West · California · pop 545K
Fresno, 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 $1,250 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,295 left over.
Expect summer highs near 98°F, winter lows around 39°F, and about 271 sunny days a year.
Tradeoff: the local job market is softer than most on this list (6.5% unemployment).
The Fresno fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,836/mo
Typical rent
$1,470/mo
Home value ÷ income
6.1×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,330/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,470/mo
- Median home value
- $380,000
- Median household income
- $62,000
- Population
- 545,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 6.5%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.0%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 570
- Property crime rate
- 3,000
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 98°F
- Avg. winter low
- 39°F
- Sunny days / year
- 271
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈71/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈22/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈70/yr
- Annual rain
- 11"
- Annual snow
- 0"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- R+6
- Int'l airport
- ≈6 mi
- Walkability
- 46/100
- 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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