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 ...
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 United States census, the population was 282,424. The county seat is San Luis Obispo.
Junípero Serra fou ...
,
California
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. Garden Farms sits at an elevation of . The 2020 United States census reported Garden Farms's population was 449.
Garden Farms is a
subdivision
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Atascadero, California
Atascadero ( Spanish for "Mire") is a city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States, located on U.S. Route 101. Atascadero is part of the San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses the extents of t ...
.
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
Rancho Santa Margarita was a Ranchos of California, Mexican land grant in the Santa Lucia Range, Santa Lucia Mountains, in present day San Luis Obispo County, California, San Luis Obispo County, central California.
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by
Edward Gardner Lewis
Edward Gardner Lewis (March 4, 1869 – August 10, 1950) was an American magazine publisher, land development promoter, and political activist. He was the founder of two planned communities that are now cities: University City, Missouri, and Atas ...
, who planned the farms to supply produce to Atascadero. The recession after World War I intervened, and the plan failed.
Demographics
The 2020 United States census reported that Garden Farms had a population of 449. The population density was . The racial makeup of Garden Farms was 381 (84.9%)
White
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, 0 (0.0%)
African American
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Pacific Islander
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, 20 (4.5%) from other races, and 39 (8.7%) from two or more races.
Hispanic or Latino
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of any race were 58 persons (12.9%).
The whole population lived in households. There were 174 households, out of which 49 (28.2%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 81 (46.6%) were married-couple households, 10 (5.7%) were
cohabiting
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couple households, 54 (31.0%) had a female householder with no partner present, and 29 (16.7%) had a male householder with no partner present. 58 households (33.3%) were one person, and 18 (10.3%) were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.58. There were 105
families
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(60.3% of all households).
The age distribution was 98 people (21.8%) under the age of 18, 16 people (3.6%) aged 18 to 24, 99 people (22.0%) aged 25 to 44, 113 people (25.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 123 people (27.4%) who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 48.3years. For every 100 females, there were 96.9 males.
There were 182 housing units at an average density of , of which 174 (95.6%) were occupied. Of these, 116 (66.7%) were owner-occupied, and 58 (33.3%) were occupied by renters.