What is the population of Orange County?

Orange County has 403,840 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.

What is the median household income in Orange County?

Median household income in Orange County is $96,497 a year, 22.9% above the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $1,602 a month and the median home value is $361,100, so rent absorbs about 19.9% of median household income.

Is Orange County affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 3.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Orange County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Orange ZIP codes — Orange County, New York

Quick answer

Orange County is home to 403,840 residents with a median household income of $96,497 and a median home value of $361,100. 68.4% of households own their home and 13% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Orange ZIP code? 46 ZIP code areas fall inside Orange County, New York, listed in full below.

Population: 403,840Orange County residents
Median household income: $96,497Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $361,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,602Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 36.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 68.4%Owner-occupied households

Orange County, NY in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Orange County is a mid-size city in New York, with 403,840 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 36.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Orange County earn a median of $96,497 a year, 22.9% above 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 13% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Orange County is valued at $361,100, 19% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,602 a month, 13.9% above the national figure, or roughly $19,224 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.9% 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 3.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 68.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not.

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.

ZIP codes in Orange County

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

How to read this page

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 Orange County?: Orange County has 403,840 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
What is the median household income in Orange County?: Median household income in Orange County is $96,497 a year, 22.9% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Orange County?: Median gross rent is $1,602 a month and the median home value is $361,100, so rent absorbs about 19.9% of median household income.
Is Orange County affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Orange County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Orange County data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.