Bodfish is a census-designated place (CDP) in the southern Kern River Valley of the Southern Sierra Nevada, in Kern County, California, United States.

Bodfish is located 32 miles (51 km) east-northeast of Bakersfield,[5] at an elevation of 2,687 feet (819 m).

The place was named for George Homer Bodfish, who settled nearby in 1867.

[5] The Bodfish post office first opened in 1892, closed in 1895, and re-opened in 1906.

At the 2000 census there were 1,823 people, 840 households, and 535 families living in the CDP.

There were 1,188 housing units at an average density of 149.2 per square mile (57.6/km2).

The racial makeup of the CDP was 91.28% White, 0.16% Black or African American, 2.25% Native American, 0.60% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 1.59% from other races, and 4.06% from two or more races.