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Plant hardiness zone 5A

ZIP codes in USDA plant hardiness zone 5A. Population, income, and housing from US5 published metrics.

Zone
5A
ZIP codes
2,317
Population
9,286,677
Median household income (avg.)
$74,070
Average home value
$224,046
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What is USDA zone 5A?

Zone 5A is a USDA / PRISM plant hardiness band based on average annual extreme minimum winter temperature. Growers use it to compare winter-cold exposure across regions — it is a climate label, not a planting prescription.

US5 lists 2,317 indexable ZIP codes in this band, covering about 9,286,677 combined ZIP-area residents. The table below is sorted by population; use pagination to browse the full published set.

How to use this zone page

Scan communities inside zone 5A, then open any ZIP for full demographics, climate normals, schools, and nearby amenities. Zone membership comes from the USDA hardiness summary joined to published ZIP profiles.

ZIPs in zone 5A

ZIP City County State Population Income Home value
49955 Painesdale Houghton County MI 439 $62,468 $87,800
56185 Wilmont Nobles County MN 439 $59,792 $162,500
50235 Rippey Greene County IA 438 $96,875 $192,900
50672 Steamboat Rock Hardin County IA 438 $64,063 $127,800
51446 Irwin Shelby County IA 437 $61,750 $94,200
56033 Frost Faribault County MN 429 $82,188 $90,400
56043 Hayward Freeborn County MN 429 $93,333 $189,300
83013 — Teton County WY 425 $136,292 —
50434 Fertile Worth County IA 424 — —
03593 — Coos County NH 423 $95,000 $300,000
03832 — Carroll County NH 423 $75,833 $348,100
50599 Woolstock Wright County IA 423 $95,000 $200,600
51061 Washta Cherokee County IA 423 $68,750 $90,600
52313 Mount Auburn Benton County IA 423 $89,135 $204,700
81210 — Gunnison County CO 423 $42,130 $628,900
05649 East Barre Orange County VT 422 $91,667 $183,300
56174 Storden Cottonwood County MN 420 $81,563 $99,400
57052 Tschetter Colony Hutchinson County SD 420 $123,125 $269,600
52212 Center Junction Jones County IA 419 $82,400 $152,600
51350 Melvin Osceola County IA 417 $72,708 $81,000
54931 Dale Outagamie County WI 417 $66,657 $194,200
56034 Garden City Blue Earth County MN 417 $83,068 $169,800
68761 Oakdale Antelope County NE 416 $78,125 $53,000
05052 North Hartland Windsor County VT 415 $76,417 $360,000
52225 Elberon Tama County IA 415 $61,550 $144,300
04024 — Cumberland County ME 414 $55,833 $239,400
55931 Eitzen Houston County MN 414 $76,875 $142,500
50565 Marathon Buena Vista County IA 413 $61,705 $71,900
69128 Bushnell Kimball County NE 412 $42,045 $90,600
49728 — Chippewa County MI 411 $57,961 $118,600
50603 Alta Vista Chickasaw County IA 410 $62,667 $97,000
55085 Vermillion Dakota County MN 409 $93,333 $291,400
59750 Butte-Silver Bow (balance) Silver Bow County MT 408 $80,670 $487,500
53825 — Grant County WI 407 $83,929 $143,800
56255 Lucan Redwood County MN 407 $70,500 $153,800
80469 Phippsburg Routt County CO 407 $111,141 $322,500
13483 — Oneida County NY 405 $113,000 —
50132 Kamrar Hamilton County IA 404 $81,140 $120,300
50420 Alexander Franklin County IA 404 $76,169 $77,500
50607 Aurora Buchanan County IA 404 $57,813 $153,100
80483 Yampa Routt County CO 404 $73,750 $346,400
13664 Morristown St. Lawrence County NY 401 $75,909 $149,100
57321 Canova Miner County SD 399 $81,786 $252,000
12849 — Washington County NY 398 $112,250 $290,000
53827 Woodman Grant County WI 398 $69,375 $150,000
05762 — Rutland County VT 397 $67,115 $251,400
50034 Blairsburg Hamilton County IA 397 $73,750 $113,300
50148 Liscomb Marshall County IA 396 $80,862 $96,400
51033 Linn Grove Clay County IA 396 $61,136 $185,000
57775 Quinn Pennington County SD 396 $95,341 $179,200

Frequently asked questions

What does zone 5A mean?

Zone 5A is a USDA plant hardiness band based on average annual extreme minimum winter temperature. It helps compare winter-cold exposure across places; it is not a planting prescription.

Why is the table sorted by population?

Population ordering surfaces larger communities first. The zone total counts all published ZIPs in band 5A; page through the table to browse beyond the first page.

Is a hardiness zone the same as a climate normal?

Hardiness zones summarize winter extreme cold. ZIP pages on US5 also show precipitation, snow, and FEMA risk context separately.