West · California · pop 313K
Santa Ana, 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 $1,998 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $355 left over.
Expect summer highs near 80°F, winter lows around 48°F, and about 280 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 Santa Ana fit print
Est. monthly cost
$4,776/mo
Typical rent
$2,350/mo
Home value ÷ income
9.7×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,900/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $2,350/mo
- Median home value
- $760,000
- Median household income
- $78,000
- Population
- 313,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.6%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.8%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 410
- Property crime rate
- 1,800
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 80°F
- Avg. winter low
- 48°F
- Sunny days / year
- 280
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈4/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈12/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈38/yr
- Annual rain
- 13"
- Annual snow
- 0"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+3
- Int'l airport
- ≈6 mi
- Walkability
- 70/100
- Disaster risk
- 72/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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