Kennedy Meadows is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in

Tulare County, California Tulare County ( ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 473,117. The county seat is Visalia. The county is named for Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great La ...

, United States, part of the Springville-Johnsondale

CCD CCD may refer to: Science and technology * Charge-coupled device, an electronic light sensor used in various devices including digital cameras * .ccd, the filename extension for CloneCD's CD image file * Carbonate compensation depth, a property ...

, and consists of the community surrounding Kennedy Meadows. The CDP is located to the south-east of the Kennedy Meadows Campground. The 2020 United States census reported Kennedy Meadows's population of permanent residents at 58, up from 28 at the 2010 census. The census definition of the area may not precisely correspond to local understanding of the area with the same name. The Kennedy Meadows area is at approximately 6200 feet elevation. The most common access route is by the steep Sherman Pass Road from U.S. Route 395 near Pearsonville. Other routes are possible but much slower. Kennedy Meadows sits on the

Pacific Crest Trail The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), officially designated as the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, is a long-distance hiking and equestrian trail closely aligned with the highest portion of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges, which lie ...

, from the trail's southern terminus. The ''Pacific Crest Trail Data Book'' uses Kennedy Meadows as the dividing point between the dry

Southern California Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and Cultural area, cultural List of regions of California, region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Its densely populated coastal reg ...

section and the high passes of the

Sierra Nevada The Sierra Nevada ( ) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primari ...

Geography

According to the

United States Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal statistical system, U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and American economy, econ ...

, the Kennedy Meadows CDP covers an area of , and is geographically located at the coordinates of 36°00'28.0"N 118°06'36.0"W and an altitude of .

Demographics

The 2020 United States census reported that Kennedy Meadows had a population of 58. The population density was . The racial makeup of Kennedy Meadows was 53 (91%)

White White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wa ...

, 0 (0%)

African American African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...

, 1 (2%) Native American, 0 (0%) Asian, 0 (0%)

Pacific Islander Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the list of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Islands. As an ethnic group, ethnic/race (human categorization), racial term, it is used to describe th ...

, 2 (3%) from other races, and 2 (3%) from two or more races.

Hispanic or Latino ''Hispanic'' and '' Latino'' are ethnonyms used to refer collectively to the inhabitants of the United States who are of Spanish or Latin American ancestry (). While many use the terms interchangeably, for example, the United States Census Bureau ...

of any race were 3 persons (5%). The whole population lived in households. There were 33 households, out of which 2 (6%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 16 (48%) were married-couple households, 4 (12%) were

cohabiting Cohabitation is an arrangement where people who are not legally married live together as a couple. They are often involved in a romantic or sexually intimate relationship on a long-term or permanent basis. Such arrangements have become incr ...

couple households, 3 (9%) had a female householder with no partner present, and 10 (30%) had a male householder with no partner present. 12 households (36%) were one person, and 10 (30%) were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 1.76. There were 17

families Family (from ) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictability, structure, and safety as ...

(52% of all households). The age distribution was 5 people (9%) under the age of 18, 4 people (7%) aged 18 to 24, 7 people (12%) aged 25 to 44, 16 people (28%) aged 45 to 64, and 26 people (45%) who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 61.5years. There were 31 males and 27 females. There were 128 housing units at an average density of , of which 33 (26%) were occupied. Of these, 20 (61%) were owner-occupied, and 13 (39%) were occupied by renters.

References

{{authority control Census-designated places in Tulare County, California Census-designated places in California