91941Casa de Oro-Mount Helix, California

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 91941.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 35% of 6,210 published ZIP areas62
Housing affordability5821st of 6,685 published ZIP areas50
ClimateTop 4% of 6,789 published ZIP areas100
Physical resilience6459th of 6,709 published ZIP areas8
Access6425th of 6,791 published ZIP areas56
Economic stabilityTop 32% of 6,742 published ZIP areas69
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.4% and median household income $115,381, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 8.0 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 22% of it.

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

At a glance

Population
33,218
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$115,381
Top 11% nationally
Density
4,040/sq mi
8.2 sq mi of land
Median age
41.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Casa de Oro-Mount Helix
California
Metro area
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
Nearest major airport
TRM
77 mi · Jacqueline Cochran Rgnl
Median home value
$928,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.4% is lower than 52% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.1% over the past year, to 1,567,556 employed residents.

47% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 86% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 89% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$5,641$115,381Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,838$57,539Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate7.2%Bottom 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute26.9 minBottom 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher47.2%Top 14%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment1,567,556Top 4%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.1%Bottom 48%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.1%Bottom 43%June 2026
Labor force1,640,465Top 4%June 2026
Labor force participation63.4%Top 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$79,060Top 16%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$58,690Top 21%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.3%Bottom 31%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.4%Bottom 48%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024115k100k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $115,381 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 — San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides57,080$35,300
Fast Food and Counter Workers42,550$42,190
Retail Salespersons34,390$37,810
Cashiers30,420$37,020
Registered Nurses28,680$139,520
Office Clerks, General28,470$49,920

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 Casa de Oro-Mount Helix, CA, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 24.4 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
9
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
24.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Helix High · charterHelix High District2,55423.4
Murdock ElementaryLa Mesa-Spring Valley60824.3
Avocado ElementaryCajon Valley Union57326.0
Vista La Mesa AcademyLemon Grove51824.7
Lemon Avenue ElementaryLa Mesa-Spring Valley50227.9
The Learning Choice Academy - East County · charterThe Learning Choice Academy - East County District46621.2
La Mesa Dale ElementaryLa Mesa-Spring Valley46027.1
Maryland Avenue ElementaryLa Mesa-Spring Valley45123.7
Rolando ElementaryLa Mesa-Spring Valley37128.5

62.3% 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 $2,147 takes 22% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 8.0 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
22.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
8.0×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,147
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$928,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income8.05Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate67.5%Bottom 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±74113,184Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$117$2,147Top 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$24,904$928,700Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income22.3%Top 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate4.1%Bottom 18%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 →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

12 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 80°F and January a low of 46°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 11.0 inches.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station SAN DIEGO MONTGOMERY FLD, 9.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND2.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation11.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low46°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high80°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months121991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing17°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

8 / 100
Physical resilience

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

WildfireHigh
Inland floodingModerate
EarthquakeHigh
Heat waveModerate
AvalancheModerate

Low or minimal exposure: landslide, lightning, hail, coastal flooding, tornado, drought, tsunami, strong wind, winter weather, volcanic activity, hurricane, 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

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 77 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Jacqueline Cochran RgnlTRM77 mi8,500 ft
Palm Springs IntlPSP79 mi10,000 ft
San Bernardino IntlSBD93 mi10,000 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
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
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.

91941 vs Casa de Oro-Mount Helix

How this ZIP area compares with Casa de Oro-Mount Helix as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

91941
Casa de Oro-Mount Helix
Median household income
$115,381
vs
$125,107
Per capita income
$57,539
vs
$61,838
Population density
4,040/sq mi
vs
2,885/sq mi
Median home value
$928,700
vs
$952,400
Median gross rent
$2,147
vs
$1,973
Homeownership rate
67.5%
vs
78.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher
47.2%
vs
46.5%
Poverty rate
7.2%
vs
4.8%
Median age
41.0
vs
43.4

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.