Newport East, RI population, income and ZIP codes

Newport East CDP is a mid-size town in Rhode Island, with 11,262 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #11 of 36 ranked by population — larger than 71% of them. The median age here is 45 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Newport East CDP earn a median of $86,310 a year, 9.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 8% 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 14.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Newport East CDP is valued at $479,200, 57.9% above the national figure and 34% above the $358,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,784 a month, 26.9% above the national figure, or roughly $21,408 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 54.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

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.

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.