ZIP Code 93436 — Lompoc, California

The median home in 93436 is valued at $438,200 against a median household income of $71,922, a price-to-income ratio of 6.1. That is below 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, so buying here on a local median income requires substantial savings or a second income. Within Santa Barbara County, 93436 ranks 5 of 20 ZIPs on affordability (1 = lowest ratio); the county median ratio is 8.3. Renting takes 24.3% of median household income (median rent $1,458 a month), under the 30% cost-burden threshold.

93436 ranks 1,031 of 1,558 statewide on median household income and 1,044 of 1,558 on median home value; its income is below the $107,221 Santa Barbara County median. 56% of households own their home, below the 64% statewide ZIP median, making this a majority-owner ZIP. 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, below the 31% median, and the poverty rate is 14.5%, above the 10.8% statewide ZIP median. Unemployment stands at 7.5%.

With 244 residents per square mile across 228 square miles of land, 93436 is far less dense than the statewide ZIP median of 1,120 (rank 1,023 of 1,558). This is rural or open territory where most of the land is agricultural, forest, desert or public land.