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City in the United States

Eureka

$407kMedian Home
309Sunny Days/yr
58°FAvg High Temp
View on Map· Pop. 27k· Elev. 39 ftWikipedia

Eureka is a city in and the county seat of Humboldt County, located on the North Coast of California. The city is located on U.S. Route 101 on the shores of Humboldt Bay, 270 miles (435 km) north of San Francisco and 100 miles (161 km) south of the Oregon border. At the 2020 census, the population of the city was 26,512 and the population of the greater Eureka area was 48,119.Wikipedia

Motto: Eureka! (I have found it!)
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
$407k
Median Home Price
Rent burden38% of income
Household Income
$52k
Median annual
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Climate

Sunshine
309
sunny days per year
85% of the year
Avg High Temp
58°F
annual average
Comfort Score
82/100
Great
Temp Swing
12°F
seasonal high-temp spread
Rainfall
55"
inches per year
Snowfall
4"
inches per year
Air Quality
35
Good AQI
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Demographics

Population27k
Altitude39 ftabove sea level
Median Age40 yrs
College Educated30%bachelor's or higher
Work From Home9%of workforce
Poverty Rate19%

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