ZIP code 66851

ZIP 66851 is a very small community in Marion County, Kansas, with 645 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #419 of 704 ranked by population — larger than 40% of them. The median age here is 56.2 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 ZIP 66851 earn a median of $42,125 a year, 46.4% below the national figure of $78,538. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 15.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 66851 is valued at $55,000, 81.9% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $827 a month, 41.2% below the national figure, or roughly $9,924 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.6% 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 1.3×, 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. 69.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 56.2 puts ZIP 66851 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 645 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 66851 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.

ZIP 66851 is tabulated inside Marion County, Kansas, one of 11 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 704 across Kansas. Fewer than 2,500 people are counted here, so the ZIP behaves like a village delivery route rather than a neighbourhood. 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 66851 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 66851 reports a median household income of $42,125, 37% below the $67,066 county median, and 36% below the $66,250 typical KS ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $55,000, 43% below the county figure and 56% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $827 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Kansas charges 6.5% statewide, and local governments overlapping 66851 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 66851 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.