ZIP 53517 vs ZIP 53507

This side-by-side compares ZIP 53517 (Blue Mounds, WI) and ZIP 53507 (Barneveld, WI) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 53517 has a population of 1,752 at 15 people per square mile, while ZIP 53507 has 2,196 at 14 per square mile. That difference in population size and density alone reshapes how every other metric should be interpreted — a higher-income ZIP with 1,200 residents behaves very differently from one with 45,000.

On income and education, ZIP 53517 reports a median household income of $84,722 against $113,261 in ZIP 53507, with per-capita income of $51,853 vs $51,192. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 41.4% in 53517 and 37.7% in 53507. Poverty rate reads 5.9% vs 7.1%, and unemployment 2.5% vs 2.0% — these four fields alone drive most of the difference in the scorecard grades you will see for each ZIP.

Housing separates these two ZIPs further: median home value sits at $445,000 in 53517 versus $347,400 in 53507, with median rent of $1,079 and $1,162 per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 77.9% vs 81.6%. When reading the comparison table below, focus on paired metrics rather than single winners — a ZIP with lower home values and lower income is not strictly "worse" if rent-to-income ratios and commute times land in the same zone. Every value is pulled from the exact same ACS table so the two columns are genuinely comparable.