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Alta Sierra CDP, California: commercial real estate data.
Alta Sierra CDP is a Census CDP of 12 people across 1.02 square miles of land, in Kern County. 100.0 percent of occupied homes are owned.
33 sourced place values · tier SHORT · 5 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 Alta Sierra through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 12 with a margin of error of plus or minus 22, which is 183.3 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. Because the margin here exceeds the estimate, this page shows its strongest sections only rather than a full profile.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Alta Sierra
What Alta Sierra is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area1.02 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land12 plus or minus 22
- County holding the largest share of its areaKern 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.
Alta Sierra
How many people live in Alta Sierra
- Population12 plus or minus 22
- Population under 180
- Share under 180.0 percent
- Population 65 and over0
- Share 65 and over0.0 percent
- Households12 plus or minus 22
- Family households0
- Share of households that are families0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alta Sierra
Income and work in Alta Sierra
- Civilian labor force0
- Employed0
- Unemployed0
- Adults 25 and over12 plus or minus 22
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher100.0 percent plus or minus 116.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher100.0 percent plus or minus 116.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alta Sierra
Housing in Alta Sierra
- Housing units271 plus or minus 116
- Occupied units12 plus or minus 22
- Vacant units259 plus or minus 113
- Vacancy rate95.6 percent
- Owner occupied12 plus or minus 22
- Renter occupied0
- Ownership rate100.0 percent
- Single family units271 plus or minus 117
- Share single family100.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1961
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kern County, not Alta Sierra
Kern County context, not Alta Sierra figures
These are Kern County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Alta Sierra measurements.
- Establishments in Kern County14,352
- Employment at those establishments, Kern County219,016
- Covered employment, Kern County347,664
- Average annual pay, Kern County$60,066
- Average weekly wage, Kern County$1,155
- Housing units permitted, Kern County3,244
- Of those, single family, Kern County2,812
- County product, 2024, Kern County$63,069,657,000
- County product change over the prior year, Kern County4.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Kern County$54,556
Every figure in this section is published for Kern County as a whole and is not a measurement of Alta Sierra. 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.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- No median owner-occupied home value is published for this place.
- 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
Alta Sierra questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Alta Sierra, California?
12, in 12 households. Alta Sierra CDP covers 1.02 square miles of land, which is 12 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Alta Sierra in?
Kern County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
Are the county figures on this page Alta Sierra figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Kern 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 Alta Sierra.
Is zoning published for Alta Sierra?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.