Average Family Income (Median Income) in California

Change Indicator

Average Family Income (Median Income)

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Note: Non-consecutive years appear adjacent in the trend line
because one or more years have been deselected.

Definitions: Provides the income midpoint for households with children residing in the home. Half of household with children have incomes above the median and half have incomes that fall below the dollar amount provided.

Data Source:

Provides the income midpoint for households with children residing in the home. Estimates based on U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, five-year estimates.

Footnotes:

Asterisks*

An asterisk indicates that data should be interpreted with caution. Asterisks were used to note low number of events (fewer than 10) or unstable data with large confidence intervals. Data or estimates with low numbers and large confidence intervals indicate that a data point may not be a true representation of the larger population.

NA (Not Available)

Data that are not available are noted as NA. The most frequent reasons for using the NA annotation include the unavailability of longitudinal data, data suppression from the original data source due to a low number event, or statistically unstable estimates.