McChord AFB, WA population, income and ZIP codes

McChord AFB CDP is a small town in Washington, with 2,895 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #267 of 639 ranked by population — larger than 58% of them. The median age here is 23.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 McChord AFB CDP earn a median of $55,662 a year, 29.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 39% 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 8.8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in McChord AFB CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $2,315 a month, 64.7% above the national figure, or roughly $27,780 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 49.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. 0% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 23.4 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

The Census withheld home value for McChord AFB 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.