ZIP 23898

What ZIP 23898 actually tells you, and what it doesn't

The 23898 ZIP Code Tabulation Area has a population of 2,638 and a median household income of $82,500. Against the other tabulation areas in this dataset, it places as follows.

The median home is priced at about 3.4 times median household income, above the midpoint for reporting areas. A gap of this size usually means demand is being set by buyers whose income is not counted in this ZCTA -- commuters, second-home buyers, or investors.

Renting takes an unusually small bite of local income -- about 10% of median household income at the median rent, in the lowest quarter of the 25,890 areas reporting both.

The median age of 43.1 sits above the midpoint of reporting areas, the pattern of a settled population where more residents are past child-rearing than entering it.

The ACS publishes no unemployment rate for 23898. 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.