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Unincorporated community in California, United States

Somerset

$453kMedian Home
333Sunny Days/yr
75°FAvg High Temp
View on Map· Pop. 4k· Elev. 2,093 ftWikipedia

Somerset is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. It is located 6.25 miles south of Camino, at an elevation of 2,093 feet. Its ZIP Code is 95684.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
$453k
Median Home Price
Household Income
$75k
Median annual
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Livability

Internet
Fiber
1%
Cable
0%
address availability
05

Climate

Sunshine
333
sunny days per year
91% of the year
Avg High Temp
75°F
annual average
Humidity
66%
relative humidity
Comfort Score
81/100
Great
Temp Swing
41°F
seasonal high-temp spread
Rainfall
25"
inches per year
Snowfall
0"
inches per year
Air Quality
42
Good AQI
07

Demographics

Population4k
Altitude2,093 ftabove sea level
Median Age36 yrs
College Educated20%bachelor's or higher
Work From Home8%of workforce

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