Taft MosswoodCA
With 1,343 residents, it is a town in California.
Is Taft Mosswood a good place to live?
Taft Mosswood’s best subject grade is an A for walkability; its weakest is a D for health. Only 99 of California’s 1,064 towns score lower on health. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 84% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top. Taft Mosswood has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
How Taft Mosswood grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Taft Mosswood is from typical.
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What makes Taft Mosswood stand out
Where Taft Mosswood beats most towns.
1,343 people, and everyone knows the way
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The data
Ordered by what stands out in Taft Mosswood.
Homes in Taft Mosswood are worth about $361K, by Zillow’s estimate
For Taft Mosswood, the going rate for rent is $1,786 a month. 41% of households own their home here, below both California’s towns (64%) and U.S. towns (73%). Also worth knowing: in the year to September 2026, typical home values slipped 3.8%.
| Taft Mosswood | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 41% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,786 a month | $1,896 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
A larger share of adults have diabetes in Taft Mosswood than in most of California or the rest of the country
37% of Taft Mosswood adults have obesity. On the CDC’s 32 measures, Taft Mosswood is ahead of California on 1 and behind on 20. Two figures for adults in the town: 38% get no exercise outside work, 39% worry about having enough food.
| Taft Mosswood | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 22% | 19% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 24% | 25% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 16% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 9% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Taft Mosswood | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.1% | 6.4% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 24.1% | 10.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Top of a very high hazard risk in Taft Mosswood: earthquakes
Flood insurance has paid out on 3 claims in Taft Mosswood since 1996. Of the losses FEMA expects here, 54% come from earthquakes and 41% from inland flooding.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
With only 0.5 jobs per working resident, most people in Taft Mosswood work out of town
In Taft Mosswood, the average commute is 36 minutes, above both the California town median (28 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). For most workers, Taft Mosswood is a place to come home to: only 1% work in town. Jobs based in Taft Mosswood grew to 253 in 2023, 49 more than in 2013. The share of residents in Taft Mosswood who live below the poverty line: 18%.
| Taft Mosswood | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 36 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 18% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.9% | 6.6% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Taft Mosswood, expect mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons reach 94°, January nights drop to 39° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Taft Mosswood has set aside 3.2% of its land for conservation
Count the trails in 1 park or preserve and they come to 0.3 miles. The trail density in Taft Mosswood is 0.6 miles per square mile. One park or preserve covers 10 acres in the town.
| Taft Mosswood | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3.2% | 4.3% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Taft Park | — | 10 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Taft Mosswood
Mount Diablo and 11 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Taft Mosswood. Close and well known come first.
35 mi MountainMount Diablo
3 mi Stadium & arenaAdventist Health Arena
4 mi MuseumHaggin Museum
4 mi MuseumUSS Lucid
38 mi MuseumWestern Railway Museum
36 mi MuseumBlackhawk MuseumPhoto credits
Mount Diablo: Trurl66, Public domain · Adventist Health Arena: Christopher Bauer, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Haggin Museum: Bluelight999, CC BY-SA 4.0 · USS Lucid: U.S. Navy photo, Public domain · Western Railway Museum: LPS.1, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Blackhawk Museum: ShakataGaNai, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Taft Mosswood: who provides what
Taft Mosswood is unincorporated, so San Joaquin 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.
99% of working residents leave Taft Mosswood for work
Where Taft Mosswood’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Taft Mosswood
About 5 of every 100 Taft Mosswood residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
About Taft Mosswood
Place in California, United States
Taft Mosswood is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Joaquin County, California, United States. The population was 1,636 at the 2020 census, up from 1,530 at the 2010 census. It comprises an unincorporated island surrounded by the City of Stockton.
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- Area
- 0.5 sq mi
Questions about Taft Mosswood
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Taft Mosswood, CA expensive?
Yes. That is 3.9 years of the area's median household income ($92,179 across the Stockton-Lodi, 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 C−.
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