Granite HillsCA
A town in California, home to 3,795 people.
Is Granite Hills a good place to live?
A tough set of grades. Its weakest is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $974K, 9.2 years of the San Diego metro’s $106K median household income. Granite Hills grades D overall, better than 14% of U.S. towns. In the ranking it comes 554th of 841 in California. It lags on walkability as well. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 74% of U.S. towns. Health is its strong suit (B+): CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 72% of the country. Granite Hills’ median household income is $156,000, above both the California town median ($95,000) and the median of U.S. towns ($80,000).
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24.
98% of working residents leave Granite Hills for work
Where Granite Hills’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Granite Hills grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Granite Hills is from typical.
Its best grade is an A− for the outdoors (conserved land, trails and parks), which describes the town but isn’t part of the overall grade; its D comes from the livability subjects above.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Mexico–United States border wall and 65 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Granite Hills. Close and well known come first.
Big draw23 mi LandmarkMexico–United States border wall
Big draw13 mi Stadium & arenaSnapdragon Stadium
16 mi Stadium & arenaPetco Park
15 mi Zoo & aquariumSan Diego Zoo4.0M visitors a year
15 mi Park & preserveBalboa Park
19 mi Theme parkSeaWorld San Diego4.0M visitors a yearPhoto credits
Mexico–United States border wall: Földhegy, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Snapdragon Stadium: Terrible Tim, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Petco Park: Mds08011, CC BY 4.0 · San Diego Zoo: en:User:Cburnett, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Balboa Park: Antoine Taveneaux, CC BY-SA 3.0 · SeaWorld San Diego: ZooFari, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Granite Hills: who provides what
Granite Hills is unincorporated, so San Diego 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 Granite Hills.
Granite Hills has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns, sends most of its workers to San Diego and beyond and owes part of its health edge to its incomes.
About two in five of Granite Hills’ working residents commute to San Diego
Granite Hills has 325 jobs for its 1,399 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Half commute less than 14 miles. Jobs in Granite Hills grew by 51 from 2013 to 2023, reaching 325. Most people who work leave Granite Hills to do it: just 2% work in town. The average commute for Granite Hills comes to 30 minutes.
| Granite Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $156,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 30 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.7% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 10% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Cajon Seventh-Day Adventist Christian School PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades K–8 | Grades K–8 | 24 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Natural hazards: high risk in Granite Hills, mostly inland flooding
On expected storm and flood damage, Granite Hills sits above 78% of U.S. communities. Paid flood insurance claims here since 2004: 2. Expected losses in Granite Hills break down as 60% from inland flooding and 28% from wildfires.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Granite Hills’ grade for health is a B+
Against the 2,402 U.S. towns with household incomes like Granite Hills’s, it is less healthy than 88%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
In Granite Hills, 34% of adults feel lonely. This California town does better than the California average on 13 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 7. Just over three quarters of adults locally had a checkup this year; 20% get no exercise outside work.
| Granite Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 29% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 76% | 72% | 79% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 24% | 25% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 35% | 36% |
| What stands out | Granite Hills | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.4% | 10.6% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 12.3% | 17.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.3% | 6.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Mild winters and hot summers: that is Granite Hills’ year
January nights average 41.5°, milder than in 95% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 88°.
Snow is a rarity. In Granite Hills, the January low is 42°F.
| Granite Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 42°F | 40°F | 22°F |
| July high | 88°F | 89°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fewer adults under 35 in Granite Hills than across California
The median household earns $155,820, against $99,122 across California, one input to its B for jobs and income.
Four-year graduates: 41% of adults 25 and older here, 37% across California. Adults 18 to 34 are 18% of residents (24% statewide). Among residents in Granite Hills, 17% are 65 or older.
| Granite Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 41% | 29% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 24% | 22% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 32% and 63% women
The Census survey reached too few of Granite Hills’ residents to say more: its margin here is ±15.7 points. Across California, 50.1% of residents are women.
| Granite Hills | CA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 13.7% | 11.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.9% | 10.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.3% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.5% | 14.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 17.5% | 13.9% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 3.2% | 12.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 20.9% | 12.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 11% | 9.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.1% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 8% | 15.3% | 10.4% |
| High school | 14.7% | 20.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 27.7% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 8.4% | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 20.4% | 22.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 20.8% | 14.4% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,800, single groups can be off by several points
The median home in Granite Hills sells for about $1.22M
For households in Granite Hills, the share who live in a home they own is 88%.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Granite Hills
Colleges nearby
13 within 15 miles of the center of Granite Hills
About 8 of every 100 Granite Hills residents are enrolled in college, about the same as California.
About Granite Hills
Census-designated place in California, United States
Granite Hills is a census-designated place in San Diego County, California. The name is also applied to a neighborhood within the city limits of El Cajon in the eastern part of that city. The population of the CDP, which does not include the people living within the city of El Cajon, was 3,267 at the 2020 census, down from 3,035 at the 2010 census.
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- Area
- 2.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 659 ft
- Area code
- 619
Granite Hills’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Granite Hills.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Hills | #554 | D | D− | — | C+ | B+ |
| El Cajon | #644 | D | D | C− | C+ | C+ |
| Rancho San Diego | #369 | C | D− | — | C+ | A |
| Crest | #402 | C | C | — | C+ | B+ |
Granite Hills, Rancho San Diego and Crest report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Granite Hills with a neighbor →
Questions about Granite Hills
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Granite Hills, CA a good place to live?
Granite Hills grades D overall, better than 14% of U.S. towns and #554 of 841 in California. It grades B+ for health and C+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Granite Hills, CA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $975,000, 28% above 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−.