List of populated places in Kern County, California

The following is a list of populated places in Kern County, California.

Population reported at 2010 United States Census
The County	Total Population	White	African American	Native American	Asian	Pacific Islander	other races Race (United States Census) Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the Federal Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are...	two or more races	Hispanic or Latino (of any race)
Kern County	839,631	499,766	48,921	12,676	34,846	1,252	204,314	37,856	413,033
Incorporated city	Total Population	White	African American	Native American	Asian	Pacific Islander	other races Race (United States Census) Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the Federal Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are...	two or more races	Hispanic or Latino (of any race)
Arvin Arvin, California Arvin is a city in Kern County, in the United States. Arvin is located southeast of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 449 feet . As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,304, up from 12,956 at the 2000 census....	19,304	10,247	192	240	155	6	7,655	809	17,892
Bakersfield Bakersfield, California Bakersfield is a city near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley in Kern County, California. It is roughly equidistant between Fresno and Los Angeles, to the north and south respectively....	347,483	197,349	28,368	5,102	21,432	478	77,686	17,068	158,205
California City California City, California -2000:According to the census of 2000, there were 8,385 people, 3,067 households, and 2,257 families residing in the city. As of 2006 the city's population grew 8.9% from 12,106 to 13,219. California City outpaced rivals Palmdale and Lancaster, making the city the 12th fastest growing city in...	14,120	9,188	2,150	132	367	59	1,431	793	5,385
Delano Delano, California Delano's climate is characteristic of the San Joaquin Valley. The weather is hot and dry during the summer and cool and damp in winter. Frequent ground fog known regionally as "tule fog" can obscure vision. Record temperatures range between 115°F and 14°F...	53,041	19,304	4,191	501	6,757	30	20,307	1,951	37,913
Maricopa Maricopa, California Maricopa is a city in Kern County, California, United States. Maricopa is located south-southeast of Taft, at an elevation of 883 feet . The population was 1,154 at the 2010 census, up from 1,111 at the 2000 census. Maricopa lies at the junction of Route 166 and Route 33...	1,154	958	1	27	16	2	112	38	232
McFarland McFarland, California McFarland is a city in the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California, United States. McFarland is located south of Delano, at an elevation of 354 feet . The population was 12,707 at the 2010 census, up from 9,618 at the 2000 census.-History:The first post office opened in 1908. McFarland...	12,707	5,433	236	171	84	6	6,330	447	11,625
Ridgecrest Ridgecrest, California Ridgecrest, formerly known as Crumville, was incorporated as a city in 1913. It is located in the Indian Wells Valley in northeastern Kern County, California, adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake . Ridgecrest is the only incorporated city along US 395 in Kern County...	27,616	21,387	1,113	341	1,209	143	1,836	1,587	4,941
Shafter Shafter, California Shafter is a city in Kern County, California, United States. It is located west-northwest of Bakersfield. The population was 16,988 at the 2010 census, up from 12,736 at the 2000 census. Wired telephone numbers in Shafter follow the format 746-xxxx and the ZIP Code is 93263.The city is located...	16,988	8,150	219	198	111	19	7,645	646	13,634
Taft Taft, California Taft is a city in the foothills at the extreme southwestern edge of the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California. Taft is located west-southwest of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 955 feet . The population was 9,327 at the 2010 census...	9,327	7,388	396	118	93	65	1,023	244	3,353
Tehachapi Tehachapi, California Tehachapi is a city incorporated in 1909 located in the Tehachapi Mountains between Bakersfield and Mojave in Kern County, California. Tehachapi is located east-southeast of Bakersfield, at an elevation of...	14,414	9,426	1,297	206	238	21	2,725	501	5,466
Wasco Wasco, California Wasco is a city in the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California, United States. Wasco is located northwest of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 328 feet...	25,545	12,579	1,951	283	180	12	9,714	826	19,585
