ZIP code 20020

ZIP 20020 is a small city in District of Columbia, District of Columbia, with 53,885 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #4 of 57 ranked by population — larger than 94% of them. The median age here is 33.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in ZIP 20020 earn a median of $53,015 a year, 32.5% below the national figure of $78,538. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 27.4% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 20020 is valued at $442,500, 45.8% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,317 a month, 6.3% below the national figure, or roughly $15,804 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 29.8% 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 8.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 30.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Home values sit at 8.3× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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 20020 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. This is a dense urban ZIP, where a single postal boundary can hold more residents than an entire rural county. 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 20020 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 20020 reports a median household income of $53,015, 52% below the $111,110 county median, and 52% below the $111,110 typical DC ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $442,500, 39% below the county figure and 39% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,317 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 20020.

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 20020 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.