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 count ...
in
San Luis Obispo County
San Luis Obispo County (), officially the County of San Luis Obispo, is a county on the Central Coast of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 282,424. The county seat is San Luis Obispo.
Junípero Serra founded the Miss ...
,
California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
. Garden Farms sits at an elevation of . The 2010 United States census reported Garden Farms's population was 386.
Garden Farms is a subdivision located between Santa Margarita and
Atascadero, California
Atascadero (Spanish for "Mire") is a city in San Luis Obispo County, California, about equidistant from Los Angeles and San Francisco on U.S. Route 101. Atascadero is part of the San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles metropolitan statistical area, which e ...
.
Geography
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the CDP covers an area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2), all of it land.
History
Garden Farms was developed in 1918 on land purchased from
Rancho Santa Margarita
:''This article refers to the San Luis Obispo County, California, land grant. For the city of Rancho Santa Margarita, see Rancho Santa Margarita, California''
Rancho Santa Margarita was a Mexican land grant in the Santa Lucia Mountains, in ...
by Edward Gardner Lewis, who planned the farms to supply produce to Atascadero. The recession after World War I intervened, and the plan failed.
Demographics
The
2010 United States Census
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reported that Garden Farms had a population of 386. The population density was . The racial makeup of Garden Farms was 348 (90.2%)
White
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, 2 (0.5%)
African American
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Pacific Islander
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, 21 (5.4%) from
other races
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, and 8 (2.1%) from two or more races.
Hispanic
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or Latino of any race were 40 persons (10.4%).
The Census reported that 386 people (100% of the population) lived in households, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.
There were 159 households, out of which 42 (26.4%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 86 (54.1%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 12 (7.5%) had a female householder with no husband present, 9 (5.7%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 8 (5.0%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 2 (1.3%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 38 households (23.9%) were made up of individuals, and 10 (6.3%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43. There were 107
families
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(67.3% of all households); the average family size was 2.88.
The population was spread out, with 80 people (20.7%) under the age of 18, 22 people (5.7%) aged 18 to 24, 84 people (21.8%) aged 25 to 44, 154 people (39.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 46 people (11.9%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 88.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.3 males.
There were 169 housing units at an average density of , of which 111 (69.8%) were owner-occupied, and 48 (30.2%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0%; the rental vacancy rate was 2.0%. 281 people (72.8% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 105 people (27.2%) lived in rental housing units.