Tara HillsCA
A town of 4,840.
Is Tara Hills a good place to live?
Tara Hills grades C+ overall, 295th among California's 841 graded towns, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. It is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns. On the other side, FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 88% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top. Tara Hills’ July high is 76°F, below both California’s towns (89°F) and U.S. towns (85°F). On the outdoors, just 73 of California’s 1,064 towns do worse.
What makes Tara Hills stand out
Where Tara Hills beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
99% of working residents leave Tara Hills for work
Where Tara Hills’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Tara Hills grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Tara Hills is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and 196 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Tara Hills. Close and well known come first.
Big draw13 mi MuseumAlcatraz Federal Penitentiary
Big draw15 mi MuseumUSS Hornet
Big draw14 mi LandmarkLombard Street
Big draw16 mi Stadium & arenaChase Center
Big draw15 mi Stadium & arenaOracle Park
Big draw16 mi GardenPresidio of San FranciscoPhoto credits
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary: druchoy, CC BY-SA 2.0 · USS Hornet: kitmasterbloke, CC BY 2.0 · Lombard Street: The original uploader was Y6y6y6 at English Wikipedia., Public domain · Chase Center: Gregory Varnum, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Oracle Park: User Coasttocoast on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Presidio of San Francisco: Robert Campbell, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Tara Hills: who provides what
Tara Hills is unincorporated, so Contra Costa 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 Tara Hills.
Tara Hills has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns and sends most of its workers to San Francisco and beyond.
Tara Hills faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by earthquakes
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
On state tests, Tara Hills’ schools trail 64% of California districts
Its public schools are run by the Caliber: Beta Academy District. Two of its 3 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caliber: Beta AcademyLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–8 | Grades K–8 | 971 | – |
| Spectrum Center - Tara Hills PrivateLargest high schoolGrades 1–12 | Grades 1–12 | 41 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Most working residents commute out of Tara Hills
Tara Hills has 451 jobs for its 2,243 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Tara Hills for work: only 1% work in town. The average trip to work in Tara Hills is 35 minutes. Since 2013, Tara Hills has lost 49 jobs, to 451 in 2023.
| Tara Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 35 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.9% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Median household income | $102,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 8.6% | 10% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Residents of Tara Hills are healthier than 73% of U.S. towns
Tara Hills beats the California average on 4 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 18% of Tara Hills adults have been diagnosed with depression.
| Tara Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 22% | 23% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 72% | 72% | 79% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 9.2% | 11% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 36% | 33% |
| What stands out | Tara Hills | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 8.3% | 10.6% |
| Fewer adults with COPD | 4.3% | 5.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In Tara Hills, expect mild winters and pleasant summers
January nights average 42.3°, milder than in 95% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 75.6°.
Tara Hills has warm winters and cool summers. Tara Hills’ January low is 42°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fewer young adults than California overall
Adults 18 to 34 are 20% of residents (24% statewide). 31% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 37% across California. 15% of residents are 65 or older in Tara Hills.
| Tara Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 24% | 22% | 22% |
| Aged 65 or older | 15% | 16% | 18% |
| Median age | 37.9 years | 39.1 years | 40.5 years |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±7.5 points. Across California, 50.1% of residents are women.
| Tara Hills | CA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 11.8% | 11.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 12.4% | 10.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 9% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 10.6% | 14.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13.5% | 13.9% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 15.4% | 12.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 12.1% | 12.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 10.1% | 9.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 5.2% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 14.8% | 15.3% | 10.4% |
| High school | 33.9% | 20.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 13.3% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 7.3% | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 24.8% | 22.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 5.8% | 14.4% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 4,800, single groups can be off by several points
The median home in Tara Hills sells for about $673K
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Tara Hills
Colleges nearby
26 within 15 miles of the center of Tara Hills
About 10 of every 100 Tara Hills residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
Tara Hills’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Tara Hills.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tara Hills | #295 | C+ | C− | — | C+ | B+ |
| Pinole | #411 | C | D | C− | C+ | B+ |
| Richmond | #605 | D | C− | D | C+ | C+ |
| Montalvin Manor | — | — | B− | — | C+ | C+ |
| Bayview | #232 | B− | C+ | — | C+ | C+ |
Montalvin Manor has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Tara Hills, Montalvin Manor and Bayview report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Tara Hills with a neighbor →
Questions about Tara Hills
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Tara Hills, CA a good place to live?
Tara Hills grades C+ overall, better than 38% of U.S. towns and #295 of 841 in California. It grades B+ for health and C+ for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Tara Hills, CA expensive?
Yes. That is 4.9 years of the area's median household income ($136,027 across the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, 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−.