Orcutt, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Orcutt CDP is a small city in California, with 31,284 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #261 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 83% of them. The median age here is 40.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Orcutt CDP earn a median of $108,682 a year, 38.4% above the national figure of $78,538 and 19% 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 6.6% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Orcutt CDP is valued at $587,000, 93.5% above the national figure and within a couple of points of the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,094 a month, 48.9% above the national figure, or roughly $25,128 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.1% 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 5.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 78% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.