Bear Valley (Alpine Co.), CA population, income and ZIP codes

Bear Valley CDP (Alpine County) is a very small community in California, with 80 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1495 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 7% of them. The median age here is 58.3 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 Bear Valley CDP (Alpine County) earn a median of $104,205 a year, 32.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 14% above the $91,111 median for the 1,050 California 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 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Bear Valley CDP (Alpine County) is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 68.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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 58.3 puts Bear Valley CDP (Alpine County) 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. With 80 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Bear Valley CDP (Alpine County) against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Bear Valley CDP (Alpine County) because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.