McKittrick is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.

McKittrick is 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Taft,[4] at an elevation of 1,056 feet (322 m).

For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined McKittrick as a census-designated place (CDP).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.6 square miles (6.7 km2), all of it land.

The town is in the center of a large oil-producing region in western Kern County.

East of McKittrick is Occidental Petroleum's Elk Hills Field, formerly the U.S.

[6] The McKittrick Tar Pits, which are similar to the more famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, contain an assemblage of bones of ice age mammals.

They are a series of surface seeps from the underlying McKittrick Oil Field.

About 11.8% of families and 15.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.2% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those sixty five or over.