ZIP code 02818

ZIP 02818 is a mid-size town in Kent County, Rhode Island, with 19,869 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #25 of 81 ranked by population — larger than 70% of them. The median age here is 45.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 02818 earn a median of $120,952 a year, 54% above the national figure of $78,538. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 4.7% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 02818 is valued at $564,800, 86.2% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,384 a month, 1.6% below the national figure, or roughly $16,608 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13.7% 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 4.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 76.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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 02818 is tabulated inside Kent County, Rhode Island, one of 8 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 81 across Rhode Island. This is a mid-sized ZIP that covers a large share of its county's 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 02818 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 02818 reports a median household income of $120,952, 28% above the $94,489 county median, and 24% above the $97,650 typical RI ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $564,800, 73% above the county figure and 49% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,384 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Rhode Island charges 7% statewide, and no local sales tax is layered on top, so the state rate is the full amount collected in 02818.

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 02818 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.