Las LomasCA
A town of 3,355.
Is Las Lomas a good place to live?
Las Lomas grades D overall, 691st of 841 graded towns in California. What it does well: it is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns. Las Lomas’ typical July afternoon high is 71°F, below both the California town median (89°F) and the median of U.S. towns (85°F). On the outdoors, just 65 of California’s 1,064 towns do worse. Homes are expensive, about $687K for a typical one and 7.1 times the Salinas metro’s $97K median household income.
What makes Las Lomas stand out
Where Las Lomas beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
99% of working residents leave Las Lomas for work
Where Las Lomas’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Las Lomas grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Las Lomas is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Levi's Stadium and 57 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Las Lomas. Close and well known come first.
Big draw39 mi Stadium & arenaLevi's Stadium
Big draw39 mi Theme parkCalifornia's Great America
20 mi Zoo & aquariumMonterey Bay Aquarium
21 mi MuseumMonterey Museum of Art
33 mi Stadium & arenaSAP Center
35 mi National ParkPinnacles National Park343K visitors a yearPhoto credits
Levi's Stadium: Matthew Roth, CC BY-SA 2.0 · California's Great America: Oleg Alexandrov, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Monterey Bay Aquarium: Meij.kobayashi, Public domain · Monterey Museum of Art: Sgerbic, CC BY-SA 4.0 · SAP Center: Dicklyon, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pinnacles National Park: Brocken Inaglory, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Las Lomas: who provides what
Las Lomas is unincorporated, so Monterey 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 Las Lomas.
Las Lomas has a longer frost-free season than nearly all U.S. towns and sends most of its workers to Watsonville and beyond, but it has many renters stretched by housing costs.
Las Lomas faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by earthquakes
FEMA puts 62% of Las Lomas’s expected hazard losses down to earthquakes, and 16% to inland flooding. Compared with 93% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage here is higher.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Public schools in Las Lomas fall behind 67% of California districts
Its one school is below. The Pajaro Valley Unified school district runs its public schools. 470 students attend Las Lomas’s public school.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hall District ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–6 | Grades K–6 | 470 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
A smaller share of working residents in Las Lomas work locally than in the typical California or U.S. town
Las Lomas has 118 jobs for its 1,064 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 22.6 minutes, against 28.7 across California.
Half the trips to work are shorter than 16 miles. Since 2013, Las Lomas has lost 75 jobs, to 118 in 2023. In Las Lomas, 19% of residents live below the poverty line. The top destinations are Watsonville (18%), Salinas (6%) and Santa Cruz (6%).
| Las Lomas | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 19% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.7% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Median household income | $87,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Las Lomas has mild winters and pleasant summers
The Watsonville Wtr Wks weather station, 5 miles away, records that the frost-free season runs about 324 days, longer than in 96% of U.S. towns. January nights average 40.8°, milder than in 95% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 71.2°.
Las Lomas’ January low is 41°F. It almost never snows.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Las Lomas is less healthy than 58% of U.S. towns
Among adults in Las Lomas, 37% feel lonely. The town beats the California average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 10. 28% of adults in Las Lomas worry about having enough food; 29% say their health is fair or poor.
| Las Lomas | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 9% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 68% | 72% | 79% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 16% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 22% | 19% |
| What stands out | Las Lomas | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.2% | 6.4% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 17% | 20.8% |
| More uninsured adults | 22.1% | 10.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The median home in Las Lomas sells for about $625K
82.1% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 55.3% across California.
For households in Las Lomas, the share who own their home is 60%.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Las Lomas
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Las Lomas
About 11 of every 100 Las Lomas residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
About Las Lomas
Census-designated place in California, United States
Las Lomas (Spanish for 'The Hills') is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Monterey County, California, United States. Las Lomas is located 7 miles (11 km) north-northwest of Prunedale. The elevation is 43 feet (13 m). The population was 3,046 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 43 ft
- Area code
- 831
Questions about Las Lomas
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Las Lomas, CA a good place to live?
Las Lomas grades D overall, better than 6% of U.S. towns and #691 of 841 in California. It grades C+ for health and C for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Las Lomas, CA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $687,000, 10% 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−.