Fact text

  • Truckee got its name from a Paiute chief whose friendly greeting of 'Tro-kay!' ('Everything is all right!') was mistaken by travelers as him shouting his own name.
  • Truckee is the fifth-snowiest city in the United States, averaging over 17 feet of snow every year.
  • A single-month snowfall record of 196 inches, that's more than 16 feet, was set there in February 1938.
  • Truckee reportedly had one of the nation's first mechanized ski lifts, and its early ski jump was designed by Lars Haugen, a seven-time Olympic ski jumping champion.
  • Amtrak's Chicago-to-San Francisco train still rolls right through downtown Truckee, just as it did in the old railroad days.
Your
Truckee
Retirement Outlook — in 90 seconds
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16666
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Total Population
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$
98587
Median Income
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$
603900
Median Home
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15
%
Age 65+
Retirement Suitability
How
Truckee
ranks for retirees?
15
/ 100

A blended, sourced view of how this city ranks for retirees across tax, affordability, healthcare, and climate.

Tax
8
Affordability
14
Healthcare
29
Climate
0

Results

Truckee

Suitability Breakdown

Retirement tax planning
01 - Taxes

Retirement Tax Treatment

Tax
8

California taxes retirement income but leaves Social Security benefits untouched, which matters for retirees drawing on those payments.

State sales tax here runs about

7

%.

Source · Tax Foundation
8
7
Retirement tax planning
02 - Income

Annuity Rates Available Here

Affordability
14

Fixed annuity rates reach up to

7

% on 5-year terms, with most landing between

5

% and

5

%.

Source · Cannex
14
Retirement tax planning
03 - Healthcare

Hospital Access & Quality

Healthcare
29

The area has

2

Medicare-certified hospitals, averaging a

3

/5 CMS quality rating.

Source · CMS Hospital Compare
3
Retirement tax planning
04 - Climate

Weather & Comfort

Climate
0

A

Cold / Snowy

climate — summers peak near

80

°F, winters dip to about

15

°F, with roughly

203

″ of snow a year.

Source · NOAA Climate Normals
Cold / Snowy
Retirement tax planning
05 - Risk

Natural Disaster Risk

Risk
Relatively Moderate

FEMA's overall natural-disaster risk rating for this county on the National Risk Index.

Source · FEMA National Risk Index
Relatively Moderate

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