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Ridgecrest Heights CDP, California: commercial real estate data.
Ridgecrest Heights CDP is a Census CDP of 370 people across 0.60 square miles of land, in Kern County. Median household income is $77,130, 100.0 percent of occupied homes are owned.
48 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 Ridgecrest Heights through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 370 with a margin of error of plus or minus 209, which is 56.5 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.
Ridgecrest Heights
What Ridgecrest Heights is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area0.6 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land613 plus or minus 346
- 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.
Ridgecrest Heights
How many people live in Ridgecrest Heights
- Population370 plus or minus 209
- Median age50.4 plus or minus 33.1
- Population under 1892 plus or minus 59
- Share under 1824.9 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Population 65 and over86 plus or minus 70
- Share 65 and over23.2 percent plus or minus 13.5
- Households124 plus or minus 63
- Family households96 plus or minus 55
- Share of households that are families77.4 percent plus or minus 20.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ridgecrest Heights
Income and work in Ridgecrest Heights
- Median household income$77,130 plus or minus $45,436
- Per capita income$37,700 plus or minus $8,843
- Civilian labor force173 plus or minus 115
- Employed148 plus or minus 95
- Unemployed25 plus or minus 38
- Unemployment rate14.5 percent plus or minus 19.8
- Adults 25 and over235 plus or minus 150
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.6 percent plus or minus 81.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher12.8 percent plus or minus 13.8
- 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.
Ridgecrest Heights
Housing in Ridgecrest Heights
- Housing units175 plus or minus 99
- Occupied units124 plus or minus 63
- Vacant units51 plus or minus 76
- Vacancy rate29.1 percent plus or minus 40.2
- Owner occupied124 plus or minus 63
- Renter occupied0
- Ownership rate100.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$164,300 plus or minus $144,936
- Single family units75 plus or minus 63
- Share single family42.9 percent plus or minus 26.3
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes100 plus or minus 97
- Median year structure built1976
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ridgecrest Heights
How Ridgecrest Heights gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute122 plus or minus 78
- Commuting under 15 minutes23 plus or minus 26
- Share commuting under 15 minutes18.9 percent plus or minus 17.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more0
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more0.0 percent
- Drove alone91.0 percent
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home9.0 percent plus or minus 14.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kern County, not Ridgecrest Heights
Kern County context, not Ridgecrest Heights 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 Ridgecrest Heights 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 Ridgecrest Heights. 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.
- 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
Ridgecrest Heights questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Ridgecrest Heights, California?
370, in 124 households. Ridgecrest Heights CDP covers 0.60 square miles of land, which is 613 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Ridgecrest Heights 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 Ridgecrest Heights?
$77,130. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $164,300. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Ridgecrest Heights 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 Ridgecrest Heights.
Is zoning published for Ridgecrest Heights?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.