Inyo County, California: commercial real estate data.

Inyo County

How many people live in Inyo County

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202418,739
• Households8,040
• Average household size2.33
• Median household income$73,991
• Median age45.5
• Median gross rent$1,189 per month
• Median owner-occupied home value$348,700
• Home value to household income4.7 times
• Annual rent as a share of median income19.3 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher31.5 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree12.5 percent
• Adults 25 and over13,770
• Population under 183,781
• Share under 1820.2 percent
• Population 65 and over4,675
• Share 65 and over24.9 percent
• Working age population, 18 to 6410,283
• Civilian labor force8,707
• Unemployment rate2.5 percent
• Labor force participation, adults 18 and over58.2 percent
• Rank by population among California counties52nd of 58
• Rank by population among US county-equivalents, Puerto Rico included1947th of 3,222

Inyo County is the 52nd largest of 58 California counties by population. A median home costs 4.7 times median household income, which is seriously unaffordable by national standards. Residents 65 and over outnumber those under 18, at 24.9 percent against 20.2 percent, which points demand at health care, services and single story product rather than schools.

US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024 5-year.

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Where are people moving to Inyo County from?

• Tax returns filed by households arriving465
• People arriving, from those returns696
• Tax returns filed by households leaving558
• Net household movement-93
• Adjusted gross income arriving$31.6 m
• Net adjusted gross income movement$-5.9 m
• Average income of an arriving household$67,862
• Average income of a leaving household$67,201
• Largest single originMono County (73 households)
• Largest single destinationLos Angeles County (49 households)

Households arriving report $661 more average income than households leaving, so the migration is raising local spending power rather than just moving it around. The largest single source of arrivals is Mono County, which is the catchment a retail or multifamily study should look at first.

US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.

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Employment by industry in Inyo County

• Covered employment, annual average7,718
• Establishments reporting863
• Average annual pay$61,041
• Average weekly wage$1,174
• Accommodation and food services, employment1,436
• Accommodation and food services, average annual pay$36,156
• Retail trade, employment865
• Retail trade, average annual pay$40,644
• Health care and social assistance, employment539
• Health care and social assistance, average annual pay$57,141
• Manufacturing, employment331
• Manufacturing, average annual pay$62,805
• Construction, employment264
• Professional, scientific and technical services, employment198

Accommodation and food services is the largest private sector at 1,436 jobs, 18.6 percent of covered employment.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages.

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Building permits in Inyo County

• Housing units authorized by permit, 202413
• Declared construction value permitted$2.1 m
• Single family units authorized13
• Multifamily units authorized0
• Multifamily share of units0.0 percent
• Average declared value per unit$158,846
• Units authorized per 1,000 households1.6

Single-family homes are 100.0 percent of units authorized, so the pipeline is predominantly single-family.

US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual.

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SBA loan default and charge-off rates in Inyo County

Do SBA loans in Inyo County get paid back?

• Loans with a final outcome recorded4
• Paid in full3
• Charged off1
• Status: Charged off1
• Status: Paid in full3
• Status: Exempt from disclosure10
• Status: Cancelled3

Only 4 loans have reached a final outcome, fewer than the 30 a charge-off rate needs, so no rate is published.

Compare against the national and state SBA charge-off rates, computed the same way over resolved loans only.

US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.

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How large is Inyo County?

• Land area10,181 sq mi
• Rank by land area among California counties2nd of 58
• Width, east to west174.6 mi
• Height, north to south115.7 mi
• Geographies sharing a boundary8
• Residents per square mile of land2
• Establishments per square mile0.05

US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary vertices, TIGER county boundaries. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024 5-year. US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023.

Feasibility studies

When a Inyo County site needs a document a lender will accept.

The same data layer behind this page is the one the studies are written from. A study for a Inyo County site starts with the figures you are reading, carrying the same source and period into the credit file.

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202418,739
• Households8,040
• Average household size2.33
• Median household income$73,991
• Median age45.5

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Cities and places in Inyo.

21 Census places lie wholly or partly in Inyo County. 20 carry enough published place level data for a page of their own and are linked. The rest are named here and not linked, because the American Community Survey and the SBA record between them do not carry enough about them to write an honest page. A place existing is itself worth knowing, so nothing in the county is left out.