Benbow, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Benbow CDP is a very small community in California, with 401 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1264 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 21% of them. The median age here is 39 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Benbow CDP earn a median of not published a year. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 1.7% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Benbow CDP is valued at $336,500, 10.9% above the national figure and 43% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 58.7% 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.

With 401 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Benbow CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for Benbow CDP 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.