El Dorado Hills, CA population, income and ZIP codes

El Dorado Hills CDP is a small city in California, with 50,553 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #186 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 88% of them. The median age here is 45.6 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 El Dorado Hills CDP earn a median of $163,544 a year, 108.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 79% above the $91,111 median for the 1,050 California cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 3.7% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in El Dorado Hills CDP is valued at $870,300, 186.8% above the national figure and 48% above the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,468 a month, 75.5% above the national figure, or roughly $29,616 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.1% 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 5.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 87.8% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.