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Forest Ranch CDP, California: commercial real estate data.
Forest Ranch CDP is a Census CDP of 1,915 people across 13.93 square miles of land, in Butte County. Median household income is $131,650, 96.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $625,700.
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Forest Ranch
What Forest Ranch is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area13.93 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land137 plus or minus 55
- County holding the largest share of its areaButte County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Forest Ranch
How many people live in Forest Ranch
- Population1,915 plus or minus 761
- Median age43.8
- Population under 18550 plus or minus 257
- Share under 1828.7 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Population 65 and over384 plus or minus 181
- Share 65 and over20.1 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Households687 plus or minus 252
- Family households624 plus or minus 251
- Share of households that are families90.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Forest Ranch
Income and work in Forest Ranch
- Median household income$131,650 plus or minus $67,340
- Per capita income$44,731
- Civilian labor force1,136 plus or minus 564
- Employed1,088 plus or minus 563
- Unemployed48 plus or minus 51
- Unemployment rate4.2 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Adults 25 and over1,338 plus or minus 488
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher86.2 percent plus or minus 41.1
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher24.8 percent plus or minus 7.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree17.6 percent plus or minus 9.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Forest Ranch
Housing in Forest Ranch
- Housing units707 plus or minus 252
- Occupied units687 plus or minus 252
- Vacant units20 plus or minus 33
- Vacancy rate2.8 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Owner occupied666 plus or minus 254
- Renter occupied21 plus or minus 29
- Ownership rate96.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$445,800
- Single family units562 plus or minus 263
- Share single family79.5 percent plus or minus 24.1
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes145 plus or minus 126
- Median year structure built1989
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Forest Ranch
How Forest Ranch gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute933 plus or minus 436
- Commuting under 15 minutes90 plus or minus 81
- Share commuting under 15 minutes9.6 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more243 plus or minus 166
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more26.0 percent plus or minus 12.9
- Drove alone85.1 percent plus or minus 24.5
- Carpooled9.9 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home5.0 percent plus or minus 4.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Forest Ranch
SBA 7(a) lending to Forest Ranch borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$625,700
- Average approval$208,567
- Median approval$250,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$325,700
- Largest approval$325,700
- Jobs supported13
- Jobs per approval4.3
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Butte County, not Forest Ranch
Butte County context, not Forest Ranch figures
These are Butte County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Forest Ranch measurements.
- Establishments in Butte County4,677
- Employment at those establishments, Butte County63,158
- Covered employment, Butte County78,999
- Average annual pay, Butte County$57,521
- Average weekly wage, Butte County$1,106
- Housing units permitted, Butte County946
- Of those, single family, Butte County657
- County product, 2024, Butte County$12,901,012,000
- County product change over the prior year, Butte County8.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Butte County$58,195
Every figure in this section is published for Butte County as a whole and is not a measurement of Forest Ranch. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Forest Ranch questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Forest Ranch, California?
1,915, in 687 households. Forest Ranch CDP covers 13.93 square miles of land, which is 137 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Forest Ranch in?
Butte County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Forest Ranch?
$131,650. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $445,800. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Forest Ranch businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $625,700, across 2 lenders, median approval $250,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Forest Ranch, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Forest Ranch borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Forest Ranch. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Forest Ranch figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Butte County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Forest Ranch.
Is zoning published for Forest Ranch?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.