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Carpinteria, CA

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Carpinteria, CA: 1 USPS ZIP, population 16,091. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

Source:

ACS city ledger plate

Sheet CARPINTERIA-CA · Carpinteria, CA 1 ZIPs · 16,091 pop · #3039/25278 · Santa Barbara County

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

  • INC-TOP $110,359
  • RANK-TOP #3039/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Santa Ynez
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-LOW 61% owners
  • POP-TOWN 16,091
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-TOP $1,153,600

Nearest income peer: Santa Ynez, CA (+ $3,780 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 Carpinteria

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Carpinteria 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, Carpinteria, CA sits among US cities with an upper-quartile household income, on a town-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

Top 12%
household income vs 25,278 US cities
16,091
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$110,359
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 $110,359 and home value $1,153,600 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 45.0%.

Owner-occupancy is comparatively low (61.0%) for this income tier, rent $2,363 may matter more than the home-value average.

Within California, Pasadena is the closest lower-income city and Shasta the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 6 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Carpinteria.

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ZIP Codes in Carpinteria, CA

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

Carpinteria sits in the upper half of Santa Barbara County on income: Santa Maria, Lompoc and Goleta report less, while Santa Barbara, Solvang and Santa Ynez report more. New Cuyama marks the far end of that range at $60,938, 45% below Carpinteria.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
93013 16,091 109 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 Carpinteria, then BLS wages if you need the labor-market side of the same small geography.

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

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