Clarkston Heights-Vineland, WA population, income and ZIP codes

Clarkston Heights-Vineland CDP is a mid-size town in Washington, with 7,144 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #157 of 639 ranked by population — larger than 75% of them. The median age here is 55.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Clarkston Heights-Vineland CDP earn a median of $89,628 a year, 14.1% above the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of 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 9.6% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Clarkston Heights-Vineland CDP is valued at $342,700, 13% above the national figure and 27% below the $468,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,056 a month, 24.9% below the national figure, or roughly $12,672 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.1% 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 3.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 88.9% 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.

A median age of 55.8 puts Clarkston Heights-Vineland CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.