Mission Hills is a

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(CDP) in

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, a short distance north of

Lompoc Lompoc ( ; Chumashan ) is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Located on the Central Coast, its population was 43,834 as of July 2021. Lompoc has been inhabited for thousands of years by the Chumash people, who called t ...

on Highway 1. The population was 3,576 at the 2010 census, up from 3,142 at the 2000 census.

Geography

Mission Hills is located at (34.689313, −120.436150). According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , 99.36% of it land and 0.64% of it water.

Demographics

2020

The 2020 United States census reported that Mission Hills had a population of 3,571. The population density was . The racial makeup of Mission Hills was 60.3%

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, 3.0%

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, 2.0% Native American, 3.2% Asian, 0.3%

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, 12.5% from other races, and 18.8% from two or more races.

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of any race were 34.0% of the population. The whole population lived in households. There were 1,184 households, out of which 30.2% included children under the age of 18, 59.0% were married-couple households, 5.3% were

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couple households, 20.4% had a female householder with no partner present, and 15.4% had a male householder with no partner present. 17.1% of households were one person, and 9.8% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 3.02. There were 895

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(75.6% of all households). The age distribution was 22.7% under the age of 18, 8.1% aged 18 to 24, 20.9% aged 25 to 44, 29.5% aged 45 to 64, and 18.8% who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 43.4years. For every 100 females, there were 107.9 males. There were 1,226 housing units at an average density of , of which 1,184 (96.6%) were occupied. Of these, 83.4% were owner-occupied, and 16.6% were occupied by renters. In 2023, the US Census Bureau estimated that the median household income was $106,455, and the

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was $41,820. About 4.1% of families and 4.9% of the population were below the poverty line.

2010

At the 2010 census Mission Hills had a population of 3,576. The population density was . The racial makeup of Mission Hills was 2,689 (75.2%) White; 91 (2.5%) African American; 74 (2.1%) Native American; 125 (3.5%) Asian; 9 (0.3%) Pacific Islander; 386 (10.8%) from other races; and 202 (5.6%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1,137 persons (31.8%). The whole population lived in households, no one lived in non-institutionalized group quarters and no one was institutionalized. There were 1,182 households, 447 (37.8%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 785 (66.4%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 115 (9.7%) had a female householder with no husband present, 65 (5.5%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 59 (5.0%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 2 (0.2%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 165 households (14.0%) were one person and 94 (8.0%) had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 3.03. There were 965 families (81.6% of households); the average family size was 3.30. The age distribution was 954 people (26.7%) under the age of 18, 297 people (8.3%) aged 18 to 24, 755 people (21.1%) aged 25 to 44, 1,043 people (29.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 527 people (14.7%) who were 65 or older. The median age was 40.0 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.9 males. There were 1,223 housing units at an average density of 988.7 per square mile, of the occupied units 1,002 (84.8%) were owner-occupied and 180 (15.2%) were rented. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0.7%; the rental vacancy rate was 2.2%. 2,878 people (80.5% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 698 people (19.5%) lived in rental housing units.

References

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