Wappingers Falls, NY population, income and ZIP codes

Wappingers Falls village is a mid-size town in New York, with 5,694 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #328 of 1,292 ranked by population — larger than 74% of them. The median age here is 47.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Wappingers Falls village earn a median of $58,455 a year, 25.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 36% 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 4.8% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Wappingers Falls village is valued at $277,000, 8.7% below the national figure and 12% below the $315,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,490 a month, 6% above the national figure, or roughly $17,880 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 29.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.