West · California · pop 1.4M
San Diego, 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 — covering estimated essentials here (about $2,185 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $168 left over.
Expect summer highs near 77°F, winter lows around 50°F, and about 263 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 San Diego fit print
Est. monthly cost
$4,963/mo
Typical rent
$2,570/mo
Home value ÷ income
9.1×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $2,240/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $2,570/mo
- Median home value
- $900,000
- Median household income
- $99,000
- Population
- 1,390,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.3%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.1%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 380
- Property crime rate
- 1,800
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 77°F
- Avg. winter low
- 50°F
- Sunny days / year
- 263
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈0/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈8/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈22/yr
- Annual rain
- 10"
- Annual snow
- 0"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+20
- Int'l airport
- ≈4 mi
- Walkability
- 54/100
- Disaster risk
- 58/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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