ZIP code 22535

ZIP 22535 is a very small community in Caroline County, Virginia, with 602 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #723 of 903 ranked by population — larger than 19% of them. The median age here is 28.8 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 22535 earn a median of $119,135 a year, 51.7% above 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 1.3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 22535 is valued at $334,100, 10.1% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,732 a month, 23.2% above the national figure, or roughly $20,784 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.4% 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 2.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 90.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 28.8 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 602 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 22535 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 22535 is tabulated inside Caroline County, Virginia, one of 6 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 903 across Virginia. 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 22535 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 22535 reports a median household income of $119,135, 34% above the $89,097 county median, and 64% above the $72,517 typical VA ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $334,100, 12% above the county figure and 31% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,732 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Virginia charges 4.3% statewide, and local governments overlapping 22535 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 22535 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.