ZIP code 85531

ZIP 85531 is a very small community in Graham County, Arizona, with 273 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #380 of 417 ranked by population — larger than 8% of them. The median age here is 46.1 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 ZIP 85531 earn a median of $94,478 a year, 20.3% above the national figure of $78,538. 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 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 85531 is valued at $422,900, 39.4% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 55.3% 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.

With 273 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 85531 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for ZIP 85531 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.

ZIP 85531 is tabulated inside Graham County, Arizona, one of 10 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 417 across Arizona. This is one of the smallest tabulated ZIP areas in the state, the kind of rural route where a single subdivision or farm cluster accounts for most addresses. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 85531 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 85531 reports a median household income of $94,478, 25% above the $75,385 county median, and 47% above the $64,475 typical AZ ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $422,900, 139% above the county figure and 47% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at not published a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Arizona charges 5.6% statewide, and local governments overlapping 85531 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 85531 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.