Bushong, KS population, income and ZIP codes

Bushong city is a very small community in Kansas, with 44 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #650 of 740 ranked by population — larger than 12% of them. The median age here is 45.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Bushong city earn a median of $37,708 a year, 52% below the national figure of $78,538 and 41% below the $63,750 median for the 200 Kansas 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 15.9% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Bushong city is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $1,125 a month, 20% below the national figure, or roughly $13,500 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 35.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. 72.7% 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.

With 44 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Bushong city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Bushong city because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.