ZIP 58476 vs ZIP 58420

This side-by-side compares ZIP 58476 (Pingree, ND) and ZIP 58420 (Buchanan, ND) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 58476 has a population of 271 at 0 people per square mile, while ZIP 58420 has 314 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 58476 reports a median household income of — against $114,583 in ZIP 58420, with per-capita income of $35,938 vs $34,116. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 57.8% in 58476 and 31.8% in 58420. Poverty rate reads 26.3% vs 2.2%, and unemployment 0.0% 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 $116,500 in 58476 versus $230,000 in 58420, with median rent of $625 and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 95.7% vs 93.8%. 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.