Tupman is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States.

Tupman is located 20 miles (32 km) west-southwest of Bakersfield,[4] at an elevation of 331 feet (101 m).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2), all of it land.

Tupman is located at the east end of the Elk Hills, about 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of California State Route 119.

[5] Hamer Irwin Tupman was the original owner of the oil lease in this area.

[5] In 1920, Standard Oil Company bought the land from H. I. Tupman and founded the town.

There were 75 housing units at an average density of 140.8 per square mile (54.4/km2).

About 12.5% of families and 20.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.3% of those under the age of eighteen and 42.9% of those sixty five or over.