Clear Lake (Skagit Co.), WA population, income and ZIP codes

Clear Lake CDP (Skagit County) is a small town in Washington, with 1,176 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #372 of 639 ranked by population — larger than 41% of them. The median age here is 48.5 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 Clear Lake CDP (Skagit County) earn a median of $64,313 a year, 18.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 29% below the $90,592 median for the 393 Washington cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 15.6% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Clear Lake CDP (Skagit County) is valued at $528,600, 74.2% above the national figure and 13% above the $468,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 8.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 79.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.

Home values sit at 8.2× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere.

The Census withheld gross rent for Clear Lake CDP (Skagit County) 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.