ZIP 56701 vs ZIP 56725

This side-by-side compares ZIP 56701 (Thief River Falls, MN) and ZIP 56725 (Goodridge, MN) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 56701 has a population of 12,690 at 13 people per square mile, while ZIP 56725 has 978 at 1 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 56701 reports a median household income of $78,599 against $72,917 in ZIP 56725, with per-capita income of $42,179 vs $39,900. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 21.5% in 56701 and 17.4% in 56725. Poverty rate reads 10.1% vs 7.6%, and unemployment 2.7% vs 3.8% — 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 $196,000 in 56701 versus $220,200 in 56725, with median rent of $856 and $1,406 per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 71.1% vs 88.5%. 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.