Mountain Center, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Mountain Center CDP is a very small community in California, with 50 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1529 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 5% of them. The median age here is 72.8 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 Mountain Center CDP earn a median of $43,977 a year, 44% below the national figure of $78,538 and 52% 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 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Mountain Center CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 65.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 72.8 puts Mountain Center 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 50 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Mountain Center CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Mountain Center 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.