Canyon Lake, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Canyon Lake city is a mid-size town in California, with 11,107 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #470 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 70% of them. The median age here is 46.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Canyon Lake city earn a median of $124,948 a year, 59.1% above the national figure of $78,538 and 37% above 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 8.7% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Canyon Lake city is valued at $647,300, 113.3% above the national figure and 10% above the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,524 a month, 79.5% above the national figure, or roughly $30,288 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 79% 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.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.