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Career Access

Median household income as a first-pass job-market proxy.

Scale0-100

Higher values rank better for this score.

How It's Calculated

The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.

Scoring Method

How the ranking is built

Career Access is currently a first-pass proxy that rewards places with higher ACS median household income.

  1. 1

    Median household income is converted to a 0-100 score where higher income scores higher.

  2. 2

    The normalization is percentile rank over the full observed ACS place distribution.

Technical details
Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Career Access.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

Career Access is currently a first-pass proxy that rewards places with higher ACS median household income.

Statistics Feeding This Score

  • Median household income

    ACS median household income for the place.

    Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year

Source Data

Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-YearCensus ACS 5-year estimates for housing, income, population, occupation, education, and race/ethnicity inputs at place, county, or CBSA geography depending on the score.

Known Limits

  • ACS values are multi-year estimates and can lag current market conditions.
  • Place-level estimates can hide neighborhood variation inside larger cities.
  • Small places may have noisier estimates than large places.
  • This is not yet a true labor-market score and does not include job openings, occupational wages, industry mix, commute networks, or remote-work access.

Top 10 Locations

Ranked by Career Access.

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