Portland, ND population, income and ZIP codes

Portland city is a very small community in North Dakota, with 548 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #102 of 406 ranked by population — larger than 75% of them. The median age here is 52.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Portland city earn a median of $100,714 a year, 28.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 47% above the $68,472 median for the 51 North Dakota cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 2.4% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Portland city is valued at $204,500, 32.6% below the national figure and 10% above the $185,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $506 a month, 64% below the national figure, or roughly $6,072 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 6% 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 2×, 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. 79% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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 52.7 puts Portland city well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 548 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Portland city against its county rather than against national figures.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.