Census-designated place Census-designated place A census-designated place is a concentration of population identified by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes. CDPs are delineated for each decennial census as the statistical counterparts of incorporated places such as cities, towns and villages...	Total Population	White	African American	Native American	Asian	Pacific Islander	other races Race (United States Census) Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the Federal Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are...	two or more races	Hispanic or Latino (of any race)
Bear Valley Springs Bear Valley Springs, California Bear Valley Springs is both a census-designated place and Community Service District in the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, California, United States. The population was 5,172 at the 2010 census, up from 4,232 at the 2000 census. Bear Valley Springs' Elevation ranges from to 6,934 feet...	5,172	4,776	74	46	57	3	89	127	399
Bodfish Bodfish, California Bodfish is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Bodfish is located east-northeast of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 2687 feet...	1,956	1,758	4	50	13	3	49	79	189
Boron Boron, California Boron is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Boron is located east-southeast of Castle Butte, at an elevation of 2467 feet . The population was 2,253 at the 2010 census, up from 2,025 at the 2000 census...	2,253	1,746	162	49	47	4	141	104	406
Buttonwillow Buttonwillow, California Buttonwillow is a census-designated place in the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California, United States. Buttonwilliow is located west of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 269 feet . The population was 1,508 at the 2010 census, up from 1,266 at the 2000 census...	1,508	534	36	11	10	0	890	27	1,183
Cherokee Strip Cherokee Strip, California Cherokee Strip is a census-designated place in Kern County, California. It is located south-southeast of Shafter, at an elevation of 331 feet . The population was 227 at the 2010 census.-Demographics:...	227	84	0	4	0	0	117	22	187
China Lake Acres China Lake Acres, California China Lake Acres is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. The population was 1,876 at the 2010 census, up from 1,761 at the 2000 census.- Geography :China Lake Acres is located at ....	1,876	1,601	35	29	16	7	84	104	265
Derby Acres Derby Acres, California Derby Acres is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Derby Acres is located north-northwest of Fellows, at an elevation of 1375 feet . The population was 322 at the 2010 census, down from 376 at the 2000 census...	322	289	0	1	0	0	23	9	36
Dustin Acres Dustin Acres, California Dustin Acres is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Dustin Acres is located north-northeast of Taft, at an elevation of 384 feet...	652	539	4	9	1	0	71	28	129
Edmundson Acres Edmundson Acres, California Edmundson Acres is a census-designated place in Kern County, California. It is located north-northeast of Arvin, at an elevation of 486 feet . Edmundson Acres' ZIP code is 93203. The population was 279 at the 2010 census.-Demographics:...	279	108	5	3	1	0	143	19	225
Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located on the border of Kern County, Los Angeles County, and San Bernardino County, California, in the Antelope Valley. It is southwest of the central business district of North Edwards, California and due east of Rosamond.It is named in...	2,063	1,518	165	16	99	10	96	159	355
Fellows Fellows, California Fellows is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Fellows is located west-northwest of Taft, at an elevation of 1316 feet . The population was 106 at the 2010 census, down from 153 at the 2000 census...	106	94	1	5	0	0	2	4	11
Ford City Ford City, California Ford City is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Ford City is located north of Taft, at an elevation of 892 feet . The population was 4,278 at the 2010 census, up from 3,512 at the 2000 census...	4,278	2,735	28	153	36	32	1,113	181	1,971
Frazier Park Frazier Park, California Frazier Park is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Kern County, California. Frazier Park is west of Lebec, at an elevation of 4,639 feet . It is one of the Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass...	2,691	2,297	16	31	22	3	212	110	528
Fuller Acres Fuller Acres, California Fuller Acres is a census-designated place in Kern County, California. It is located southeast of downtown Bakersfield, at an elevation of 420 feet . The population was 991 at the 2010 census.-Demographics:...	991	607	13	12	1	0	329	29	768
Golden Hills Golden Hills, California Golden Hills is a census-designated place in the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, California, United States. The population was 8,656 at the 2010 census, up from 7,434 at the 2000 census...	8,656	7,235	129	124	120	15	670	363	1,674
