ZIP 02184

What ZIP 02184 actually tells you, and what it doesn't

The 02184 ZIP Code Tabulation Area has a population of 38,748 and a median household income of $120,593. Against the other tabulation areas in this dataset, it places as follows.

The median home costs around 4.9 times what a median household here earns in a year, placing 02184 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 17% 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.

A median age of 41.4 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.