ZIP Code 92225 — Blythe, California

The median home in 92225 is valued at $186,500 against a median household income of $52,088, a price-to-income ratio of 3.6. That is below the 6.7 median across the 1,558 California ZIP codes with published housing data, and past the 3.0 ratio that marks an attainable market nationally. Within Riverside County, 92225 ranks 3 of 67 ZIPs on affordability (1 = lowest ratio); the county median ratio is 5.2. Renting takes 20.3% of median household income (median rent $880 a month), under the 30% cost-burden threshold.

92225 ranks 1,383 of 1,558 statewide on median household income and 1,507 of 1,558 on median home value; its income is below the $83,139 Riverside County median. 59% of households own their home, below the 64% statewide ZIP median, making this a majority-owner ZIP. 8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, far below the 31% median, and the poverty rate is 22.9%, far above the 10.8% statewide ZIP median. Unemployment stands at 6.9%.

With 36 residents per square mile across 581 square miles of land, 92225 is far less dense than the statewide ZIP median of 1,120 (rank 1,273 of 1,558). This is rural or open territory where most of the land is agricultural, forest, desert or public land.