Golden Shores, AZ population, income and ZIP codes

Golden Shores CDP is a small town in Arizona, with 1,319 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #187 of 467 ranked by population — larger than 60% of them. The median age here is 68.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Golden Shores CDP earn a median of $60,927 a year, 22.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 4% below the $63,545 median for the 206 Arizona cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 3.6% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Golden Shores CDP is valued at $206,800, 31.8% below the national figure and 15% below the $242,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $929 a month, 33.9% below the national figure, or roughly $11,148 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 50.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 68.7 puts Golden Shores CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.