Mission HillsCA
A town of 3,859.
Is Mission Hills a good place to live?
Mission Hills grades C overall, ranked 334th of 841 in California, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. 9% of its land is conserved. On the other side, FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 88% of U.S. communities, with drought at the top. Mission Hills’ July high is 75°F, against 89°F in California’s towns and 85°F across U.S. towns. Mission Hills has 2 places on the National Register. Mission Hills is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 68% of U.S. towns.
What makes Mission Hills stand out
Where Mission Hills beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
98% of working residents leave Mission Hills for work
Where Mission Hills’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Mission Hills grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Mission Hills is from typical.
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Moving to Mission Hills: who provides what
Mission Hills is unincorporated, so Santa Barbara 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 Mission Hills.
Mission Hills has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns, sends most of its workers to Lompoc and beyond and owes part of its health edge to its incomes.
Very high risk in Mission Hills, with drought at the top
Households in Mission Hills have drawn federal disaster aid in 2 declared disasters, most recently in 2017. FEMA puts just over half of the town’s expected hazard losses down to drought, and 21% to inland flooding.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Mission Hills’ schools rank behind 53% of California districts
Its public schools are run by the Lompoc Unified school district. 398 students attend Mission Hills’s public school.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts AcademyLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–6 | Grades K–6 | 398 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Mission Hills sends most of its workers out of town
Mission Hills has 148 jobs for its 1,499 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
5.4% of Mission Hills residents live below the poverty line. Most working residents leave Mission Hills for work: only 2% work in town. This California town had 148 jobs in 2023, up 54 from 2013. In Mission Hills, the median household income is $112,000.
| Mission Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $112,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 5.4% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Work from home | 10% | 14% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mission Hills is healthier than two in three U.S. towns
Against the 6,862 U.S. towns with household incomes like Mission Hills’s, it is less healthy than 61%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Among adults in Mission Hills, 11% smoke cigarettes. CDC measures, 32 in all: Mission Hills beats California on 5 and trails on 4. 33% of adults in Mission Hills sleep under 7 hours; 73% had a checkup this year.
| Mission Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 29% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 35% | 36% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 72% | 79% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 36% | 33% |
| What stands out | Mission Hills | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 14% | 17.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 12.1% | 14.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 8.6% | 6.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Fewer young adults than California overall
Adults 18 to 34 are 15% of residents (24% statewide); adults 35 to 64 are 45% of residents (39% statewide). Mission Hills’ midpoint age is 42.4 years. California has 37% of adults 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree or more; here it is 27%.
| Mission Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 42.4 years | 39 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 24% | 22% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±9.7 points. Across California, 50.1% of residents are women. Among residents 75 and older, 85% are women (CA 58%).
| Mission Hills | CA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 4.9% | 11.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 18.7% | 10.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 9.4% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 5.6% | 14.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13.7% | 13.9% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 9.2% | 12.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 22.1% | 12.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 8.5% | 9.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 8% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 12% | 15.3% | 10.4% |
| High school | 28.4% | 20.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 15.6% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 16.7% | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 17.1% | 22.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 10.3% | 14.4% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,900, single groups can be off by several points
Mission Hills: mild winters and pleasant summers
January nights average 42.6°, milder than in 96% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 75.1°.
Mission Hills’ January low stands at 43°F. It almost never snows.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Mission Hills has set aside 9.2% of its land for conservation
Walkers can cover 0.9 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. Mission Hills’ trail density comes in at 0.8 miles per square mile. One park or preserve covers 8 acres here.
| Mission Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 9.2% | 4.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.8 miles per square mile | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. La Purísima Mission State Historic Park | 0.4 mi | 8 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A home in Mission Hills sells for about $1.04M at the median
For households in Mission Hills, the share who own their home is 81%. The median rent for Mission Hills comes to $1,838 a month.
| Mission Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 81% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,838 a month | $1,898 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Mission Hills
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Mission Hills; the nearest are
About 6 of every 100 Mission Hills residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
Famous people from Mission Hills
7 notable people were born in Mission Hills.
About Mission Hills
Census-designated place in the U.S. state of California
Mission Hills is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Barbara County, California, a short distance north of Lompoc on Highway 1. The population was 3,571 at the 2020 census, down from 3,576 at the 2010 census.
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- Area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 325 ft
- Area code
- 805
Mission Hills’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Mission Hills.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mission Hills | #334 | C | C− | — | B− | B+ |
| Lompoc | #631 | D | C− | C− | B− | C |
Mission Hills reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Mission Hills with a neighbor →
Questions about Mission Hills
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Mission Hills, CA a good place to live?
Mission Hills grades C overall, better than 35% of U.S. towns and #334 of 841 in California. It grades B+ for health and B− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Mission Hills, CA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $493,000, 35% 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−.