Topaz Lake, NV population, income and ZIP codes

Topaz Lake CDP is a very small community in Nevada, with 306 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #91 of 133 ranked by population — larger than 31% of them. The median age here is 41.8 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 Topaz Lake CDP earn a median of $98,750 a year, 25.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 27% above the $77,794 median for the 66 Nevada 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 25.2% 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 Topaz Lake CDP is valued at $565,800, 86.5% above the national figure and 57% above the $360,600 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,727 a month, 22.8% above the national figure, or roughly $20,724 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 71.6% 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.

Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not. With 306 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Topaz Lake CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.