Grand Forks, ND population, income and ZIP codes

Grand Forks city is a small city in North Dakota, with 58,882 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #3 of 406 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 29.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Grand Forks city earn a median of $63,838 a year, 18.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 7% below the $68,472 median for the 51 North Dakota 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 16.3% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Grand Forks city is valued at $243,300, 19.8% below the national figure and 31% above the $185,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $958 a month, 31.9% below the national figure, or roughly $11,496 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18% 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 3.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 46.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. 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.

A median age of 29.4 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

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.