Greenacres Greenacres, California Greenacres is a census-designated place in Kern County, California. It is located west of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 381 feet...	5,566	4,612	49	116	70	8	511	200	1,119
Greenfield Greenfield, Kern County, California Greenfield is a census-designated place in Kern County, California. It is located south of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 351 feet . The population was 3,991 at the 2010 census.The Delkern post office was opened in 1949...	3,991	2,512	71	63	45	1	1,112	187	2,263
Inyokern Inyokern, California Inyokern is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Inyokern is located west of Ridgecrest, at an elevation of 2434 feet . Located in the Indian Wells Valley. The population was 1,099 at the 2010 census, up from 984 at the 2000 census...	1,099	930	14	24	25	2	49	55	116
Johannesburg Johannesburg, California Johannesburg is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, in a mining district of the Rand Mountains. Johannesburg is located east-northeast of Randsburg, at an elevation of 3517 feet . The terminus of the Randsburg Railway was here from 1897 to 1933. The population was 172 at the...	172	152	2	2	8	0	0	8	8
Keene Keene, California Keene is a census-designated place in Kern County, California in the foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains at the southern extreme of the San Joaquin Valley. Keene is located northwest of Tehachapi, at an elevation of 2602 feet...	431	385	2	10	8	0	16	10	47
Kernville Kernville, California Kernville is a census-designated place in the southern Sierra Nevadas, in Kern County, California, United States. Kernville is located northeast of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 2667 feet...	1,395	1,257	1	19	7	0	33	78	82
Lake Isabella Lake Isabella, California Lake Isabella is a census-designated place in the southern Sierra Nevadas, in Kern County, California, United States, located near Lake Isabella. Lake Isabella is located east-northeast of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 2513 feet...	3,466	3,069	6	96	18	7	73	197	339
Lake of the Woods Lake of the Woods, California Lake of the Woods is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Kern County, California. The population was 917 at the 2010 census, up from 833 at the 2000 census. The community is contained in Cuddy Canyon along the Ventura and Kern County line inside the Los Padres National Forest. It...	917	820	3	18	11	0	34	31	123
Lamont Lamont, California Lamont is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Lamont is located south-southeast of downtown Bakersfield, at an elevation of 404 feet...	15,120	6,677	130	230	72	9	7,351	651	14,293
Lebec Lebec, California Lebec is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Kern County, California. It is one of the Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass, and the home of the Tejon Ranch Company. Lebec is south of Bakersfield. The population was 1,468 in the 2010 census, up from 1,224 in...	1,468	1,152	14	46	17	0	148	91	395
Lost Hills Lost Hills, California Lost Hills is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Lost Hills is located west-northwest of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 305 feet...	2,412	132	5	1	17	1	2,232	24	2,354
McKittrick McKittrick, California McKittrick is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. McKittrick is located northwest of Taft, at an elevation of 1056 feet . The population was 115 at the 2010 census, down from 160 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...	115	101	1	1	0	0	7	5	9
Mettler Mettler, California Mettler, or Mettler Station, is a heavily Hispanic, low-income unincorporated area and census-designated place in Kern County, California. The population was 136 at the 2010 census, down from 157 at the 2000 census...	136	74	0	0	0	0	43	19	109
Mexican Colony Mexican Colony, California Mexican Colony is a census-designated place in Kern County, California. It is located south of Shafter, at an elevation of 331 feet . The population was 281 at the 2010 census.-Demographics:...	281	162	0	15	0	0	93	11	227
Mojave Mojave, California Mojave is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Mojave is located east of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 2762 feet...	4,238	2,381	638	54	53	19	867	226	1,592
Mountain Mesa Mountain Mesa, California Mountain Mesa is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Mountain Mesa is located south-southeast of Wofford Heights, at an elevation of 2641 feet...	777	687	7	16	6	2	27	32	77
North Edwards North Edwards, California North Edwards is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. North Edwards is located south-southeast of Castle Butte and north of Edwards Air Force Base, at an elevation of 2293 feet...	1,058	847	43	26	20	1	60	61	179
