Salton City, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Salton City CDP is a mid-size town in California, with 6,244 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #603 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 62% of them. The median age here is 35 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 Salton City CDP earn a median of $36,915 a year, 53% below the national figure of $78,538 and 59% below the $91,111 median for the 1,050 California cities we cover. 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 14.3% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Salton City CDP is valued at $189,800, 37.4% below the national figure and 68% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,295 a month, 7.9% below the national figure, or roughly $15,540 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 42.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 87.8% 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.

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.