City safety & data profile

AlpineCA

Alpine, CA is a 14K-resident city in San Diego County with a median household income of $108,660.

San Diego County, California. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Alpine, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Alpine has a population larger than 24% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, and a median home value of $864,000.

Data updated 2026-09-03

14K
Population (place)
Bottom 25%
By size
$108,660
Median income (place)
$864,000
Median home (place)
13%
Poverty rate (place)
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The read on Alpine

Alpine posts a median household income higher than 76% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks.

Top 24%
by median income, US cities

Where Alpine income ranks nationally

Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)

$108,660 Top 24% higher than 76% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles

Alpine $0 $260,000 every profiled place, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. 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, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year

Largest cities in CA

Population among 482 CA places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.

residents

What this shows Los Angeles is the largest CA city on this list; Alamo leads median income.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

Highest median incomes in CA

Median household income among the same 482-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.

median

What this shows Alamo posts the highest place-level median income in CA; Los Angeles is largest by headcount.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

The quick read

Reading Alpine, CA beyond the headline numbers

Alpine sits inside San Diego County, California, at roughly 32.84°N, -116.77°W. Population 14,236, $108,660 median household income. Median home value $864,000, median rent $1,973. Poverty rate 13%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

Poverty in Alpine, CA stands at 13%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.

The median home in Alpine costs around 8.0 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.

16.1% of Alpine workers are remote, above the midpoint of reporting cities.

Among the CDC measures on this page, obesity departs furthest from its peer median: 27.2% in Alpine, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.

At 42.4 years, Alpine's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Alpine from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.

Population (place)
14,236
Alpine · Census Place
Median Income (place)
$108,660
+22% vs avg
Median Home Value (place)
$864,000
+109% vs avg
Median Age (place)
42.4
years · ACS place

10-Year Trends 2013–2024

County-level trend (San Diego County): Alpine's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.

20132024
Population
3.3M+5%
Median Income
$106,268+69%
Median Home Value
$854,700+113%
Poverty Rate
10.3%-28%
Unemployment
5.8%-39%

Economics

Economics indicators for Alpine, CA
IndicatorValue
Median Rent
$1,973/mo
Poverty Rate
13% +5% vs avg
Unemployment 3%
Bachelor's Degree+ 33%
Work From Home 16.1%
Public Transit 0.4%

Population

White 76%
African American 2.3%
Asian 1.1%

Health Profile 15 measures

Health Indicators

Short Sleep Duration
33.6%
High Blood Pressure
32.8%
Obesity
27.2%
Physical Inactivity
20.1%
Frequent Mental Distress
17.5%
Binge Drinking
16.7%
Frequent Physical Distress
13.6%
Current Smoking
11.9%
Diabetes
10.6%
Current Asthma
10%

Preventive Care

Dental Visit 66.3%
Annual Checkup 74.7%

Other Measures

Lack of Health Insurance
6.5%
Coronary Heart Disease
6.4%
Stroke
3.4%

What alerts and safety updates affect Alpine?

No area-tagged alerts are on record for Alpine right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.

City alert dispatch desk

Sheet CA-ALPINE-CA · Alpine

Alpine: 1 tagged alert; lead category BoM weather warning.

  • VOL-TRACE 1 on record
  • MIX-LED 100% au-weather
  • DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Houston

Tagged alert mix: Alpine

Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag

Value

What this shows 1 tagged notice on record for Alpine.

Source Areazine publication corpus As of Live tagged feed

Nearest tagged-volume peer: Houston, TX (1 tagged · Δ0)

Counts reflect published articles tagged to Alpine; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse California state hubs · Methodology

Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4

Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (1 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.

Houston, TX 1 alerts Washington, DC 1 alerts Nashville, TN 1 alerts Portland, OR 1 alerts

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Frequently Asked Questions 5

What is the population of Alpine, CA? ▼
Alpine, CA has a population of 14,236 people, located in San Diego County, California.
What is the median household income in Alpine? ▼
The median household income in Alpine, CA is $108,660 per year, per the U.S. Census ACS. The poverty rate is 13%.
What is the median home value in Alpine? ▼
The median home value in Alpine, CA is $864,000. Median rent is $1,973/month.
What are the top health concerns in Alpine? ▼
The top health indicators in Alpine include Short Sleep Duration (33.6%), High Blood Pressure (32.8%), Obesity (27.2%). Data from CDC PLACES.
What is the median age in Alpine? ▼
The median age in Alpine, CA is 42.4 years. 33% of residents have a bachelor's degree or higher.

Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8

Two ACS-derived peer sets for Alpine, both outside California so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.

Similar poverty rate

Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside CA (13% here).

Garland, TX 13% Gresham, OR 13% Federal Way, WA 13% Delray Beach, FL 13%

Similar median income

Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside CA ($108,660 here).

Eagan, MN $108,690 Matthews, NC $108,611 Palos Heights, IL $108,740 Elk River, MN $108,741

Compare Alpine with another city

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Nearby Cities 8

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Using Alpine's profile

Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.

  • Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Alpine area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
  • Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
  • Compare Alpine against California peers on any ranking lens. Explore California

Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.

Data Sources

All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (San Diego County) where that is the smallest published unit.

Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.