ZIP code 10002

ZIP 10002 is a small city in New York County, New York, with 75,517 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #33 of 1,824 ranked by population — larger than 98% of them. The median age here is 42.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in ZIP 10002 earn a median of $46,525 a year, 40.8% below 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 24.9% 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 10002 is valued at $808,500, 166.5% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,207 a month, 14.2% below the national figure, or roughly $14,484 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 31.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 17.4×, 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. 18.6% 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 17.4× 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.

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 10002 is tabulated inside New York County, New York, one of 69 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 1,826 across New York. 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 10002 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 10002 reports a median household income of $46,525, 65% below the $132,780 county median, and 41% below the $79,429 typical NY ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $808,500, 22% below the county figure and 247% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,207 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

A taxable purchase made inside 10002 carries 8.875% at the register, assembled from the New York City jurisdiction stack: the New York state rate plus every county, municipal and special district levy that reaches this address. Because those district boundaries were drawn for schools, transit and hospital funding rather than for mail delivery, two addresses inside 10002 can legitimately fall under different totals — the rate shown here is the one that applies to the dominant jurisdiction.

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 10002 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.