SomisCA
A town of 1,229, settled in 1893.
Is Somis a good place to live?
The best of Somis’ subject grades are an A+ for incomes and an A− for health; the weakest is a D− for cost of living. Somis’ concentration of trails is 0.1 miles per square mile, below both California’s towns (1.0) and U.S. towns (0.4). On the outdoors, just 80 of California’s 1,064 towns do worse. Somis has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Somis stand out
Where Somis beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
1,229 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Somis grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Somis is from typical.
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Hollywood Walk of Fame and 86 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Somis. Close and well known come first.
Big draw39 mi LandmarkHollywood Walk of Fame10.0M visitors a year
Big draw40 mi LandmarkHollywood Sign
Big draw39 mi MuseumLa Brea Tar Pits
Big draw25 mi Theme parkSix Flags Magic Mountain3.3M visitors a year
Big draw38 mi Theme parkUniversal Studios Hollywood8.7M visitors a year
10 mi MuseumRonald Reagan Presidential LibraryPhoto credits
Hollywood Walk of Fame: BenSherman, Public domain · Hollywood Sign: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 · La Brea Tar Pits: Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Six Flags Magic Mountain: Alton, CC BY 3.0 · Universal Studios Hollywood: 林振宇, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ronald Reagan Presidential Library: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain
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Moving to Somis: who provides what
Somis is unincorporated, so Ventura 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 Somis.
Somis’ typical home value is about $1.56M
Somis’ rent at the middle of the market stands at $2,548 a month, against $1,896 a month in California’s towns and $1,185 a month across U.S. towns. For households here, the share who are owner-occupiers is 85%. Values rose 2.4% in the 12 months to September 2026.
| Somis | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,548 a month | $1,896 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 85% | 64% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Public schools in Somis fall behind 53% of California districts
Its one school is below. The Somis Union school district runs its public schools. Also worth knowing: 270 students attend the town’s public school.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somis ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–8 | Grades K–8 | 270 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Top of a very high hazard risk in Somis: wildfire
Households in Somis have drawn federal disaster aid in 3 declared disasters, most recently in 2022. Expected damage from storms and floods is higher here than in 96% of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 45% come from wildfires and 32% from earthquakes.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Somis ranks healthier than 82% of the country’s towns
Among adults in Somis, 32% feel lonely and 32% sleep under 7 hours. CDC measures, 32 in all: Somis beats California on 14 and trails on 1. Nearly a quarter of Somis adults have obesity.
| Somis | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 29% | 35% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 36% | 33% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 35% | 36% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 9.5% | 11% | 14% |
| What stands out | Somis | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.8% | 17.9% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 7.1% | 10.6% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.1% | 6.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The climate in Somis brings four seasons and pleasant summers
July afternoons reach 84° and January nights drop to 44°.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
A older population than California as a whole
The share of residents in Somis who are 65 or older: 24%. Here, just over two in five adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree, against 37% in California as a whole. Somis’ median age comes in at 48.6 years.
| Somis | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 48.6 years | 39 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 24% | 16% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 42% | 29% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 19% | 22% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 31% and 70% women
The Census survey reached too few of Somis’ residents to say more: its margin here is ±19.6 points. Across California, 50.1% of residents are women.
| Somis | CA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 12.8% | 11.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 5.9% | 10.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.8% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 8.7% | 14.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.3% | 13.9% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.1% | 12.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 17.9% | 12.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 11.6% | 9.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 11.9% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 5.3% | 15.3% | 10.4% |
| High school | 11.4% | 20.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 28.1% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 13.2% | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 28.3% | 22.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 13.7% | 14.4% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,200, single groups can be off by several points
For most of its workers, the job is outside Somis
The top destinations are Los Angeles (16%), Camarillo (11%) and Oxnard (9%). Commuting out is the norm in Somis: 1% of working residents work locally. Somis’ median household income stands at $145,000. Since 2013, Somis has lost 322 jobs, to 585 in 2023.
| Somis | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $145,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 3.7% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.3% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
0% of Somis is conserved land
Trails run 0.4 miles in 1 park or preserve. Somis has one park or preserve, 4 acres in all.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Somis Park | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Somis
Colleges nearby
7 within 15 miles of the center of Somis
About 9 of every 100 Somis residents are enrolled in college, about the same as California.
Questions about Somis
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Somis, CA expensive?
Yes. That is 14.2 years of the area's median household income ($109,797 across the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, 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−.