Oriska, ND population, income and ZIP codes

Oriska city is a very small community in North Dakota, with 234 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #162 of 406 ranked by population — larger than 60% of them. The median age here is 30.6 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 Oriska city earn a median of $93,750 a year, 19.4% above the national figure of $78,538 and 37% 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 1.3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Oriska city is valued at $77,900, 74.3% below the national figure and 58% below the $185,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $494 a month, 64.9% below the national figure, or roughly $5,928 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 6.3% 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 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. 78.4% 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 234 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Oriska city against its county rather than against national figures.

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.