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Cost of living in Morgan Hill, California

Morgan Hill, California has about 45,425 people. Typical rent is $2,474 a month, including utilities, and a typical household earns $163,920 a year. Both figures are Census 2020–2024 medians, not a listing or your pay. This site does not approve or deny benefits. A missing figure stays blank. We do not guess it.

Ranked #141 in California on the 2026 Most Affordable Towns Index.

Simple answer

Typical rent is $2,474 a month.

Morgan Hill is a city in California. That rent number includes utilities. A typical household earns $163,920 a year.

People
45,425
Census average, 2020–2024
Typical rent
$2,474
Median gross rent, includes utilities
Typical pay
$163,920
Median household income, yearly
Typical home
$1,210,200
Median home value
2-bedroom fair rent
$3,272
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA HUD Metro FMR Area
Gas
$6.216
California, week of October 12, 2026

Morgan Hill, California has about 45,425 people. That count is a 2020–2024 Census average, not a headcount from one day.

A typical home is worth about $1,210,200.

HUD's fair-market rent for a 2-bedroom in Santa Clara County is $3,272 a month. That is the county number, not an apartment listing in Morgan Hill. It runs from October 2026 through September 2027.

In the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area, prices sit at 110.4 when the U.S. average is 100. That is a 2024 BEA index.

California taxes wages. A typical combined sales tax is 9.0% as of January 1, 2026. That mix is statewide, not Morgan Hill's exact store tax.

In July 2026, a typical California home paid 33.61¢ per kilowatt-hour. That is a state average from EIA, not Morgan Hill's bill.

For the week of October 12, 2026, EIA's all-grades gasoline price in California was $6.216 a gallon. At 12,000 miles a year and 25 mpg, the index counts that as $2,983.68 a year. Those miles are our standard, not a Census figure, and every town in California shares this price.

Among 982 places we list in California with a rent figure, 203 have higher typical rent than Morgan Hill.

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USDA has a live map of stores that take SNAP. We did not copy that store list here. The downloadable file is a history file for 2005 through 2025, so the live map is the one to use.

Locator page updated 2026-09-11. Last checked 2026-10-16.

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Census 2020-2024. HUD rents for October 2026–September 2027. BEA prices for 2024. Taxes as of January 1, 2026. Checked 2026-10-16. 15,000 places are in this guide.