City safety & data profile

BonitaCA

Bonita, CA is a 13K-resident city in San Diego County with a median household income of $118,674.

San Diego County, California. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Bonita, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Bonita has a population larger than 16% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, and a median home value of $962,800.

Data updated 2026-09-03

13K
Population (place)
Bottom 17%
By size
$118,674
Median income (place)
$962,800
Median home (place)
7.5%
Poverty rate (place)
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The read on Bonita

Bonita posts a median household income higher than 81% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks.

Top 19%
by median income, US cities

Where Bonita income ranks nationally

Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)

$118,674 Top 19% higher than 81% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles

Bonita $0 $260,000 every profiled place, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year

Largest cities in CA

Population among 482 CA places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.

residents

What this shows Los Angeles is the largest CA city on this list; Alamo leads median income.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

Highest median incomes in CA

Median household income among the same 482-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.

median

What this shows Alamo posts the highest place-level median income in CA; Los Angeles is largest by headcount.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

The quick read

Reading Bonita, CA beyond the headline numbers

Bonita sits inside San Diego County, California, at roughly 32.66°N, -117.03°W. Population 12,538, $118,674 median household income. Median home value $962,800, median rent $2,218. Poverty rate 7.5%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

At 7.5%, poverty in Bonita, CA runs below the midpoint of reporting cities -- enough to matter locally, not enough to dominate the city's profile.

The median home in Bonita costs around 8.1 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.

15.7% of Bonita workers are remote, above the midpoint of reporting cities.

Among the CDC measures on this page, current asthma departs furthest from its peer median: 8.5% in Bonita, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,722 cities reporting that measure.

At 44.1 years, Bonita's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Bonita from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.

Population (place)
12,538
Bonita · Census Place
Median Income (place)
$118,674
+33% vs avg
Median Home Value (place)
$962,800
+133% vs avg
Median Age (place)
44.1
years · ACS place

10-Year Trends 2013–2024

County-level trend (San Diego County): Bonita's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.

20132024
Population
3.3M+5%
Median Income
$106,268+69%
Median Home Value
$854,700+113%
Poverty Rate
10.3%-28%
Unemployment
5.8%-39%

Economics

Economics indicators for Bonita, CA
IndicatorValue
Median Rent
$2,218/mo
Poverty Rate
7.5% -40% vs avg
Unemployment 4.8%
Bachelor's Degree+ 39.4%
Work From Home 15.7%
Public Transit 1.3%

Population

White 37.7%
African American 1.9%
Asian 14.1%

Health Profile 15 measures

Health Indicators

Short Sleep Duration
32.2%
High Blood Pressure
31.2%
Obesity
24.6%
Physical Inactivity
20.7%
Binge Drinking
15%
Frequent Mental Distress
14.2%
Frequent Physical Distress
12%
Diabetes
11.1%
Lack of Health Insurance
9.2%
Current Asthma
8.5%

Preventive Care

Dental Visit 69.3%
Annual Checkup 75.5%

Other Measures

Current Smoking
8.1%
Coronary Heart Disease
5.9%
Stroke
3.1%

What alerts and safety updates affect Bonita?

No area-tagged alerts are on record for Bonita right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.

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Sheet CA-BONITA · Bonita

Bonita: 1 tagged alert; lead category NWS weather alert.

  • VOL-TRACE 1 on record
  • WX-LED 100% weather
  • DESK-MIX NOAA
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Houston

Tagged alert mix: Bonita

Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag

Value

What this shows 1 tagged notice on record for Bonita.

Source Areazine publication corpus As of Live tagged feed

Nearest tagged-volume peer: Houston, TX (1 tagged · Δ0)

Counts reflect published articles tagged to Bonita; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse California state hubs · Methodology

Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4

Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (1 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.

Houston, TX 1 alerts Washington, DC 1 alerts Nashville, TN 1 alerts Portland, OR 1 alerts

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Frequently Asked Questions 5

What is the population of Bonita, CA? ▼
Bonita, CA has a population of 12,538 people, located in San Diego County, California.
What is the median household income in Bonita? ▼
The median household income in Bonita, CA is $118,674 per year, per the U.S. Census ACS. The poverty rate is 7.5%.
What is the median home value in Bonita? ▼
The median home value in Bonita, CA is $962,800. Median rent is $2,218/month.
What are the top health concerns in Bonita? ▼
The top health indicators in Bonita include Short Sleep Duration (32.2%), High Blood Pressure (31.2%), Obesity (24.6%). Data from CDC PLACES.
What is the median age in Bonita? ▼
The median age in Bonita, CA is 44.1 years. 39.4% of residents have a bachelor's degree or higher.

Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8

Two ACS-derived peer sets for Bonita, both outside California so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.

Similar poverty rate

Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside CA (7.5% here).

Columbia, MD 7.5% Roswell, GA 7.5% Riverview, FL 7.5% Coram, NY 7.5%

Similar median income

Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside CA ($118,674 here).

Makakilo, HI $118,550 Makakilo City, HI $118,550 Hutto, TX $118,834 Pearland, TX $118,842

Compare Bonita with another city

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Nearby Cities 8

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Using Bonita's profile

Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.

  • Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Bonita area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
  • Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
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Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.

Data Sources

All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (San Diego County) where that is the smallest published unit.

Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.