Esparto first appeared as an
unincorporated place in the
1970 U.S. census; 0.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 100.0% lived in rural areas. The whole population lived in households. There were 1,108 households, of which 40.0% included children under the age of 18. Of all households, 54.5% were married-couple households, 6.3% were
cohabiting couple households, 23.6% had a female householder with no spouse or partner present, and 15.6% had a male householder with no spouse or partner present. About 20.0% of households were one person, and 11.2% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 3.22. There were 833
families (75.2% of all households).
2010 census At the
2010 census Esparto had a population of 3,108, a significant increase from its
2000 census population of 1,858. The population density was . The racial makeup of Esparto was 1,855 (59.7%) White, 45 (1.4%) African American, 50 (1.6%) Native American, 129 (4.2%) Asian, 6 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 904 (29.1%) from
other races, and 119 (3.8%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1,538 persons (49.5%). The whole population lived in households, no one lived in non-institutionalized group quarters and no one was institutionalized. There were 974 households, 421 (43.2%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 560 (57.5%) were
opposite-sex married couples living together, 121 (12.4%) had a female householder with no husband present, 66 (6.8%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 62 (6.4%)
unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 4 (0.4%)
same-sex married couples or partnerships. 172 households (17.7%) were one person and 76 (7.8%) had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 3.19. There were 747 families (76.7% of households); the average family size was 3.63. The age distribution was 888 people (28.6%) under the age of 18, 322 people (10.4%) aged 18 to 24, 817 people (26.3%) aged 25 to 44, 763 people (24.5%) aged 45 to 64, and 318 people (10.2%) who were 65 or older. The median age was 33.1 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.2 males. There were 1,055 housing units at an average density of 229.3 per square mile, of the occupied units 689 (70.7%) were owner-occupied and 285 (29.3%) were rented. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.3%; the rental vacancy rate was 5.0%. 2,149 people (69.1% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 959 people (30.9%) lived in rental housing units. ==References==