What is the population of Sanger city?

Sanger city has 26,515 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #287 of 1,618 in California.

What is the median household income in Sanger city?

Median household income in Sanger city is $74,428 a year, 5.2% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Sanger city?

Median gross rent is $1,131 a month and the median home value is $346,000, so rent absorbs about 18.2% of median household income.

Is Sanger city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 4.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sanger city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.2% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Sanger, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Sanger, California (Sanger, CA — Census place “Sanger city”) is 26,515 residents, ranking #287 of 1618 places in California. Median household income is $74,428, the median home is worth $346,000 and median gross rent runs $1,131 a month. Looking for the Sanger California ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Sanger, CA: 93657.

Population: 26,515Sanger city residents
Median household income: $74,428Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $346,000Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,131Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 31 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 63.4%Owner-occupied households

Sanger ZIP codes (California)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Sanger.

The Sanger CA ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

93657

What the numbers mean in Sanger city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Sanger city median would spend about 18.2% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 4.6× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 14.1% of residents and 63.4% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Sanger city, CA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Sanger city is a small city in California, with 26,515 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #287 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 31 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 Sanger city earn a median of $74,428 a year, 5.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 18% below the $91,111 median for the 1,050 California cities we cover. 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 14.1% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Sanger city is valued at $346,000, 14% above the national figure and 41% below the $589,600 peer median, 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 18.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 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. 63.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Sanger city?: Sanger city has 26,515 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #287 of 1,618 in California.
What is the median household income in Sanger city?: Median household income in Sanger city is $74,428 a year, 5.2% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Sanger city?: Median gross rent is $1,131 a month and the median home value is $346,000, so rent absorbs about 18.2% of median household income.
Is Sanger city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sanger city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.2% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Sanger city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.