Camp Pendleton South, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Camp Pendleton South CDP is a mid-size town in California, with 15,011 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #404 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 75% of them. The median age here is 23.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Camp Pendleton South CDP earn a median of $66,265 a year, 15.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 27% 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 6.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Camp Pendleton South CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $2,947 a month, 109.6% above the national figure, or roughly $35,364 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 53.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. 0.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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 23.1 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

The Census withheld home value for Camp Pendleton South 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.