Cranston, RI population, income and ZIP codes

Cranston city is a small city in Rhode Island, with 82,632 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #3 of 36 ranked by population — larger than 94% of them. The median age here is 40.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Cranston city earn a median of $87,716 a year, 11.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 6% below the $93,653 median for the 28 Rhode Island 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 8.7% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Cranston city is valued at $348,800, 15% above the national figure and 3% below the $358,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,332 a month, 5.3% below the national figure, or roughly $15,984 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.2% 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 4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 67.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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.