Baywood Park vs Highlands

A side-by-side comparison of Baywood Park and Highlands: population, income, housing, and more.

Baywood Park and Highlands are places in California. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Highlands has the higher population (2,535 vs 1,481 in Baywood Park). Highlands has the higher median household income ($250,001 vs $201,071 in Baywood Park). Both have a median home value of $2,000,001.

Population, income & housing

	Baywood Park	Highlands
Population	1,481	2,535
Median age	50.4 yrs	45.1 yrs
Median household income	$201,071	$250,001
Median home value	$2,000,001	$2,000,001
Median gross rent	—	$3,501
Housing units	564	866
Homeownership rate	97.2%	81.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	62.8%	75.8%
Unemployment rate	3.5%	5.3%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Baywood Park	Highlands
Population	1,786 → 1,481 (-17.1%)	2,985 → 2,535 (-15.1%)
Median household income	$179,833 → $201,071 (+11.8%)	$217,500 → $250,001 (+14.9%)
Median home value	$1,982,900 → $2,000,001 (+0.9%)	$1,846,600 → $2,000,001 (+8.3%)
Median gross rent	$3,501 → $3,501 (+0.0%)	$2,459 → $3,501 (+42.4%)

Baywood Park

Population

1,7861,481

Median household income

$179,833$201,071

Median home value

$1,982,900$2,000,001

Median gross rent

$3,501$3,501

Highlands

Population

2,9852,535

Median household income

$217,500$250,001

Median home value

$1,846,600$2,000,001

Median gross rent

$2,459$3,501

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Baywood Park	Highlands
Under 5	2.4%	5.8%
5 to 17	16.1%	15.8%
18 to 24	3.6%	5.6%
25 to 34	7.2%	11.2%
35 to 44	8.0%	11.5%
45 to 54	18.6%	15.5%
55 to 64	14.5%	15.9%
65 to 74	12.9%	6.5%
75 and over	16.6%	12.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Baywood Park	Highlands
White (non-Hispanic)	59.4%	53.4%
Black or African American	0.1%	2.3%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	30.2%	28.4%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	4.4%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.4%	7.9%
Hispanic or Latino	2.6%	8.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Baywood Park	Highlands
No high school diploma	1.3%	1.6%
High school graduate	13.1%	2.8%
Some college or associate's	22.8%	19.7%
Bachelor's degree	32.5%	34.0%
Graduate or professional degree	30.3%	41.9%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Baywood Park	Highlands
Drove alone	64.3%	52.4%
Carpooled	0.0%	4.6%
Public transit	4.0%	1.9%
Walked	0.0%	6.4%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	31.7%	34.4%
Other means	0.0%	0.3%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Baywood Park	Highlands
1-unit, detached	97.2%	90.9%
1-unit, attached	2.8%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	2.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	7.2%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Baywood Park	Highlands
Poverty rate	1.8%	4.6%
Average household size	2.77	2.97
Mean commute (minutes)	25	26
Median year structure built	1960	1959