Median household income (1999): $50,999
Estimated median household income in 2005: $64,425
| This zip code | $64,425 | | Massachusetts: | $57,184 |
Nearest zip codes: 02170, 02122, 02169, 02125, 02124, 02127.
Housing units in zip code 02171 with a mortgage: 1,737 (159 second mortgage, 212 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 998
Median monthly owner costs for units with a mortgage: $1,356
Median monthly owner costs for units without a mortgage: $445
Residents with income below the poverty level in 1999:
| This zip code: | 6.8% | | Whole state: | 9.3% |
Residents with income below 50% of the poverty level in 1999:
| This zip code: | 2.4% | | Whole state: | 4.4% |
Median number of rooms in houses and condos:
| Here: | 5.7 | | State: | 6.4 |
Median number of rooms in apartments:
| Here: | 3.5 | | State: | 4.0 |
Year house built:
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- 1999 to March 2000: 67
- 1995 to 1998: 14
- 1990 to 1994: 120
- 1980 to 1989: 1,087
- 1970 to 1979: 1,103
- 1960 to 1969: 446
- 1950 to 1959: 653
- 1940 to 1949: 916
- 1939 or earlier: 3,016
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Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses in Quincy, MA (02171):
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- no bedroom: 86
- 1 bedrooms: 519
- 2 bedrooms: 1,368
- 3 bedrooms: 1,581
- 4 bedrooms: 438
- 5 or more bedrooms: 142
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Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments and housing units:
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- no bedroom: 191
- 1 bedrooms: 1,479
- 2 bedrooms: 1,059
- 3 bedrooms: 208
- 4 bedrooms: 64
- 5 or more bedrooms: 24
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Vehicles available in 02171 zip code in owner-occupied houses/condos:
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- no vehicle: 256
- 1 vehicle: 1,893
- 2 vehicles: 1,546
- 3 vehicles: 335
- 4 vehicles: 87
- 5 or more vehicles: 17
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Vehicles available in renter-occupied apartments:
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- no vehicle: 577
- 1 vehicle: 1,681
- 2 vehicles: 641
- 3 vehicles: 48
- 4 vehicles: 60
- 5 or more vehicles: 18
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Estimated household income distribution in 2005:

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Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses/condos in 2005 in zip code 02171:
- $10,000 to $14,999: 12
- $15,000 to $19,999: 28
- $20,000 to $24,999: 20
- $90,000 to $99,999: 18
- $100,000 to $124,999: 187
- $125,000 to $149,999: 296
- $150,000 to $174,999: 503
- $175,000 to $199,999: 378
- $200,000 to $249,999: 659
- $250,000 to $299,999: 371
- $300,000 to $399,999: 178
- $400,000 to $499,999: 65
- $500,000 to $749,999: 8
- $1,000,000 or more: 12
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Rent paid by renters in 2000 in zip code 02171:
- Less than $100: 15
- $100 to $149: 14
- $150 to $199: 7
- $200 to $249: 25
- $250 to $299: 8
- $300 to $349: 28
- $350 to $399: 24
- $400 to $449: 49
- $450 to $499: 21
- $500 to $549: 171
- $550 to $599: 109
- $600 to $649: 182
- $650 to $699: 248
- $700 to $749: 371
- $750 to $799: 344
- $800 to $899: 488
- $900 to $999: 293
- $1,000 to $1,249: 313
- $1,250 to $1,499: 140
- $1,500 to $1,999: 63
- $2,000 or more: 7
- No cash rent: 95
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Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $225,000
Estimated median house (or condo) value in 2005 for: - White Non-Hispanic householders: $415,790
- Asian householders: $361,868
- Two or more races householders: $296,150
- Hispanic or Latino householders: $312,159
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,761
- One, attached: 355
- Two: 1,088
- 3 or 4: 720
- 5 to 9: 361
- 10 to 19: 319
- 20 to 49: 249
- 50 or more: 1,551
- Mobile homes: 18

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Means of transportation to work
- Drove a car alone: 5,374 (58%)
- Carpooled: 1,155 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 153 (2%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 31 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 1,946 (21%)
- Railroad: 22 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 18 (0%)
- Bicycle: 18 (0%)
- Walked: 303 (3%)
- Other means: 31 (0%)
- Worked at home: 167 (2%)
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Travel time to work
- Less than 5 minutes: 46
- 5 to 9 minutes: 527
- 10 to 14 minutes: 943
- 15 to 19 minutes: 891
- 20 to 24 minutes: 1031
- 25 to 29 minutes: 461
- 30 to 34 minutes: 1998
- 35 to 39 minutes: 267
- 40 to 44 minutes: 723
- 45 to 59 minutes: 1224
- 60 to 89 minutes: 669
- 90 or more minutes: 271
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Percentage of zip code residents living and working in this county: 36.4%
Household type by relationship
Households: 16,506
- In family households: 12,544 (2,955 male householders, 1,016 female householders)
2,961 spouses, 4,238 children (3,955 natural, 164 adopted, 119 stepchildren), 243 grandchildren, 339 brothers or sisters, 272 parents, 321 other relatives, 199 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,962 (1,425 male householders (1,015 living alone)), 1,795 female householders (1,585 living alone)), 742 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 75 (71 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,676 2-persons, 952 3-persons, 741 4-persons, 366 5-persons, 168 6-persons, 68 7-or-more-persons.
