AreaProfile

92301Adelanto, California

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 92301.

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Area Score
Bottom 1% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity5918th of 6,210 published ZIP areas25
Growth5090th of 5,428 published ZIP areas19
Housing affordability5092nd of 6,685 published ZIP areas61
Climate5613th of 6,789 published ZIP areas61
Physical resilience6522nd of 6,709 published ZIP areas7
Access5355th of 6,791 published ZIP areas80
Economic stability5581st of 6,742 published ZIP areas38
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 7.4% and the Opportunity signal places 92301 in the bottom 5%.

Residential permitting has slowed: 11 units authorized over the past twelve months, 71% below the prior year.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by inland flooding, earthquake and wildfire.

At a glance

Population
38,577
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$68,676
Bottom 45% nationally
Density
172/sq mi
224.8 sq mi of land
Median age
29.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Adelanto
California
Metro area
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
Nearest major airport
ONT
41 mi · Ontario Intl
Median home value
$348,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 7.4% is lower than 2% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.4% over the past year, to 12,696 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,303$68,676Bottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,419$20,278Bottom 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate17.3%Top 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute47.9 minTop 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher7.7%Bottom 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment12,696Bottom 6%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.4%Bottom 44%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.4%Bottom 36%June 2026
Labor force13,716Bottom 6%June 2026
Labor force participation55.9%Bottom 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$65,160Bottom 36%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$48,400Bottom 29%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.6%Bottom 15%June 2026
Unemployment rate7.4%Top 2%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202469k58k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $68,676 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides102,760$34,320
Stockers and Order Fillers77,160$43,200
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand69,820$46,060
Fast Food and Counter Workers51,310$42,280
Retail Salespersons41,270$36,720
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers40,230$60,580

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Adelanto, CA, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 22.9 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
22.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Taylion High Desert Academy/Adelanto · charterTaylion High Desert Academy/Adelanto District80324.3
Columbia MiddleAdelanto Elementary75421.5
George Visual and Performing Arts Magnet and MiddleAdelanto Elementary68524.5
Victoria Magathan ElementaryAdelanto Elementary55124.0
Eagle Ranch ElementaryAdelanto Elementary53524.3
Theodore Vick ElementaryAdelanto Elementary49422.5
Westside Park ElementaryAdelanto Elementary48122.9
Donald F. Bradach ElementaryAdelanto Elementary40824.0
Desert Trails Preparatory Academy · charterDesert Trails Preparatory Academy District34517.3
Adelanto ElementaryAdelanto Elementary26724.3
El MirageAdelanto Elementary12821.3

76.8% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against California’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,433 takes 25% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.1 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
25.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.1×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,433
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$348,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income5.07Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate62.2%Bottom 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±43110,155Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$115$1,433Top 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$11,105$348,100Top 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income25.0%Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate7.0%Bottom 33%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
19/ 100
Ranks 5090 of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.3 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
11
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.3
Bottom 11% nationally
Year over year
−71%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Adelanto, CA, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 98°F and January a low of 33°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 5.9 inches.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station PALMDALE AP, 31.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND1.5"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation5.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low33°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high98°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing38°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

7 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, earthquake and wildfire.

WildfireHigh
EarthquakeHigh
Inland floodingHigh
AvalancheModerate

Low or minimal exposure: landslide, heat wave, strong wind, lightning, hail, tornado, winter weather, drought, volcanic activity, cold wave.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. Reported crime is also easy to misread: agency participation varies year to year, and a city that draws a large daytime workforce carries incidents its residents did not generate.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

7 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 41 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Ontario IntlONT41 mi12,197 ft
San Bernardino IntlSBD42 mi10,000 ft
Mojave Air & Space Port/Rutan FldMHV45 mi12,503 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

92301 vs Adelanto

How this ZIP area compares with Adelanto as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

92301
Adelanto
Median household income
$68,676
vs
$68,685
Per capita income
$20,278
vs
$20,204
Population density
172/sq mi
vs
718/sq mi
Median home value
$348,100
vs
$349,100
Median gross rent
$1,433
vs
$1,437
Homeownership rate
62.2%
vs
61.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher
7.7%
vs
7.7%
Poverty rate
17.3%
vs
17.2%
Median age
29.7
vs
29.6

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.