Buellton, CA

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Buellton, CA: 1 USPS ZIP, population 5,505. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

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ACS city ledger plate

Sheet BUELLTON-CA · Buellton, CA 1 ZIPs · 5,505 pop · #4014/25278 · Santa Barbara County

INC-HIGH · RANK-TOP · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-LOW · POP-TOWN · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-TOP

  • INC-HIGH $102,857
  • RANK-TOP #4014/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Carpinteria
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-LOW 59% owners
  • POP-TOWN 5,505
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-TOP $867,500

Nearest income peer: Carpinteria, CA (+ $7,502 income $)

Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.

Income neighbourhood around Buellton

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Buellton on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

median HH income

What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-06

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Buellton, CA sits among US cities with an upper-quartile household income, on a town-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

Top 16%
household income vs 25,278 US cities
5,505
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$102,857
avg ZIP median income

Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.

High-income footprint on only 1 ZIP: the city page and the ZIP page nearly coincide. Headline income $102,857 and home value $867,500 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 41.4%.

Owner-occupancy is comparatively low (59.2%) for this income tier, rent $2,122 may matter more than the home-value average.

Within California, Beaumont is the closest lower-income city and Fontana the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 3 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Buellton.

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ZIP Codes in Buellton, CA

These ZIP codes sit in Santa Barbara County, which covers 23 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Buellton. See the Santa Barbara County roll-up →

Buellton lands mid-pack among the 12 cities sharing Santa Barbara County: Santa Barbara, Carpinteria and Solvang earn more and Santa Maria, Lompoc and Goleta earn less. New Cuyama marks the far end of that range at $60,938, 41% below Buellton.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
93427 5,505 38 America/Los_Angeles

On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Buellton, then BLS wages if you need the labor-market side of the same small geography.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates (2023). Verify with Census Bureau →

Source: HUD USPS Crosswalk (ZIP-to-county mapping) and Source: simplemaps.com (ZIP coordinates & timezones). Verify with HUD →

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