Lower Lake, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Lower Lake CDP is a very small community in California, with 598 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1182 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 26% of them. The median age here is 54.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Lower Lake CDP earn a median of not published a year. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 26.7% 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 Lower Lake CDP is valued at $236,800, 22% below the national figure and 60% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,011 a month, 28.1% below the national figure, or roughly $12,132 across a full year. 36.9% 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.

A median age of 54.2 puts Lower Lake CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 598 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Lower Lake CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Lower Lake CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.