M
2023
154
79
75
$40.0M
2024
120
59
61
$32.0M
Permit volume increased 3% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
17.7 minutes
Drive Alone
73.5%
Carpool
5.8%
Public Transit
3.7%
Walk
2.1%
Work from Home
12.8%
Other
2.1%
Based on 12,569 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Iowa statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $212
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Iowa at $212 (electricity about $95 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are Iowa statewide averages, not a meter reading for Coralville. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Iowa's BEA cost-of-living index is 87.8 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Coralville is $989/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Iowa statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 39.7 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Iowa statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Coralville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Coralville compares to similar-size Iowa 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.