South Ilion, NY population, income and ZIP codes

South Ilion CDP is a very small community in New York, with 198 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1218 of 1,292 ranked by population — larger than 5% of them. The median age here is 30.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 South Ilion CDP earn a median of $100,481 a year, 27.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 9% above the $91,806 median for the 847 New York cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 39.4% 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 South Ilion CDP is valued at $80,500, 73.5% below the national figure and 75% below the $315,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 0.8×, 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. 85.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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 198 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare South Ilion CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for South Ilion 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.