ZIP code 20037

ZIP 20037 is a mid-size town in District of Columbia, District of Columbia, with 12,441 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #19 of 57 ranked by population — larger than 67% of them. The median age here is 31.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 20037 earn a median of $98,917 a year, 25.9% 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 17.9% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 20037 is valued at $743,700, 145.1% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $2,420 a month, 72.1% above the national figure, or roughly $29,040 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 29.4% 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 7.5×, 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. 35% 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.

Home values sit at 7.5× 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. Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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 20037 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 mid-sized suburban ZIP inside a county that is split across many delivery areas. 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 20037 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 20037 reports a median household income of $98,917, 11% below the $111,110 county median, and 11% below the $111,110 typical DC ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $743,700, 3% above the county figure and 3% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $2,420 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 20037.

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 20037 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.