ZIP code 58078

ZIP 58078 is a small city in Cass County, North Dakota, with 39,946 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #4 of 389 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 32.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 ZIP 58078 earn a median of $97,206 a year, 23.8% 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 6% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 58078 is valued at $303,200, essentially level with the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,073 a month, 23.7% below the national figure, or roughly $12,876 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13.2% 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 3.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 64.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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 58078 is tabulated inside Cass County, North Dakota, one of 25 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 389 across North Dakota. This is a dense urban ZIP, where a single postal boundary can hold more residents than an entire rural county. 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 58078 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 58078 reports a median household income of $97,206, close to the $98,018 county median, and 24% above the $78,594 typical ND ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $303,200, 9% above the county figure and 89% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,073 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

A taxable purchase made inside 58078 carries 7.5% at the register, assembled from the Fargo jurisdiction stack: the North Dakota state rate plus every county, municipal and special district levy that reaches this address. Because those district boundaries were drawn for schools, transit and hospital funding rather than for mail delivery, two addresses inside 58078 can legitimately fall under different totals — the rate shown here is the one that applies to the dominant jurisdiction.

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 58078 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.