ZIP 58204 vs ZIP 58205

This side-by-side compares ZIP 58204 (Grand Forks Afb, ND) and ZIP 58205 (Grand Forks Afb, ND) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 58204 has a population of 2,107 at 106 people per square mile, while ZIP 58205 has 260 at 623 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 58204 reports a median household income of $73,145 against — in ZIP 58205, with per-capita income of $23,362 vs $28,372. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 30.1% in 58204 and 0.0% in 58205. Poverty rate reads 4.0% vs 0.0%, and unemployment 1.8% vs 0.0% — 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 $9,999 in 58204 versus — in 58205, with median rent of $1,626 and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 2.3% vs 0.0%. 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.