Tulelake, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Tulelake city is a very small community in California, with 837 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1108 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 31% of them. The median age here is 41.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Tulelake city earn a median of $43,125 a year, 45.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 53% below 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 26.4% 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 Tulelake city is valued at $112,200, 63% below the national figure and 81% below the $589,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $724 a month, 48.5% below the national figure, or roughly $8,688 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.1% 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 2.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 65.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 837 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Tulelake city against its county rather than against national figures.

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.