La Cresta, CA population, income and ZIP codes

La Cresta CDP is a mid-size town in California, with 8,558 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #524 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 67% of them. The median age here is 31.4 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 La Cresta CDP earn a median of $49,836 a year, 36.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 45% below 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 14.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in La Cresta CDP is valued at $236,800, 22% below the national figure and 60% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,097 a month, 22% below the national figure, or roughly $13,164 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 26.4% 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 4.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 49.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.