Rail Road Flat vs Wallace

A side-by-side comparison of Rail Road Flat and Wallace: population, income, housing, and more.

Rail Road Flat and Wallace are places in California. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Wallace has the higher population (743 vs 696 in Rail Road Flat). Wallace has the higher median household income ($113,462 vs $85,656 in Rail Road Flat). Wallace has the higher median home value ($562,500 vs $366,900 in Rail Road Flat).

Population, income & housing

	Rail Road Flat	Wallace
Population	696	743
Median age	42.6 yrs	40.4 yrs
Median household income	$85,656	$113,462
Median home value	$366,900	$562,500
Median gross rent	$743	—
Housing units	424	238
Homeownership rate	87.4%	67.6%
Bachelor's degree or higher	22.5%	39.4%
Unemployment rate	5.6%	5.5%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Rail Road Flat	Wallace
Population	191 → 696 (+264.4%)	944 → 743 (-21.3%)
Median household income	$50,781 → $85,656 (+68.7%)	$103,199 → $113,462 (+9.9%)
Median home value	$238,900 → $366,900 (+53.6%)	$391,700 → $562,500 (+43.6%)

Rail Road Flat

Population

191696

Median household income

$50,781$85,656

Median home value

$238,900$366,900

Wallace

Population

944743

Median household income

$103,199$113,462

Median home value

$391,700$562,500

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Rail Road Flat	Wallace
Under 5	1.9%	5.0%
5 to 17	24.0%	36.2%
18 to 24	4.5%	3.5%
25 to 34	11.4%	0.0%
35 to 44	10.2%	10.0%
45 to 54	3.7%	14.4%
55 to 64	26.0%	7.8%
65 to 74	10.6%	21.9%
75 and over	7.8%	1.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Rail Road Flat	Wallace
White (non-Hispanic)	73.4%	98.4%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	5.7%	0.0%
Asian	12.5%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.9%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	4.5%	1.6%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Rail Road Flat	Wallace
No high school diploma	3.5%	5.4%
High school graduate	47.2%	6.8%
Some college or associate's	26.8%	48.4%
Bachelor's degree	10.5%	11.4%
Graduate or professional degree	12.0%	28.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Rail Road Flat	Wallace
Drove alone	54.4%	63.1%
Carpooled	23.5%	3.7%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.7%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	21.3%	33.2%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Rail Road Flat	Wallace
1-unit, detached	96.9%	100.0%
1-unit, attached	1.4%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	1.7%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Rail Road Flat	Wallace
Poverty rate	11.5%	0.0%
Average household size	2.73	3.12
Mean commute (minutes)	45	61
Median year structure built	1982	2000