2025 Compare Cities Health:
San Rafael, CA vs Lake Forest, CA

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Highlights
- There are 249 physicians per 100,000 people in Lake Forest.
- There are 466 physicians per 100,000 people in San Rafael.
- The US average is 210 physicians per 100,000 people.
 San Rafael, CALake Forest, CAUnited States
 Air Quality (100=best)  Unlock63.458.4
 Water Quality (100=best)40  Unlock55
 Superfund Sites (100=best)  Unlock96.986.9
 Physicians per Cap.466  Unlock210
 Health Cost  Unlock96100
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Reviews for San Rafael    7 Reviews

Over 13 years ago

San Rafael is only 30 minutes from downtown San Francisco, but the weather is completely different. It's sunny most of the year, including in the summer when the city  More

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Over 15 years ago

I feal very safe in this town. I think getting stopped for talking on your cell phone while driving is a big deal here. Thats about all I can  More

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Over 17 years ago

Cost of living too high. Unfriendly  More

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Reviews for Lake Forest    16 Reviews

I've lived in Lake Forest for over a decade, before that elsewhere in OC and also up in LA. Lake Forest isn't perfect but it's really improved over the past decade,  More

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As a retired senior who has lived in Lake Forest (formerly El Toro) since 1977 I think LF is a great place if you can afford it. When we moved here in June '77 homes  More

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I’ve lived here for 2 years. Ok, it’s more like a 4 but there are so many idiots downplaying what it’s like here and giving Lake Forest ones and twos. There are a lot of  More

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