ZIP code 97636

ZIP 97636 is a very small community in Lake County, Oregon, with 354 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #352 of 428 ranked by population — larger than 17% of them. The median age here is 31.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 97636 earn a median of $61,667 a year, 21.5% below 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 10.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 97636 is valued at $205,000, 32.4% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $464 a month, 67% below the national figure, or roughly $5,568 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 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 3.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 39.1% 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 354 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 97636 against its county rather than against national figures.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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 97636 is tabulated inside Lake County, Oregon, one of 8 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 428 across Oregon. 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 97636 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 97636 reports a median household income of $61,667, close to the $61,265 county median, and 14% below the $71,485 typical OR ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $205,000, 8% below the county figure and 47% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $464 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Oregon charges 0% statewide, and no local sales tax is layered on top, so the state rate is the full amount collected in 97636.

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 97636 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.