94305Stanford, California

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 94305.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 26% of 6,210 published ZIP areas67
Housing affordability6551st of 6,685 published ZIP areas30
ClimateTop 8% of 6,789 published ZIP areas89
Physical resilience5360th of 6,709 published ZIP areas25
AccessTop 25% of 6,791 published ZIP areas97
Economic stability6248th of 6,742 published ZIP areas29
The quick read

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 24.1 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 29% of it.

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

A major airport is 14 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
18,509
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$83,088
Top 34% nationally
Density
3,872/sq mi
4.8 sq mi of land
Median age
21.9
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Stanford
California
Metro area
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
Nearest major airport
SJC
14 mi · Norman Y Mineta San Jose Intl
Median home value
$2,000,001
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.0% is lower than 68% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.7% over the past year, to 979,881 employed residents.

92% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 99% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$25,193$83,088Top 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,618$42,424Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate14.9%Top 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute16.2 minBottom 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher92.2%Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment979,881Top 5%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.2%Top 48%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.7%Top 47%June 2026
Labor force1,020,290Top 5%June 2026
Labor force participation52.3%Bottom 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$119,230Top 1%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$84,050Top 1%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.4%Bottom 23%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.0%Bottom 32%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202483k67k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $83,088 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 Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Software Developers87,350$213,110
Home Health and Personal Care Aides49,610$37,640
Fast Food and Counter Workers23,060$44,570
Registered Nurses22,930$216,740
Computer and Information Systems Managers19,070$291,660
Retail Salespersons18,340$44,220

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 Stanford, CA, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 18.6 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
2
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Escondido ElementaryPalo Alto Unified43218.0
Lucille M. Nixon ElementaryPalo Alto Unified35019.4

14.1% 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 $2,014 takes 29% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 24.1 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
29.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
24.1×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,014
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$2,000,001
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income24.07Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate28.4%Bottom 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3934,002Top 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$145$2,014Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value$2,000,001Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income29.1%Top 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate18.4%Top 30%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

9 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 77°F and January a low of 42°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 13.4 inches.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MOFFETT FEDERAL AIRFIELD, 6.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND2.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index63.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation13.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low42°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high77°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months91991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10012024 calendar year
Median air quality index47.02024 calendar year
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

25 / 100
Physical resilience

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

EarthquakeHigh
Inland floodingHigh
DroughtModerate
Heat waveModerate
AvalancheModerate

Low or minimal exposure: landslide, wildfire, coastal flooding, tornado, lightning, hail, tsunami, volcanic activity, strong wind, 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.

Santa Clara County records 1.7 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 3.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 14.0 per 100,000 residents in Santa Clara County.

Homicide
1.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
3.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
14.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
7.1
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 Santa Clara 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 94305 rather than 94305 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

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 14 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Norman Y Mineta San Jose IntlSJC14 mi11,000 ft
San Francisco IntlSFO18 mi11,870 ft
Oakland San Francisco BayOAK21 mi10,520 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)
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.

94305 vs Stanford

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

94305
Stanford
Median household income
$83,088
vs
$75,208
Per capita income
$42,424
vs
$42,106
Population density
3,872/sq mi
vs
6,786/sq mi
Median home value
$2,000,001
vs
$2,000,001
Median gross rent
$2,014
vs
$1,976
Homeownership rate
28.4%
vs
26.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher
92.2%
vs
92.3%
Poverty rate
14.9%
vs
15.9%
Median age
21.9
vs
22.0

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.