Bowling Green, KY
Census ZIP code profile for Bowling Green, KY — 4 ZIPs, total population 104,282. Median income, home value, education, commute, and demographics from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2023 5-Year Estimates.
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Bowling Green, KY is covered by 4 USPS ZIP codes serving a combined population of 104,282 according to Census ACS 5-Year Estimates. U.S. cities rarely map cleanly to a single ZIP — Bowling Green splits its residents across 4 delivery areas, each with its own demographic and housing profile. The table below lists every ZIP by population, so you can see which neighborhoods carry the weight of the city total and which are smaller pockets of the same municipal boundary.
Aggregated across every ZIP in Bowling Green, the median household income averages $70,357 and per-capita income averages $41,098. Poverty rate runs at 16.0% and unemployment at 4.1%. On housing, the average median home value is $281,667 with median rent of $1,054 per month, and 56.5% of occupied units are owner-occupied. These are arithmetic averages across the 4 ZIPs — not population-weighted — so small ZIPs influence the headline numbers the same as large ones.
Use this city view to compare ZIPs inside Bowling Green against each other rather than hunting for a single "city average." The Affordability Dashboard linked below combines these Census inputs with HUD Fair Market Rents, FBI crime data, and Department of Labor childcare costs into a graded scorecard for Bowling Green as a whole, while individual ZIP pages show fine-grained household income, housing profile, education attainment, commute time, and nearby-ZIP benchmarks. Every field on this page is sourced directly from U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates — no estimates, no proprietary scoring, no editorial adjustment.
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ZIP Codes
104,282
Population
$70,357
Median Income
$281,667
Median Home Value
35.6
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Official Data Resources for Bowling Green
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates (2023). Verify with Census Bureau →
Source: HUD USPS Crosswalk (ZIP-to-county mapping) and Source: simplemaps.com (ZIP coordinates & timezones). Verify with HUD →
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