Hidden Valley Lake, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Hidden Valley Lake CDP is a mid-size town in California, with 5,896 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #619 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 61% of them. The median age here is 50.9 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 Hidden Valley Lake CDP earn a median of $72,365 a year, 7.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 21% below the $91,111 median for the 1,050 California cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 8.7% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Hidden Valley Lake CDP is valued at $394,900, 30.2% above the national figure and 33% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,261 a month, 60.8% above the national figure, or roughly $27,132 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 37.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 85.2% 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.

A median age of 50.9 puts Hidden Valley Lake CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

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.