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Columbus, ND

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Columbus, ND: 1 USPS ZIP, population 279. 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 COLUMBUS-ND · Columbus, ND 1 ZIPs · 279 pop · #3622/25278 · Burke County

INC-HIGH · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-MID

  • INC-HIGH $105,417
  • RANK-TOP #3622/25278
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Powers Lake
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 99% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 279
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-MID $229,200

Nearest income peer: Powers Lake, ND ( $1,667 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 Columbus

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Columbus 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 2026-08-06

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Columbus, ND sits among US cities with an upper-quartile household income, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

Top 14%
household income vs 25,278 US cities
279
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$105,417
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.

High-income footprint on only 1 ZIP: the city page and the ZIP page nearly coincide. Headline income $105,417 and home value $229,200 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 11.4%.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (98.9%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within North Dakota, Portland is the closest lower-income city and Kindred the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Columbus.

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ZIP Codes in Columbus, ND

These ZIP codes sit in Burke County, which covers 6 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Columbus. See the Burke County roll-up →

Columbus sits in the upper half of Burke County on income: Bowbells and Lignite report less, while Portal reports more. Bowbells marks the far end of that range at $83,750, 21% below Columbus.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
58727 279 0 America/Chicago

On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Columbus, then BLS wages if you need the labor-market side of the same small geography.

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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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