City safety & data profile

RichmondCA

Richmond, CA is a 110K-resident city in Contra Costa County with a median household income of $95,391.

Contra Costa County, California. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Richmond, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Richmond has a population larger than 93% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, and a median home value of $668,200.

Data updated 2026-09-03

110K
Population (place)
Top 7%
By size
$95,391
Median income (place)
$668,200
Median home (place)
13.5%
Poverty rate (place)
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The read on Richmond

Richmond posts a median household income higher than 66% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks.

Top 34%
by median income, US cities

Where Richmond income ranks nationally

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

$95,391 Top 34% higher than 66% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles

Richmond $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 Richmond, CA beyond the headline numbers

Richmond sits inside Contra Costa County, California, at roughly 37.94°N, -122.35°W. Population 109,708, $95,391 median household income. Median home value $668,200, median rent $1,960. Poverty rate 13.5%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

Poverty in Richmond, CA stands at 13.5%, 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 Richmond costs around 7.0 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.

14% of Richmond workers are remote, above the midpoint of reporting cities.

Among the CDC measures on this page, lack of health insurance departs furthest from its peer median: 13.9% in Richmond, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.

8.2% of Richmond 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 Richmond 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)
109,708
Richmond · Census Place
Median Income (place)
$95,391
+7% vs avg
Median Home Value (place)
$668,200
+62% vs avg
Median Age (place)
37.9
years · ACS place

10-Year Trends 2013–2024

County-level trend (Contra Costa County): Richmond'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
1.2M+9%
Median Income
$127,229+62%
Median Home Value
$866,800+115%
Poverty Rate
8.4%-20%
Unemployment
6.5%-37%

Economics

Economics indicators for Richmond, CA
IndicatorValue
Median Rent
$1,960/mo
Poverty Rate
13.5% +9% vs avg
Unemployment 8.3%
Bachelor's Degree+ 33%
Work From Home 14%
Public Transit 8.2%

Population

White 21.2%
African American 16.4%
Asian 13.8%
Two or More Ethnicities 3.1%

Health Profile 15 measures

Health Indicators

Short Sleep Duration
39.1%
Obesity
32.9%
High Blood Pressure
31.8%
Physical Inactivity
29.8%
Frequent Mental Distress
17.8%
Binge Drinking
14.9%
Frequent Physical Distress
14.1%
Lack of Health Insurance
13.9%
Diabetes
12.9%
Current Smoking
11.9%

Preventive Care

Dental Visit 58.9%
Annual Checkup 70.2%

Other Measures

Current Asthma
10.1%
Coronary Heart Disease
5.3%
Stroke
3.4%

What alerts and safety updates affect Richmond?

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

City alert dispatch desk

Sheet CA-RICHMOND-CA · Richmond

Richmond: 23 tagged alerts; lead category NSW RFS bushfire alert.

  • VOL-ACTIVE 23 on record
  • MIX-LED 83% au-bushfires
  • DESK-MIX NOAA
  • NEAR-PEER 16 · El Paso

Tagged alert mix: Richmond

Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag

Value

What this shows 23 tagged notices on record for Richmond.

Source Areazine publication corpus As of Live tagged feed

Nearest tagged-volume peer: El Paso, TX (16 tagged · Δ7)

Counts reflect published articles tagged to Richmond; 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 (23 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.

El Paso, TX 16 alerts Phoenix, AZ 15 alerts California, MD 15 alerts Victoria, TX 13 alerts

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Frequently Asked Questions 5

What is the population of Richmond, CA? ▼
Richmond, CA has a population of 109,708 people, located in Contra Costa County, California.
What is the median household income in Richmond? ▼
The median household income in Richmond, CA is $95,391 per year, per the U.S. Census ACS. The poverty rate is 13.5%.
What is the median home value in Richmond? ▼
The median home value in Richmond, CA is $668,200. Median rent is $1,960/month.
What are the top health concerns in Richmond? ▼
The top health indicators in Richmond include Short Sleep Duration (39.1%), Obesity (32.9%), High Blood Pressure (31.8%). Data from CDC PLACES.
What is the median age in Richmond? ▼
The median age in Richmond, CA is 37.9 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 Richmond, both outside California so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.

Similar poverty rate

Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside CA (13.5% here).

Omaha, NE 13.5% Brockton, MA 13.5% Albany, OR 13.5% Casa Grande, AZ 13.5%

Similar median income

Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside CA ($95,391 here).

Chesapeake, VA $95,373 Montgomery Village, MD $95,348 Skokie, IL $95,337 Duluth, GA $95,331

Compare Richmond 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.

Quick picks:

Nearby Cities 8

San Pablo, CA 30K El Cerrito, CA 24K El Sobrante, CA 13K Albany, CA 20K Pinole, CA 19K Berkeley, CA 121K Hercules, CA 25K Emeryville, CA 12K
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Using Richmond'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 Richmond 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 Richmond 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 (Contra Costa 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.