Census-designated place · Del Norte County, California

Fort Dick, California

Fort Dick is a census-designated place in Del Norte County, California, part of the Crescent City, CA metro area. It has 1,365 residents. Fort Dick, California has a quality-of-life score of 24 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,964 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within California it ranks #669 of 1,062 cities and towns. It ranks best on broadband subscriptions (high), comfortable days (high) and median Air Quality Index (low). It ranks worst on distance to an emergency room (high), math scores (low) and new business applications (low).

24Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,964 of 15,651 cities and towns
California: #669 of 1,062 in CA
Population: 1,365 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 424.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 0625086

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety5#14,869/15,637
Economy36#9,956/15,631
Housing—
Health17#12,969/15,609
Healthcare44#8,723/15,650
Environment100#61/15,453
Education3#15,237/15,649
Infrastructure69#4,790/15,650
Community6#14,771/15,651
Leisure & amenities31#10,863/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Fort Dick, California ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Del Norte County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Broadband subscriptions · high100.0%
99/100California 93.5%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Comfortable days · high35.2%
95/100California 34.8%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationDel Norte County value
Median Air Quality Index · low32
92/100California 602025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyDel Norte County value
Public EV charging ports · high14.0 /10k
90/100California 17.4 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyDel Norte County value
Job growth · high2.0%
88/100California 0.9%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataDel Norte County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low6.3 µg/m³
86/100California 9.4 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyDel Norte County value

Weaknesses

Distance to an emergency room · high45.0 mi
0/100California 4.3 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesDel Norte County value
Math scores · low2.23
1/100California 2.79United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDel Norte County value
New business applications · low6.1 /1k
1/100California 14.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauDel Norte County value
Suicide rate · high37.6 /100k
1/100California 9.9 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataDel Norte County value
Drug overdose deaths · high52.7 /100k
1/100California 20.1 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataDel Norte County value
Reading scores · low2.41
1/100California 2.91United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDel Norte County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
1,097 (2015-2019) → 1,365 (2020-2024)
+24%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 100.0% (2020-2024)
+100 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 35.6% (2020-2024)
+36 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
79.0% (2015-2019) → 100.0% (2020-2024)
+21 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
High school diploma or higherWorsening
94.8% (2015-2019) → 77.8% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
32.6% (2015-2019) → 21.4% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Fort Dick, California improved on 1 of 7 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 6 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Broadband+21 points79.0% → 100.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 7 measures

Change of every measure of Fort Dick, California between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Bachelor's degree or higher	32.6%2015-2019	21.4%2020-2024	−11 points	Within the margin of error	1%
Broadband subscriptions	79.0%2015-2019	100.0%2020-2024	+21 points	Improved	91%
High school diploma or higher	94.8%2015-2019	77.8%2020-2024	−17 points	Within the margin of error	0%
Home price to income ratio	4.8×2015-2019	4.4×2020-2024	−0.4×	Within the margin of error	92%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4702015-2019	0.2812020-2024	−0.190	Within the margin of error	100%
Median household income	$70,5112015-2019	$70,6102020-2024	+0.1%	Within the margin of error	8%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Fort Dick, California five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Fort Dick, California in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Fort Dick, California itself moved +4.4 points in standing on average over the same 6 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,365 residents (±451)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

422 households (±167)

Fort Dick, California
California share

Under $25k8.8%†37
$25k–50k11%†48
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

422 households (±167)

Fort Dick, California
California share

Own97%†411
Rent2.6%†11

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

349 workers (±131)

Fort Dick, California
California share

Drive alone54%†188
Carpool28%†97
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Crescent City, CA

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Del Norte County, the county holding most of Fort Dick's residents.

Del Norte County has 431 employer establishments, 163 for every 10,000 residents (0.65× the US rate of 248; 0.62× California's), with 4,461 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,069. The Census Bureau also counts 1,415 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 431; 1,415 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 163; US 248 · California 263
Paid employees: 4,461
Average annual pay: $46,069; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Del Norte County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	37	14	0.67×Fewer than typical	384	$89,763	45
Restaurants and other eating places	34	12.8	0.70×Fewer than typical	492	$24,459	10
Lessors of real estate	28	10.6	0.86×About typical	74	$36,041	105
Specialty trade contractors	21	7.9	0.51×Fewer than typical	82	$46,829	61
Traveler accommodation	21	7.9	4.39×More than typical	231	$28,528	14
Construction of buildings	20	7.5	1.00×About typical	56	$47,071	45
Full-service restaurants	19	7.2	0.93×About typical	266	$29,316	3
Individual and family services	15	5.7	2.02×More than typical	375	$42,205	14
Offices of physicians	12	4.5	0.70×Fewer than typical	91	$144,769	6
Limited-service restaurants	10	3.8	0.47×Fewer than typical	176	$18,545	4
Real estate agents and brokers	10	3.8	0.77×Fewer than typical	23	$42,174	45
Religious organizations	10	3.8	0.68×Fewer than typical	44	$16,750	—

Rank places for an industry Open Del Norte County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 26,520 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Fort Dick, California: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

6.3KFY2021

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Fort Dick, California, so they do not add up across cities.

Fort Dick, California's figures are part of those of Del Norte County, CA ($5.6M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Fort Dick is mostly in Del Norte County.

See federal money in Del Norte County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Fort Dick, California is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Jared HuffmanD-CA-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 2.5%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Del Norte County34100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Crescent City, CA31

Other cities and towns in Del Norte County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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