ZIP Code 93263 — Shafter, California

The median home in 93263 is valued at $247,300 against a median household income of $64,145, a price-to-income ratio of 3.9. 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 Kern County, 93263 ranks 16 of 39 ZIPs on affordability (1 = lowest ratio); the county median ratio is 4.0. Renting takes 21.4% of median household income (median rent $1,146 a month), under the 30% cost-burden threshold.

93263 ranks 1,180 of 1,558 statewide on median household income and 1,424 of 1,558 on median home value; its income is above the $53,480 Kern County median. 62% of households own their home, in line with the 64% statewide ZIP median, making this a majority-owner ZIP. 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, far below the 31% median, and the poverty rate is 24.3%, far above the 10.8% statewide ZIP median. Unemployment stands at 7.7%.

With 249 residents per square mile across 92.2 square miles of land, 93263 is far less dense than the statewide ZIP median of 1,120 (rank 1,022 of 1,558). This is rural or open territory where most of the land is agricultural, forest, desert or public land.