ZIP Code 93311 — Bakersfield, California

The median home in 93311 is valued at $385,200 against a median household income of $113,616, 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, 93311 ranks 11 of 39 ZIPs on affordability (1 = lowest ratio); the county median ratio is 4.0. Renting takes 18.3% of median household income (median rent $1,730 a month), under the 30% cost-burden threshold.

93311 ranks 406 of 1,558 statewide on median household income and 1,133 of 1,558 on median home value; its income is far above the $53,480 Kern County median. 71% of households own their home, above the 64% statewide ZIP median, making this a majority-owner ZIP. 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, above the 31% median, and the poverty rate is 7.5%, below the 10.8% statewide ZIP median. Unemployment stands at 4.0%.

With 237 residents per square mile across 212.9 square miles of land, 93311 is far less dense than the statewide ZIP median of 1,120 (rank 1,027 of 1,558). This is rural or open territory where most of the land is agricultural, forest, desert or public land.