What is the population of Lockport city?

Lockport city has 20,699 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #82 of 1,292 in New York.

What is the median household income in Lockport city?

Median household income in Lockport city is $59,153 a year, 24.7% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $909 a month and the median home value is $131,800, so rent absorbs about 18.4% of median household income.

Is Lockport 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 Lockport 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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Lockport, NY population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Lockport, New York (Lockport, NY — Census place “Lockport city”) is 20,699 residents, ranking #82 of 1292 places in New York. Median household income is $59,153, the median home is worth $131,800 and median gross rent runs $909 a month. Looking for the Lockport New York ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Lockport, NY: 14094.

Population: 20,699Lockport city residents
Median household income: $59,153Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $131,800Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $909Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 36.5 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 55.4%Owner-occupied households

Lockport ZIP codes (New York)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Lockport.

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

14094

What the numbers mean in Lockport city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Lockport 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 15.9% of residents and 55.4% of households own their home.

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

Lockport city, NY in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Lockport city is a mid-size town in New York, with 20,699 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #82 of 1,292 ranked by population — larger than 93% of them. The median age here is 36.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Lockport city earn a median of $59,153 a year, 24.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 36% below the $91,806 median for the 847 New York cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 15.9% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Lockport city is valued at $131,800, 56.6% below the national figure and 58% below the $315,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $909 a month, 35.3% below the national figure, or roughly $10,908 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. 55.4% 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.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

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What is the population of Lockport city?: Lockport city has 20,699 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #82 of 1,292 in New York.
What is the median household income in Lockport city?: Median household income in Lockport city is $59,153 a year, 24.7% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Lockport city?: Median gross rent is $909 a month and the median home value is $131,800, so rent absorbs about 18.4% of median household income.
Is Lockport 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 Lockport 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 Lockport city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.