
California · Census place 71218
Shasta, CA population, income and ZIP codes
Quick answer
The population of the city of Shasta, California (Shasta, CA — Census place “Shasta CDP”) is 1,330 residents, ranking #989 of 1618 places in California. Median household income is $108,500, the median home is worth $392,000 and median gross rent runs — a month. Looking for the Shasta California ZIP code list? 2 ZIP codes serve Shasta, CA: 96001, 96087.
- Population
- 1,330Shasta CDP residents
- Median household income
- $108,500Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $392,000Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- —Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 47.4 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 91.9%Owner-occupied households
Shasta ZIP codes (California)
Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Shasta.
The Shasta CA ZIP code list below covers 2 ZIP codes. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.
What the numbers mean in Shasta CDP
Housing cost measured against local earnings.
The median home costs 3.6× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 7.3% of residents and 91.9% of households own their home.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Shasta CDP, CA in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Shasta CDP is a small town in California, with 1,330 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #989 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 38% of them. The median age here is 47.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Shasta CDP earn a median of $108,500 a year, 38.1% above the national figure of $78,538 and 19% above 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 7.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Shasta CDP is valued at $392,000, 29.2% above the national figure and 34% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 91.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.
The Census withheld gross rent for Shasta 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.
Compare with nearby places
Places of similar size in California.
- Clay CDP 1,325
- Fort Dick CDP 1,349
- Dollar Point CDP 1,319
- Irwindale city 1,352
- West Park CDP 1,319
- Avila Beach CDP 1,365
- Brookdale CDP 1,308
- Lone Pine CDP 1,373
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Shasta CDP?
- Shasta CDP has 1,330 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #989 of 1,618 in California.
- What is the median household income in Shasta CDP?
- Median household income in Shasta CDP is $108,500 a year, 38.1% above the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Shasta CDP?
- Median gross rent is not published a month and the median home value is $392,000.
- Is Shasta CDP affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 3.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Shasta CDP is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market.
- How current is this Shasta CDP data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.