Packwood, WA population, income and ZIP codes

Packwood CDP is a very small community in Washington, with 118 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #590 of 639 ranked by population — larger than 7% of them. The median age here is 63.6 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 Packwood CDP earn a median of not published a year. 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 11.9% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Packwood CDP is valued at $277,700, 8.5% below the national figure and 41% below the $468,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 100% 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 63.6 puts Packwood 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. With 118 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Packwood CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for Packwood 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.