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City in California, United States

Morro Bay

$919kMedian Home
345Sunny Days/yr
63°FAvg High Temp
View on Map· Pop. 11k· Elev. 62 ftWikipedia

Morro Bay is a seaside city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. Located on the Central Coast of California, the city's population was 10,757 as of the 2020 census, up from 10,234 at the 2010 census. The town overlooks Morro Bay, a natural embayment with an all-weather, small-craft, commercial and recreational harbor.Wikipedia

Nickname: Three Stacks and a RockMotto: Come Get Salty in Morro Bay
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
$919k
Median Home Price
Rent burden34% of income
Household Income
$89k
Median annual
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Livability

Internet
Fiber
12%
Cable
92%
address availability
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Climate

Sunshine
345
sunny days per year
95% of the year
Avg High Temp
63°F
annual average
Comfort Score
90/100
Excellent
Temp Swing
12°F
seasonal high-temp spread
Rainfall
21"
inches per year
Snowfall
0"
inches per year
Air Quality
33
Good AQI
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Demographics

Population11k
Altitude62 ftabove sea level
Median Age52 yrs
College Educated43%bachelor's or higher
Work From Home14%of workforce

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