West Ishpeming, MI population, income and ZIP codes

West Ishpeming CDP is a small town in Michigan, with 2,714 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #255 of 745 ranked by population — larger than 65% of them. The median age here is 41.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 West Ishpeming CDP earn a median of $80,500 a year, 2.5% above the national figure of $78,538 and 30% above the $61,715 median for the 438 Michigan cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 5.6% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in West Ishpeming CDP is valued at $166,100, 45.3% below the national figure and within a couple of points of the $166,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,048 a month, 25.5% below the national figure, or roughly $12,576 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.1×, 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. 88.6% 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. 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.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.