Coulee City, WA population, income and ZIP codes

Coulee City town is a very small community in Washington, with 507 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #472 of 639 ranked by population — larger than 26% of them. The median age here is 65.8 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 Coulee City town earn a median of $49,135 a year, 37.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 46% below the $90,592 median for the 393 Washington 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 16.6% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Coulee City town is valued at $161,700, 46.7% below the national figure and 65% below the $468,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $739 a month, 47.4% below the national figure, or roughly $8,868 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18% 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 3.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 78% 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 65.8 puts Coulee City town 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. With 507 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Coulee City town against its county rather than against national figures.

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.