Blue Lake vs Westhaven-Moonstone

A side-by-side comparison of Blue Lake and Westhaven-Moonstone: population, income, housing, and more.

Blue Lake and Westhaven-Moonstone are places in California. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Westhaven-Moonstone has the higher population (1,374 vs 997 in Blue Lake). Westhaven-Moonstone has the higher median household income ($63,843 vs $52,813 in Blue Lake). Westhaven-Moonstone has the higher median home value ($497,400 vs $460,800 in Blue Lake).

Population, income & housing

	Blue Lake	Westhaven-Moonstone
Population	997	1,374
Median age	52.4 yrs	44.1 yrs
Median household income	$52,813	$63,843
Median home value	$460,800	$497,400
Median gross rent	$1,247	$1,926
Housing units	617	679
Homeownership rate	45.8%	64.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	37.9%	57.5%
Unemployment rate	10.7%	16.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Blue Lake	Westhaven-Moonstone
Population	902 → 997 (+10.5%)	1,110 → 1,374 (+23.8%)
Median household income	$53,929 → $52,813 (-2.1%)	$64,333 → $63,843 (-0.8%)
Median home value	$310,000 → $460,800 (+48.6%)	$387,800 → $497,400 (+28.3%)
Median gross rent	$1,241 → $1,247 (+0.5%)	$1,077 → $1,926 (+78.8%)

Blue Lake

Population

902997

Median household income

$53,929$52,813

Median home value

$310,000$460,800

Median gross rent

$1,241$1,247

Westhaven-Moonstone

Population

1,1101,374

Median household income

$64,333$63,843

Median home value

$387,800$497,400

Median gross rent

$1,077$1,926

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Blue Lake	Westhaven-Moonstone
Under 5	8.6%	1.5%
5 to 17	4.2%	25.8%
18 to 24	4.4%	4.4%
25 to 34	15.5%	7.6%
35 to 44	10.9%	12.4%
45 to 54	7.5%	21.8%
55 to 64	20.6%	10.3%
65 to 74	22.9%	12.7%
75 and over	5.3%	3.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Blue Lake	Westhaven-Moonstone
White (non-Hispanic)	85.5%	80.3%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	2.6%	0.9%
Asian	0.0%	0.7%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	1.6%	0.0%
Some other race	0.2%	0.0%
Two or more races	7.2%	13.4%
Hispanic or Latino	2.9%	4.7%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Blue Lake	Westhaven-Moonstone
No high school diploma	3.3%	1.1%
High school graduate	23.6%	3.7%
Some college or associate's	35.2%	37.7%
Bachelor's degree	33.1%	40.9%
Graduate or professional degree	4.8%	16.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Blue Lake	Westhaven-Moonstone
Drove alone	64.6%	80.1%
Carpooled	4.7%	6.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.9%
Walked	5.4%	0.2%
Bicycle	2.3%	0.0%
Worked from home	19.0%	12.8%
Other means	4.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Blue Lake	Westhaven-Moonstone
1-unit, detached	64.8%	95.7%
1-unit, attached	8.4%	1.6%
2 to 4 units	13.1%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	5.3%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	8.3%	2.7%

Poverty & households

	Blue Lake	Westhaven-Moonstone
Poverty rate	25.4%	14.0%
Average household size	1.81	2.55
Mean commute (minutes)	15	27
Median year structure built	1953	1980