What is the population of Yellow Medicine County?

Yellow Medicine County has 9,509 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.

What is the median household income in Yellow Medicine County?

Median household income in Yellow Medicine County is $71,573 a year, 8.9% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Yellow Medicine County?

Median gross rent is $688 a month and the median home value is $148,200, so rent absorbs about 11.5% of median household income.

Is Yellow Medicine County affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Yellow Medicine County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 11.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Minnesota · FIPS 27173

Yellow Medicine ZIP codes — Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

Quick answer

Yellow Medicine County is home to 9,509 residents with a median household income of $71,573 and a median home value of $148,200. 84.2% of households own their home and 8.5% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Yellow Medicine ZIP code? 7 ZIP code areas fall inside Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, listed in full below.

Population: 9,509Yellow Medicine County residents
Median household income: $71,573Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $148,200Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $688Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 42 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 84.2%Owner-occupied households

Yellow Medicine County, MN in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Yellow Medicine County is a mid-size town in Minnesota, with 9,509 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 42 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Yellow Medicine County earn a median of $71,573 a year, 8.9% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 8.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Yellow Medicine County is valued at $148,200, 51.2% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $688 a month, 51.1% below the national figure, or roughly $8,256 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 11.5% 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 2.1×, 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. 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. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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.

ZIP codes in Yellow Medicine County

ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Yellow Medicine County.

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What these estimates cover.

Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.

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

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Yellow Medicine County?: Yellow Medicine County has 9,509 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
What is the median household income in Yellow Medicine County?: Median household income in Yellow Medicine County is $71,573 a year, 8.9% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Yellow Medicine County?: Median gross rent is $688 a month and the median home value is $148,200, so rent absorbs about 11.5% of median household income.
Is Yellow Medicine County affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Yellow Medicine County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 11.5% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Yellow Medicine County 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.