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City in California, U.S.

Garden Grove

$975kMedian Home
347Sunny Days/yr
74°FAvg High Temp
View on Map· Pop. 172k· Elev. 89 ftWikipedia

Garden Grove is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States. The population was 171,949 at the 2020 census. State Route 22, also known as the Garden Grove Freeway, passes through the city in an east–west direction. The western portion of the city is known as West Garden Grove.Wikipedia

Motto: Absit Invidia (Latin), 'Let there be no ill will

State Context

CaliforniaU.S. state

California is a state in the Western United States that lies on the Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With almost 40 million residents across an area of 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2), it is the largest state by population, third-largest state by area and the largest state economy in the U.S., with a GDP of approximately $4.3 trillion.Wikipedia

Income tax: 1.00% - 14.40%Avg sales tax: 8.85%Property tax: 0.69%Official school data available

About the Region

California

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
$3k/mo
Median Rent
$975k
Median Home Price
Rent burden35% of income
Household Income
$86k
Median annual
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Livability

Walk Score
91
Transit Score
34
Internet
No internet coverage data yet.
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Climate

Sunshine
347
sunny days per year
95% of the year
Avg High Temp
74°F
annual average
Humidity
68%
relative humidity
Comfort Score
96/100
Excellent
Temp Swing
18°F
seasonal high-temp spread
Rainfall
14"
inches per year
Snowfall
0"
inches per year
Air Quality
48
Good AQI
07

Demographics

Population172k
Altitude89 ftabove sea level
Median Age39 yrs
College Educated23%bachelor's or higher
Work From Home9%of workforce
Poverty Rate13%

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