| Back to United States. City: Downey, CA Population (2000): 42,444
Housing units: 12,830 Land area: 4.7 sq. mi. Water area: 0.0 sq. mi. White population: 20432 Black population: 2454 American Indian population: 407 Asian population: 3033 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population: 123 Some other race population: 13899 Two or more races population: 2096 Urban population: 42444 Rural population: 0 Median age: 29.6 Average household size: 3.30 Median household income (1999): $42956
 
Nearest zip codes: 90241, 90723, 90706, 90240, 90280, 90262.
Year house built:
- 1999 to March 2000: 56
- 1995 to 1998: 147
- 1990 to 1994: 507
- 1980 to 1989: 1052
- 1970 to 1979: 2070
- 1960 to 1969: 2808
- 1950 to 1959: 4035
- 1940 to 1949: 1673
- 1939 or earlier: 568
Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses in Downey, CA (90242):
- no bedroom: 116
- 1 bedrooms: 685
- 2 bedrooms: 1671
- 3 bedrooms: 2916
- 4 bedrooms: 666
- 5 or more bedrooms: 140
Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments and housing units:
- no bedroom: 872
- 1 bedrooms: 2515
- 2 bedrooms: 2309
- 3 bedrooms: 663
- 4 bedrooms: 70
- 5 or more bedrooms: 25
Vehicles available in 90242 zip code in owner-occupied houses:
- no vehicle: 327
- 1 vehicle: 1571
- 2 vehicles: 2330
- 3 vehicles: 1298
- 4 vehicles: 464
- 5 or more vehicles: 204
Vehicles available in renter-occupied housing units:
- no vehicle: 698
- 1 vehicle: 2874
- 2 vehicles: 2187
- 3 vehicles: 496
- 4 vehicles: 167
- 5 or more vehicles: 32
Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2000 in zip code 90242:
- Less than $10,000: 0
- $10,000 to $14,999: 9
- $15,000 to $19,999: 8
- $20,000 to $24,999: 10
- $25,000 to $29,999: 0
- $30,000 to $34,999: 8
- $35,000 to $39,999: 0
- $40,000 to $49,999: 0
- $50,000 to $59,999: 27
- $60,000 to $69,999: 0
- $70,000 to $79,999: 6
- $80,000 to $89,999: 38
- $90,000 to $99,999: 75
- $100,000 to $124,999: 182
- $125,000 to $149,999: 556
- $150,000 to $174,999: 1306
- $175,000 to $199,999: 1311
- $200,000 to $249,999: 1443
- $250,000 to $299,999: 413
- $300,000 to $399,999: 242
- $400,000 to $499,999: 46
- $500,000 to $749,999: 68
- $750,000 to $999,999: 26
- $1,000,000 or more: 0
First ancestries reported:
- Other groups: 29091
- German: 1487
- United States or American: 1293
- English: 1035
- Irish: 1012
- Italian: 684
- Arab:: 639
- French (except Basque): 315
- Egyptian: 300
- Scotch-Irish: 266
- Dutch: 255
- Subsaharan African:: 236
- African: 229
- Scottish: 178
- Swedish: 173
- Russian: 149
- Arab/Arabic: 144
- Norwegian: 141
- French Canadian: 135
- Lebanese: 106
- Polish: 93
- European: 93
- Greek: 91
- Albanian: 83
- Welsh: 83
- Armenian: 75
- West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 74
- British: 69
- Portuguese: 68
- Danish: 61
- Jordanian: 60
- Canadian: 52
- Iranian: 44
- Haitian: 40
- Hungarian: 38
- West Indian: 28
- Czech: 22
- Iraqi: 18
- Romanian: 15
- Ukrainian: 15
- Czechoslovakian: 15
- Scandinavian: 13
- Northern European: 12
- Swiss: 12
- Yugoslavian: 11
- Syrian: 11
- Slovene: 10
- Slovak: 10
- Celtic: 9
- Pennsylvania German: 9
- Austrian: 8
- Ugandan: 7
- British West Indian: 6
- Macedonian: 6
- Serbian: 6
- Belgian: 6
- Finnish: 6
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