Cost of Living
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How Rocklin's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Rocklin?
Your $100,000 in Rocklin has the same purchasing power as $83,605 in the average US city. You'd need $16,395 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 Rocklin's cost index of 120, sorted by closest match.
So why do people move to Rocklin? The honest answer involves a few specific things the data backs up — most clearly paychecks here run high and it's a quieter city by the numbers, plus 1 more things worth knowing. The detail on each one is below.
Rocklin's typical household earns $116,006, which puts it in the top tier of US cities for household income. The bottom of the wage distribution isn't necessarily different from anywhere else, but the median and above sit meaningfully higher.
The reported crime rate in Rocklin runs about 1,416 per 100,000 residents — meaningfully below the national norm. People who care about safety as a baseline rather than a feature tend to land in cities with numbers like these.
Rocklin has a college-educated share of about 48% among adults 25+, which is higher than the national norm. It shows up in the local job mix, in the school district's reputation, and in the kind of conversations you have at the coffee shop.
Reasons are pulled from Rocklin'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 40°F, Rocklin 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 Rocklin sit around 40°F — sweater-and-jacket weather most days, with the occasional cold front that reminds you it's still winter.
Properly hot. Rocklin's summer averages around 91°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.
Approximately USDA Hardiness Zone 9. That's the band gardeners use to pick plants — anything rated for Zone 9 or colder should survive a typical winter in Rocklin. (The estimate is derived from our winter-temperature data; the official USDA map uses station-level annual minimums and may differ by half a zone.)
Around 390 feet (119 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Rocklin's altitude shows up in daily life.
The headline number is reassuring. Rocklin's reported incident rate of about 1,416 per 100,000 is comfortably below the US norm of around 3,500 per 100k. Specific neighborhoods always vary, but the broader picture is on the safer side.
More expensive than average — by enough to plan around. Rocklin's composite index is 120 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.
Rocklin's Walk Score is 4/100, 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 $83,727 to live in Rocklin 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 Rocklin runs about $2,109/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.