Cathay, ND population, income and ZIP codes

Cathay city is a very small community in North Dakota, with 22 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #356 of 406 ranked by population — larger than 12% of them. The median age here is 32.5 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 Cathay city earn a median of not published a year. 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 14.3% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Cathay city is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 75% 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.

With 22 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Cathay city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, home value, gross rent for Cathay city 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.