Ladera Ranch, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Ladera Ranch CDP is a mid-size town in California, with 23,609 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #314 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 80% of them. The median age here is 35.3 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 Ladera Ranch CDP earn a median of $184,257 a year, 134.6% above the national figure of $78,538 and 102% above 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 4.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Ladera Ranch CDP is valued at $1,046,600, 245% above the national figure and 78% above the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $3,331 a month, 136.9% above the national figure, or roughly $39,972 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.7% 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 5.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 74.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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.