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How Baldwin Park's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Baldwin Park?
Your $100,000 in Baldwin Park has the same purchasing power as $73,508 in the average US city. You'd need $26,492 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 Baldwin Park's cost index of 136, sorted by closest match.
Baldwin Park 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 2 more things worth knowing. The rest is below.
The typical household in Baldwin Park pulls in $76,002 — 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 Baldwin Park comes in around 2,081 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 75/100, Baldwin Park sits firmly in the walkable-by-US-standards camp. Pick a central neighborhood and most daily errands happen without keys in your hand.
Bike Score of 61/100 in Baldwin Park. That puts it in the small group of US cities where you can do groceries, commute, and run errands on a bike without it being a feat of urban survival.
Reasons are pulled from Baldwin Park'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 Baldwin Park 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 Baldwin Park 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 Baldwin Park sits about 75°F on average. Afternoons can push into the high 80s, but mornings and evenings are usually genuinely pleasant.
Baldwin Park 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.
Around 367 feet (112 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Baldwin Park's altitude shows up in daily life.
Middle of the pack. Baldwin Park comes in around 2,081 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. Baldwin Park's index of 136 puts it in the top tier of US cities for cost of living — roughly 36% 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.
Baldwin Park scores 75/100 on Walk Score, putting it in the "very walkable" tier. 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 $95,228 to live in Baldwin Park 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 Baldwin Park runs about $1,757/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.