ZIP Code 96142 — Tahoma, California

The median home in 96142 is valued at $727,900 against a median household income of $65,625, a price-to-income ratio of 11.1. That is far 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, which means a household earning the local median income cannot finance the local median home on conventional terms. Within El Dorado County, 96142 ranks 18 of 18 ZIPs on affordability (1 = lowest ratio); the county median ratio is 5.0. Renting takes 29.8% of median household income (median rent $1,627 a month), under the 30% cost-burden threshold.

96142 ranks 1,156 of 1,558 statewide on median household income and 578 of 1,558 on median home value; its income is below the $84,588 El Dorado County median. 61% of households own their home, in line with the 64% statewide ZIP median, making this a majority-owner ZIP. 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, above the 31% median, and the poverty rate is 16.3%, far above the 10.8% statewide ZIP median. Unemployment stands at 2.5%.

With 59 residents per square mile across 16 square miles of land, 96142 is far less dense than the statewide ZIP median of 1,120 (rank 1,212 of 1,558). This is rural or open territory where most of the land is agricultural, forest, desert or public land.