01 - Taxes
Retirement Tax Treatment
California taxes retirement income but leaves Social Security benefits untouched, and the state sales tax runs about 7.25%.
Source · Tax Foundation
8
7
Fact text
- The Ford Thunderbird car was named after Thunderbird Country Club right here in Rancho Mirage.
- The electric golf cart is rumored to have been invented at Rancho Mirage's Thunderbird Country Club in the 1940s.
- Rancho Mirage earned the nickname 'Playground of the Presidents', so many presidents vacationed here it basically needed a velvet rope.
- Walt Disney chose Rancho Mirage for its very first ever Storyliving by Disney residential community, called Cotino.
- The city's name is a bilingual mashup, 'Rancho' is Spanish and 'Mirage' is French, inspired by a woman who spotted a distant ranch and called it a mirage.
Your
Rancho Mirage
Retirement Outlook — in 90 seconds
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Every figure mentioned is drawn from the same sourced public data shown below — and the video updates as the data does.
18537
+
Total Population
$
84891
Median Income
$
533700
Median Home
50
%
Age 65+
Retirement Suitability
How
Rancho Mirage
ranks for retirees?
14
/ 100
A blended, sourced view of how this city ranks for retirees across tax, affordability, healthcare, and climate.
Tax
8
Affordability
13
Healthcare
19
Climate
17
Results
Rancho Mirage
Suitability Breakdown
02 - Income
Annuity Rates Available Here
Fixed annuity rates reach up to
7
% on 5-year terms, with most landing between
5
% and
5
%.
Source · Cannex
13
03 - Healthcare
Hospital Access & Quality
The area has
16
Medicare-certified hospitals, averaging a
3
/5 CMS quality rating.
Source · CMS Hospital Compare
3
04 - Climate
Weather & Comfort
A
Mild
climate — summers peak near
105
°F, winters dip to about
46
°F, with roughly
″ of snow a year.
Source · NOAA Climate Normals
Mild
05 - Risk
Natural Disaster Risk
FEMA's overall natural-disaster risk rating for this county on the National Risk Index.
Source · FEMA National Risk Index
Very High
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