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French Gulch, CA

Single-footprint Census roll-up for French Gulch, CA: 1 USPS ZIP, population 432. 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 FRENCH-GULCH-CA · French Gulch, CA 1 ZIPs · 432 pop · #23197/25278 · Shasta County

INC-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW

  • INC-LOW $44,375
  • RANK-BOTTOM #23197/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Burney
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 86% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 432
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-LOW $85,700

Nearest income peer: Burney, CA (+ $9,313 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 French Gulch

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest French Gulch 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, French Gulch, CA sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

8th pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
432
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$44,375
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.

Lower-income footing on only 1 ZIP ($44,375 average) · poverty 1.2%. The primary code (96033) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (86.4%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within California, Raisin City is the closest lower-income city and Boonville the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for French Gulch.

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ZIP Codes in French Gulch, CA

These ZIP codes sit in Shasta County, which covers 24 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in French Gulch. See the Shasta County roll-up →

Every one of the 11 cities sharing Shasta County reports a higher average ZIP median income than French Gulch, Redding, Anderson and Shasta Lake among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Millville marks the far end of that range at $129,688, 192% above French Gulch.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
96033 432 1 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 French Gulch, 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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