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City in California, United States

Mill Valley

$2.0MMedian Home
332Sunny Days/yr
View on Map· Pop. 14k· Elev. 79 ftWikipedia

Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located about 14 miles (23 km) north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge and 52 miles (84 km) from Napa Valley. The population was 14,231 at the 2020 census.Wikipedia

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
$4k/mo
Median Rent
$2.0M
Median Home Price
Rent burden21% of income
Household Income
$203k
Median annual
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Livability

School Rating
5/10
Internet
Fiber
58%
Cable
99%
address availability
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Climate

Sunshine
332
sunny days per year
91% of the year
Comfort Score
70/100
Good
Rainfall
25"
inches per year
Air Quality
37
Good AQI
07

Demographics

Population14k
Altitude79 ftabove sea level
Median Age47 yrs
College Educated76%bachelor's or higher
Work From Home28%of workforce

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