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Paradox, NY

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Paradox, NY: 1 USPS ZIP, population 59. 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 PARADOX-NY · Paradox, NY 1 ZIPs · 59 pop · #1879/25278 · Essex County

INC-TOP · RANK-TOP · ABOVE-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-MID

  • INC-TOP $124,167
  • RANK-TOP #1879/25278
  • ABOVE-PEER over Crown Point
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 100% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 59
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-MID $333,300

Nearest income peer: Crown Point, NY ( $41,354 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 Paradox

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Paradox 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, Paradox, NY sits among US cities with a top-decile household income, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

Top 7%
household income vs 25,278 US cities
59
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$124,167
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 $124,167 and home value $333,300 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 49.6%.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (100.0%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within New York, Elmont is the closest lower-income city and Shokan the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Paradox.

Population concentration

Paradox's single ZIP 12858 carries the town

Paradox is published as a single USPS ZIP. Code 12858 is the entire residential footprint (59 ACS residents), so the city page and the ZIP page tell the same household story, open that ZIP for income, tenure, and commute detail.

Census ZBP business roll-up

No ZBP establishments filed for Paradox's ZIPs

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

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ZIP Codes in Paradox, NY

These ZIP codes sit in Essex County, which covers 30 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Paradox. See the Essex County roll-up →

No other city sharing Essex County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Paradox. Lake Placid, Ticonderoga and Keeseville sit below it, so a household comparing this county on income alone starts here. Port Henry marks the far end of that range at $47,278, 62% below Paradox.

ZIP Code Population Median income Establishments Density
12858 59 $124,167 n/a 2
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