Shandon, CA

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Shandon, CA: 1 USPS ZIP, population 1,623. 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 SHANDON-CA · Shandon, CA 1 ZIPs · 1,623 pop · #5812/25278 · San Luis Obispo County

INC-HIGH · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-ONE · OWN-MID · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-HIGH

  • INC-HIGH $92,482
  • RANK-UPPER #5812/25278
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Atascadero
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-MID 78% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 1,623
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-HIGH $467,000

Nearest income peer: Atascadero, CA ( $702 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 Shandon

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

Top 23%
household income vs 25,278 US cities
1,623
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$92,482
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 $92,482 and home value $467,000 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 8.8%.

Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (78.4%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Shandon as a pure owner town.

Within California, Yucaipa is the closest lower-income city and South Lake Tahoe the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Shandon.

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ZIP Codes in Shandon, CA

These ZIP codes sit in San Luis Obispo County, which covers 21 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Shandon. See the San Luis Obispo County roll-up →

Shandon sits in the lower half of San Luis Obispo County on income: Paso Robles, Arroyo Grande and Nipomo report more, San Luis Obispo, Grover Beach and Oceano report less. Templeton marks the far end of that range at $129,259, 40% above Shandon.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
93461 1,623 2 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 Shandon, 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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