ZIP 02171

What ZIP 02171 actually tells you, and what it doesn't

The 02171 ZIP Code Tabulation Area has a population of 19,882 and a median household income of $101,013. Against the other tabulation areas in this dataset, it places as follows.

The median home costs around 5.9 times what a median household here earns in a year, placing 02171 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.

Rent absorbs roughly 25% of median household income, among the highest quarter of reporting areas. Because renter households usually earn below the area-wide median, the burden on actual renters runs higher than this ratio shows.

A median age of 41.0 is on the younger side of the reporting range -- the profile of an area still taking in households at the family-forming stage rather than one that has finished doing so.

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