ZIP Code 96143 — Kings Beach, California

The median home in 96143 is valued at $654,600 against a median household income of $50,693, a price-to-income ratio of 12.9. 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 Placer County, 96143 ranks 26 of 27 ZIPs on affordability (1 = lowest ratio); the county median ratio is 5.9. Renting takes 29.0% of median household income (median rent $1,225 a month), under the 30% cost-burden threshold.

96143 ranks 1,404 of 1,558 statewide on median household income and 681 of 1,558 on median home value; its income is far below the $105,789 Placer County median. 59% of households own their home, below the 64% statewide ZIP median, making this a majority-owner ZIP. 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, in line with the 31% median, and the poverty rate is 17.6%, far above the 10.8% statewide ZIP median.

With 340 residents per square mile across 9.2 square miles of land, 96143 is far less dense than the statewide ZIP median of 1,120 (rank 963 of 1,558). This is a low-density pattern of large lots, small towns or scattered subdivisions.