Cost of Living
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How Turlock's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Turlock?
Your $100,000 in Turlock has the same purchasing power as $91,617 in the average US city. You'd need $8,383 more here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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Within 10 points of Turlock's cost index of 109, sorted by closest match.
Turlock has at least one strong card to play — you can walk to most of what you need. Here's the longer version.
With a citywide Walk Score of 64/100, Turlock 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 Turlock'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, Turlock 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 Turlock sit around 40°F — sweater-and-jacket weather most days, with the occasional cold front that reminds you it's still winter.
Properly hot. Turlock's summer averages around 93°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 Turlock. (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 102 feet (31 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Turlock's altitude shows up in daily life.
Middle of the pack. Turlock comes in around 3,528 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
It's a middle-of-the-road US city on cost. Turlock's index of 109 sits within a few points of the national average — your money buys roughly what it would in a typical American metro.
In parts, yes. With a citywide Walk Score of 64/100, Turlock has genuinely walkable neighborhoods alongside more sprawled stretches. Transit Score is 45 out of 100. If walkability matters to you, the neighborhood choice will matter more than the city-level number.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $76,405 to live in Turlock 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 Turlock runs about $1,389/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.