ZIP Code 93926 — Gonzales, California

The median home in 93926 is valued at $580,300 against a median household income of $76,301, a price-to-income ratio of 7.6. That is above 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 Monterey County, 93926 ranks 16 of 27 ZIPs on affordability (1 = lowest ratio); the county median ratio is 6.8. Renting takes 22.1% of median household income (median rent $1,404 a month), under the 30% cost-burden threshold.

93926 ranks 955 of 1,558 statewide on median household income and 817 of 1,558 on median home value; its income is below the $84,669 Monterey County median. 57% of households own their home, below the 64% statewide ZIP median, making this a majority-owner ZIP. 8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, far below the 31% median, and the poverty rate is 8.8%, below the 10.8% statewide ZIP median. Unemployment stands at 4.7%.

With 133 residents per square mile across 67.2 square miles of land, 93926 is far less dense than the statewide ZIP median of 1,120 (rank 1,101 of 1,558). This is rural or open territory where most of the land is agricultural, forest, desert or public land.