ZIP code 01501

ZIP 01501 is a mid-size town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, with 16,780 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #163 of 539 ranked by population — larger than 69% of them. The median age here is 45.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 01501 earn a median of $101,929 a year, 29.8% above the national figure of $78,538. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 4.4% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 01501 is valued at $363,400, 19.8% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,241 a month, 11.7% below the national figure, or roughly $14,892 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 80.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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 01501 is tabulated inside Worcester County, Massachusetts, one of 85 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 539 across Massachusetts. 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 01501 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 01501 reports a median household income of $101,929, close to the $101,902 county median, and 5% below the $107,198 typical MA ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $363,400, 7% below the county figure and 25% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,241 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Massachusetts charges 6.25% statewide, and no local sales tax is layered on top, so the state rate is the full amount collected in 01501.

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 01501 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.