North Tonawanda, NY population, income and ZIP codes

North Tonawanda city is a small city in New York, with 30,338 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #46 of 1,292 ranked by population — larger than 96% of them. The median age here is 42.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 North Tonawanda city earn a median of $66,774 a year, 15% below the national figure of $78,538 and 27% 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 12.1% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in North Tonawanda city is valued at $184,900, 39.1% below the national figure and 41% below the $315,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $914 a month, 35% below the national figure, or roughly $10,968 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.4% 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 2.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 68.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.