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ZIP code 20422

Population, income, housing costs and the sales tax rate charged on purchases inside ZIP 20422 — Census 2019-2023 ACS 5-year, no modelled estimates.
Population
21

ZCTA residents

Median income
—

Household, past 12 months

Median home
—

Owner-occupied value

Sales tax
6%

District of Columbia state rate

Quick answer

ZIP 20422 sits in District of Columbia, District of Columbia and is home to 21 people. Median household income is —, the median home is worth — and median gross rent is —. — of households own their home, and purchases are taxed at 6% (District of Columbia state rate).

County
District of Columbia

FIPS 11001

State
District of Columbia (DC)

57 ZIPs covered

Area codes
Not published

No NANPA match for this ZIP

Metro area
Outside covered metros

Rate jurisdiction used for tax

The numbers for 20422

American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZCTA.

Population
21ZIP 20422 residents
Median household income
—Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value
—Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent
—Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age
72.8 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate
—Owner-occupied households

ZIP 20422 in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

ZIP 20422 is a very small community in District of Columbia, District of Columbia, with 21 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #30 of 57 ranked by population — larger than 48% of them. The median age here is 72.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 20422 earn a median of not published a year. 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 Poverty reaches an unpublished share of residents here.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 20422 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The homeownership rate is not published. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 72.8 puts ZIP 20422 well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 21 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 20422 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, home value, gross rent, poverty rate for ZIP 20422 because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.

Reading ZIP 20422 in context

How 20422 sits inside District of Columbia and District of Columbia.

ZIP 20422 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 one of the smallest tabulated ZIP areas in the state, the kind of rural route where a single subdivision or farm cluster accounts for most addresses. 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 20422 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 20422 reports a median household income of not published. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of not published. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at not published 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 20422.

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 20422 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.

Sales tax in 20422

What a purchase inside this ZIP costs at checkout.

Rate applied
6%State base rate only
Tax on $100
$6Rounded to the dollar
Tax on $1,000
$60Before any exemptions

District of Columbia levies 6% statewide with no local add-ons. Check the county page for the local component before you quote a price.

Affordability in this ZIP

Derived from the Census medians above — indicative, not an offer.

Rent burden
—Median rent ÷ median income
Price-to-income
—Home value ÷ household income
Est. mortgage
—20% down, 30-yr at 6.75%
Poverty rate
—Residents below poverty line

A rent burden above 30% is the federal threshold for cost-burdened households, and a price-to-income multiple above 4× is generally considered a stretched housing market. The mortgage figure is principal and interest only — taxes, insurance and HOA dues are extra.

How 20422 compares

ZIP 20422 against the median ZIP in District of Columbia and across District of Columbia.

MeasureZIP 20422County medianState medianvs state
Median household income—$111,110$111,110—
Median home value—$725,000$725,000—
Median gross rent—$2,097$2,097—
Population213333-36%

Medians are computed across the 57 ZIP areas in District of Columbia and the 57 ZIP areas in District of Columbia.

Statewide rank

Where this ZIP places among all 57 District of Columbia ZIP areas.

Income

Not published

—
Home value

Not published

—
Population

larger than 47% of 57 state ZIPs

#30

Nearby ZIP codes

Other ZIP codes filed under District of Columbia.

Adjacent ZIP Codes

Other ZIP codes in District of Columbia, District of Columbia.

ZIP 20422 questions

Common questions about this ZIP code.

Where is ZIP code 20422?
ZIP 20422 lies mostly in District of Columbia, District of Columbia. County assignment follows the largest share of land area, so a ZIP straddling a county line is filed under its dominant county.
What sales tax do I pay in 20422?
District of Columbia charges 6% statewide.
Is 20422 expensive to live in?
Median rent runs — a month, and the median home is worth — — — against the typical District of Columbia ZIP.
Is a ZCTA the same as a postal ZIP code?
Not exactly. The Census builds ZIP Code Tabulation Areas from the ZIP codes of addresses inside each census block, so a ZCTA can differ slightly from the USPS delivery route of the same number, and PO-box-only ZIPs have no ZCTA at all.

Related pages for this area.

Sources & transparency

Every figure on this page is a published estimate for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 20422, except the affordability ratios and mortgage estimate, which we derive from those medians and label as estimates.

Last reviewed December 2024. Figures are published for reference and can change; verify with the source agency before filing or contracting. How we build and check this data.