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City in California, United States

Ontario

$663kMedian Home
341Sunny Days/yr
View on Map· Pop. 176k· Elev. 1,004 ftWikipedia

Ontario is a city in southwestern San Bernardino County, California, United States, 35 miles (56 km) east of downtown Los Angeles and 23 miles (37 km) west of downtown San Bernardino, the county seat. Located in the western part of the Inland Empire metropolitan area, it lies just east of Los Angeles County and is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 175,265.Wikipedia

Motto: Southern California's Next Urban Center
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
$663k
Median Home Price
Rent burden38% of income
Household Income
$78k
Median annual
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Livability

School Rating
4.8/10
Internet
Fiber
78%
Cable
92%
address availability
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Climate

Sunshine
341
sunny days per year
93% of the year
Comfort Score
70/100
Good
Rainfall
21"
inches per year
Air Quality
72
Moderate AQI
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Demographics

Population176k
Altitude1,004 ftabove sea level
Median Age33 yrs
College Educated19%bachelor's or higher
Work From Home6%of workforce
Poverty Rate13%

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