Fossil, OR
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Fossil, OR: 1 USPS ZIP, population 748. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
Source:
ACS city ledger plate
Sheet FOSSIL-OR · Fossil, OR 1 ZIPs · 748 pop · #20145/25278 · Wheeler County
INC-MID · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-ONE · OWN-MID · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-MID
- INC-MID $54,583
- RANK-LOWER #20145/25278
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mitchell
- BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
- OWN-MID 80% owners
- POP-VILLAGE 748
- SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
- HOME-MID $250,000
Nearest income peer: Mitchell, OR (+ $254 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 Fossil
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Fossil on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Fossil · this city · lowest
Fossil · this city · lowest
$54,583 median HH income
- Mitchell · near
Mitchell · near
$54,837 median HH income
- Spray · highest
Spray · highest
$58,636 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.
National city placement
According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Fossil, OR 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.
- 20th pct
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 748
- city population (Census)
- 1
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $54,583
- 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 ($54,583 average) · poverty 11.3%. The primary code (97830) carries the ACS household fields that matter.
Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (80.0%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Fossil as a pure owner town.
Within Oregon, Days Creek is the closest lower-income city and Tiller the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Fossil.
ZIP Codes in Fossil, OR
These ZIP codes sit in Wheeler County, which covers 3 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Fossil. See the Wheeler County roll-up →
Every one of the 2 cities sharing Wheeler County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Fossil, Spray among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Spray marks the far end of that range at $58,636, 7% above Fossil.
| ZIP Code | Population | Density | Timezone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 97830 | 748 | 1 | America/Los_Angeles |
On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Fossil, then BLS wages if you need the labor-market side of the same small geography.
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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