02121 Zip Code Detailed Profile

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Back to All US cities. City: Boston, MA Suffolk County, MA Zip code population (2000): 25,057 Estimated zip code population in 2007: 25,891 What's My House Worth in 02121? Get a Free Home Valuation Online! Homes for Sale in Boston. Search By Bed, Bath, and Price Range! 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Estimate of real estate property taxes paid for housing units in 2007: This zip code:   1.2% ($1,069) Massachusetts:   1.8% ($2,336) Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2007 in Boston: $3,098 (0.7%) Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with no mortgage in 2007 in Boston: $3,006 (0.7%) List your B&M business here for free. Over a million visitors/week. Get a huge advantage over your competition Males: 11,068   (44.2%) Females: 13,989   (55.8%) Discuss zip code 02121 area on our local forum with over 700,000 registered users 100% urban population. Estimated median house/condo value in 2007: $370,588 02121:   $370,588 Massachusetts:   $366,400 According to our research of public records there were 13 registered sex offenders living in 02121 zip code in early 2007. Median resident age:   28.9 years Massachusetts median age:   36.5 years Average household size: This zip code:   2.8 people Massachusetts:   2.5 people Averages for the 2004 tax year for zip code 02121, filed in 2005: Average Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) in 2004: $25,603 (Individual Income Tax Returns) Here:   $25,603 State:   $62,877 Salary/wage: $25,759 (reported on 91.3% of returns) Here:   $25,759 State:   $52,969 (% of AGI for various income ranges: 92.4% for AGIs below $10k, 90.1% for AGIs $10k-25k, 95.1% for AGIs $25k-50k, 93.0% for AGIs $50k-75k, 91.7% for AGIs $75k-100k, 75.6% for AGIs over 100k) Taxable interest for individuals: $350 (reported on 18.7% of returns) This zip code:   $350 Massachusetts:   $1,945 (% of AGI for various income ranges: 0.7% for AGIs below $10k, 0.3% for AGIs $10k-25k, 0.2% for AGIs $25k-50k, 0.2% for AGIs $50k-75k, 0.2% for AGIs $75k-100k, 0.4% for AGIs over 100k) Taxable dividends: $425 (reported on 4.4% of returns) Here:   $425 State:   $5,323 (% of AGI for various income ranges: 0.2% for AGIs below $10k, 0.1% for AGIs $10k-25k, 0.1% for AGIs $25k-50k, 0.1% for AGIs $50k-75k, 0.0% for AGIs $75k-100k, 0.2% for AGIs over 100k) Net capital gain/loss: +$8,948 (reported on 2.6% of returns) Here:   +$8,948 State:   +$20,377 (% of AGI for various income ranges: -0.1% for AGIs below $10k, 0.0% for AGIs $10k-25k, 0.0% for AGIs $25k-50k, 0.1% for AGIs $50k-75k, -0.0% for AGIs $75k-100k, 12.7% for AGIs over 100k) Profit/loss from business: +$4,834 (reported on 8.0% of returns) Here:   +$4,834 State:   +$17,837 (% of AGI for various income ranges: 10.0% for AGIs below $10k, 3.6% for AGIs $10k-25k, 0.5% for AGIs $25k-50k, -0.0% for AGIs $50k-75k, 0.1% for AGIs $75k-100k, 0.2% for AGIs over 100k) IRA payment deduction: $1,540 (reported on 0.7% of returns) 02121:   $1,540 Massachusetts:   $3,100 Total itemized deductions: $14,714 (2% of AGI, reported on 15.0% of returns) Here:   $14,714 State:   $22,573 (% of AGI for various income ranges: 5.7% for AGIs below $10k, 4.7% for AGIs $10k-25k, 7.7% for AGIs $25k-50k, 11.8% for AGIs $50k-75k, 13.8% for AGIs $75k-100k, 14.8% for AGIs over 100k) Charity contributions deductions: $3,177 (6.1% of AGI, reported on 13.0% of returns) Here:   $3,177 Massachusetts:   $3,295 Here:   6.1% of AGI State:   2.7% of AGI (% of AGI for various income ranges: 0.4% for AGIs below $10k, 0.7% for AGIs $10k-25k, 1.4% for AGIs $25k-50k, 2.3% for AGIs $50k-75k, 3.1% for AGIs $75k-100k, 3.1% for AGIs over 100k) Total tax: $3,015 (reported on 58.5% of returns) 02121:   $3,015 State:   $11,494 (% of AGI for various income ranges: 2.2% for AGIs below $10k, 3.0% for AGIs $10k-25k, 6.0% for AGIs $25k-50k, 10.0% for AGIs $50k-75k, 11.5% for AGIs $75k-100k, 15.3% for AGIs over 100k) Earned income credit: $1,845 (reported on 37.4% of returns) Here:   $1,845 State:   $1,518 (% of AGI for various income ranges: 15.9% for AGIs below $10k, 7.5% for AGIs $10k-25k, 0.6% for AGIs $25k-50k) Percentage of individuals using paid preparers for their 2004 taxes: 65.3% Here:   65% State:   58% (% for various income ranges: 62.1% for AGIs below $10k, 68.4% for AGIs $10k-25k, 63.3% for AGIs $25k-50k, 65.5% for AGIs $50k-75k, 72.7% for AGIs $75k-100k, 78.0% for AGIs over 100k)

