Cost of Living
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How Fall River's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Fall River?
Your $100,000 in Fall River has the same purchasing power as $95,311 in the average US city. You'd need $4,689 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 Fall River's cost index of 105, sorted by closest match.
Fall River has a handful of real selling points, and they're not the kind of thing you find in a brochure. Safer than the typical US city and air quality you don't have to think about are the headliners. The rest is below.
Reported crime in Fall River comes in around 2,246 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.
Average AQI in Fall River comes in around 34, 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 Fall River'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.
Fall River gets a handful of meaningful snow days each year. Winters average about 26°F — cold enough for several inches at a time, warm enough for everything to melt between storms.
A real winter, but not a punishing one. Fall River averages roughly 26°F in winter, with the coldest mornings dipping into the single digits a few times a year and most days landing somewhere between "chilly" and "actually cold".
Warm without being brutal. Summer in Fall River sits about 80°F on average. Afternoons can push into the high 80s, but mornings and evenings are usually genuinely pleasant.
Fall River falls in roughly USDA Zone 8. 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 151 feet (46 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Fall River's altitude shows up in daily life.
Hurricane season covers June through November, with peak activity in late summer and early fall. For Fall River, the practical advice is: have a few days of water and supplies on hand from August onward, know your evacuation route, and don't wait for the news to tell you a storm is "probably nothing" — track the cone yourself.
Middle of the pack. Fall River comes in around 2,246 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. Fall River's index of 105 sits within a few points of the national average — your money buys roughly what it would in a typical American metro.
Fall River's Walk Score is 0/100, firmly in the car-required tier. Transit Score is 0 out of 100. The layout assumes you'll drive to the grocery store, drive to work, drive everywhere.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $73,444 to live in Fall River 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 Fall River runs about $1,020/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.