Golden Valley, AZ population, income and ZIP codes

Golden Valley CDP is a mid-size town in Arizona, with 7,999 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #75 of 467 ranked by population — larger than 84% of them. The median age here is 61.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Golden Valley CDP earn a median of $43,940 a year, 44.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 31% below the $63,545 median for the 206 Arizona cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 22.5% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Golden Valley CDP is valued at $153,000, 49.6% below the national figure and 37% below the $242,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,156 a month, 17.8% below the national figure, or roughly $13,872 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 31.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 91.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Golden Valley CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 31.6% of median income while homes cost only 3.5× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. A median age of 61.5 puts Golden Valley 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.