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Rail Road Flat CDP, California: commercial real estate data.
Rail Road Flat CDP is a Census CDP of 498 people across 17.38 square miles of land, in Calaveras County. Median household income is $87,951, 83.6 percent of occupied homes are owned.
50 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches Rail Road Flat through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 498 with a margin of error of plus or minus 344, which is 69.1 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Rail Road Flat
What Rail Road Flat is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area17.38 sq mi
- Water area0.2 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land29 plus or minus 20
- County holding the largest share of its areaCalaveras 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.
Rail Road Flat
How many people live in Rail Road Flat
- Population498 plus or minus 344
- Median age44.5 plus or minus 26.0
- Population under 18140 plus or minus 126
- Share under 1828.1 percent plus or minus 16.3
- Population 65 and over83 plus or minus 64
- Share 65 and over16.7 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Households183 plus or minus 91
- Family households92 plus or minus 64
- Share of households that are families50.3 percent plus or minus 24.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Rail Road Flat
- Median household income$87,951 plus or minus $18,428
- Per capita income$35,434 plus or minus $17,137
- Civilian labor force228 plus or minus 143
- Employed228 plus or minus 143
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over344 plus or minus 177
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.1 percent plus or minus 65.0
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher14.0 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.8 percent plus or minus 9.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Rail Road Flat
- Housing units322 plus or minus 111
- Occupied units183 plus or minus 91
- Vacant units139 plus or minus 85
- Vacancy rate43.2 percent plus or minus 21.8
- Owner occupied153 plus or minus 86
- Renter occupied30 plus or minus 28
- Ownership rate83.6 percent plus or minus 21.9
- Median owner-occupied home value$426,100 plus or minus $93,376
- Median gross rent, monthly$914 plus or minus $419
- Annual rent as a share of median income12.5 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Single family units283 plus or minus 100
- Share single family87.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes39 plus or minus 50
- Median year structure built1979
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Rail Road Flat gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute178 plus or minus 131
- Commuting under 15 minutes43 plus or minus 42
- Share commuting under 15 minutes24.2 percent plus or minus 15.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more106 plus or minus 93
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more59.6 percent plus or minus 28.0
- Drove alone50.9 percent plus or minus 30.1
- Carpooled25.9 percent plus or minus 31.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.3 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Worked from home21.9 percent plus or minus 20.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Calaveras County, not Rail Road Flat
Calaveras County context, not Rail Road Flat figures
These are Calaveras County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Rail Road Flat measurements.
- Establishments in Calaveras County986
- Employment at those establishments, Calaveras County7,149
- Covered employment, Calaveras County10,263
- Average annual pay, Calaveras County$57,838
- Average weekly wage, Calaveras County$1,112
- Housing units permitted, Calaveras County72
- Of those, single family, Calaveras County72
- County product, 2024, Calaveras County$2,074,294,000
- County product change over the prior year, Calaveras County7.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Calaveras County$93,950
Every figure in this section is published for Calaveras County as a whole and is not a measurement of Rail Road Flat. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- 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
Rail Road Flat questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Rail Road Flat, California?
498, in 183 households. Rail Road Flat CDP covers 17.38 square miles of land, which is 29 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Rail Road Flat in?
Calaveras 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 Rail Road Flat?
$87,951. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $426,100. Median gross rent is $914 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Rail Road Flat figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Calaveras 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 Rail Road Flat.
Is zoning published for Rail Road Flat?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.