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Huron, CA population, income and ZIP codes
Quick answer
The population of the city of Huron, California (Huron, CA — Census place “Huron city”) is 6,425 residents, ranking #598 of 1618 places in California. Median household income is $44,784, the median home is worth $236,500 and median gross rent runs $1,060 a month. Looking for the Huron California ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Huron, CA: 93234.
- Population
- 6,425Huron city residents
- Median household income
- $44,784Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $236,500Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $1,060Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 27.1 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 27.8%Owner-occupied households
Huron ZIP codes (California)
Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Huron.
The Huron CA ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.
What the numbers mean in Huron city
Housing cost measured against local earnings.
A household earning the Huron city median would spend about 28.4% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 5.3× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 33.2% of residents and 27.8% of households own their home.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Huron city, CA in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Huron city is a mid-size town in California, with 6,425 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #598 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 63% of them. The median age here is 27.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Huron city earn a median of $44,784 a year, 43% below the national figure of $78,538 and 51% below 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 33.2% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.
The typical owner-occupied home in Huron city is valued at $236,500, 22.1% below the national figure and 60% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,060 a month, 24.6% below the national figure, or roughly $12,720 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 28.4% 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 5.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 27.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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.
A median age of 27.1 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.
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.
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Huron city?
- Huron city has 6,425 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #598 of 1,618 in California.
- What is the median household income in Huron city?
- Median household income in Huron city is $44,784 a year, 43% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Huron city?
- Median gross rent is $1,060 a month and the median home value is $236,500, so rent absorbs about 28.4% of median household income.
- Is Huron city affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 5.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Huron city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 28.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Huron city data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.