ZIP 83422 vs ZIP 83452

This side-by-side compares ZIP 83422 (Driggs, ID) and ZIP 83452 (Tetonia, ID) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both, no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 83422 has a population of 3,392 at 10 people per square mile, while ZIP 83452 has 1,484 at 4 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 83422 reports a median household income of $96,530 against $72,083 in ZIP 83452, with per-capita income of $50,599 vs $44,882. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 46.9% in 83422 and 33.6% in 83452. Poverty rate reads 9.3% vs 14.8%, and unemployment 1.6% vs 0.1% - 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 $548,600 in 83422 versus $565,800 in 83452, with median rent of $1,182 and $1,538 per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 69.6% vs 91.4%. 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.