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If anyone doubts who the SoCal top real estate/business columnist is in SoCal, this post will put that question to rest.
No one else digs so deep for content than Lasner!
Note: This post only features California’s biggest and smallest lots; you can click here (301 cities) for an entire list of California OR the entire country’s 2,000 biggest cities here based on the average yard sizes of SFR homes.
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JONATHAN LANSNER | OC Register Feb.15
California cities had avg—yardage ranging from Fallbrook’s sprawling 37,157 square feet to San Francisco’s 784. According to my population-weighted average, lots in the 301 Golden State towns had 6,900 square feet.
Contrast that with the 1,699 cities outside the Golden State.
Average yardage ranged from Carney, Maryland’s 49,658 square feet to Boston’s 871. Non-California owners avg. 10,000 sq ft. lots. That’s a 31% difference!
Or look at it this way: Just 55 of the 301 California cities. offer typical lots larger than the out-of-state average.
Pressure points
Other tiny-yard California towns are primarily big-city suburbs …
Richmond at 3,267 square feet …Alameda at 3,223…Irvine at 3,180…Rancho Santa Margarita at 2,962…Seal Beach at 2,919…Manhattan Beach at 2,526… Daly City at 2,396 …Aliso Viejo at 2,309 …Newport Beach at 2,265
And, other big-lot cities in California are located further from major job hubs …Apple Valley at 24,132……Atascadero at 22,869 … Norco at 22,651… Hesperia at 21,606 …Madera at 21,519..Los Gatos at 20,430.. …Lafayette at 18,861……Poway at 18,731…Escondido at 18,339…
Let me (Lasner) offer a Golden State advantage – bigger lots in the biggest cities.
California’s ten most populated cities had a population-weighted average yard size of 5,300 square feet. Those cities include …
Los Angeles at 5,314 sq. ft. …San Diego at 5,706 … San Jose at 4,443 …San Francisco at 784…Fresno at 8,494… Sacramento at 8,320 …Long Beach at 4,356… Oakland at 3,833 …Bakersfield at 8,364.. …Anaheim at 6,142.
