Garden FarmsCA
Some 241 people live in this town, in California.
Is Garden Farms a good place to live?
37% of residents live below the poverty line in Garden Farms, above both California’s towns (10%) and U.S. towns (9.6%). Garden Farms has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.
241 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
Hearst Castle and 12 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Garden Farms. Close and well known come first.
Big draw36 mi State parkHearst Castle
10 mi MuseumMission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa14 mi LandmarkLanding of the first Filipinos
23 mi MuseumMission San Miguel Arcángel
18 mi State parkMontaña de Oro State Park5 mi Zoo & aquariumCharles Paddock ZooPhoto credits
Hearst Castle: No machine-readable author provided. Urban~commonswiki assumed (based on copyrig, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa: Stephen Lea, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mission San Miguel Arcángel: Jsweida, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Montaña de Oro State Park: BorisFromStockdale, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Garden Farms: who provides what
Garden Farms is unincorporated, so San Luis Obispo County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Garden Farms.
Garden Farms skews older than California
24% never finished high school. People 65 and older are nearly two in five residents (16% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 8% of residents (24% statewide). For adults 25 and older in Garden Farms, the share who hold a bachelor’s degree or more is 28%.
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 0% and 63% women
The Census survey reached too few of Garden Farms’ residents to say more: its margin here is ±32.5 points. Across California, 50.1% of residents are women.
| Garden Farms | CA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 17.4% | 11.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 0% | 10.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 0% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 8.3% | 14.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 16.2% | 13.9% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 19.5% | 12.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 0% | 12.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 12.9% | 9.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 25.7% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 23.6% | 15.3% | 10.4% |
| High school | 9.5% | 20.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 17.6% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 21.6% | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 17.1% | 22.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 10.6% | 14.4% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 200, single groups can be off by several points
Top of a very high hazard risk in Garden Farms: inland flooding
Half of Garden Farms’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by wildfires at 33%. FEMA expects more storm and flood damage here than in 96% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Garden Farms’ workers commute out
The top destinations are San Luis Obispo (22%), Atascadero (16%) and El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) (8%). Half commute less than 13 miles.
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Garden Farms, expect mild winters and pleasant summers
July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 38° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
How healthy Garden Farms is
Garden Farms: 30% of adults sleep under 7 hours. Against the California average, Garden Farms comes out ahead on 15 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 4. Two figures for adults here: 31% feel lonely, 18% get no exercise outside work.
| Garden Farms | Typical California town | Typical U.S. town | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 35% | 36% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 36% | 33% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 24% | 25% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 29% | 35% |
| What stands out | Garden Farms | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.4% | 10.6% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.3% | 17.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.3% | 6.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The median home in Garden Farms sells for about $805K
84% of households are owner-occupiers in Garden Farms.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Garden Farms
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Garden Farms
About 7 of every 100 Garden Farms residents are enrolled in college, about the same as California.
100% of working residents leave Garden Farms for work
Where Garden Farms’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Garden Farms
Census-designated place in California, United States
Garden Farms is a census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California. Garden Farms sits at an elevation of 955 feet (291 m). The 2020 United States census reported Garden Farms's population was 449. Garden Farms is a subdivision located between Santa Margarita and Atascadero, California.
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- Area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Elevation
- 955 ft
- Area code
- 805
Questions about Garden Farms
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Garden Farms, CA a good place to live?
Garden Farms has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real. Some 241 people live in this town, in California.