Borrego Springs, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Borrego Springs CDP is a small town in California, with 2,781 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #814 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 49% of them. The median age here is 60.2 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 Borrego Springs CDP earn a median of $83,836 a year, 6.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 8% below the $91,111 median for the 1,050 California 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 2.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Borrego Springs CDP is valued at $396,400, 30.7% above the national figure and 33% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $981 a month, 30.2% below the national figure, or roughly $11,772 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 77.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 60.2 puts Borrego Springs 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.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.