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Potter Valley CDP, California: commercial real estate data.
Potter Valley CDP is a Census CDP of 436 people across 4.03 square miles of land, in Mendocino County. Median household income is $121,071, 67.5 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 Potter Valley through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 436 with a margin of error of plus or minus 240, which is 55.0 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.
Potter Valley
What Potter Valley is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area4.03 sq mi
- Water area0.03 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land108 plus or minus 60
- County holding the largest share of its areaMendocino 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.
Potter Valley
How many people live in Potter Valley
- Population436 plus or minus 240
- Median age49.4 plus or minus 21.0
- Population under 1877 plus or minus 74
- Share under 1817.7 percent plus or minus 13.9
- Population 65 and over114 plus or minus 79
- Share 65 and over26.1 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Households194 plus or minus 79
- Family households107 plus or minus 64
- Share of households that are families55.2 percent plus or minus 24.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Potter Valley
Income and work in Potter Valley
- Median household income$121,071 plus or minus $80,898
- Per capita income$51,922 plus or minus $19,950
- Civilian labor force191 plus or minus 90
- Employed187 plus or minus 89
- Unemployed4 plus or minus 7
- Unemployment rate2.1 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Adults 25 and over335 plus or minus 158
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.4 percent plus or minus 56.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher29.9 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.4 percent plus or minus 8.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Potter Valley
Housing in Potter Valley
- Housing units225 plus or minus 75
- Occupied units194 plus or minus 79
- Vacant units31 plus or minus 34
- Vacancy rate13.8 percent plus or minus 14.4
- Owner occupied131 plus or minus 58
- Renter occupied63 plus or minus 51
- Ownership rate67.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$635,900 plus or minus $263,250
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,629
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.1 percent plus or minus 11.1
- Single family units187 plus or minus 67
- Share single family83.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more23 plus or minus 40
- Share in buildings of two or more10.2 percent plus or minus 17.2
- Mobile homes15 plus or minus 20
- Median year structure built1975
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Potter Valley
How Potter Valley gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute159 plus or minus 81
- Commuting under 15 minutes6 plus or minus 18
- Share commuting under 15 minutes3.8 percent plus or minus 11.3
- Commuting 30 minutes or more109 plus or minus 71
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more68.6 percent plus or minus 27.5
- Drove alone74.3 percent plus or minus 18.9
- Carpooled9.6 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.1 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Worked from home15.0 percent plus or minus 12.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mendocino County, not Potter Valley
Mendocino County context, not Potter Valley figures
These are Mendocino County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Potter Valley measurements.
- Establishments in Mendocino County2,432
- Employment at those establishments, Mendocino County23,356
- Covered employment, Mendocino County32,084
- Average annual pay, Mendocino County$53,903
- Average weekly wage, Mendocino County$1,037
- Housing units permitted, Mendocino County9
- Of those, single family, Mendocino County9
- County product, 2024, Mendocino County$4,692,543,000
- County product change over the prior year, Mendocino County5.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Mendocino County$81,776
Every figure in this section is published for Mendocino County as a whole and is not a measurement of Potter Valley. 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
Potter Valley questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Potter Valley, California?
436, in 194 households. Potter Valley CDP covers 4.03 square miles of land, which is 108 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Potter Valley in?
Mendocino 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 Potter Valley?
$121,071. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $635,900. Median gross rent is $1,629 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 Potter Valley figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Mendocino 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 Potter Valley.
Is zoning published for Potter Valley?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.