Bodfish, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Bodfish CDP is a small town in California, with 2,191 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #878 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 45% of them. The median age here is 40.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Bodfish CDP earn a median of $33,295 a year, 57.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 63% below the $91,111 median for the 1,050 California cities we cover. 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 54.8% 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 Bodfish CDP is valued at $104,700, 65.5% below the national figure and 82% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,057 a month, 24.8% below the national figure, or roughly $12,684 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 38.1% 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 3.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 56.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Bodfish CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 38.1% of median income while homes cost only 3.1× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.