What is the population of Taft city?

Taft city has 7,228 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #567 of 1,618 in California.

What is the median household income in Taft city?

Median household income in Taft city is $64,479 a year, 17.9% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $989 a month and the median home value is $246,400, so rent absorbs about 18.4% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 3.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Taft city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Taft, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Taft, California (Taft, CA — Census place “Taft city”) is 7,228 residents, ranking #567 of 1618 places in California. Median household income is $64,479, the median home is worth $246,400 and median gross rent runs $989 a month. Looking for the Taft California ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Taft, CA: 93268.

Population: 7,228Taft city residents
Median household income: $64,479Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $246,400Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $989Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 36.2 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 53.6%Owner-occupied households

Taft ZIP codes (California)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Taft.

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

93268

What the numbers mean in Taft city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Taft city median would spend about 18.4% 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 3.8× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 17.7% of residents and 53.6% of households own their home.

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

Taft city, CA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Taft city is a mid-size town in California, with 7,228 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #567 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 64% of them. The median age here is 36.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Taft city earn a median of $64,479 a year, 17.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 29% 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 17.7% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Taft city is valued at $246,400, 18.8% below the national figure and 58% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $989 a month, 29.7% below the national figure, or roughly $11,868 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.4% 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 3.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 53.6% 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.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Taft city?: Taft city has 7,228 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #567 of 1,618 in California.
What is the median household income in Taft city?: Median household income in Taft city is $64,479 a year, 17.9% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Taft city?: Median gross rent is $989 a month and the median home value is $246,400, so rent absorbs about 18.4% of median household income.
Is Taft city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Taft city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Taft 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.