Plant hardiness zone 5B
ZIP codes in USDA plant hardiness zone 5B. Population, income, and housing from US5 published metrics.
What is USDA zone 5B?
Zone 5B 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 2,697 indexable ZIP codes in this band, covering about 14,963,040 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 5B, 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 5B
| ZIP | City | County | State | Population | Income | Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68956 | Kenesaw | Adams County | NE | 1,108 | $89,524 | $184,100 |
| 13469 | Stittville | Oneida County | NY | 1,107 | $108,798 | $247,300 |
| 52749 | Fruitland | Muscatine County | IA | 1,107 | $101,375 | $219,000 |
| 61259 | Illinois City | Rock Island County | IL | 1,107 | $88,550 | $198,900 |
| 80833 | — | Lincoln County | CO | 1,107 | $39,414 | $194,000 |
| 52570 | Milton | Van Buren County | IA | 1,104 | $62,292 | $102,000 |
| 52540 | Pleasant Plain | Jefferson County | IA | 1,102 | $57,589 | $106,600 |
| 49950 | Eagle River | Keweenaw County | MI | 1,101 | $54,931 | $221,600 |
| 04284 | — | Kennebec County | ME | 1,096 | $75,987 | $327,900 |
| 50238 | Russell | Lucas County | IA | 1,089 | $67,708 | $82,600 |
| 69024 | Culbertson | Hitchcock County | NE | 1,088 | $52,038 | $103,700 |
| 87520 | Chama | Rio Arriba County | NM | 1,088 | $59,583 | $207,200 |
| 64446 | Fairfax | Atchison County | MO | 1,085 | $56,563 | $102,000 |
| 84714 | Beryl Junction | Iron County | UT | 1,078 | $55,217 | $199,200 |
| 87513 | Arroyo Hondo | Taos County | NM | 1,078 | $80,389 | $403,400 |
| 69154 | Oshkosh | Garden County | NE | 1,077 | $43,214 | $97,900 |
| 69155 | Paxton | Keith County | NE | 1,077 | $76,000 | $148,300 |
| 60550 | Shabbona | DeKalb County | IL | 1,074 | $79,420 | $192,500 |
| 68401 | McCool Junction | York County | NE | 1,073 | $108,125 | $176,100 |
| 12022 | — | Rensselaer County | NY | 1,069 | $77,386 | $179,700 |
| 51573 | Stanton | Montgomery County | IA | 1,069 | $86,111 | $113,000 |
| 68864 | Palmer | Merrick County | NE | 1,065 | $77,440 | $134,800 |
| 49642 | — | Lake County | MI | 1,062 | $26,471 | $109,500 |
| 60512 | Yorkville | Kendall County | IL | 1,061 | $102,750 | $280,600 |
| 50139 | Lacona | Warren County | IA | 1,058 | $70,673 | $137,500 |
| 64442 | Eagleville | Harrison County | MO | 1,056 | $62,188 | $119,200 |
| 81133 | Fort Garland | Costilla County | CO | 1,056 | $55,179 | $258,500 |
| 68643 | Leigh | Platte County | NE | 1,055 | $87,534 | $140,000 |
| 49619 | Brethren | Manistee County | MI | 1,054 | $54,118 | $135,800 |
| 61447 | Kirkwood | Warren County | IL | 1,053 | $82,321 | $96,200 |
| 68865 | Phillips | Hamilton County | NE | 1,050 | $107,083 | $281,900 |
| 80826 | — | Lincoln County | CO | 1,049 | — | — |
| 68640 | Genoa | Nance County | NE | 1,045 | $65,000 | $127,600 |
| 04622 | — | Washington County | ME | 1,043 | $43,000 | $153,200 |
| 61349 | Ohio | Bureau County | IL | 1,039 | $65,938 | $117,400 |
| 61413 | Alpha | Henry County | IL | 1,038 | $72,955 | $128,400 |
| 12423 | East Durham | Greene County | NY | 1,033 | $77,672 | $216,700 |
| 52533 | Batavia | Jefferson County | IA | 1,030 | $59,659 | $110,300 |
| 80451 | Hot Sulphur Springs | Grand County | CO | 1,030 | $91,176 | $386,700 |
| 61230 | Albany | Whiteside County | IL | 1,028 | $77,344 | $150,600 |
| 50069 | De Soto | Dallas County | IA | 1,024 | $95,208 | $216,800 |
| 50257 | Truro | Madison County | IA | 1,022 | $94,605 | $218,000 |
| 60530 | Lee | Lee County | IL | 1,022 | $85,833 | $275,900 |
| 68421 | Peru | Nemaha County | NE | 1,019 | $57,838 | $97,500 |
| 16746 | Roulette | Potter County | PA | 1,018 | $60,606 | $95,600 |
| 50073 | Elkhart | Polk County | IA | 1,018 | $94,712 | $275,700 |
| 12029 | — | Columbia County | NY | 1,017 | $104,167 | $374,700 |
| 48762 | Hubbard Lake | Alcona County | MI | 1,014 | $67,955 | $198,900 |
| 69025 | Curtis | Frontier County | NE | 1,011 | $62,813 | $159,900 |
| 68786 | Wausa | Knox County | NE | 1,009 | $84,500 | $104,900 |
Frequently asked questions
What does zone 5B mean?
Zone 5B 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 5B; 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.