Whitley GardensCA
The town has 244 residents and lies in California.
Is Whitley Gardens a good place to live?
68% of residents live below the poverty line in Whitley Gardens, against 10% in California’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. Among 847 California towns, just 4 have a lower typical household income than Whitley Gardens. Whitley Gardens has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.
244 people, and everyone knows the way
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The data
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Whitley Gardens faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by drought
The FEMA risk score for Whitley Gardens is 97 of 100. FEMA puts 54% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to drought, and 22% to inland flooding.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Whitley Gardens has 0.2 jobs per working resident, so most workers leave town for work
0.8% of Whitley Gardens working residents work locally. The top destinations are El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) (20%), San Luis Obispo (10%) and Atascadero (7%).
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2024 · ACS
Whitley Gardens has mild winters and hot summers
The midsummer high here in the town is 93°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
How healthy Whitley Gardens is
Among adults in Whitley Gardens, 15% report frequent physical distress. This California town does better than the California average on 8 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 7. In Whitley Gardens, nearly three quarters of adults had a checkup this year, and 29% have obesity.
| Whitley Gardens | Typical California town | Typical U.S. town | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 35% | 36% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 74% | 72% | 79% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 29% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 24% | 25% |
| What stands out | Whitley Gardens | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 7.4% | 10.6% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 13% | 17.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.6% | 6.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The median home in Whitley Gardens sells for about $825K
For households in Whitley Gardens, the share who own their home is 55%.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Whitley Gardens
Hearst Castle and 11 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Whitley Gardens. Close and well known come first.
Big draw37 mi State parkHearst Castle
12 mi MuseumMission San Miguel Arcángel28 mi LandmarkLanding of the first Filipinos
27 mi MuseumMission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
34 mi State parkMontaña de Oro State Park6 mi MuseumEstrella Warbird MuseumPhoto credits
Hearst Castle: No machine-readable author provided. Urban~commonswiki assumed (based on copyrig, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mission San Miguel Arcángel: Jsweida, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa: Stephen Lea, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Montaña de Oro State Park: BorisFromStockdale, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Whitley Gardens: who provides what
Whitley Gardens 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.
99% of working residents leave Whitley Gardens for work
Where Whitley Gardens’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2024
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Whitley Gardens; the nearest are
About 0 of every 100 Whitley Gardens residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
About Whitley Gardens
Census-designated place in California, United States
Whitley Gardens is a census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California. Whitley Gardens sits at an elevation of 896 feet (273 m). The 2020 United States census reported Whitley Gardens's population was 325.
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- Area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 896 ft
- Area code
- 805
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