San Ardo, CA population, income and ZIP codes

San Ardo CDP is a very small community in California, with 481 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1230 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 23% of them. The median age here is 25.3 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 San Ardo CDP earn a median of not published a year. 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 40.1% 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 San Ardo CDP is valued at $420,300, 38.5% above the national figure and 29% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,239 a month, 11.9% below the national figure, or roughly $14,868 across a full year. 62.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. 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 25.3 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 481 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare San Ardo CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for San Ardo 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.