Fort Drum, NY population, income and ZIP codes

Fort Drum CDP is a mid-size town in New York, with 16,124 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #120 of 1,292 ranked by population — larger than 90% of them. The median age here is 23.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Fort Drum CDP earn a median of $63,194 a year, 19.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 31% below the $91,806 median for the 847 New York 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 8.2% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Fort Drum CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $1,563 a month, 11.2% above the national figure, or roughly $18,756 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 29.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. 3.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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 23.4 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

The Census withheld home value for Fort Drum CDP 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.