West · California · pop 320K
Riverside, 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 $1,743 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $595 left over.
Expect summer highs near 95°F, winter lows around 43°F, and about 277 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 Riverside fit print
Est. monthly cost
$4,536/mo
Typical rent
$2,050/mo
Home value ÷ income
7.4×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,730/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $2,050/mo
- Median home value
- $600,000
- Median household income
- $81,000
- Population
- 320,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 5.0%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.6%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 470
- Property crime rate
- 2,300
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 95°F
- Avg. winter low
- 43°F
- Sunny days / year
- 277
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈51/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈16/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈95/yr
- Annual rain
- 10"
- Annual snow
- 0"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- R+2
- Int'l airport
- ≈20 mi
- Walkability
- 43/100
- Disaster risk
- 80/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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