Medicine Bow, WY population, income and ZIP codes

Medicine Bow town is a very small community in Wyoming, with 257 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #112 of 205 ranked by population — larger than 45% of them. The median age here is 65.2 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 Medicine Bow town earn a median of $31,538 a year, 59.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 55% below the $69,912 median for the 54 Wyoming cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 30% 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 Medicine Bow town is valued at $72,300, 76.2% below the national figure and 71% below the $251,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $531 a month, 62.2% below the national figure, or roughly $6,372 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.2% 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 2.3×, 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. 88.3% 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 65.2 puts Medicine Bow 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. With 257 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Medicine Bow town against its county rather than against national figures.

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.