Palmer, KS population, income and ZIP codes

Palmer city is a very small community in Kansas, with 138 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #501 of 740 ranked by population — larger than 32% of them. The median age here is 35 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Palmer city earn a median of $46,250 a year, 41.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 27% 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 23.9% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Palmer city is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $563 a month, 60% below the national figure, or roughly $6,756 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 62.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 138 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Palmer city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Palmer 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.