ZIP code 03824

ZIP 03824 is a mid-size town in Strafford County, New Hampshire, with 15,054 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #24 of 246 ranked by population — larger than 90% of them. The median age here is 20.7 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 03824 earn a median of $126,658 a year, 61.3% above the national figure of $78,538. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 17.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 03824 is valued at $469,900, 54.9% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,432 a month, 1.8% above the national figure, or roughly $17,184 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13.6% 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 3.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 65.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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 20.7 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. 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.

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 03824 is tabulated inside Strafford County, New Hampshire, one of 16 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 246 across New Hampshire. 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 03824 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 03824 reports a median household income of $126,658, 28% above the $98,750 county median, and 36% above the $92,797 typical NH ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $469,900, 47% above the county figure and 38% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,432 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

New Hampshire charges 0% statewide, and no local sales tax is layered on top, so the state rate is the full amount collected in 03824.

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 03824 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.