ZIP 23889

What ZIP 23889 actually tells you, and what it doesn't

The 23889 ZIP Code Tabulation Area has a population of 574 and a median household income of $51,759. Against the other tabulation areas in this dataset, it places as follows.

Median rent works out to about 22% of median household income, above the midpoint for reporting areas though still short of the 30% cost-burden line. Note that this compares two medians, not the same households: renters here typically earn less than the ZCTA-wide median, so their real share is higher.

At a median age of 52.5, 23889 falls in the oldest quarter of reporting areas. Retirement destinations and long-settled rural areas cluster here, and in both the labour-force measures below cover a smaller share of residents than they would in a younger area.

The ACS publishes no median home value or unemployment rate for 23889. Those rows read "Not reported" below rather than zero; a suppressed estimate is not a measurement of nothing. Small resident counts are the usual reason the Bureau withholds one.

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