West · California · pop 3.9M
Los Angeles, 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 $1,887 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $340 left over.
Expect summer highs near 84°F, winter lows around 48°F, and about 284 sunny days a year.
There's plenty to do — roughly 31 restaurants, arts, and recreation spots per 10k residents.
Tradeoff: home prices run high relative to local incomes, so buying may take longer than elsewhere.
The Los Angeles fit print
Est. monthly cost
$4,791/mo
Typical rent
$2,220/mo
Home value ÷ income
11.7×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,850/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $2,220/mo
- Median home value
- $900,000
- Median household income
- $77,000
- Population
- 3,850,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 5.1%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.5%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 740
- Property crime rate
- 2,500
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 84°F
- Avg. winter low
- 48°F
- Sunny days / year
- 284
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈8/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈10/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈62/yr
- Annual rain
- 14"
- Annual snow
- 0"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+30
- Int'l airport
- ≈18 mi
- Walkability
- 69/100
- Disaster risk
- 84/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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