Rocky Ford, OK population, income and ZIP codes

Rocky Ford CDP is a very small community in Oklahoma, with 220 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #520 of 846 ranked by population — larger than 38% of them. The median age here is 49.7 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 Rocky Ford CDP earn a median of $80,833 a year, 2.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 51% above the $53,500 median for the 240 Oklahoma 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 13.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Rocky Ford CDP is valued at $146,200, 51.8% below the national figure and 16% above the $125,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.8×, 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. 94.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not. With 220 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Rocky Ford CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Rocky Ford 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.