ZIP 56221

What ZIP 56221 actually tells you, and what it doesn't

The 56221 ZIP Code Tabulation Area has a population of 802 and a median household income of $67,969. Against the other tabulation areas in this dataset, it places as follows.

Housing is cheap here relative to local earnings. A home at the median costs about 1.6 years of a median household's gross income, which puts 56221 in the least expensive quarter of the 29,491 tabulation areas that report both figures. Areas in this range are usually either far from a major job centre or carrying housing stock that local wages have caught up with.

Renting takes an unusually small bite of local income -- about 12% of median household income at the median rent, in the lowest quarter of the 25,890 areas reporting both.

A median age of 41.8 is on the younger side of the reporting range -- the profile of an area still taking in households at the family-forming stage rather than one that has finished doing so.

ZCTAs approximate USPS ZIP codes rather than matching them, and these are 5-year ACS estimates, so they trail current conditions.