City in California, United States

Pittsburg

$557kMedian Home
332Sunny Days/yr
73°FAvg High Temp
View on Map· Pop. 76k· Elev. 26 ftWikipedia

Pittsburg is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. It is an industrial suburb located on the southern shore of the Suisun Bay in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, and is part of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta area, the Eastern Contra Costa County area, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 76,416 at the 2020 United States census.Wikipedia

Nickname: P-World" "The BurgMotto: Gateway to the Delta!

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
$2k/mo
Median Rent
$557k
Median Home Price
Rent burden29% of income
Household Income
$98k
Median annual
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Livability

School Rating
3.5/10
Internet
Fiber
28%
Cable
99%
address availability
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Climate

Sunshine
332
sunny days per year
91% of the year
Avg High Temp
73°F
annual average
Humidity
66%
relative humidity
Comfort Score
97/100
Excellent
Temp Swing
32°F
seasonal high-temp spread
Rainfall
21"
inches per year
Snowfall
0"
inches per year
Air Quality
42
Good AQI
07

Demographics

Population76k
Altitude26 ftabove sea level
Median Age35 yrs
College Educated23%bachelor's or higher
Work From Home7%of workforce
Poverty Rate10%

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