ZIP Code 96048 — Junction City, California

The median home in 96048 is valued at $380,200 against a median household income of $61,061, a price-to-income ratio of 6.2. 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 Trinity County, 96048 ranks 3 of 9 ZIPs on affordability (1 = lowest ratio); the county median ratio is 6.4. Renting takes 13.2% of median household income (median rent $670 a month), under the 30% cost-burden threshold.

96048 ranks 1,237 of 1,558 statewide on median household income and 1,144 of 1,558 on median home value; its income is above the $49,842 Trinity County median. 80% of households own their home, above the 64% statewide ZIP median, making this a majority-owner ZIP. 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, below the 31% median, and the poverty rate is 18.1%, far above the 10.8% statewide ZIP median. Unemployment stands at 9.1%.

With 8 residents per square mile across 155.4 square miles of land, 96048 is far less dense than the statewide ZIP median of 1,120 (rank 1,444 of 1,558). This is rural or open territory where most of the land is agricultural, forest, desert or public land.