93060Santa Paula, California

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 93060.

51out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 19% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity5470th of 6,210 published ZIP areas33
GrowthTop 9% of 5,428 published ZIP areas75
Housing affordability6162nd of 6,685 published ZIP areas44
ClimateTop 4% of 6,789 published ZIP areas100
Physical resilience6077th of 6,709 published ZIP areas13
Access5080th of 6,791 published ZIP areas83
Economic stability3755th of 6,742 published ZIP areas57
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 5.2% and the Opportunity signal places 93060 in the bottom 12%.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 364 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 27% on the prior year.

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

At a glance

Population
34,501
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$80,979
Top 37% nationally
Density
373/sq mi
92.4 sq mi of land
Median age
35.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Santa Paula
California
Metro area
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA
Nearest major airport
VNY
36 mi · Van Nuys
Median home value
$635,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.2% is lower than 22% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 2.1% over the past year, to 14,360 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$5,866$80,979Top 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,816$32,984Bottom 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate13.5%Top 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute29.3 minTop 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher16.0%Bottom 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment14,360Bottom 9%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.4%Bottom 44%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-2.1%Bottom 16%June 2026
Labor force15,146Bottom 9%June 2026
Labor force participation64.3%Top 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$71,810Top 33%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$52,510Top 37%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.4%Bottom 27%June 2026
Unemployment rate5.2%Top 22%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202481k69k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $80,979 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 — Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides15,250$34,320
Fast Food and Counter Workers9,520$42,370
Retail Salespersons8,270$36,880
Cashiers7,620$36,150
General and Operations Managers5,770$103,870
Office Clerks, General5,750$48,370

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 Santa Paula, CA, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 20.8 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
13
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
20.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Santa Paula HighSanta Paula Unified1,49421.7
Glen City ElementarySanta Paula Unified67522.5
Isbell MiddleSanta Paula Unified63421.1
Grace Thille ElementarySanta Paula Unified35822.4
Barbara Webster ElementarySanta Paula Unified32518.1
Blanchard ElementarySanta Paula Unified31718.6
McKevett ElementarySanta Paula Unified30021.4
Thelma Bedell ElementarySanta Paula Unified29418.4
Olivelands ElementaryBriggs Elementary23621.5
Briggs ElementaryBriggs Elementary22118.4
Mupu ElementaryMupu Elementary17517.5
Renaissance HighSanta Paula Unified11322.6

81.5% 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 $1,736 takes 26% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 7.8 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
25.7%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
7.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,736
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$635,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income7.84Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate56.0%Bottom 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±48911,111Top 14%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$73$1,736Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$24,195$635,100Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income25.7%Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.2%Bottom 24%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
75/ 100
Top 9% 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.

At 11.6 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
364
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
11.6
Top 8% nationally
Year over year
+27%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
58.8%
units in 5+ unit buildings

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

Weather & climate

12 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 78°F and January a low of 45°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 12.0 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 50, in the Good band, and about 15 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station CAMARILLO AP, 10.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND2.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index84.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation12.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low45°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high78°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months121991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 100152024 calendar year
Median air quality index50.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing14°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
50
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
84
90th percentile index
Days above 100
15
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

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. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

13 / 100
Physical resilience

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

WildfireHigh
EarthquakeHigh
Inland floodingHigh
Heat waveModerate
AvalancheModerate

Low or minimal exposure: landslide, drought, lightning, coastal flooding, hail, tsunami, strong wind, tornado, cold wave, winter weather.

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.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Ventura County records 2.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 6.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 21.0 per 100,000 residents in Ventura County.

Homicide
2.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
6.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
21.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
12.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Ventura County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 93060 rather than 93060 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

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.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences 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. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
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 36 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Van NuysVNY36 mi8,001 ft
Los Angeles IntlLAX49 mi12,923 ft
Long Beach (Daugherty Fld)LGB66 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
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)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
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
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

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.

93060 vs Santa Paula

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

93060
Santa Paula
Median household income
$80,979
vs
$79,294
Per capita income
$32,984
vs
$32,457
Population density
373/sq mi
vs
5,674/sq mi
Median home value
$635,100
vs
$611,200
Median gross rent
$1,736
vs
$1,736
Homeownership rate
56.0%
vs
55.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher
16.0%
vs
15.1%
Poverty rate
13.5%
vs
14.2%
Median age
35.7
vs
35.7

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.