This zip code:	$34,659
Massachusetts:	$62,365

Nearest zip codes: 02119, 02124, 02125, 02122, 02120, 02130.
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Percentage of family households:

This zip code:	68.3%
Whole state:	64.5%

Percentage of households with unmarried partners:

This zip code:	6.2%
Whole state:	5.4%

Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)

• Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
• Gay men: 0.2% of all households

Housing units in zip code 02121 with a mortgage: 271 (31 second mortgage, 20 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 180

This zip code:	28.0%
Whole state:	9.9%

This zip code:	14.5%
Whole state:	4.4%

Here:	6.4
State:	6.4

Here:	4.3
State:	4.0

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Notable locations in this zip code not listed on our city pages: Tourist attraction (not listed on the city page) : Zoo New England (Nature Centers; One Franklin Park Rd).

Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses/condos in 2007 in zip code 02121: Less than $10,000: 3 $10,000 to $14,999: 2 $15,000 to $19,999: 2 $30,000 to $34,999: 1 $35,000 to $39,999: 1 $40,000 to $49,999: 11 $50,000 to $59,999: 5 $100,000 to $124,999: 5 $125,000 to $149,999: 53 $150,000 to $174,999: 71 $175,000 to $199,999: 75 $200,000 to $249,999: 177 $250,000 to $299,999: 299 $300,000 to $399,999: 694 $400,000 to $499,999: 416 $500,000 to $749,999: 469 $750,000 to $999,999: 50 $1,000,000 or more: 9

Rent paid by renters in 2007 in zip code 02121: Less than $100: 205 $100 to $149: 229 $150 to $199: 363 $200 to $249: 630 $250 to $299: 213 $300 to $349: 257 $350 to $399: 134 $400 to $449: 318 $450 to $499: 55 $500 to $549: 255 $550 to $599: 138 $600 to $649: 226 $650 to $699: 94 $700 to $749: 126 $750 to $799: 135 $800 to $899: 234 $900 to $999: 219 $1,000 to $1,249: 372 $1,250 to $1,499: 101 $1,500 to $1,999: 10 No cash rent: 108

Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses and condos in 2007: $0.

Estimated median house (or condo) value in 2007 for:

• White Non-Hispanic householders: $180,127
• Black or African American householders: $305,952
• Asian householders: $455,890
• Some other race householders: $379,908
• Two or more races householders: $430,562
• Hispanic or Latino householders: $338,776

02121:	$370,588
Massachusetts:	$366,400

Detached houses: $331,348

Here:	$331,348
State:	$440,475

Townhouses or other attached units: $267,746

Here:	$267,746
State:	$384,213

In 2-unit structures: $414,582

Here:	$414,582
State:	$414,317

In 3-to-4-unit structures: $337,397

Here:	$337,397
State:	$431,982

In 5-or-more-unit structures: $393,094

Here:	$393,094
State:	$335,381

Housing units in structures:

• One, detached: 544
• One, attached: 377
• Two: 1,727
• 3 or 4: 3,548
• 5 to 9: 1,557
• 10 to 19: 1,484
• 20 to 49: 416
• 50 or more: 140

Means of transportation to work Drove a car alone: 3,638 (42%) Carpooled: 1,300 (15%) Bus or trolley bus: 2,436 (28%) Streetcar or trolley car: 158 (2%) Subway or elevated: 614 (7%) Railroad: 23 (0%) Taxi: 36 (0%) Bicycle: 10 (0%) Walked: 121 (1%) Other means: 67 (1%) Worked at home: 197 (2%)

Travel time to work Less than 5 minutes: 67 5 to 9 minutes: 224 10 to 14 minutes: 627 15 to 19 minutes: 956 20 to 24 minutes: 1006 25 to 29 minutes: 408 30 to 34 minutes: 1663 35 to 39 minutes: 359 40 to 44 minutes: 449 45 to 59 minutes: 1185 60 to 89 minutes: 1084 90 or more minutes: 375

