Swall Meadows, California
Swall Meadows is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southern Mono County, California, United States. The population was 178 as of the 2020 census. The community is residential, including second homes and a volunteer fire department, but no commercial development. The ZIP Code is 93514. The community is inside area code 760.
Geography
Swall Meadows sits partway up the Sherwin Grade below the Wheeler Crest of the eastern Sierra Nevada, at an elevation range of approximately. It is in pinon-juniper/subalpine zone habitat, with views south along the Sierra Crest of Mt. Tom, and east across the Owens Valley to the White Mountains and Nevada. It is accessed from "old 395", or Lower Rock Creek Road. Swall Meadows is approximately north of Bishop and south of Mammoth Lakes. It also well known in the area as an important deer migration route for the Round Valley mule deer population, which cherish the grazing in the meadow and apple falls from the old orchard trees.Image:Old [wagon road up Sherwin Grade to Swall Meadows.jpg|thumb|left| Old wagon road, Paradise to Swall]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Swall Meadows CDP covers an area of, all of it land. At the high, northwestern end is the old Sky Meadows Ranch, then houses and firehouse near the meadow, and at the southeast end a development known as Pinyon Ranch.
In addition to the predominant pinyon-juniper-sagebrush habitat, there are permanent and seasonal streams and the eponymous meadow with wetter-habitat vegetation such as Jeffrey pines, willows, stream and bog orchids, and the remnant trees of the old commercial apple orchard. In 2011 the Eastern Sierra Land Trust secured a conservation easement to protect of the Swall Meadows meadow area, for the continued benefit of the migrating mule deer. A number of other conservation easements have been completed in Swall Meadows since the ESLT organization was founded in 2001.
Between Paradise and Swall Meadows the old wagon road can be seen that climbed about up the Sherwin Grade from Owens Valley toward Crowley Lake.
Demographics
Swall Meadows first appeared as a census designated place in the 2010 U.S. census.The 2020 United States census reported that Swall Meadows had a population of 178. The population density was. The racial makeup of Swall Meadows was 152 White, 3 Native American, 3 Asian, 1 Pacific Islander, and 19 from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12 persons.
The whole population lived in households. There were 94 households, out of which 11 had children under the age of 18 living in them, 56 were married-couple households, 1 were cohabiting couple households, 7 had a female householder with no partner present, and 30 had a male householder with no partner present. 29 households were one person, and 12 were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 1.89. There were 62 families.
The age distribution was 11 people under the age of 18, 7 people aged 18 to 24, 29 people aged 25 to 44, 70 people aged 45 to 64, and 61 people who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 63.1years. There were 94 males and 84 females.
There were 128 housing units at an average density of, of which 94 were occupied. Of these, 79 were owner-occupied, and 15 were occupied by renters.
Government
In the California State Legislature, Swall Meadows is in, and in.In the United States House of Representatives, Swall Meadows is in.