What is the population of Oildale CDP?

Oildale CDP has 34,971 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #240 of 1,618 in California.

What is the median household income in Oildale CDP?

Median household income in Oildale CDP is $49,622 a year, 36.8% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Oildale CDP?

Median gross rent is $1,220 a month and the median home value is $225,000, so rent absorbs about 29.5% of median household income.

Is Oildale CDP affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 4.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Oildale CDP is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 29.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Oildale, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Oildale, California (Oildale, CA — Census place “Oildale CDP”) is 34,971 residents, ranking #240 of 1618 places in California. Median household income is $49,622, the median home is worth $225,000 and median gross rent runs $1,220 a month. Looking for the Oildale California ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Oildale, CA: 93308.

Population: 34,971Oildale CDP residents
Median household income: $49,622Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $225,000Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,220Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 34.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 40.5%Owner-occupied households

Oildale ZIP codes (California)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Oildale.

The Oildale CA ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

93308

What the numbers mean in Oildale CDP

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Oildale CDP median would spend about 29.5% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 4.5× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 26.9% of residents and 40.5% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Oildale CDP, CA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Oildale CDP is a small city in California, with 34,971 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #240 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 85% of them. The median age here is 34.9 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 Oildale CDP earn a median of $49,622 a year, 36.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 46% 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 26.9% 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 Oildale CDP is valued at $225,000, 25.8% below the national figure and 62% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,220 a month, 13.2% below the national figure, or roughly $14,640 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 29.5% 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 4.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 40.5% 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.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Oildale CDP?: Oildale CDP has 34,971 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #240 of 1,618 in California.
What is the median household income in Oildale CDP?: Median household income in Oildale CDP is $49,622 a year, 36.8% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Oildale CDP?: Median gross rent is $1,220 a month and the median home value is $225,000, so rent absorbs about 29.5% of median household income.
Is Oildale CDP affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Oildale CDP is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 29.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Oildale CDP data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.