Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Bay Point is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C overall, 420th of 841 graded towns in California, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is schools: its public schools beat 62% of California towns on state tests and graduation. Expect to pay for it: homes are expensive, about $525K for a typical one and 3.9 times the San Francisco metro’s $136K median household income. Bay Point’s mean commuting time is 36 minutes, above both the California town median (28 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 81% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top.
Where Bay Point beats most towns.
21,349 counted in 2010 and 23,896 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Bay Point is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 21,534 in 2000, 23,896 in 2020. The archive holds 17 old photos and papers going back to 2011 and 6 maps from 1907 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Bay Point. Close and well known come first.
Big draw29 mi MuseumAlcatraz Federal Penitentiary
Big draw26 mi MuseumUSS Hornet
Big draw30 mi Stadium & arenaChase Center
Big draw30 mi LandmarkLombard Street
Big draw29 mi Stadium & arenaOracle Park
Big draw32 mi GardenPresidio of San FranciscoAlcatraz Federal Penitentiary: druchoy, CC BY-SA 2.0 · USS Hornet: kitmasterbloke, CC BY 2.0 · Chase Center: Gregory Varnum, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lombard Street: The original uploader was Y6y6y6 at English Wikipedia., Public domain · Oracle Park: User Coasttocoast on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Presidio of San Francisco: Robert Campbell, CC BY-SA 3.0
Bay Point is unincorporated, so Contra Costa County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Bay Point.
FEMA puts just over two thirds of Bay Point’s expected hazard losses down to earthquakes, and 27% to inland flooding. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Bay Point after 2 declared disasters, most recently in 2022.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Public schools: the Mt. Diablo Unified school district. One of its 5 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. The 4 public schools in Bay Point teach 1,839 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverview MiddleLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 682 | D |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Bay Point has 1,557 jobs for its 8,892 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 36.1 minutes, against 28.7 across California.
Bay Point: 2.4% of working residents work locally. Since 2013, Bay Point has added 454 jobs, to 1,557 in 2023. The top destinations are Concord (11%), San Francisco (8%) and Walnut Creek (8%). Half of commuters travel less than 22 miles.
| Bay Point | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 4.5% | 14% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 14% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.4% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Median household income | $83,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The share of adults in Bay Point who feel lonely: 40%. On the CDC’s 32 measures, Bay Point is ahead of California on 3 and behind on 17.
| Bay Point | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 67% | 72% | 79% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 36% | 33% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 9% | 8.1% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 16% | 14% |
| What stands out | Bay Point | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.2% | 6.4% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 18.3% | 20.8% |
| More uninsured adults | 17.6% | 10.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 39° and snow is almost unheard of.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Walkers can cover 3.1 miles of trail in 5 parks and preserves. The trail network density in Bay Point is 0.4 miles per square mile.
| Bay Point | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.4 miles per square mile | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3.8% | 4.3% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Lynbrook Park | 0.1 mi | 5 |
| 2. Anuta Park | — | 3 |
| 3. Alves Lane Mini-Park | 0.1 mi | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
56% of households are owner-occupiers in Bay Point. The median rent for Bay Point comes to $2,063 a month. Homes sold in Bay Point spent a median 49 days on the market.
| Bay Point | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,063 a month | $1,895 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 56% | 64% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
3 within 15 miles of the center of Bay Point
About 7 of every 100 Bay Point residents are enrolled in college, about the same as California.
Where Bay Point’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
CDP in California, United States
Bay Point, formerly West Pittsburg and originally Bella Vista, is a census-designated place located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in Contra Costa County, California, United States. Bay Point is just west of Pittsburg and northeast of Concord on the southern shore of Suisun Bay. The population of Bay Point was 23,896 as of 2020. The Pittsburg/Bay Point Station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) rail system is located adjacent to Bay Point in Pittsburg. The community is traversed by State Route 4, the California Delta Highway, a controlled-access road. Being unincorporated, Bay Point does not have its own police department. The community is policed by the California H…
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2 towns share a border with Bay Point.
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Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Bay Point grades C overall, better than 27% of U.S. towns and #420 of 841 in California. It grades C for health and B for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
The typical home is worth about $525,000, 31% below the California typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.
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