What is the population of Yale city?

Yale city has 2,157 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #297 of 745 in Michigan.

What is the median household income in Yale city?

Median household income in Yale city is $50,673 a year, 35.5% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Yale city?

Median gross rent is $779 a month and the median home value is $112,100, so rent absorbs about 18.4% of median household income.

Is Yale city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Yale city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Yale, MI population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Yale, Michigan (Yale, MI — Census place “Yale city”) is 2,157 residents, ranking #297 of 745 places in Michigan. Median household income is $50,673, the median home is worth $112,100 and median gross rent runs $779 a month. Looking for the Yale Michigan ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Yale, MI: 48097.

Population: 2,157Yale city residents
Median household income: $50,673Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $112,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $779Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 33.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 67.6%Owner-occupied households

Yale ZIP codes (Michigan)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Yale.

The Yale MI ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

48097

What the numbers mean in Yale city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Yale city median would spend about 18.4% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 21.5% of residents and 67.6% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Yale city, MI in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Yale city is a small town in Michigan, with 2,157 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #297 of 745 ranked by population — larger than 60% of them. The median age here is 33.4 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 Yale city earn a median of $50,673 a year, 35.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 18% below 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 21.5% 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 Yale city is valued at $112,100, 63.1% below the national figure and 33% below the $166,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $779 a month, 44.6% below the national figure, or roughly $9,348 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.4% 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 2.2×, 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. 67.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Yale city?: Yale city has 2,157 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #297 of 745 in Michigan.
What is the median household income in Yale city?: Median household income in Yale city is $50,673 a year, 35.5% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Yale city?: Median gross rent is $779 a month and the median home value is $112,100, so rent absorbs about 18.4% of median household income.
Is Yale city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Yale city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Yale city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.