ZIP 56281

What ZIP 56281 actually tells you, and what it doesn't

The 56281 ZIP Code Tabulation Area has a population of 642 and a median household income of $99,167. 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 1.7 years of a median household's gross income, which puts 56281 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 11% of median household income at the median rent, in the lowest quarter of the 25,890 areas reporting both.

Half the residents are under 32.4, young enough to place 56281 in the youngest quarter of the 32,853 areas reporting an age. Campuses, barracks, and dense rental districts dominate this end of the range, and where that is the cause the income and poverty figures describe students rather than settled households.

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