Diablo GrandeCA
A town of 1,948.
Is Diablo Grande a good place to live?
Diablo Grande’s best subject grade is a B+ for incomes; its weakest is a D− for cost of living. On history, just 85 of California’s 1,063 towns do worse. Diablo Grande has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
100% of working residents leave Diablo Grande for work
Where Diablo Grande’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Diablo Grande grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Diablo Grande is from typical.
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Moving to Diablo Grande: who provides what
Diablo Grande is unincorporated, so Stanislaus 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 Diablo Grande.
High risk in Diablo Grande, with drought at the top
Households locally have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2020. Diablo Grande’s risk rating from FEMA stands at 79 of 100. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 63% come from drought and 18% from earthquakes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
With only 0.1 jobs per working resident, most people in Diablo Grande work out of town
No town among the 847 in California we compare has a higher average commute than Diablo Grande. Its median household income is $129,000, above both California’s towns ($95,000) and U.S. towns ($80,000); by contrast, in Diablo Grande, 6.1% of residents live below the poverty line. Half of commuters travel less than 35 miles.
| Diablo Grande | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 62 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $129,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 6.1% | 10% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Residents of Diablo Grande are less healthy than 74% of U.S. towns
Diablo Grande: 31% of adults get no exercise outside work. Just over a fifth of adults worry about having enough food locally, above both the California town median (16%) and the median of U.S. towns (14%).
| Diablo Grande | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 24% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 22% | 19% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 16% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| What stands out | Diablo Grande | CA |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 15.7% | 10.6% |
| More smokers | 15% | 10.9% |
| More adults with COPD | 6.7% | 5.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Diablo Grande has mild winters and hot summers
Diablo Grande’s midsummer high comes in at 90°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
More children than California overall
15% of residents are 65 or older in Diablo Grande. Children under 18 are 30% of residents (22% statewide); adults 35 to 64 are 34% of residents (39% statewide). In Diablo Grande, the midpoint age is 34.4 years. A bachelor’s degree or higher: 31% of adults 25 and older, vs 37% across California.
| Diablo Grande | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 34.4 years | 39 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 15% | 16% | 18% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 47% and 70% women
The Census survey reached too few of Diablo Grande’s residents to say more: its margin here is ±11.6 points. Across California, 50.1% of residents are women.
| Diablo Grande | CA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 16.5% | 11.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 13% | 10.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 5.3% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 16.3% | 14.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.9% | 13.9% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.5% | 12.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 10.3% | 12.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 8.9% | 9.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.3% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 4.2% | 15.3% | 10.4% |
| High school | 25.7% | 20.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 34.9% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 4.6% | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 19.2% | 22.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 11.3% | 14.4% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,900, single groups can be off by several points
The median home in Diablo Grande sells for about $425K
The share of households in Diablo Grande who own their home: 89%.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
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Everything we know about Diablo Grande
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Diablo Grande; the nearest are
About 10 of every 100 Diablo Grande residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
About Diablo Grande
Place in California, United States
Diablo Grande is an unincorporated community in Stanislaus County, California, United States. It is a gated bedroom community nestled in the Diablo Range, whence it gets its name. Diablo Grande sits at an elevation of 1,535 feet (468 m). It is about 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Patterson. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined that community as a census-designated place (CDP). The 2020 United States census reported Diablo Grande's population was 1,669.
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- Area
- 5.1 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,535 ft
Questions about Diablo Grande
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Diablo Grande, CA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $560,000, 26% 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 D−.