ZIP Code 93501 — Mojave, California

The median home in 93501 is valued at $145,000 against a median household income of $47,351, a price-to-income ratio of 3.1. That is far 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, 93501 ranks 8 of 39 ZIPs on affordability (1 = lowest ratio); the county median ratio is 4.0. Renting takes 27.7% of median household income (median rent $1,094 a month), under the 30% cost-burden threshold.

93501 ranks 1,448 of 1,558 statewide on median household income and 1,535 of 1,558 on median home value; its income is below the $53,480 Kern County median. 47% of households own their home, below the 64% statewide ZIP median, so most residents rent. 6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, far below the 31% median, and the poverty rate is 28.0%, far above the 10.8% statewide ZIP median and among the highest in the state. Unemployment stands at 7.1%.

With 24 residents per square mile across 222 square miles of land, 93501 is far less dense than the statewide ZIP median of 1,120 (rank 1,329 of 1,558). This is rural or open territory where most of the land is agricultural, forest, desert or public land.