Forbes, ND population, income and ZIP codes

Forbes city is a very small community in North Dakota, with 23 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #353 of 406 ranked by population — larger than 13% of them. The median age here is 44.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Forbes city earn a median of $97,000 a year, 23.5% above the national figure of $78,538 and 42% above the $68,472 median for the 51 North Dakota cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Forbes city is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 100% 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.

With 23 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Forbes city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Forbes 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.