Size of nonfamily households: 2,600 1-person, 544 2-persons, 64 3-persons, 12 4-persons.
2,064 married couples with children.
431 single-parent households (87 men, 344 women).
68.7% of residents of 02171 zip code speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% very well, 15% well, 9% not well).
4.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% very well, 23% well, 8% not well, 2% not at all).
23.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (34% very well, 28% well, 30% not well, 8% not at all).
1.1% of residents speak other language at home (84% very well, 9% well, 6% not at all).
Foreign born population: 4,232 (25.7%)
(47.8% of them are naturalized citizens)
| This zip code: | 25.7% | | Whole state: | 12.2% |
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
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- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (37%)
- Hong Kong (10%)
- Vietnam (8%)
- Ireland (5%)
- Philippines (5%)
- India (4%)
- Other South Eastern Asia (3%)
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Year of entry for the foreign-born population
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- 1995 to March 2000: 1,266
- 1990 to 1994: 814
- 1985 to 1989: 653
- 1980 to 1984: 566
- 1975 to 1979: 331
- 1970 to 1974: 196
- 1970 to 1974: 188
- 1965 to 1969: 218
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First ancestries reported:
- Irish: 4910
- Other groups: 4347
- Italian: 1371
- English: 513
- United States or American: 326
- German: 279
- Scotch-Irish: 270
- Scottish: 265
- Polish: 252
- French Canadian: 230
- Russian: 226
- French (except Basque): 208
- Swedish: 179
- Arab:: 159
- Canadian: 158
- Portuguese: 118
- Subsaharan African:: 102
- Greek: 92
- Norwegian: 82
- Albanian: 77
- Other Subsaharan African: 74
- Lithuanian: 66
- Lebanese: 59
- Other Arab: 59
- British: 51
- Dutch: 47
- Czech: 37
- Armenian: 27
- Welsh: 20
- Jordanian: 19
- Croatian: 19
- Iranian: 17
- Syrian: 17
- African: 16
- Austrian: 14
- Cape Verdean: 12
- Danish: 12
- Slavic: 11
- Slovak: 10
- Latvian: 9
- Icelander: 8
- Ukrainian: 8
- Northern European: 7
- Czechoslovakian: 7
- Romanian: 6
- Brazilian: 6
- West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 6
- Jamaican: 6
- Belgian: 5
- Moroccan: 5
- Hungarian: 5

Public primary/middle schools in zip code 02171 not listed on the city page:- FRANCIS W PARKER (Students: 296; Location: 148 BILLINGS RD, QUINCY, MA; Grades: PK - 05)
- SQUANTUM (Students: 280; Location: 50 HUCKINS AVENUE, QUINCY, MA; Grades: PK - 05)
Private primary/middle school not listed on the city page:- SACRED HEART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 457; Location: 370 HANCOCK STREET, NORTH QUINCY, MA; Grades: KG - 8)
Major facitilies with environmental interests located in this zip code:
- AFLATOXIN TESTING LABS (5 HAYWARD ST in QUINCY, MA)
AIR MINOR (AIRS/AFS)
CRITERIA AND HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANT INVENTORY (Inventory of air pollution sources)
(Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (tracking hazardous waste))
Business SIC classification: REAL ESTATE AGENTS AND MANAGERS
Organizations: SHUSTER LABS (CONTACT/OPERATOR)
, SHUSTER V HERBERT INC DIV OF HAUSER CHEM (CONTACT/OWNER)
Alternative names: DEVON REALTY TRUST, SHUSTER HERBERT V INC DIV HAUSER CHEM
- INDUSTRIAL HEAT TREATING INC (22-26 DENSMORE STREET in QUINCY, MA)
AIR SYNTHETIC MINOR (AIRS/AFS)
CRITERIA AND HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANT INVENTORY (Inventory of air pollution sources)
(Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (tracking hazardous waste))
TRI REPORTER (Tracking of toxic chemicals releasing facilities)
