ZIP 82221 vs ZIP 82081

This side-by-side compares ZIP 82221 (Lagrange, WY) and ZIP 82081 (Meriden, WY) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 82221 has a population of 635 at 1 people per square mile, while ZIP 82081 has 60 at 0 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 82221 reports a median household income of $34,563 against — in ZIP 82081, with per-capita income of $23,750 vs —. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 23.4% in 82221 and 0.0% in 82081. Poverty rate reads 5.9% vs 0.0%, and unemployment 0.7% 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 $212,100 in 82221 versus — in 82081, with median rent of $580 and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 69.6% vs 100.0%. 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.