Vandenberg AFB, CA population, income and ZIP codes

Vandenberg AFB CDP is a small town in California, with 3,688 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #736 of 1,618 ranked by population — larger than 54% of them. The median age here is 25.7 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 Vandenberg AFB CDP earn a median of $83,096 a year, 5.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 9% 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 2.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Vandenberg AFB CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $2,462 a month, 75.1% above the national figure, or roughly $29,544 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 35.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. 0% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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 25.7 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 Vandenberg AFB 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.