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Blue Gap, AZ

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Blue Gap, AZ: 1 USPS ZIP, population 1,793. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

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ACS city ledger plate

Sheet BLUE-GAP-AZ · Blue Gap, AZ 1 ZIPs · 1,793 pop · #25244/25278 · Apache County

INC-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW

  • INC-LOW $15,417
  • RANK-BOTTOM #25244/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Concho
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 88% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 1,793
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-LOW $55,800

Nearest income peer: Concho, AZ (+ $11,641 income $)

Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.

Income neighbourhood around Blue Gap

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Blue Gap on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

median HH income

What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-25

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Blue Gap, AZ sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

0th pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
1,793
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$15,417
avg ZIP median income

Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.

Lower-income footing on only 1 ZIP ($15,417 average) · poverty 53.6%. The primary code (86520) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (87.6%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within Arizona, Gray Mountain is the closest lower-income city and Lupton the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Blue Gap.

Population concentration

One ZIP, 86520, is all of Blue Gap

There is no split to weigh here: 86520 holds every one of Blue Gap's 1,793 ACS residents. City-level and ZIP-level numbers on this site are the same number twice, check the ZIP page for the income/tenure/commute breakdown.

Census ZBP business roll-up

No ZBP establishments filed for Blue Gap's ZIPs

Census County Business Patterns has no establishment rows joined to the ACS ZIPs mapped to Blue Gap. Read demography on this page; business counts are absent for this footprint.

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ZIP Codes in Blue Gap, AZ

These ZIP codes sit in Apache County, which covers 28 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Blue Gap. See the Apache County roll-up →

Every one of the 12 cities sharing Apache County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Blue Gap, Chinle, Ganado and Fort Defiance among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Saint Johns marks the far end of that range at $131,238, 751% above Blue Gap.

ZIP Code Population Median income Establishments Density
86520 1,793 $15,417 n/a 3
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