West · California · pop 314K
Irvine, CA
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in CA, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,131, while estimated essentials run about $5,243/mo — roughly $112 short.
Expect summer highs near 83°F, winter lows around 46°F, and about 281 sunny days a year.
Reported crime rates sit below most cities in this dataset.
Tradeoff: home prices run high relative to local incomes, so buying may take longer than elsewhere.
The Irvine fit print
Est. monthly cost
$5,243/mo
Typical rent
$2,900/mo
Home value ÷ income
10.2×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $2,550/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $2,900/mo
- Median home value
- $1,250,000
- Median household income
- $123,000
- Population
- 314,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.6%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 2.0%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 60
- Property crime rate
- 1,300
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 83°F
- Avg. winter low
- 46°F
- Sunny days / year
- 281
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈2/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈10/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈36/yr
- Annual rain
- 13"
- Annual snow
- 0"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+3
- Int'l airport
- ≈10 mi
- Walkability
- 44/100
- Disaster risk
- 70/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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