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Alpine ZIP codes — Alpine County, California

Quick answer

Alpine County is home to 1,695 residents with a median household income of $110,781 and a median home value of $466,100. 81% of households own their home and 12.3% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Alpine ZIP code? 3 ZIP code areas fall inside Alpine County, California, listed in full below.

Population
1,695Alpine County residents
Median household income
$110,781Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value
$466,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent
—Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age
41.1 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate
81%Owner-occupied households

Alpine County, CA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Alpine County is a small town in California, with 1,695 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 41.1 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 Alpine County earn a median of $110,781 a year, 41.1% above the national figure of $78,538. 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 12.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Alpine County is valued at $466,100, 53.6% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 81% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

The Census withheld gross rent for Alpine County 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.

ZIP codes in Alpine County

ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Alpine County.

How to read this page

What these estimates cover.

Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Alpine County?
Alpine County has 1,695 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
What is the median household income in Alpine County?
Median household income in Alpine County is $110,781 a year, 41.1% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Alpine County?
Median gross rent is not published a month and the median home value is $466,100.
Is Alpine County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
Homes cost about 4.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Alpine County is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market.
How current is this Alpine County data?
All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.