Goleta, CA

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Goleta, CA: 1 USPS ZIP, population 53,217. 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 GOLETA-CA · Goleta, CA 1 ZIPs · 53,217 pop · #6408/25278 · Santa Barbara County

INC-HIGH · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-ONE · OWN-RENT · POP-SMALL · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-TOP

  • INC-HIGH $90,037
  • RANK-UPPER #6408/25278
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Santa Maria
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-RENT 38% owners
  • POP-SMALL 53,217
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-TOP $1,082,400

Nearest income peer: Santa Maria, CA ( $890 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 Goleta

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

Top 25%
household income vs 25,278 US cities
53,217
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$90,037
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 $90,037 and home value $1,082,400 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 50.6%.

Owner-occupancy is comparatively low (38.1%) for this income tier, rent $2,054 may matter more than the home-value average.

Within California, Crows Landing is the closest lower-income city and La Puente the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 2 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Goleta.

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ZIP Codes in Goleta, CA

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

Goleta lands mid-pack among the 12 cities sharing Santa Barbara County: Santa Barbara, Carpinteria and Solvang earn more and Lompoc, Guadalupe and Los Alamos earn less. Los Olivos marks the far end of that range at $142,760, 59% above Goleta.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
93117 53,217 121 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 Goleta, 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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