Lake Arrowhead, California

Area Profile

10,639 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Lake Arrowhead, in San Bernardino County.

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How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity2446th of 3,904 published cities50
Housing affordability3491st of 4,223 published cities58
ClimateTop 5% of 4,223 published cities90
Physical resilience4073rd of 4,182 published cities7
AccessTop 14% of 4,226 published cities99
Economic stability3897th of 4,226 published cities31
The quick read

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 6.3 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 24% of it.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by inland flooding, earthquake and wildfire.

A major airport is 11 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
10,639
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$95,236
Top 21% nationally
Density
602/sq mi
17.7 sq mi of land
Median age
49.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
San Bernardino County
California
Metro area
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
Nearest major airport
SBD
11 mi · San Bernardino Intl
Median home value
$596,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.2% is lower than 19% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.4% over the past year, to 963,069 employed residents.

38% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 79% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$10,016$95,236Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$5,288$51,594Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate11.1%Top 49%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute38.4 minTop 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher37.9%Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment963,069Top 5%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.8%Top 36%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.4%Bottom 35%June 2026
Labor force1,015,868Top 5%June 2026
Labor force participation53.8%Bottom 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$65,160Bottom 30%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$48,400Bottom 25%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.5%Bottom 17%June 2026
Unemployment rate5.2%Top 19%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202495k80k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $95,236 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides102,760$34,320
Stockers and Order Fillers77,160$43,200
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand69,820$46,060
Fast Food and Counter Workers51,310$42,280
Retail Salespersons41,270$36,720
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers40,230$60,580

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for San Bernardino County, CA, which contains this city.

There are 22.5 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
22.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Rim of the World HighRim of the World Unified86020.0
Crescent Valley Public Charter II · charterCrescent Valley Public Charter II District85223.0
Mary P. Henck IntermediateRim of the World Unified60724.3
Lake Arrowhead ElementaryRim of the World Unified45023.7
Charles Hoffman ElementaryRim of the World Unified29724.8

68.4% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against California’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,875 takes 24% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 6.3 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
23.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
6.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,875
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$596,500
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income6.26Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate83.6%Top 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±42211,736Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$371$1,875Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$41,720$596,500Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.6%Top 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate61.6%Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

11 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 93°F and January a low of 44°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 9.4 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 87, in the Moderate band, and about 144 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station RIVERSIDE MUNI AP, 25.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND2.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index185.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation9.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low44°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high93°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months111991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1001442024 calendar year
Median air quality index87.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing25°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
87
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
185
90th percentile index
Days above 100
144
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

7 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, earthquake and wildfire.

WildfireHigh
EarthquakeHigh
Inland floodingHigh
AvalancheModerate

Low or minimal exposure: landslide, heat wave, strong wind, lightning, hail, tornado, winter weather, drought, volcanic activity, cold wave.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

San Bernardino County records 4.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 7.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 19.8 per 100,000 residents in San Bernardino County.

Homicide
4.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
7.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
19.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
9.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for San Bernardino County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Lake Arrowhead rather than Lake Arrowhead itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

8 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 11 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
San Bernardino IntlSBD11 mi10,000 ft
Ontario IntlONT28 mi12,197 ft
Palm Springs IntlPSP48 mi10,000 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
RiversideRiverside County319,06952vs Lake Arrowhead
San BernardinoSan Bernardino County222,72446vs Lake Arrowhead
FontanaSan Bernardino County214,16955vs Lake Arrowhead
Moreno ValleyRiverside County211,66648vs Lake Arrowhead
OntarioSan Bernardino County180,54752vs Lake Arrowhead
Rancho CucamongaSan Bernardino County175,41152vs Lake Arrowhead
CoronaRiverside County159,67055vs Lake Arrowhead
VictorvilleSan Bernardino County137,62743vs Lake Arrowhead
MurrietaRiverside County112,06453vs Lake Arrowhead
TemeculaRiverside County111,16755vs Lake Arrowhead
MenifeeRiverside County110,30555vs Lake Arrowhead
Jurupa ValleyRiverside County107,01154vs Lake Arrowhead

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Lake Arrowhead

2 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
923526,246$105,753
923912,254$81,789