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How Azusa's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
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Your $100,000 in Azusa has the same purchasing power as $75,827 in the average US city. You'd need $24,173 more here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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Within 10 points of Azusa's cost index of 132, sorted by closest match.
Azusa has a handful of real selling points, and they're not the kind of thing you find in a brochure. Solidly above-average earnings and safer than the typical us city are the headliners, plus 1 more things worth knowing. The rest is below.
The typical household in Azusa pulls in $81,516 — 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 Azusa comes in around 2,377 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.
With a citywide Walk Score of 72/100, Azusa sits firmly in the walkable-by-US-standards camp. Pick a central neighborhood and most daily errands happen without keys in your hand. Transit Score comes in at 62/100 too, so even the trips that are too far to walk are usually doable on a bus or train.
Reasons are pulled from Azusa'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.
It's rare. Winters in Azusa run about 50°F — cold-snap mornings happen, real snowfall doesn't, except maybe once a decade.
Not very. Average winter temperatures of about 50°F mean Azusa skips the harsh-winter problem most of the country has. A handful of cold mornings, otherwise sweater weather at worst.
Warm without being brutal. Summer in Azusa sits about 75°F on average. Afternoons can push into the high 80s, but mornings and evenings are usually genuinely pleasant.
Azusa falls in roughly USDA Zone 10. The zone classification is based on average annual minimum temperatures, so it's the right lookup for whether perennials and trees will overwinter here. Note that this is approximate from our winter-temperature data — check the USDA map for the exact zone before betting an expensive plant on it.
Roughly 643 feet (196 m). That's modest elevation — comparable to most inland-Midwest and Southern cities.
Middle of the pack. Azusa comes in around 2,377 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. Azusa's index of 132 puts it in the top tier of US cities for cost of living — roughly 32% 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.
Azusa scores 72/100 on Walk Score, putting it in the "very walkable" tier. Transit Score is 62 out of 100. It's the kind of city where you don't think of going to the grocery store as "going" to the grocery store.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $92,316 to live in Azusa 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 Azusa runs about $1,783/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.