Formoso, KS population, income and ZIP codes

Formoso city is a very small community in Kansas, with 81 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #577 of 740 ranked by population — larger than 22% of them. The median age here is 57.5 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 Formoso city earn a median of not published a year. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 14.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Formoso city is valued at $37,500, 87.6% below the national figure and 71% below the $131,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 97.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 57.5 puts Formoso city well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 81 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Formoso city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for Formoso 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.