ZIP 58228 vs ZIP 58205

This side-by-side compares ZIP 58228 (Emerado, 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 58228 has a population of 880 at 3 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 58228 reports a median household income of $70,625 against — in ZIP 58205, with per-capita income of $42,622 vs $28,372. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 30.3% in 58228 and 0.0% in 58205. Poverty rate reads 4.4% vs 0.0%, and unemployment 5.5% 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 $194,100 in 58228 versus — in 58205, with median rent of $737 and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 82.0% 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.