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City in California, United States

California City

$271kMedian Home
353Sunny Days/yr
View on Map· Pop. 13k· Elev. 2,405 ftWikipedia

California City is a city located in northern Antelope Valley in Kern County, California, United States. It is 100 miles (160 km) north of the city of Los Angeles, and the population was 14,973 at the 2020 census. Covering 203.63 square miles (527.4 km2), California City has the third-largest land area of any city in the state of California, and is the largest city in California, by land area, that is not a county seat. It is the 43rd-largest city in the United States by land area.Wikipedia

Nickname: Cal City
About the RegionCalifornia

California contains multitudes in a way that makes any single characterization misleading. The Bay Area and Los Angeles operate as global city-states, with housing markets, income levels, and cultural gravity that put them in direct competition with London and Tokyo rather than with other American metros. Both have lost net domestic migrants to lower-cost states for most of the last decade — primarily to Texas, Arizona, and Nevada — though both also continue to be net draws for international migration and maintain labor markets of extraordinary depth and diversity.

But California's geography is vast. The Central Valley offers costs of living that rival the Midwest with driving distance to the Sierra Nevada; the North Coast is one of the most beautiful and least-crowded stretches of American coastline; and the smaller cities of the inland valleys represent genuinely different lifestyle profiles. For remote workers who can absorb the state income tax and housing cost, the combination of climate diversity, outdoor access, and cultural institution density remains difficult to replicate anywhere in the world.

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Current Conditions

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Cost of Living

Housing
$2k/mo
Median Rent
$271k
Median Home Price
Rent burden39% of income
Household Income
$55k
Median annual
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Livability

Walk Score
50
School Rating
2.8/10
Internet
Fiber
19%
Cable
93%
address availability
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Climate

Sunshine
353
sunny days per year
97% of the year
Comfort Score
70/100
Good
Rainfall
6"
inches per year
Air Quality
44
Good AQI
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Demographics

Population13k
Altitude2,405 ftabove sea level
Median Age34 yrs
College Educated10%bachelor's or higher
Work From Home11%of workforce

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