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How Antioch's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Antioch?
Your $100,000 in Antioch has the same purchasing power as $69,930 in the average US city. You'd need $30,070 more here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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Climate, safety, and walkability indicators.
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Within 10 points of Antioch's cost index of 143, sorted by closest match.
So why do people move to Antioch? The honest answer involves a few specific things the data backs up — most clearly paychecks come in above the us average and lower-than-average crime numbers, plus 1 more things worth knowing. The detail on each one is below.
The typical household in Antioch pulls in $90,709 — comfortably above the US median. Combined with the cost of living here, the income-to-expense ratio works out better than a quick look at either number in isolation would suggest.
Reported crime in Antioch comes in around 2,873 per 100,000 — under the national baseline of about 3,500. Worth digging into specific neighborhoods before settling on one, but the city-level picture is on the safer side.
Average AQI in Antioch comes in around 41, well into the "good" band. Clean air isn't a thing you appreciate until you've lived somewhere it wasn't — and this is the side of that line you want to be on.
Reasons are pulled from Antioch's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
Not really a snow town. With winters averaging 40°F, Antioch sits in the mild-cold band where snowflakes appear occasionally and everything melts within a day. Most years see one storm worth talking about.
Cool, not cold. Winters in Antioch sit around 40°F — sweater-and-jacket weather most days, with the occasional cold front that reminds you it's still winter.
Properly hot. Antioch's summer averages around 93°F with daily highs that routinely break 100°F. The trick to summer here is starting the day at sunrise and staying inside through the worst of it.
Approximately USDA Hardiness Zone 9. That's the band gardeners use to pick plants — anything rated for Zone 9 or colder should survive a typical winter in Antioch. (The estimate is derived from our winter-temperature data; the official USDA map uses station-level annual minimums and may differ by half a zone.)
Around 226 feet (69 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Antioch's altitude shows up in daily life.
Middle of the pack. Antioch comes in around 2,873 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
Significantly. Antioch's index of 143 puts it in the top tier of US cities for cost of living — roughly 43% above the national baseline. The pattern is familiar: housing eats a large share of incomes, and people earning median-equivalent jobs from cheaper metros feel the difference fast.
Antioch scores 26 out of 100 on Walk Score, which translates to "car-dependent but not aggressively so". Transit Score is 30 out of 100. Some neighborhoods buck the citywide average; the dense inner cores are usually noticeably more walkable than the city number suggests.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $100,100 to live in Antioch the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Antioch runs about $2,150/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.