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How Apple Valley's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Apple Valley?
Your $100,000 in Apple Valley has the same purchasing power as $85,962 in the average US city. You'd need $14,038 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.
See a side-by-side breakdown of cost of living, housing, and salaries.
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Within 10 points of Apple Valley's cost index of 116, sorted by closest match.
Apple Valley has at least one strong card to play — lower-than-average crime numbers. Here's the longer version.
Reported crime in Apple Valley comes in around 2,069 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.
Reasons are pulled from Apple Valley'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 37°F, Apple Valley 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 Apple Valley sit around 37°F — sweater-and-jacket weather most days, with the occasional cold front that reminds you it's still winter.
Properly hot. Apple Valley's summer averages around 103°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 Apple Valley. (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 2,917 feet (889 m) above sea level. Visitors from the coast occasionally notice a slight shift in how dry the air feels; that's about the extent of it.
Middle of the pack. Apple Valley comes in around 2,069 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
More expensive than average — by enough to plan around. Apple Valley's composite index is 116 versus 100 for the US, with rent and home prices driving most of the gap. Salaries in higher-paying industries usually move together, but the math still tightens for everyone else.
Apple Valley's Walk Score is 15/100, firmly in the car-required tier. Transit Score is 29 out of 100. The layout assumes you'll drive to the grocery store, drive to work, drive everywhere.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $81,431 to live in Apple Valley 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 Apple Valley runs about $1,297/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.