Live Oak city, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Live Oak city is a mid-size town in California, with 9,264 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #509 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 68% of them. The median age here is 36.2 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 Live Oak city earn a median of $66,590 a year, 15.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 27% below the $91,111 median for the 1,050 California cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 15.1% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Live Oak city is valued at $317,900, 4.8% above the national figure and 46% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $860 a month, 38.8% below the national figure, or roughly $10,320 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 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. 68.7% 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.

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.