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How Lompoc's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Lompoc?
Your $100,000 in Lompoc has the same purchasing power as $79,688 in the average US city. You'd need $20,312 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 Lompoc's cost index of 125, sorted by closest match.
These are the reasons people actually move to Lompoc, ordered roughly by what shows up loudest in the data. Four real seasons, none of them brutal and on the calmer side of the national distribution lead, plus 2 more things worth knowing — the rest unpacked below.
Lompoc's climate sits in the rare US sweet spot — summer averages around 77°F, winter averages around 45°F. You get four seasons without paying the heating bills of the Upper Midwest or the AC bills of the Sun Belt.
Reported crime in Lompoc comes in around 2,336 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.
Bike Score of 64/100 in Lompoc. 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.
Average AQI in Lompoc 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 Lompoc'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 45°F, Lompoc 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 Lompoc sit around 45°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 Lompoc sits about 77°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. Lompoc'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 79 feet (24 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Lompoc's altitude shows up in daily life.
Middle of the pack. Lompoc comes in around 2,336 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
More expensive than average — by enough to plan around. Lompoc's composite index is 125 versus 100 for the US, with rent and home prices driving most of the gap. Salaries in higher-paying industries usually move together, but the math still tightens for everyone else.
Lompoc scores 43 out of 100 on Walk Score, which translates to "car-dependent but not aggressively so". 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 $87,843 to live in Lompoc 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 Lompoc runs about $1,395/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.