Oildale Oildale, California Oildale is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Oildale is located north-northwest of downtown Bakersfield, at an elevation of 469 feet . The population was 32,684 at the 2010 census, up from 27,885 at the 2000 census...	32,684	27,463	255	590	316	30	2,635	1,395	6,301
Onyx Onyx, California Onyx is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Onyx is located east-northeast of Weldon, at an elevation of 2795 feet...	475	406	4	9	0	0	16	40	30
Pine Mountain Club Pine Mountain Club, California Pine Mountain Club is an unincorporated private community and census-designated place in Kern County, California, northwest of the San Fernando Valley and west of Gorman. It is one of the mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass, and sits in a deep valley on the San Andreas fault, in the same area...	2,315	2,079	29	25	45	0	58	79	231
Randsburg Randsburg, California Randsburg is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Randsburg is located south of Ridgecrest, at an elevation of 3504 feet . The population was 69 at the 2010 census, down from 77 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Randsburg is located at . It is on the west side of U.S...	69	62	0	4	2	0	0	1	2
Rosamond Rosamond, California Rosamond is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, USA, north of Palmdale, in the Antelope Valley, the westernmost desert valley of the Mojave Desert. Rosamond is also south of Mojave, , and north of Lancaster at an elevation of 2342 feet...	18,150	11,294	1,476	221	658	66	3,258	1,177	6,230
Rosedale Rosedale, California Rosedale is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. The population was 14,058 at the 2010 census, up from 8,445 at the 2000 census...	14,058	11,695	208	159	389	24	997	586	2,495
Smith Corner Smith Corner, California Smith Corner is a census-designated place in Kern County, California. It is located south of Shafter, at an elevation of 331 feet . The population was 524 at the 2010 census.-Demographics:...	524	227	10	3	2	3	263	16	440
South Taft South Taft, California South Taft is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. South Taft is located south of Taft, at an elevation of 1017 feet...	2,169	1,404	21	55	5	11	596	77	931
Squirrel Mountain Valley Squirrel Mountain Valley, California Squirrel Mountain Valley is a census-designated place in the southern Sierra Nevadas, in Kern County, California, United States. Squirrel Mountain Valley is located in the Lake Isabella area northeast of Bodfish, at an elevation of 2900 feet...	547	509	2	9	1	0	13	13	22
Stallion Springs Stallion Springs, California Stallion Springs is a census-designated place the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, California, USA. The population was 2,488 at the 2010 census, up from 1,522 at the 2000 census...	2,488	2,239	30	26	32	7	79	75	285
Taft Heights Taft Heights, California Taft Heights is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Taft Heights is located west-southwest of Taft, at an elevation of 1178 feet...	1,949	1,602	15	35	11	0	220	66	441
Tupman Tupman, California Tupman is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Tupman is located west-southwest of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 331 feet...	161	149	0	0	0	0	2	10	12
Valley Acres Valley Acres, California Valley Acres is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Valley Acres is located north-northeast of Taft, at an elevation of 420 feet...	527	428	1	10	1	0	42	45	121
Weedpatch Weedpatch, California Weedpatch is a census-designated place in the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California, United States. Weedpatch is located south-southeast of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 387 feet...	2,658	1,212	8	78	14	0	1,237	109	2,484
Weldon Weldon, California Weldon is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. It sits at the southeast tip of Lake Isabella. Weldon is located east-southeast of Wofford Heights, at an elevation of 2654 feet...	2,642	2,375	5	82	11	1	53	115	217
Wofford Heights Wofford Heights, California Wofford Heights is a census-designated place the southern Sierra Nevadas, in Kern County, California, United States. Wofford Heights is located south-southwest of Kernville, at an elevation of 2684 feet...	2,200	2,037	6	41	10	1	26	79	156
Unincorporated communities Unincorporated area In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...	Total Population	White	African American	Native American	Asian	Pacific Islander	other races Race (United States Census) Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the Federal Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are...	two or more races	Hispanic or Latino (of any race)
All others not CDPs (combined)	138,644	81,305	5,079	2,730	1,907	141	41,670	5,812	82,746

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