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

University of California-Merced CDP is a very small community in California, with 886 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1091 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 32% 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. 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 University of California-Merced CDP earn a median of not published a year. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches an unpublished share of residents here.

The typical owner-occupied home in University of California-Merced CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The homeownership rate is not published. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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. With 886 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare University of California-Merced CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, home value, gross rent, poverty rate for University of California-Merced 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.