Starbuck, WA population, income and ZIP codes

Starbuck town is a very small community in Washington, with 105 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #596 of 639 ranked by population — larger than 6% of them. The median age here is 58.6 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 Starbuck town earn a median of $51,250 a year, 34.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 43% 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 20% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Starbuck town is valued at $127,500, 58% below the national figure and 73% below the $468,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,583 a month, 12.6% above the national figure, or roughly $18,996 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 37.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 78.3% 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.

Starbuck town is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 37.1% of median income while homes cost only 2.5× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. A median age of 58.6 puts Starbuck 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.

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.