Wright-Patterson AFB, OH population, income and ZIP codes

Wright-Patterson AFB CDP is a small town in Ohio, with 1,560 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #553 of 1,265 ranked by population — larger than 56% of them. The median age here is 24.6 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 Wright-Patterson AFB CDP earn a median of $79,205 a year, essentially level with the national figure of $78,538 and 20% above the $66,250 median for the 689 Ohio 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 6.8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Wright-Patterson AFB CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $1,434 a month, 2% above the national figure, or roughly $17,208 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. 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 24.6 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.

The Census withheld home value for Wright-Patterson AFB 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.