Percentage of zip code residents living and working in this county: 73.4%

Household type by relationship
Households: 24,792

• In family households: 21,525 (1,883 male householders, 4,207 female householders)

  2,011 spouses, 9,691 children (9,234 natural, 275 adopted, 182 stepchildren), 1,111 grandchildren, 641 brothers or sisters, 330 parents, 722 other relatives, 929 non-relatives

• In nonfamily households: 3,267 (1,193 male householders (1,007 living alone)), 1,573 female householders (1,354 living alone)), 501 nonrelatives
• In group quarters: 88 (33 institutionalized population)

Size of family households: 1,831 2-persons, 1,644 3-persons, 1,245 4-persons, 737 5-persons, 312 6-persons, 321 7-or-more-persons.

Size of nonfamily households: 2,361 1-person, 356 2-persons, 37 3-persons, 12 4-persons.

2,135 married couples with children.
5,098 single-parent households (431 men, 4,667 women).

71.3% of residents of 02121 zip code speak English at home.
17.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% very well, 23% well, 12% not well, 7% not at all).
9.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (58% very well, 29% well, 12% not well, 2% not at all).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (30% very well, 45% well, 21% not well, 4% not at all).
1.0% of residents speak other language at home (37% very well, 54% well, 6% not well, 3% not at all).

Foreign born population: 5,254 (21.0%)
(41.2% of them are naturalized citizens)

This zip code:	21.0%
Whole state:	12.2%

First ancestries reported:

Other groups: 15029

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 3404

Haitian: 1436

Subsaharan African:: 1396

United States or American: 982

Jamaican: 734

Cape Verdean: 676

African: 576

West Indian: 360

Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 344

Barbadian: 249

British West Indian: 195

Irish: 133

Italian: 74

Other Subsaharan African: 48

Nigerian: 45

English: 44

Sierra Leonean: 38

U.S. Virgin Islander: 38

Canadian: 36

Bahamian: 27

Portuguese: 23

French Canadian: 21

British: 20

Dutch West Indian: 18

German: 16

Somalian: 13

Scotch-Irish: 12

Russian: 11

French (except Basque): 7

Polish: 5

Brazilian: 5

Danish: 4

Bermudan: 3

Major facitilies with environmental interests located in this zip code:

• BOSTON LATIN ACADEMY (205 TOWNSEND STREET in DORCHESTER, MA)

  (Geographic Names Information System)
  (National Center for Education Statistics) - STATE ID-035545
  

• JEREMIAH E BURKE HIGH (60 WASHINGTON STREET in DORCHESTER, MA)

  (National Center for Education Statistics) - STATE ID-035525
  Organizations: BOSTON (SCHOOL DISTRICT)
  

• JOHN P HOLLAND (85 OLNEY STREET in DORCHESTER, MA)

  (National Center for Education Statistics) - STATE ID-035167
  Organizations: BOSTON (SCHOOL DISTRICT)
  

• MARTIN LUTHER KING JR MID (77 LAWRENCE AVENUE in DORCHESTER, MA)

  (National Center for Education Statistics) - STATE ID-035410
  Organizations: BOSTON (SCHOOL DISTRICT)
  

• AB & W INCORPORATED (157 WASHINGTON ST. in BOSTON, MA)

  AIR MINOR (AIRS/AFS)
  CRITERIA AND HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANT INVENTORY (Inventory of air pollution sources)
  Small Quantity Generators, between 100 kg and 1000 kg of hazardous waste/month (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (tracking hazardous waste)) - notification
  Business SIC classification: FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS
  Organizations: AB&W INC (CONTACT/OPERATOR)
  Alternative names: A B & W INC

• ATLAS ENGINEERING (10 CHENEY ST. in BOSTON, MA)

  AIR MINOR (AIRS/AFS)
  (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (tracking hazardous waste))
  Business SIC classification: SHEET METALWORK
  

• BOSTON CONVENTION & EXIBITION CENTER (348D STREET in BOSTON, MA)

  AIR MINOR (AIRS/AFS)
  CRITERIA AND HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANT INVENTORY (Inventory of air pollution sources)
  Alternative names: BOSTON CONVENTION CENTER

• ZOO NEW ENGLAND (1 FRANKLIN PARK RD in DORCHESTER, MA)

