ZIP code 20004

ZIP 20004 is a small town in District of Columbia, District of Columbia, with 1,756 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #23 of 57 ranked by population — larger than 60% of them. The median age here is 42.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in ZIP 20004 earn a median of $161,359 a year, 105.5% above the national figure of $78,538. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 3.6% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 20004 is valued at $650,700, 114.5% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $2,945 a month, 109.5% above the national figure, or roughly $35,340 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 40.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

ZIP 20004 is tabulated inside District of Columbia, District of Columbia, one of 57 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 57 across District of Columbia. Fewer than 2,500 people are counted here, so the ZIP behaves like a village delivery route rather than a neighbourhood. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 20004 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 20004 reports a median household income of $161,359, 45% above the $111,110 county median, and 45% above the $111,110 typical DC ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $650,700, 10% below the county figure and 10% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $2,945 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

District of Columbia charges 6% statewide, and no local sales tax is layered on top, so the state rate is the full amount collected in 20004.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 20004 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.