City safety & data profile
Red BluffCA
Red Bluff, CA is a 14K-resident city in Tehama County with a median household income of $51,529.
Tehama County, California. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Red Bluff, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Red Bluff has a population larger than 24% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $299,900, and 1 hospital serving the surrounding area.
- 14K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 25%
- By size
- $51,529
- Median income (place)
- $299,900
- Median home (place)
- 18.8%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Red Bluff
Red Bluff posts a median household income higher than 11% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 hospital serves the Red Bluff area.
- Bottom 12%
- by median income, US cities
- 1
- hospital in & near Red Bluff
Composite score · Red Bluff, CA
11/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2024
A transparent index Areazine derives from Census ACS medians (income, poverty, bachelor's share) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when published, not an official Census Bureau or FBI rating. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability rating, not a recommendation to move to or avoid any place. Missing inputs drop out and redistribute weight. How it is calculated.
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis. ACS 5-Year Estimates.
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents. State-level rate (per-city UCR reporting is incomplete/voluntary): every city in the state shares this value; lower is stronger on this axis.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Red Bluff in context: the full national tables: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Red Bluff income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$51,529 Bottom 11% higher than 11% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20,000-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
CA cities ranked by population
Population among 482 CA places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.
- Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
3,820,914 residents
- San Diego 1,404,452
San Diego, CA
1,404,452 residents
- San Jose 997,368
San Jose, CA
997,368 residents
- San Francisco 827,526
San Francisco, CA
827,526 residents
- Fresno 542,107
Fresno, CA
542,107 residents
- Sacramento 524,943
Sacramento, CA
524,943 residents
- Long Beach 474,140
Long Beach, CA
474,140 residents
- Oakland 419,267
Oakland, CA
419,267 residents
- Bakersfield 373,640
Bakersfield, CA
373,640 residents
- Anaheim 350,742
Anaheim, CA
350,742 residents
What this shows Los Angeles is the largest CA city on this list; Alamo leads median income.
CA cities ranked by median household income
Median household income across 482 tracked CA places. Hover a bar for its population rank.
- Alamo
Alamo, CA
$250,001 median
- Hillsborough
Hillsborough, CA
$250,001 median
- Los Altos
Los Altos, CA
$250,001 median
- Orinda
Orinda, CA
$250,001 median
- Piedmont
Piedmont, CA
$250,001 median
- Saratoga
Saratoga, CA
$250,001 median
- Coto De Caza
Coto De Caza, CA
$243,816 median
- Tamalpais-Homestead Valley
Tamalpais-Homestead Valley, CA
$243,227 median
- Palos Verdes Estates
Palos Verdes Estates, CA
$242,014 median
- San Carlos
San Carlos, CA
$237,470 median
What this shows Alamo leads this pool on median income; Los Angeles is the population leader instead.
The quick read
Reading Red Bluff, CA beyond the headline numbers
Red Bluff sits inside Tehama County, California, at roughly 40.18°N, -122.24°W. Population 14,131, $51,529 median household income. Median home value $299,900, median rent $1,121. Poverty rate 18.8%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
1 hospital in/around Red Bluff, 4/5 avg rating, 0 with an ER. Climate: 63.3°F annual average, 23.2" precipitation.
Among the CDC measures on this page, frequent mental distress departs furthest from its peer median: 21.2% in Red Bluff, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
The median home in Red Bluff costs around 5.8 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.
11.7% of Red Bluff adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, the lowest quarter of reporting cities.
7.2% unemployment puts Red Bluff in the toughest quarter of reporting cities for job availability.
18.8% of Red Bluff, CA residents live below the poverty line, placing it in the hardest-hit quarter of reporting cities. Read every median on this page against that: half the households are above it, and a large minority are far below.
Red Bluff's median age is 34.2 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.
Only 7.7% of Red Bluff workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.
Median rent in Red Bluff, CA runs $1,121/month, below the midpoint for reporting cities.
Public transit carries 0% of Red Bluff workers, a smaller share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Red Bluff 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.
A Decade of Change 2013–2024
County-level trend (Tehama County): Red Bluff'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.
Economics
Red Bluff's poverty rate of 18.8% runs 52% above the tracked-city average, the most notable of the economic figures Areazine tracks here. Median household income also diverges: $51,529, 42% below average.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 18.8% +52% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 7.2% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 11.7% |
| Work From Home | 7.7% |
| Public Transit | 0% |
Population
Health at a Glance 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospital Access 1 total
CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating (1-5): a composite score across dozens of reported measures, not a single outcome guarantee for any patient. It isn't adjusted for patient case mix and isn't directly comparable across hospital types, a critical-access facility and a large teaching hospital aren't rated on the same measure set.
Climate
NOAA 1991-2020 NormalsNFIP Flood Claim History
FEMA NFIP, county-level39 flood insurance claims have been filed in Tehama County since 2016, with $1.8M paid out by the NFIP.
California Atmospheric River alone generated 3 of those claims, the county's largest named flood event in this record.
Source: FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims, via OpenFEMA. County-level data: individual claims are not attributed to a specific city or address by FEMA.
What alerts and safety updates affect Red Bluff?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Red Bluff right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet CA-RED-BLUFF · Red Bluff
Red Bluff: no area-tagged alerts on record. State hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Red Bluff; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse California state hubs · Methodology
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Similar poverty or income, nationwide 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Red Bluff, both outside California so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside CA (18.8% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside CA ($51,529 here).
Compare Red Bluff with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Nearby Places 8
What to do with Red Bluff's numbers
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 Red Bluff area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
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- Compare Red Bluff 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 (Tehama 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 2026-09-16.