Santa Clarita, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Santa Clarita city is a mid-size city in California, with 229,021 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #16 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 38.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Santa Clarita city earn a median of $119,926 a year, 52.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 32% above the $91,111 median for the 1,050 California cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 7.7% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Santa Clarita city is valued at $721,000, 137.6% above the national figure and 22% above the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,486 a month, 76.8% above the national figure, or roughly $29,832 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 72% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.