Big Bend, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Big Bend CDP is a very small community in California, with 132 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1436 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 11% of them. The median age here is 49.5 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 Big Bend CDP earn a median of $28,958 a year, 63.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 68% below 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 32.5% 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 Big Bend CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $850 a month, 39.5% below the national figure, or roughly $10,200 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 35.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. 80% 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.

With 132 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Big Bend CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Big Bend 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.