Samoa, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Samoa CDP is a very small community in California, with 163 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1418 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 12% of them. The median age here is 23.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Samoa CDP earn a median of $44,569 a year, 43.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 51% below 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 3.7% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Samoa CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $1,131 a month, 19.6% below the national figure, or roughly $13,572 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. 0% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 23.6 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 163 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Samoa CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Samoa 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.