ZIP 02129

What ZIP 02129 actually tells you, and what it doesn't

The 02129 ZIP Code Tabulation Area has a population of 19,832 and a median household income of $146,815. Against the other tabulation areas in this dataset, it places as follows.

The median home costs around 6.2 times what a median household here earns in a year, placing 02129 in the most expensive quarter of reporting areas. Wherever the multiple runs this far ahead of local pay, ownership is largely closed to people earning the local median, and the rental figures below matter more than the sale price.

At the median, rent consumes roughly 16% of a median household's income -- below the midpoint for reporting areas, and well under the 30% line commonly used to define a cost burden.

Half the residents are under 35.8, young enough to place 02129 in the youngest quarter of the 32,853 areas reporting an age. Campuses, barracks, and dense rental districts dominate this end of the range, and where that is the cause the income and poverty figures describe students rather than settled households.

ZCTAs approximate USPS ZIP codes rather than matching them, and these are 5-year ACS estimates, so they trail current conditions.