ZIP Code 67801 – Dodge City, Kansas: What the Data Actually Covers

Which fact do you need

Confirming a ZIP for shipping: the mailing section below covers the one mix-up that actually delays deliveries. Pulling numbers for relocation or a school decision: skip to Housing or Schools. Sizing a market for a business: the tax and income sections carry the figures that change by jurisdiction, not just by averages.

What this ZIP code actually covers

Ford County, Kansas contains 67801 entirely, but the ZIP reaches well beyond Dodge City’s city limits into surrounding townships and rural acreage. The land area, roughly 368 square miles per Census Reporter’s American Community Survey profile, is large enough that an address inside 67801 can sit twenty or more miles from the courthouse square and still carry the same five digits.

The city’s civic infrastructure sits inside that footprint: the Dodge City Public Library, at 1001 N 2nd Ave, has occupied that site since 1981, after outgrowing the original 1905 Carnegie-funded building a few blocks away.

Does 67801 include areas outside Dodge City? Yes. The ZIP’s roughly 368 square miles extend well past the city limits into surrounding Ford County territory, so a 67801 address does not guarantee the property sits inside Dodge City proper.

Population, and why the count moves

The most recent American Community Survey estimate (2020–2024, 5-year) puts the population at 30,967, drawn directly from Census Reporter’s reprocessing of Census Bureau ACS data. That number carries a real margin of error: the ACS surveys a rolling sample of households and blends five years of responses, unlike the once-a-decade Decennial Census, which attempts a full count on a single date. Several public ZIP directories publish a different figure for this ZIP, usually without stating which Census product or vintage produced it. Neither approach is wrong; they measure the same place on different schedules with different methods, so a number without a stated source and year deserves caution before you compare it to anything else.

One factor worth knowing before using this population for market sizing: Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates the Dodge Detention Facility inside the area. Residents of group-quarters facilities like this are counted in Census population and demographic totals, which can distort per-capita or age-distribution figures for anyone treating this ZIP as a simple consumer market.

Why do population figures for 67801 differ between sources? They usually reflect different Census products: a full Decennial count taken once every ten years, or a rolling five-year American Community Survey estimate. Check which one a source used before comparing figures across sites.

Mailing and addressing: the Fort Dodge trap

Fort Dodge, Kansas is a separate, tiny census-designated place about five miles southeast of Dodge City, with its own ZIP code, 67843, and “Fort Dodge, KS” as the USPS-preferred name for that code. The 2020 Census counted 97 people there. Address mail to “Fort Dodge, KS” without the correct ZIP and it can route to the wrong five-digit code, since Fort Dodge and Dodge City stay administratively distinct even though the historic fort site, an 1865–1882 Santa Fe Trail outpost later converted into a Kansas Soldiers’ Home, sits inside greater Dodge City’s orbit.

Is Fort Dodge the same place as Dodge City? No. Fort Dodge is a separate, much smaller community about five miles from Dodge City with its own ZIP code, 67843.

Income, business, and the real sales tax rate

Median household income for the ZIP sits at $71,821 in the same ACS estimate, a little below the national figure and roughly in line with the wider Dodge City micro area. The number that actually changes address to address inside this ZIP is sales tax. Kansas lets cities and counties each add a local rate on top of the 6.5% state rate, and the combined figure a retailer collects depends on whether the point of sale sits inside city limits.

The Kansas Department of Revenue’s published guidance illustrates this exact mechanic using a comparable city, Garden City in Finney County: the combined rate inside city limits runs higher than the rate county residents pay outside any incorporated municipality, because the city-level component applies only within city boundaries. Avalara’s rate lookup and Zamp’s Dodge City breakdown independently confirm the same 6.5/1.0/1.5 components for Dodge City specifically.

Does the sales tax rate change inside 67801? Yes. Addresses inside Dodge City’s city limits collect 9% combined; addresses in the unincorporated part of Ford County within the same ZIP collect 7.5%, since the 1.5% municipal component only applies inside city boundaries.

Housing and real estate

Home values here run below the Kansas median ($217,200) and the national median ($332,700) over the same period, while household size, 2.9 persons on average, runs higher than both. A larger typical household alongside a lower typical home value points toward more people per housing unit rather than toward a simple cheap-housing story on its own.

Schools: the district, and who it serves

Every school inside 67801 falls under Unified School District 443, Dodge City Public Schools, headquartered at 2112 First Ave, Dodge City, KS 67801. The National Center for Education Statistics lists it as an open, regular local district operating 11 schools across grades PK–12. Some public ZIP-data sources list a different set of districts for this ZIP; the federal record settles which one actually serves it.

What’s harder to find elsewhere: the student population and the general population of this area look different. Government-sourced district data puts the USD 443 student body at 81.8% Hispanic/Latino.

That gap matters before evaluating the district against citywide averages alone: the schools serve a population that skews measurably more Hispanic/Latino than the ZIP’s adult population as a whole.

Which school district serves 67801? Unified School District 443, Dodge City Public Schools, confirmed by federal district records; a source listing a different district for this ZIP is outdated.

Nearby ZIP codes

Each entry is a legally and postally distinct place, none of them simply Dodge City under a different code.