San Diego, CA

San Diego, CA is covered by 37 USPS ZIP codes serving a combined population of 1,241,364 according to Census ACS 5-Year Estimates. U.S. cities rarely map cleanly to a single ZIP — San Diego splits its residents across 37 delivery areas, each with its own demographic and housing profile. The table below lists every ZIP by population, so you can see which neighborhoods carry the weight of the city total and which are smaller pockets of the same municipal boundary.

Aggregated across every ZIP in San Diego, the median household income averages $116,212 and per-capita income averages $55,878. Poverty rate runs at 10.4% and unemployment at 4.8%. On housing, the average median home value is $958,857 with median rent of $2,436 per month, and 47.1% of occupied units are owner-occupied. These are arithmetic averages across the 37 ZIPs — not population-weighted — so small ZIPs influence the headline numbers the same as large ones.

Use this city view to compare ZIPs inside San Diego against each other rather than hunting for a single "city average." The Affordability Dashboard linked below combines these Census inputs with HUD Fair Market Rents, FBI crime data, and Department of Labor childcare costs into a graded scorecard for San Diego as a whole, while individual ZIP pages show fine-grained household income, housing profile, education attainment, commute time, and nearby-ZIP benchmarks. Every field on this page is sourced directly from U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates — no estimates, no proprietary scoring, no editorial adjustment.