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How Rancho Cucamonga's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Rancho Cucamonga?
Your $100,000 in Rancho Cucamonga has the same purchasing power as $84,041 in the average US city. You'd need $15,959 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 Rancho Cucamonga's cost index of 119, sorted by closest match.
These are the reasons people actually move to Rancho Cucamonga, ordered roughly by what shows up loudest in the data. A higher-income labor market than the national norm and on the calmer side of the national distribution lead — the rest unpacked below.
The typical household in Rancho Cucamonga pulls in $105,534 — 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.
Reported crime in Rancho Cucamonga comes in around 2,398 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.
Reasons are pulled from Rancho Cucamonga'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, Rancho Cucamonga 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 Rancho Cucamonga sit around 37°F — sweater-and-jacket weather most days, with the occasional cold front that reminds you it's still winter.
Properly hot. Rancho Cucamonga'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.
Zone 9, give or take a half-zone. Rancho Cucamonga'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.
Roughly 1,427 feet (435 m). That's modest elevation — comparable to most inland-Midwest and Southern cities.
Middle of the pack. Rancho Cucamonga comes in around 2,398 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. Rancho Cucamonga's composite index is 119 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.
Rancho Cucamonga scores 29 out of 100 on Walk Score, which translates to "car-dependent but not aggressively so". Transit Score is 29 out of 100. 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 $83,293 to live in Rancho Cucamonga 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 Rancho Cucamonga runs about $2,184/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.