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How Inglewood's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Inglewood?
Your $100,000 in Inglewood has the same purchasing power as $73,654 in the average US city. You'd need $26,346 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 Inglewood's cost index of 136, sorted by closest match.
These are the reasons people actually move to Inglewood, ordered roughly by what shows up loudest in the data. Most daily life happens on foot and a bike-friendly city by us standards lead — the rest unpacked below.
With a Walk Score of 96/100, Inglewood is in the category where car ownership becomes a real choice rather than the default. Errands work on foot, the city's built dense enough that things are actually close together, and the parking-and-gas budget can quietly disappear. Transit Score comes in at 55/100 too, so even the trips that are too far to walk are usually doable on a bus or train.
Bike Score of 61/100 in Inglewood. 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 Inglewood'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 Inglewood 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 Inglewood 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 Inglewood sits about 75°F on average. Afternoons can push into the high 80s, but mornings and evenings are usually genuinely pleasant.
Zone 10, give or take a half-zone. Inglewood's typical winter low puts it in that band on the USDA Hardiness map, which is what nurseries label plants against. Use Zone 10 as your starting filter; the USDA's interactive map is more precise for borderline cases.
Around 138 feet (42 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Inglewood's altitude shows up in daily life.
Middle of the pack. Inglewood comes in around 3,584 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. Inglewood'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.
Yes, by US standards it's extraordinary. Inglewood scores 96/100, one of the highest in the country. Transit Score is 55 out of 100. Living here without a car isn't just possible; for many residents it's the default.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $95,039 to live in Inglewood 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 Inglewood runs about $1,666/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.