What is the population of Inyo County?

Inyo County has 18,803 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.

What is the median household income in Inyo County?

Median household income in Inyo County is $72,432 a year, 7.8% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Inyo County?

Median gross rent is $1,140 a month and the median home value is $338,400, so rent absorbs about 18.9% of median household income.

Is Inyo County affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 4.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Inyo County is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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California · FIPS 06027

Inyo ZIP codes — Inyo County, California

Quick answer

Inyo County is home to 18,803 residents with a median household income of $72,432 and a median home value of $338,400. 67.1% of households own their home and 10.5% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Inyo ZIP code? 9 ZIP code areas fall inside Inyo County, California, listed in full below.

Population: 18,803Inyo County residents
Median household income: $72,432Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $338,400Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,140Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 45.6 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 67.1%Owner-occupied households

Inyo County, CA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Inyo County is a mid-size town in California, with 18,803 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 45.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Inyo County earn a median of $72,432 a year, 7.8% below 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 10.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Inyo County is valued at $338,400, 11.5% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,140 a month, 18.9% below the national figure, or roughly $13,680 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 67.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.

ZIP codes in Inyo County

ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Inyo 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 Inyo County?: Inyo County has 18,803 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
What is the median household income in Inyo County?: Median household income in Inyo County is $72,432 a year, 7.8% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Inyo County?: Median gross rent is $1,140 a month and the median home value is $338,400, so rent absorbs about 18.9% of median household income.
Is Inyo County affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Inyo County is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Inyo County data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.