ZIP code 55772

ZIP 55772 is a very small community in Koochiching County, Minnesota, with 83 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #859 of 880 ranked by population — larger than 2% of them. The median age here is 37.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 55772 earn a median of not published a year. 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 14.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 55772 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $838 a month, 40.4% below the national figure, or roughly $10,056 across a full year. 29.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 83 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 55772 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, home value for ZIP 55772 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 55772 is tabulated inside Koochiching County, Minnesota, one of 11 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 880 across Minnesota. 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 55772 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 55772 reports a median household income of not published. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of not published. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $838 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Minnesota charges 6.875% statewide, and local governments overlapping 55772 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 55772 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.