Mankato, KS population, income and ZIP codes

Mankato city is a very small community in Kansas, with 801 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #233 of 740 ranked by population — larger than 68% of them. The median age here is 56.6 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 Mankato city earn a median of $51,250 a year, 34.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 20% below the $63,750 median for the 200 Kansas cities we cover. 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 10.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Mankato city is valued at $53,900, 82.2% below the national figure and 59% below the $131,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $533 a month, 62.1% below the national figure, or roughly $6,396 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 12.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 76.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 56.6 puts Mankato 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 801 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Mankato city against its county rather than against national figures.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.