ZIP Code 95917 — Biggs, California

The median home in 95917 is valued at $292,200 against a median household income of $79,458, a price-to-income ratio of 3.7. 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 Butte County, 95917 ranks 3 of 15 ZIPs on affordability (1 = lowest ratio); the county median ratio is 5.3. Renting takes 22.0% of median household income (median rent $1,458 a month), under the 30% cost-burden threshold.

95917 ranks 904 of 1,558 statewide on median household income and 1,344 of 1,558 on median home value; its income is above the $63,187 Butte County median. 73% of households own their home, above the 64% statewide ZIP median, making this a majority-owner ZIP. 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, far below the 31% median, and the poverty rate is 8.2%, below the 10.8% statewide ZIP median. Unemployment stands at 10.8%.

With 51 residents per square mile across 80.7 square miles of land, 95917 is far less dense than the statewide ZIP median of 1,120 (rank 1,233 of 1,558). This is rural or open territory where most of the land is agricultural, forest, desert or public land.