Elk Grove, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Elk Grove city is a mid-size city in California, with 177,221 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #26 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 98% of them. The median age here is 39 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Elk Grove city earn a median of $122,229 a year, 55.6% above the national figure of $78,538 and 34% 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 7.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Elk Grove city is valued at $603,400, 98.9% above the national figure and within a couple of points of the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,180 a month, 55% above the national figure, or roughly $26,160 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.4% 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 4.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 73.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.

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.