Taft Mosswood, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Taft Mosswood CDP is a small town in California, with 1,199 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1017 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 37% of them. The median age here is 31.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Taft Mosswood CDP earn a median of $55,526 a year, 29.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 39% 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 19% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Taft Mosswood CDP is valued at $322,300, 6.2% above the national figure and 45% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,829 a month, 30.1% above the national figure, or roughly $21,948 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 39.5% 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 5.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 50.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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.