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South Bethlehem, NY

Single-footprint Census roll-up for South Bethlehem, NY: 1 USPS ZIP, population 160. 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 SOUTH-BETHLEHEM-NY · South Bethlehem, NY 1 ZIPs · 160 pop · #1908/25278 · Albany County

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

  • INC-TOP $123,750
  • RANK-TOP #1908/25278
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Altamont
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-MID 70% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 160
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-UNK Homes pending

Nearest income peer: Altamont, NY ( $3,649 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 South Bethlehem

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest South Bethlehem 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 2026-08-25

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, South Bethlehem, NY sits among US cities with a top-decile household income, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

Top 8%
household income vs 25,278 US cities
160
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$123,750
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 $123,750 and home value - should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 63.4%.

Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (70.0%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating South Bethlehem as a pure owner town.

Within New York, Ocean Beach is the closest lower-income city and Ionia the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for South Bethlehem.

Population concentration

South Bethlehem reads through its lone ZIP, 12161

160 ACS residents, one ZIP: 12161 is not the leading code inside South Bethlehem, it is the only one on file. Treat the ZIP page as the primary source for anything below the city-wide total.

Census ZBP business roll-up

No ZBP establishments filed for South Bethlehem's ZIPs

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

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ZIP Codes in South Bethlehem, NY

These ZIP codes sit in Albany County, which covers 37 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in South Bethlehem. See the Albany County roll-up →

South Bethlehem sits in the upper half of Albany County on income: Albany, Troy and Latham report less, while Delmar and Slingerlands report more. Troy marks the far end of that range at $59,406, 52% below South Bethlehem.

ZIP Code Population Median income Establishments Density
12161 160 $123,750 n/a 151
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