Plant hardiness zone 5A
ZIP codes in USDA plant hardiness zone 5A. Population, income, and housing from US5 published metrics.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49896 | — | Menominee County | MI | 1,718 | $56,979 | $165,300 |
| 04921 | — | Waldo County | ME | 1,716 | $63,355 | $192,900 |
| 56110 | Adrian | Nobles County | MN | 1,714 | $77,625 | $197,200 |
| 50604 | Aplington | Butler County | IA | 1,713 | $63,750 | $150,800 |
| 57038 | Jefferson | Union County | SD | 1,713 | $86,895 | $280,900 |
| 05444 | Cambridge | Lamoille County | VT | 1,711 | $101,336 | $342,800 |
| 57014 | Centerville | Turner County | SD | 1,711 | $77,383 | $217,000 |
| 04971 | — | Somerset County | ME | 1,703 | $64,688 | $185,700 |
| 04418 | — | Penobscot County | ME | 1,702 | $59,150 | $119,900 |
| 68729 | Creighton | Knox County | NE | 1,701 | $64,583 | $131,100 |
| 50682 | Winthrop | Buchanan County | IA | 1,700 | $85,625 | $181,600 |
| 52218 | Coggon | Linn County | IA | 1,700 | $90,924 | $170,500 |
| 50236 | Roland | Story County | IA | 1,699 | $86,793 | $185,900 |
| 57068 | Valley Springs | Minnehaha County | SD | 1,699 | $107,222 | $251,500 |
| 68784 | Wakefield | Dixon County | NE | 1,685 | $59,524 | $123,000 |
| 04943 | Hartland | Somerset County | ME | 1,681 | $46,638 | $143,600 |
| 05674 | — | Washington County | VT | 1,678 | $84,688 | $486,500 |
| 53034 | Hustisford | Dodge County | WI | 1,676 | $78,859 | $214,800 |
| 82082 | Pine Bluffs | Laramie County | WY | 1,675 | $66,388 | $316,300 |
| 03768 | — | Grafton County | NH | 1,672 | $141,719 | $651,400 |
| 61028 | Elizabeth | Jo Daviess County | IL | 1,671 | $86,328 | $184,800 |
| 50641 | Hazleton | Buchanan County | IA | 1,665 | $64,511 | $159,200 |
| 50624 | Dike | Grundy County | IA | 1,664 | $93,333 | $243,500 |
| 51035 | Marcus | Cherokee County | IA | 1,664 | $75,673 | $182,900 |
| 54664 | Viola | Richland County | WI | 1,659 | $70,652 | $177,900 |
| 59868 | Seeley Lake | Missoula County | MT | 1,659 | $48,409 | $286,800 |
| 12958 | Mooers | Clinton County | NY | 1,650 | $58,512 | $147,300 |
| 61087 | Warren | Jo Daviess County | IL | 1,648 | $74,609 | $109,700 |
| 51248 | Sanborn | O'Brien County | IA | 1,643 | $60,809 | $154,400 |
| 54655 | Soldiers Grove | Crawford County | WI | 1,643 | $54,107 | $211,000 |
| 50554 | Laurens | Pocahontas County | IA | 1,639 | $63,618 | $85,600 |
| 52332 | Shellsburg | Benton County | IA | 1,638 | $90,781 | $227,800 |
| 51577 | Walnut | Pottawattamie County | IA | 1,637 | $67,928 | $112,700 |
| 52345 | Urbana | Benton County | IA | 1,636 | $112,929 | $225,200 |
| 57533 | Gregory | Gregory County | SD | 1,633 | $50,000 | $112,800 |
| 51030 | Lawton | Woodbury County | IA | 1,630 | $78,750 | $267,600 |
| 12859 | — | Saratoga County | NY | 1,629 | $72,847 | $300,300 |
| 57043 | Marion | Turner County | SD | 1,625 | $73,555 | $198,000 |
| 51443 | Glidden | Carroll County | IA | 1,623 | $78,472 | $181,500 |
| 04955 | — | Franklin County | ME | 1,622 | $61,250 | $155,800 |
| 05487 | — | Addison County | VT | 1,618 | $72,917 | $240,900 |
| 54648 | Norwalk | Monroe County | WI | 1,616 | $70,227 | $173,000 |
| 50468 | Roseville | Floyd County | IA | 1,615 | $63,485 | $139,600 |
| 03774 | North Haverhill | Grafton County | NH | 1,606 | $53,750 | $189,400 |
| 52069 | Preston | Jackson County | IA | 1,605 | $79,000 | $153,500 |
| 50475 | Sheffield | Franklin County | IA | 1,598 | $78,333 | $155,600 |
| 50621 | Conrad | Grundy County | IA | 1,591 | $86,146 | $185,300 |
| 50424 | Buffalo Center | Winnebago County | IA | 1,590 | $58,125 | $109,200 |
| 04947 | Kingfield | Franklin County | ME | 1,584 | $67,292 | $246,900 |
| 05483 | — | Franklin County | VT | 1,584 | $69,848 | $244,400 |
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.