Porcupine, ND population, income and ZIP codes

Porcupine CDP is a very small community in North Dakota, with 136 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #215 of 406 ranked by population — larger than 47% of them. The median age here is 16.7 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 Porcupine CDP earn a median of $80,417 a year, 2.4% above the national figure of $78,538 and 17% 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 10.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Porcupine CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $771 a month, 45.2% below the national figure, or roughly $9,252 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 11.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 36.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 16.7 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. With 136 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Porcupine CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Porcupine CDP 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.