University of California-Davis, CA population, income and ZIP codes

University of California-Davis CDP is a mid-size town in California, with 8,158 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #538 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 66% of them. The median age here is 19.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 University of California-Davis CDP earn a median of $17,625 a year, 77.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 81% 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 67.7% 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 University of California-Davis CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $1,560 a month, 11% above the national figure, or roughly $18,720 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 106.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. 2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 19.5 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

The Census withheld home value for University of California-Davis 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.