ZIP code 98853

ZIP 98853 is a very small community in Grant County, Washington, with 0 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #597 of 605 ranked by population — larger than 1% of them. The median age here is not published. 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 98853 earn a median of not published a year. 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 Poverty reaches an unpublished share of residents here.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 98853 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The homeownership rate is not published. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 0 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 98853 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, home value, gross rent, poverty rate for ZIP 98853 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 98853 is tabulated inside Grant County, Washington, one of 14 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 605 across Washington. 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 98853 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 98853 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 not published a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Washington charges 6.5% statewide, and local governments overlapping 98853 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 98853 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.