  AIR MINOR (AIRS/AFS)
  CRITERIA AND HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANT INVENTORY (Inventory of air pollution sources)
  Business SIC classification: ANIMAL SPECIALTY SERVICES, EXCEPT VETERINARY
  Alternative names: COMMONWEALTH ZOOL. C, FRANKLIN PARK ZOO, FRANKLIN PARK ZOO (ZOO NEW ENGLAND)

• MCCOURT JOHN CO (28 WOLCOTT ST in BOSTON, MA)

  (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (tracking hazardous waste))
  Organizations: JOHN MCCOURT CO (CONTACT/OWNER)
  

• PARKMANS ARCO SERVICE (524 WARREN ST in BOSTON, MA)

  (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (tracking hazardous waste))
  Organizations: CLYDE PARKMAN (CONTACT/OWNER)
  

• BLUE HILL CLEANERS (1110 BLUE HILL AVE in DORCHESTER, MA)

  AIR MINOR (AIRS/AFS)
  Business SIC classification: DRYCLEANING PLANTS, EXCEPT RUG CLEANING
  

• MOSES GARAGE & SERVICE CENTER (58 GENEVA AVE in BOSTON, MA)

  Small Quantity Generators, between 100 kg and 1000 kg of hazardous waste/month (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (tracking hazardous waste)) - notification
  Organizations: MOSES BORDERS (CONTACT/OWNER)
  

• DORCHESTER (TOWN OF DORCHESTER in BOSTON, MA)

  AIR MINOR (AIRS/AFS)
  Business SIC classification: GENERAL GOVERNMENT
  

Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:

• This state: 13989
• Northeast: 979
• Midwest: 288
• South: 3263
• West: 85

60% of the 02121 zip code residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
   Out of people who lived in different houses, 84% lived in this county.
   Out of people who lived in different counties, 44% lived in Massachusetts.

Population in 1990: 25,602. Population change in the 1990s: -545 (-2.1%).

Here:	4.0%
Massachusetts:	10.8%

Here:	5.4%
Massachusetts:	12.2%

Here:	32.6%
Massachusetts:	48.2%

Companies with federal contracts located in this zip code:

• GENERAL AIR CONDITIONING & HEA (20 SEAVER ST in BOSTON, MA; small business): $4,722,533 in 15 contracts from 2000 to 2006

  Contracts for Maintenance, Repair or Alteration of Real Property -- Office Buildings, Maintenance, Repair or Alteration of Real Property -- Heating and Cooling Plants, Construction of Structures and Facilities -- Government-Owned Government-Operated (GOGO) R&D Facilities, Maintenance, Repair or Alteration of Real Property -- Other Administrative Facilities and Service Buildings, and more by Air Force, Army, EPA, Navy, and others
  Signed by year: 2000: $197,342; 2001: $0; 2002: $2,132,437; 2003: $236,000; 2004: $1,906,230; 2005: $52,524; 2006: $198,000.
  
  Biggest contracts:
  $2,132,437 with Air Force for Maintenance, Repair or Alteration of Real Property -- Office Buildings. Signed on 2002-09-30. Completion date: 2003-05-31.
  $1,894,800 with Army for Maintenance, Repair or Alteration of Real Property -- Heating and Cooling Plants. Signed on 2004-10-27. Completion date: 2005-06-30.
  $236,000 with EPA for Construction of Structures and Facilities -- Government-Owned Government-Operated (GOGO) R&D Facilities. Taking place in RI. Signed on 2003-09-15. Completion date: 2004-06-15.
  $198,000 with Army for Maintenance, Repair or Alteration of Real Property -- Other Administrative Facilities and Service Buildings. Signed on 2006-06-15. Completion date: 2006-08-04.
  

Top industries in this zip code by the number of employees in 2005:

• Health Care and Social Assistance: Other Individual and Family Services (100-249 employees: 1 establishment, 20-49 employees: 2 establishments, 10-19 employees: 1 establishment, 5-9 employees: 4 establishments)
• Accommodation and Food Services: Limited-Service Restaurants (100-249: 1, 1-4: 7)
• Health Care and Social Assistance: Nursing Care Facilities (100-249: 1, 1-4: 1)
• Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services: Investigation Services (100-249: 1)
• Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation: Zoos and Botanical Gardens (100-249: 1)
• Health Care and Social Assistance: Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities (100-249: 1)
• Health Care and Social Assistance: Child Day Care Services (50-99: 1, 20-49: 1, 5-9: 1, 1-4: 4)
• Health Care and Social Assistance: Home Health Care Services (50-99: 1, 20-49: 1, 10-19: 1)
• Health Care and Social Assistance: All Other Outpatient Care Centers (50-99: 1, 5-9: 1)

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