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City in California, United States

Manhattan Beach

$3.1MMedian Home
347Sunny Days/yr
View on Map· Pop. 35k· Elev. 66 ftWikipedia

Manhattan Beach is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States, on the Pacific coast south of El Segundo, west of Hawthorne, and north of Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,506.Wikipedia

Motto: Sun, Sand, Sea
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
$5k/mo
Median Rent
$3.1M
Median Home Price
Rent burden34% of income
Household Income
$187k
Median annual
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Livability

Internet
Fiber
95%
Cable
98%
address availability
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Climate

Sunshine
347
sunny days per year
95% of the year
Comfort Score
70/100
Good
Rainfall
15"
inches per year
Air Quality
66
Moderate AQI
07

Demographics

Population35k
Altitude66 ftabove sea level
Median Age43 yrs
College Educated78%bachelor's or higher
Work From Home29%of workforce
Poverty Rate3%

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