White Swan, WA population, income and ZIP codes

White Swan CDP is a very small community in Washington, with 598 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #455 of 639 ranked by population — larger than 28% of them. The median age here is 24.5 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 White Swan CDP earn a median of $56,458 a year, 28.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 38% below 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 39.7% 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 White Swan CDP is valued at $88,500, 70.8% below the national figure and 81% below the $468,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $495 a month, 64.8% below the national figure, or roughly $5,940 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 10.5% 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 1.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 45.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. 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 24.5 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. With 598 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare White Swan CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

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.