City safety & data profile
TruckeeCA
Truckee, CA is a 16K-resident city in Nevada County with a median household income of $130,462.
Nevada County, California. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Truckee, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Truckee has a population larger than 32% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $947,900, and 1 hospital serving the surrounding area.
- 16K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 33%
- By size
- $130,462
- Median income (place)
- $947,900
- Median home (place)
- 9%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Truckee
Truckee posts a median household income higher than 87% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 hospital serves the Truckee area.
- Top 13%
- by median income, US cities
- 1
- hospital in & near Truckee
Composite score · Truckee, CA
66/100
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.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
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.
See the full national tables: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Truckee income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$130,462 Top 13% higher than 87% 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
Ranked by headcount across the 482 CA places Areazine tracks with both population and income data. Tooltip carries the income rank.
- 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.
Highest median incomes in CA
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 posts the highest place-level median income in CA; Los Angeles is largest by headcount.
The quick read
Reading Truckee, CA beyond the headline numbers
Truckee sits inside Nevada County, California, at roughly 39.33°N, -120.18°W. Population 16,299, $130,462 median household income. Median home value $947,900, median rent $1,961. Poverty rate 9%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
1 hospital in/around Truckee, 3/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER. Climate: 44°F annual average, 30.7" precipitation.
30.4% of Truckee workers report working from home, the highest quarter of reporting cities. Where that share runs this high, local income increasingly reflects employers located somewhere else.
The median home in Truckee costs around 7.3 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.
Among the CDC measures on this page, binge drinking departs furthest from its peer median: 19.8% in Truckee, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
A bachelor's degree or higher is common in Truckee: 60.8% of adults, the highest quarter of reporting cities -- a labor pool skewed toward credentialed work.
$1,961/month is the median rent in Truckee, CA, placing it in the priciest quarter of reporting cities; housing cost is doing real work against the household budget here.
6.6% unemployment puts Truckee in the toughest quarter of reporting cities for job availability.
At 42 years, Truckee's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.
At 9%, poverty in Truckee, CA runs below the midpoint of reporting cities -- enough to matter locally, not enough to dominate the city's profile.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Truckee 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.
Looking Back a Decade 2013–2024
County-level trend (Nevada County): Truckee'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.
Economic Snapshot
What stands out most about Truckee's economic profile: median household income at $130,462, 46% above the average across tracked places. A second figure worth noting: median rent at $1,961/mo, 27% above the tracked-city average.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 9% -27% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 6.6% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 60.8% |
| Work From Home | 30.4% |
| Public Transit | 0.7% |
Population
Community Health 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 NormalsFlood Insurance Claims History
FEMA NFIP, county-levelNevada County has recorded 20 National Flood Insurance Program claims totaling $552K in payouts since 2016.
1 claims trace back to California Atmospheric River, the biggest named event in the county's flood-claim history.
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 Truckee?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Truckee right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet CA-TRUCKEE · Truckee
Truckee: 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 Truckee; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse California state hubs · Methodology
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Cities nationwide with a comparable poverty or income figure 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Truckee, both outside California so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside CA (9% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside CA ($130,462 here).
Compare Truckee 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 Truckee'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 Truckee 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 Truckee against California peers on any ranking lens. Explore California
Place-level figures for population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) come from U.S. Census ACS; health data is CDC PLACES; hospital counts cover facilities in and around the city. Any county-level trend is labeled as such.
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 (Nevada 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.