Challenge-Brownsville, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Challenge-Brownsville CDP is a very small community in California, with 792 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1123 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 30% of them. The median age here is 37.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Challenge-Brownsville CDP earn a median of $99,511 a year, 26.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 9% above 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 22.2% 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 Challenge-Brownsville CDP is valued at $338,900, 11.7% above the national figure and 43% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 88.5% 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. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not. With 792 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Challenge-Brownsville CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Challenge-Brownsville 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.