Halfway, OR

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Halfway, OR: 1 USPS ZIP, population 986. 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 HALFWAY-OR · Halfway, OR 1 ZIPs · 986 pop · #23304/25278 · Baker County

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

  • INC-LOW $43,889
  • RANK-BOTTOM #23304/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Unity
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-LOW 63% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 986
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-MID $366,300

Nearest income peer: Unity, OR (+ $1,805 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 Halfway

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

median HH income

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Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-06

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Halfway, 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.

8th pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
986
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$43,889
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 ($43,889 average) · poverty 27.2%. The primary code (97834) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy is comparatively low (62.6%) for this income tier, rent $806 may matter more than the home-value average.

Within Oregon, Port Orford is the closest lower-income city and Cascadia the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Halfway.

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ZIP Codes in Halfway, OR

These ZIP codes sit in Baker County, which covers 11 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Halfway. See the Baker County roll-up →

Halfway sits in the lower half of Baker County on income: Baker City, Haines and Richland report more, Huntington and Sumpter report less. Oxbow marks the far end of that range at $85,469, 95% above Halfway.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
97834 986 2 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 Halfway, 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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