Tara HillsCA
4,840 people call this town in California home.
Is Tara Hills a good place to live?
Strong in places, weak in others. With a C+ overall, Tara Hills is better than 38% of U.S. towns and ranks 295th of 841 in California. The weak point is cost of living (C−): the typical home is worth about $661K, 4.9 years of the San Francisco metro’s $136K median household income. It lags on hazard risk as well (D): FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 88% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top. Its best grade is for walkability (A): it is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns. On the outdoors, just 73 of California’s 1,064 towns do worse. Tara Hills’ midsummer high is 76°F, below both California’s towns (89°F) and U.S. towns (85°F). Tara Hills’ midpoint rent is $2,451 a month, against $1,895 a month in California’s towns and $1,185 a month across U.S. towns.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index · USGS PAD-US · NOAA normals, 1991–2020.
What makes Tara Hills stand out
Where Tara Hills beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
| Widest gap | Tara Hills | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 8.3% | 10.6% |
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.
The biggest natural risk in Tara Hills is earthquakes, at a very high overall level
Expected losses in Tara Hills break down as 66% from earthquakes and 30% from inland flooding.
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. Of its 3 schools, two are listed below, each with the reason. The 2 public schools in Tara Hills teach 1,288 students between them.
| 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
For most of its workers, the job is outside 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.
For Tara Hills, the average commute is 35 minutes. Commuting out is the norm here: 1% of working residents work locally. Employers in Tara Hills shed 49 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 451. The top destinations are San Francisco (15%), Oakland (10%) and Richmond (8%).
| 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
For adults in Tara Hills, the share who feel lonely is 37%. Two figures for adults here: 72% had a checkup this year, 9.2% smoke cigarettes.
| 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
Expect mild winters and pleasant summers in Tara Hills
January nights average 42.3°, milder than in 95% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 75.6°.
Tara Hills’ January low stands at 42°F. Snow is a rarity.
| Tara Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 76°F | 89°F | 85°F |
| January low | 42°F | 40°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Young adults are less common in Tara Hills than in California
The bachelor’s-degree share among adults 25 and older is 31%, against 37% across California. Adults 18 to 34 are 20% of residents (24% statewide). The share of residents in Tara Hills who are 65 or older: 15%.
| 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 $642K
69% of households are owner-occupiers in Tara Hills.
| Tara Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $2,451 a month | $1,895 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 69% | 64% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · 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. The typical home is worth about $661,000, 13% 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−.