Sand City, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Sand City city is a very small community in California, with 262 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1341 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 17% of them. The median age here is 44.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Sand City city earn a median of $78,250 a year, essentially level with the national figure of $78,538 and 14% 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 17% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Sand City city is valued at $986,100, 225% above the national figure and 67% above the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,964 a month, 39.7% above the national figure, or roughly $23,568 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 12.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 24.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Home values sit at 12.6× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere. With 262 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Sand City city against its county rather than against national figures.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.