Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Hidden Meadows, CA

Hidden Meadows is an unincorporated census-designated place in San Diego County, tucked into the foothills near Escondido, and it was first listed as a census-designated place in the 1990 census.

The population of Hidden Meadows jumped 28.7 percent in a decade, from 3,485 at the 2010 census to 4,484 at the 2020 census.

Hidden Meadows had 1,939 households at the 2020 census, and a striking 89.3 percent of its occupied homes were owner-occupied.

It is an unusually old community: the median age in Hidden Meadows was 57.8 years at the 2020 census, and 36.3 percent of residents were 65 or older.

The CDP covers about 6.6 square miles of hilly terrain at an elevation of roughly 1,496 feet, northeast of Escondido in inland North County.

Although Hidden Meadows residents use an Escondido mailing address and the 92026 ZIP code, the community is unincorporated, so residents cannot vote in Escondido city elections.

The community is anchored by the Meadow Lake Golf Course and is split between school districts, with the southern part served by Escondido's school districts and the northern part by the Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District.

Hidden Meadows is relatively affluent, with a median household income estimated at $119,394 by the Census Bureau in 2023.