City safety & data profile

AshlandCA

Ashland, CA is a 22K-resident city in Alameda County with a median household income of $81,702.

Alameda County, California. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Ashland, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Ashland has a population larger than 49% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, and a median home value of $775,800.

Data updated 2026-09-03

22K
Population (place)
Bottom 50%
By size
$81,702
Median income (place)
$775,800
Median home (place)
16.4%
Poverty rate (place)
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The read on Ashland

Ashland posts a median household income higher than 51% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks.

Top 49%
by median income, US cities

Where Ashland income ranks nationally

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

$81,702 Top 49% higher than 51% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles

Ashland $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 Ashland, CA beyond the headline numbers

Ashland sits inside Alameda County, California, at roughly 37.69°N, -122.11°W. Population 21,925, $81,702 median household income. Median home value $775,800, median rent $2,110. Poverty rate 16.4%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

Poverty in Ashland, CA stands at 16.4%, 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 Ashland costs around 9.5 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.

Only 6.9% of Ashland workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.

Among the CDC measures on this page, lack of health insurance departs furthest from its peer median: 13.4% in Ashland, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.

8.6% of Ashland workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Ashland 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)
21,925
Ashland · Census Place
Median Income (place)
$81,702
-9% vs avg
Median Home Value (place)
$775,800
+88% vs avg
Median Age (place)
35.6
years · ACS place

10-Year Trends 2013–2024

County-level trend (Alameda County): Ashland'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
1.6M+7%
Median Income
$129,367+79%
Median Home Value
$1,090,100+121%
Poverty Rate
9.2%-26%
Unemployment
5.4%-48%

Economics

Economics indicators for Ashland, CA
IndicatorValue
Median Rent
$2,110/mo
Poverty Rate
16.4% +32% vs avg
Unemployment 6.7%
Bachelor's Degree+ 20.8%
Work From Home 6.9%
Public Transit 8.6%

Population

White 14.3%
African American 19.4%
Asian 22.4%
Two or More Ethnicities 0.3%

Health Profile 15 measures

Health Indicators

Short Sleep Duration
39.4%
High Blood Pressure
29.1%
Obesity
28.4%
Physical Inactivity
28.1%
Frequent Mental Distress
18.9%
Binge Drinking
15.8%
Frequent Physical Distress
14.5%
Lack of Health Insurance
13.4%
Current Smoking
13.4%
Diabetes
12.8%

Preventive Care

Dental Visit 54.1%
Annual Checkup 69.5%

Other Measures

Current Asthma
9.8%
Coronary Heart Disease
4.9%
Stroke
3.1%

What alerts and safety updates affect Ashland?

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

City alert dispatch desk

Sheet CA-ASHLAND-CA · Ashland

Ashland: 1 tagged alert; lead category NWS weather alert.

  • VOL-TRACE 1 on record
  • WX-LED 100% weather
  • DESK-MIX NOAA
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Houston

Tagged alert mix: Ashland

Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag

Value

What this shows 1 tagged notice on record for Ashland.

Source Areazine publication corpus As of Live tagged feed

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

Counts reflect published articles tagged to Ashland; 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 Ashland, CA? ▼
Ashland, CA has a population of 21,925 people, located in Alameda County, California.
What is the median household income in Ashland? ▼
The median household income in Ashland, CA is $81,702 per year, per the U.S. Census ACS. The poverty rate is 16.4%.
What is the median home value in Ashland? ▼
The median home value in Ashland, CA is $775,800. Median rent is $2,110/month.
What are the top health concerns in Ashland? ▼
The top health indicators in Ashland include Short Sleep Duration (39.4%), High Blood Pressure (29.1%), Obesity (28.4%). Data from CDC PLACES.
What is the median age in Ashland? ▼
The median age in Ashland, CA is 35.6 years. 20.8% of residents have a bachelor's degree or higher.

Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8

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

Similar poverty rate

Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside CA (16.4% here).

Madison, WI 16.4% East Orange, NJ 16.4% Burlington, NC 16.4% Mishawaka, IN 16.4%

Similar median income

Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside CA ($81,702 here).

Bourbonnais, IL $81,708 Washington Heights, NY $81,686 Glenn Heights, TX $81,718 Lakeside, FL $81,684

Compare Ashland with another city

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Nearby Cities 8

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Using Ashland'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 Ashland 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 Ashland 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 (Alameda 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.