West Richland, WA population, income and ZIP codes

West Richland city is a mid-size town in Washington, with 17,126 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #83 of 639 ranked by population — larger than 87% of them. The median age here is 35.5 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 West Richland city earn a median of $118,056 a year, 50.3% above the national figure of $78,538 and 30% above the $90,592 median for the 393 Washington cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 7.2% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in West Richland city is valued at $404,300, 33.3% above the national figure and 14% below the $468,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,577 a month, 12.2% above the national figure, or roughly $18,924 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16% 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 3.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 84.2% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.