Gilbert, AZ population, income and ZIP codes

Gilbert town is a mid-size city in Arizona, with 271,118 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #5 of 467 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 35.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Gilbert town earn a median of $121,351 a year, 54.5% above the national figure of $78,538 and 91% above the $63,545 median for the 206 Arizona cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 5.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Gilbert town is valued at $518,600, 70.9% above the national figure and 114% above the $242,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,028 a month, 44.2% above the national figure, or roughly $24,336 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 73.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.