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How Covina's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Covina?
Your $100,000 in Covina has the same purchasing power as $75,832 in the average US city. You'd need $24,168 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 Covina's cost index of 132, sorted by closest match.
Covina 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 walkable in a way most us cities aren't are the headliners. The rest is below.
The typical household in Covina pulls in $89,650 — 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.
With a citywide Walk Score of 79/100, Covina sits firmly in the walkable-by-US-standards camp. Pick a central neighborhood and most daily errands happen without keys in your hand.
Reasons are pulled from Covina'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, Covina 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 Covina sit around 37°F — sweater-and-jacket weather most days, with the occasional cold front that reminds you it's still winter.
Properly hot. Covina'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.
Covina falls in roughly USDA Zone 9. 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 581 feet (177 m). That's modest elevation — comparable to most inland-Midwest and Southern cities.
Middle of the pack. Covina comes in around 3,156 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. Covina'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.
Covina scores 79/100 on Walk Score, putting it in the "very walkable" tier. Transit Score is 41 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 $92,309 to live in Covina 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 Covina runs about $1,777/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.