ByronCA
A town of 1,837, settled in 1878.
Is Byron a good place to live?
Byron’s best subject grade is a B+ for schools; its weakest is a D− for cost of living. Byron’s going rate for rent is $2,643 a month, above both the California town median ($1,896 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 90% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Byron has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Byron has shrunk 11% from 2010 to 2020
1,277 counted in 2010 and 1,140 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Byron grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Byron is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Byron: who provides what
Byron 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Byron.
Byron faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
FEMA puts 37% of Byron’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 32% to earthquakes. One declared disaster, in 2022, has brought federal aid to Byron households. Since 1995, Byron has seen 4 flood insurance claims paid out.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Public schools in Byron beat 65% of California districts
The public schools here belong to the Byron Union Elementary school district. Its one school is below. The town’s only public school teaches 377 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excelsior MiddleLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 377 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Expect mild winters and hot summers in Byron
Byron’s midsummer high is 91°F, against 89°F in California’s towns and 85°F across U.S. towns.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Health in Byron trails 63% of U.S. towns
Among adults in Byron, 70% had a checkup this year. In Byron, a quarter of adults say their health is fair or poor, and 29% get no exercise outside work.
| Byron | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 70% | 72% | 79% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 9% | 8.1% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 22% | 19% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 24% | 25% |
| What stands out | Byron | CA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 6.4% | 5.1% |
| More adults with obesity | 34.2% | 27.8% |
| More adults with heart disease | 6.6% | 5.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Byron sends most of its workers out of town
Byron’s middle household income comes in at $76,000. Only 3% of working residents stay in Byron for work; the rest commute out. 4.3% of workers do their job from home in the town. Jobs based here fell to 498 in 2023, 185 fewer than in 2013.
| Byron | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 38 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 4.3% | 14% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 15% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.9% | 6.6% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The typical home in Byron: about $866K
The share of households in Byron who live in a home they own: 60%. Values rose 3.6% in the 12 months to September 2026.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
6.3% of the land in Byron is protected from building
2.0 miles of trail. The trail density for Byron comes to 0.3 miles per square mile.
| Byron | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 6.3% | 4.3% | 4.3% |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Levi's Stadium and 92 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Byron. Close and well known come first.
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaLevi's Stadium
Big draw37 mi MuseumUSS Hornet
Big draw38 mi Theme parkCalifornia's Great America
15 mi MountainMount Diablo
32 mi Stadium & arenaOakland Arena
33 mi Stadium & arenaCalifornia Memorial StadiumPhoto credits
Levi's Stadium: Matthew Roth, CC BY-SA 2.0 · USS Hornet: kitmasterbloke, CC BY 2.0 · California's Great America: Oleg Alexandrov, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mount Diablo: Trurl66, Public domain · Oakland Arena: Mike Disharoon, CC BY-SA 2.0 · California Memorial Stadium: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0
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Everything we know about Byron
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Byron
About 12 of every 100 Byron residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
Questions about Byron
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Byron, CA expensive?
Yes. That is 6.4 years of the area's median household income ($136,027 across the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.