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How Lynwood's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Lynwood?
Your $100,000 in Lynwood has the same purchasing power as $73,948 in the average US city. You'd need $26,052 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 Lynwood's cost index of 135, sorted by closest match.
If you're weighing Lynwood, the strongest single argument is around walkable in a way most us cities aren't.
With a citywide Walk Score of 66/100, Lynwood 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 Lynwood'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 Lynwood 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 Lynwood 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 Lynwood sits about 75°F on average. Afternoons can push into the high 80s, but mornings and evenings are usually genuinely pleasant.
Lynwood falls in roughly USDA Zone 10. 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 89 feet (27 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Lynwood's altitude shows up in daily life.
Middle of the pack. Lynwood comes in around 3,339 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. Lynwood's index of 135 puts it in the top tier of US cities for cost of living — roughly 35% 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.
In parts, yes. With a citywide Walk Score of 66/100, Lynwood has genuinely walkable neighborhoods alongside more sprawled stretches. If walkability matters to you, the neighborhood choice will matter more than the city-level number.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $94,661 to live in Lynwood 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 Lynwood runs about $1,488/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.