ZIP Code 93251 — Mc Kittrick, California

The median home in 93251 is valued at $231,300 against a median household income of $68,750, a price-to-income ratio of 3.4. That is below the 6.7 median across the 1,558 California ZIP codes with published housing data, and near the 3.0 ratio that marks an attainable market nationally. Within Kern County, 93251 ranks 10 of 39 ZIPs on affordability (1 = lowest ratio); the county median ratio is 4.0. Renting takes 10.4% of median household income (median rent $594 a month), under the 30% cost-burden threshold.

93251 ranks 1,096 of 1,558 statewide on median household income and 1,452 of 1,558 on median home value; its income is above the $53,480 Kern County median. 44% of households own their home, below the 64% statewide ZIP median, so most residents rent. 9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, far below the 31% median, and the poverty rate is 18.8%, far above the 10.8% statewide ZIP median. Unemployment stands at 12.2%.

With 3 residents per square mile across 107.2 square miles of land, 93251 is far less dense than the statewide ZIP median of 1,120 (rank 1,508 of 1,558). This is rural or open territory where most of the land is agricultural, forest, desert or public land.