Kingston, RI population, income and ZIP codes

Kingston CDP is a mid-size town in Rhode Island, with 6,953 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #16 of 36 ranked by population — larger than 57% of them. The median age here is 19.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Kingston CDP earn a median of $82,143 a year, 4.6% above the national figure of $78,538 and 12% below the $93,653 median for the 28 Rhode Island 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 3.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Kingston CDP is valued at $493,500, 62.7% above the national figure and 38% above the $358,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 78.2% 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.

A median age of 19.6 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 gross rent for Kingston 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.