East Nicolaus, CA population, income and ZIP codes

East Nicolaus CDP is a very small community in California, with 138 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1430 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 11% of them. The median age here is 38.3 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 East Nicolaus CDP earn a median of $101,250 a year, 28.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 11% 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 13% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in East Nicolaus CDP is valued at $423,500, 39.6% above the national figure and 28% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 96.7% 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. 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.

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 138 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare East Nicolaus CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for East Nicolaus 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.