Canoga Park, CA

ZIP code 91303 is assigned to Canoga Park, CA, and falls within Los Angeles County. Like every US postal code, it began as a mail-routing device rather than a geographic boundary — the US Postal Service groups delivery routes under a single code so carriers and sorting equipment can process mail efficiently. Today it also serves as a practical shorthand for the area itself: roughly 29,522 people live inside it.

At 13,958 residents per square mile spread over 2.115 square miles, 91303 reads as a dense urban area. It is a populous postal code, and density shapes almost everything else on this page — how people get to work, whether they own or rent, and what housing costs.

Household earnings track close to the national picture. The median of $76,051 puts 91303 near the middle of the pack, ahead of 60% of them. The US median for comparison is $70,109. Bear in mind that median income describes the midpoint household, not the average — it is not pulled upward by a handful of very high earners the way a mean would be.

Housing in 91303 costs far above the national median. A typical home is valued at $645,300 against a US median of $207,500, and median gross rent runs $1,983 a month. This is firmly renter territory — 79.3% of occupied homes are rented, a pattern typical of city centres, student areas and neighbourhoods with a lot of apartment stock.

The building stock is dominated by mid-sized apartment buildings, which account for 38.4% of housing units here. The median construction year is 1981, making the housing here from the later twentieth century.

The population skews younger than the country as a whole, with a median age of 32.6 against 42 nationally. The average household holds 2.82 people, and 59.8% are family households.

Getting to work takes 32.0 minutes on average one way. The dominant mode is drove alone at 66.8% of workers, while 11.0% work from home. Commute patterns are one of the better proxies for how a place actually functions day to day.

Beyond addressing mail, 91303 does a lot of quiet administrative work. Retailers use it to calculate shipping and sales tax at checkout. Insurers use it to set premiums, since risk profiles vary geographically. Employers and marketers use it to define service areas. Government agencies use it to route benefits and organise reporting. If you have ever been asked for a postal code by a form that clearly does not intend to send you anything, this is why.

For anyone weighing a move, 91303 offers a compact profile of Canoga Park: 29,522 residents, a median household income of $76,051, 24.7% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher, and an unemployment rate of 6.9%. A handful of figures like these answer more relocation questions than most neighbourhood guides do.

One caution worth repeating: a postal code is not a neighbourhood. 91303 may cover parts of several distinct areas, and a single neighbourhood in Canoga Park may be split across more than one code. Boundaries also shift as USPS adjusts delivery routes. Treat the figures here as describing a delivery area, which is what they actually measure.