Fort Dodge, KS population, income and ZIP codes

Fort Dodge CDP is a very small community in Kansas, with 145 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #493 of 740 ranked by population — larger than 33% of them. The median age here is 74.5 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 Fort Dodge CDP earn a median of $31,667 a year, 59.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 50% below the $63,750 median for the 200 Kansas cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Fort Dodge CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $859 a month, 38.9% below the national figure, or roughly $10,308 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 32.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. 0% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 74.5 puts Fort Dodge CDP 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 145 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Fort Dodge CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Fort Dodge CDP 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.