Home Gardens, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Home Gardens CDP is a mid-size town in California, with 11,430 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #462 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 71% of them. The median age here is 36.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Home Gardens CDP earn a median of $92,344 a year, 17.6% above the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of 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 6.6% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Home Gardens CDP is valued at $498,800, 64.4% above the national figure and 15% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,744 a month, 24% above the national figure, or roughly $20,928 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.7% 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 5.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 76.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.