Plumas Lake, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Plumas Lake CDP is a mid-size town in California, with 8,424 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #527 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 67% of them. The median age here is 33.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Plumas Lake CDP earn a median of $114,083 a year, 45.3% above the national figure of $78,538 and 25% 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 5.6% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Plumas Lake CDP is valued at $525,900, 73.3% above the national figure and 11% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,290 a month, 62.9% above the national figure, or roughly $27,480 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.1% 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 4.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 88.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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.