Ralston, WY population, income and ZIP codes

Ralston CDP is a very small community in Wyoming, with 128 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #147 of 205 ranked by population — larger than 28% of them. The median age here is 63.9 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 Ralston CDP earn a median of $37,035 a year, 52.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 47% below the $69,912 median for the 54 Wyoming 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 15.6% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Ralston CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 15.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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 63.9 puts Ralston CDP 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 128 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Ralston CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Ralston CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.