What is the population of Sultan city?

Sultan city has 5,770 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #183 of 639 in Washington.

What is the median household income in Sultan city?

Median household income in Sultan city is $85,278 a year, 8.6% above the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Sultan city?

Median gross rent is $1,607 a month and the median home value is $455,500, so rent absorbs about 22.6% of median household income.

Is Sultan city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 5.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sultan city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Sultan, WA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Sultan, Washington (Sultan, WA — Census place “Sultan city”) is 5,770 residents, ranking #183 of 639 places in Washington. Median household income is $85,278, the median home is worth $455,500 and median gross rent runs $1,607 a month. Looking for the Sultan Washington ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Sultan, WA: 98294.

Population: 5,770Sultan city residents
Median household income: $85,278Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $455,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,607Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 38.1 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 84.8%Owner-occupied households

Sultan ZIP codes (Washington)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Sultan.

The Sultan WA ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

98294

What the numbers mean in Sultan city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Sultan city median would spend about 22.6% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 5.3× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 3.2% of residents and 84.8% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Sultan city, WA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Sultan city is a mid-size town in Washington, with 5,770 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #183 of 639 ranked by population — larger than 71% of them. The median age here is 38.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Sultan city earn a median of $85,278 a year, 8.6% above the national figure of $78,538 and 6% below the $90,592 median for the 393 Washington cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 3.2% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Sultan city is valued at $455,500, 50.1% above the national figure and 3% below the $468,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,607 a month, 14.3% above the national figure, or roughly $19,284 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 84.8% 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.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.

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What is the population of Sultan city?: Sultan city has 5,770 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #183 of 639 in Washington.
What is the median household income in Sultan city?: Median household income in Sultan city is $85,278 a year, 8.6% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Sultan city?: Median gross rent is $1,607 a month and the median home value is $455,500, so rent absorbs about 22.6% of median household income.
Is Sultan city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 5.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sultan city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Sultan city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.