

It took us 16 miles to drive from downtown to San Ysidro and watch incomes drop by 25%. The further south you go, the lower you can expect incomes to be.īut our trip through the city has nothing on what happens when we cross that border into Tijuana, Mexico.

By the time you get to San Ysidro, the district of the city just on the Mexican border, household income has dropped to more like $50,000 or $55,000. There’s a little less money in some southern parts of the city. As you move south through the area, the scene changes a bit.

It’s pretty well-off too, with an average annual household income above $85,000 as of 2019, about 50% above the national average. San Diego is a large city in the United States that covers a fairly wide geographic area of more than 300 square miles.
