Cost of Living
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How Concord's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Concord?
Your $100,000 in Concord has the same purchasing power as $69,945 in the average US city. You'd need $30,055 more here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
bachelor's or higher
Climate, safety, and walkability indicators.
See a side-by-side breakdown of cost of living, housing, and salaries.
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Sorted by affordability — most affordable first.
Within 10 points of Concord's cost index of 143, sorted by closest match.
These are the reasons people actually move to Concord, ordered roughly by what shows up loudest in the data. A higher-income labor market than the national norm and clean air, by the numbers lead — the rest unpacked below.
The typical household in Concord pulls in $107,789 — 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.
Average AQI in Concord comes in around 44, 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 Concord'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 43°F, Concord 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 Concord sit around 43°F — sweater-and-jacket weather most days, with the occasional cold front that reminds you it's still winter.
Warm without being brutal. Summer in Concord sits about 72°F on average. Afternoons can push into the high 80s, but mornings and evenings are usually genuinely pleasant.
Zone 9, give or take a half-zone. Concord'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 161 feet (49 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Concord's altitude shows up in daily life.
Middle of the pack. Concord comes in around 3,522 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. Concord'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.
Concord scores 39 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 $100,079 to live in Concord 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 Concord runs about $2,137/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.