Kettleman City, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Kettleman City CDP is a very small community in California, with 899 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1087 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 32% of them. The median age here is 41.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Kettleman City CDP earn a median of $48,920 a year, 37.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 46% 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 26.8% 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 Kettleman City CDP is valued at $136,600, 55% below the national figure and 77% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,010 a month, 28.2% below the national figure, or roughly $12,120 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.8% 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 2.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 20.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 899 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Kettleman City CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

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.