Cost of Living
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How Ceres's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Ceres?
Your $100,000 in Ceres has the same purchasing power as $91,166 in the average US city. You'd need $8,834 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 Ceres's cost index of 110, sorted by closest match.
Why do people move to Ceres? On the data, the answer is largely on the calmer side of the national distribution. The detail is below.
Reported crime in Ceres comes in around 2,770 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 Ceres'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, Ceres 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 Ceres sit around 40°F — sweater-and-jacket weather most days, with the occasional cold front that reminds you it's still winter.
Properly hot. Ceres'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.
Zone 9, give or take a half-zone. Ceres's typical winter low puts it in that band on the USDA Hardiness map, which is what nurseries label plants against. Use Zone 9 as your starting filter; the USDA's interactive map is more precise for borderline cases.
Around 89 feet (27 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Ceres's altitude shows up in daily life.
Middle of the pack. Ceres comes in around 2,770 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
It's a middle-of-the-road US city on cost. Ceres's index of 110 sits within a few points of the national average — your money buys roughly what it would in a typical American metro.
Ceres scores 35 out of 100 on Walk Score, which translates to "car-dependent but not aggressively so". Transit Score is 31 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 $76,783 to live in Ceres 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 Ceres runs about $1,570/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.