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Lost Hills CDP, California: commercial real estate data.
Lost Hills CDP is a Census CDP of 1,926 people across 5.55 square miles of land, in Kern County. Median household income is $45,976, 40.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.3 m.
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Lost Hills
What Lost Hills is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area5.55 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land347 plus or minus 75
- 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.
Lost Hills
How many people live in Lost Hills
- Population1,926 plus or minus 414
- Median age25.1 plus or minus 7.9
- Population under 18813
- Share under 1842.2 percent plus or minus 12.1
- Population 65 and over105 plus or minus 51
- Share 65 and over5.5 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Households488
- Family households384 plus or minus 80
- Share of households that are families78.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lost Hills
Income and work in Lost Hills
- Median household income$45,976
- Per capita income$13,922
- Civilian labor force759 plus or minus 158
- Employed715 plus or minus 153
- Unemployed44 plus or minus 41
- Unemployment rate5.8 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Adults 25 and over964
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher29.3 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher1.9 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.2 percent plus or minus 2.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lost Hills
Housing in Lost Hills
- Housing units544
- Occupied units488
- Vacant units56 plus or minus 78
- Vacancy rate10.3 percent plus or minus 14.3
- Owner occupied198 plus or minus 66
- Renter occupied290 plus or minus 89
- Ownership rate40.6 percent plus or minus 11.3
- Median owner-occupied home value$187,500 plus or minus $80,999
- Median gross rent, monthly$841
- Annual rent as a share of median income22.0 percent
- Single family units267 plus or minus 80
- Share single family49.1 percent plus or minus 12.8
- Units in buildings of two or more81 plus or minus 52
- Share in buildings of two or more14.9 percent plus or minus 9.3
- Mobile homes196 plus or minus 63
- Median year structure built1993
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lost Hills
How Lost Hills gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute692 plus or minus 143
- Commuting under 15 minutes146 plus or minus 58
- Share commuting under 15 minutes21.1 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more248 plus or minus 85
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more35.8 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Drove alone84.5 percent
- Carpooled13.7 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lost Hills
SBA 7(a) lending to Lost Hills borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$1,325,000
- Average approval$1,325,000
- Median approval$1,325,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,325,000
- Largest approval$1,325,000
- Jobs supported6
- Jobs per approval6.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
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.
Kern County, not Lost Hills
Kern County context, not Lost Hills 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 Lost Hills 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 Lost Hills. 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.
- 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
Lost Hills questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Lost Hills, California?
1,926, in 488 households. Lost Hills CDP covers 5.55 square miles of land, which is 347 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Lost Hills in?
Kern 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 Lost Hills?
$45,976. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $187,500. Median gross rent is $841 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Lost Hills businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $1.3 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $1,325,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Lost Hills, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Lost Hills borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Lost Hills. 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 Lost Hills 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 Lost Hills.
Is zoning published for Lost Hills?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.