ZIP Code 90743 — Surfside, California

The median home in 90743 is valued at more than $2,000,000 (the Census reporting ceiling) against a median household income of $162,391, a price-to-income ratio of at least 12.3. That is far above the 6.7 median across the 1,558 California ZIP codes with published housing data, and well past the 3.0 ratio that marks an attainable market nationally, which means a household earning the local median income cannot finance the local median home on conventional terms. Within Orange County, 90743 ranks 83 of 87 ZIPs on affordability (1 = lowest ratio); the county median ratio is 7.9. Renting takes 19.4% of median household income (median rent $2,625 a month), under the 30% cost-burden threshold.

90743 ranks 122 of 1,558 statewide on median household income and 1 of 1,558 on median home value; its income is above the $116,618 Orange County median. 68% of households own their home, above the 64% statewide ZIP median, making this a majority-owner ZIP. 70% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, far above the 31% median, and the poverty rate is 5.3%, far below the 10.8% statewide ZIP median and among the lowest in the state.

With 4,340 residents per square mile across 0.1 square miles of land, 90743 is far denser than the statewide ZIP median of 1,120 (rank 490 of 1,558). This is predominantly single-family residential with suburban street patterns.