Californians in the north and interior worry most about bills, while those in the Bay Area worry least

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Source: PPIC Statewide Surveys (November 2022; November 2023; December 2024; November 2025); Integrated Public Use Microdata Series 1% sample of 2024 American Community Survey (Ruggles, et al. 2025) (Census estimates for weighting and place-level median home value for modeling).

NOTES: Shading represents the share of survey respondents who say they worry about paying their bills every day or almost every day. Estimates come from multilevel regression and post-stratification models as described in Technical Appendix A. Full model results and question wording can be found in Technical Appendix B.