Banks Lake South, WA population, income and ZIP codes

Banks Lake South CDP is a very small community in Washington, with 216 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #553 of 639 ranked by population — larger than 13% of them. The median age here is 48.6 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 Banks Lake South CDP earn a median of $42,917 a year, 45.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 53% below the $90,592 median for the 393 Washington 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 10.2% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Banks Lake South CDP is valued at $252,400, 16.8% below the national figure and 46% below the $468,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 82.8% 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.

With 216 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Banks Lake South CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Banks Lake South 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.