Tuolumne County, California: commercial real estate data.

Tuolumne County

How many people live in Tuolumne County

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202454,498
• Households22,690
• Average household size2.40
• Median household income$77,404
• Median age48.4
• Median gross rent$1,302 per month
• Median owner-occupied home value$433,200
• Home value to household income5.6 times
• Annual rent as a share of median income20.2 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher24.6 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.5 percent
• Adults 25 and over41,675
• Population under 189,305
• Share under 1817.1 percent
• Population 65 and over15,339
• Share 65 and over28.1 percent
• Working age population, 18 to 6429,854
• Civilian labor force22,881
• Unemployment rate8.2 percent
• Labor force participation, adults 18 and over50.6 percent
• Rank by population among California counties43rd of 58
• Rank by population among US county-equivalents, Puerto Rico included955th of 3,222

Tuolumne County is the 43rd largest of 58 California counties by population. A median home costs 5.6 times median household income, which is severely unaffordable by national standards. Residents 65 and over outnumber those under 18, at 28.1 percent against 17.1 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 Tuolumne County from?

• Tax returns filed by households arriving1,497
• People arriving, from those returns2,575
• Tax returns filed by households leaving1,519
• Net household movement-22
• Adjusted gross income arriving$122.4 m
• Net adjusted gross income movement$-6.2 m
• Average income of an arriving household$81,794
• Average income of a leaving household$84,720
• Largest single originStanislaus County (228 households)
• Largest single destinationStanislaus County (105 households)

Households arriving report $2,926 less average income than households leaving, which drains spending power even where headcount holds up. The largest single source of arrivals is Stanislaus 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 Tuolumne County

• Covered employment, annual average18,221
• Establishments reporting1,890
• Average annual pay$58,725
• Average weekly wage$1,129
• Health care and social assistance, employment2,769
• Health care and social assistance, average annual pay$67,074
• Retail trade, employment2,358
• Retail trade, average annual pay$42,787
• Accommodation and food services, employment2,118
• Accommodation and food services, average annual pay$31,326
• Construction, employment910
• Construction, average annual pay$74,662
• Manufacturing, employment782
• Administrative and support and waste management services, employment630

Health care and social assistance is the largest private sector at 2,769 jobs, 15.2 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 Tuolumne County

• Housing units authorized by permit, 202462
• Declared construction value permitted$19.5 m
• Single family units authorized62
• Multifamily units authorized0
• Multifamily share of units0.0 percent
• Average declared value per unit$314,455
• Units authorized per 1,000 households2.7

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 Tuolumne County

Do SBA loans in Tuolumne County get paid back?

• Loans with a final outcome recorded7
• Paid in full7
• Charged off0
• Status: Exempt from disclosure27
• Status: Paid in full7
• Status: Cancelled9
• Status: Committed, not yet disbursed7

Only 7 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 Tuolumne County?

• Land area2,221 sq mi
• Rank by land area among California counties23rd of 58
• Width, east to west79.2 mi
• Height, north to south55.2 mi
• Geographies sharing a boundary6
• Residents per square mile of land25
• Establishments per square mile0.57

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 Tuolumne 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 Tuolumne County site starts with the figures you are reading, carrying the same source and period into the credit file.

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202454,498
• Households22,690
• Average household size2.40
• Median household income$77,404
• Median age48.4

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Cities and places in Tuolumne.

19 Census places lie wholly or partly in Tuolumne County. All 19 carry enough published place level data for a page of their own and are linked.

A further 1 of the county's 50 SBA 7(a) approvals are to borrowers in cities that match no Census place in Tuolumne County, the largest being Copperopolis (1). Those are postal cities, unincorporated areas and cities outside the county, so no place row claims them; they are counted in the county total above.