Wood Lake, NE
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Wood Lake, NE: 1 USPS ZIP, population 222. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
Source:
ACS city ledger plate
Sheet WOOD-LAKE-NE · Wood Lake, NE 1 ZIPs · 222 pop · #20578/25278 · Cherry County
INC-MID · RANK-BOTTOM · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-ONE · OWN-MID · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW
- INC-MID $53,438
- RANK-BOTTOM #20578/25278
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Kilgore
- BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
- OWN-MID 69% owners
- POP-VILLAGE 222
- SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
- HOME-LOW $96,300
Nearest income peer: Kilgore, NE (+ $62 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 Wood Lake
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Wood Lake on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Wood Lake · this city · lowest
Wood Lake · this city · lowest
$53,438 median HH income
- Kilgore · near
Kilgore · near
$53,500 median HH income
- Valentine · near
Valentine · near
$62,101 median HH income
- Cody · near
Cody · near
$74,688 median HH income
- Merriman · highest
Merriman · highest
$78,672 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, Wood Lake, NE 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.
- 19th pct
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 222
- city population (Census)
- 1
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $53,438
- 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 ($53,438 average) · poverty 4.7%. The primary code (69221) carries the ACS household fields that matter.
Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (69.2%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Wood Lake as a pure owner town.
Within Nebraska, Niobrara is the closest lower-income city and Kilgore the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Wood Lake.
ZIP Codes in Wood Lake, NE
These ZIP codes sit in Cherry County, which covers 9 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Wood Lake. See the Cherry County roll-up →
Every one of the 4 cities sharing Cherry County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Wood Lake, Valentine, Cody and Merriman among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Merriman marks the far end of that range at $78,672, 47% above Wood Lake.
| ZIP Code | Population | Density | Timezone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 69221 | 222 | 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 Wood Lake, 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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