Business SIC classification: METAL HEAT TREATING; PRIMARY METAL PRODUCTS
Organizations: DAVIS WILLARD M (CONTACT/OWNER)
- FRANCIS W PARKER (148 BILLINGS RD in QUINCY, MA)
(National Center for Education Statistics) - STATE ID-243075
Organizations: QUINCY (SCHOOL DISTRICT)
- ATLANTIC MIDDLE (86 HOLLIS AVENUE in QUINCY, MA)
(National Center for Education Statistics) - STATE ID-243305
Organizations: QUINCY (SCHOOL DISTRICT)
- NORTH QUINCY HIGH SCHOOL (316 HANCOCK STREET in QUINCY, MA)
(National Center for Education Statistics) - STATE ID-243510
- SQUANTUM (50 HUCKINS AVENUE in QUINCY, MA)
(National Center for Education Statistics) - STATE ID-243095
Organizations: QUINCY (SCHOOL DISTRICT)
- MONTCLAIR (8 BELMONT STREET in QUINCY, MA)
(National Center for Education Statistics) - STATE ID-243065
Organizations: QUINCY (SCHOOL DISTRICT)
- PNEUMATIC SCALE CORPORATION (65 NEWPORT AVE in QUINCY, MA)
AIR MINOR (AIRS/AFS)
(Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (tracking hazardous waste))
- QUINCY FIRE DEPARTMENT ENGINE 7 (86 HUCKINS AVE in QUINCY, MA)
(Integrated Compliance Information System) - ICIS-01-1998-0023, FORMAL ENFORCEMENT ACTION
- MATHEWSON CORPORATION (2 HANCOCK ST in QUINCY, MA)
AIR MINOR (AIRS/AFS)
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
Business NAICS classification: OTHER ENGINE EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING.
Organizations: R M MATHEWSON (CONTACT/OWNER)
- BOSTON GEAR DIVISION (14 HAYWARD STREET in QUINCY, MA)
AIR MINOR (AIRS/AFS)
Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators, less than 100 kg/month of hazardous waste (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (tracking hazardous waste)) - notification
Business SIC classification: SPEED CHANGERS, INDUSTRIAL HIGH-SPEED DRIVES, AND GEARS
Business NAICS classification: SPEED CHANGER, INDUSTRIAL HIGH-SPEED DRIVE, AND GEAR MANUFACTURING.
Organizations: BOSTON GEAR INCOM INTERNATIONAL INC (CONTACT/OWNER)
Alternative names: BOSTON GEAR INCOM INTERNATIONAL INC
- BROOKS PHARMACY (475 HANCOCK ST in QUINCY, MA)
(Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (tracking hazardous waste))
Organizations: MAXI DRUG INC (CONTACT/OWNER)
Alternative names: BROOKS PHARMACY 561, OSCO DRUG NO 0364
- DICKINSON ADVERTISING INC (542 EAST SQUANTUM ST in QUINCY, MA)
(Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (tracking hazardous waste))
Organizations: DONALD DICKINSON (CONTACT/OWNER)
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,500


Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities: 1%
Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities: 0%
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
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- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (37%)
- Utility gas (36%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
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Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 10412
- Northeast: 1012
- Midwest: 232
- South: 329
- West: 191
63% of the 02171 zip code residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Massachusetts.
Population in 1990: 18,251. Population change in the 1990s: -1,793 (-9.8%).
Year Householders Moved Into Unit:
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Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 337
| Here: | 24.3% | | Massachusetts: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 123
| Here: | 15.3% | | Massachusetts: | 12.2% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 389
| Here: | 47.7% | | Massachusetts: | 48.2% |
School Enrollment by Level of School
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Companies with federal contracts located in this zip code:
- KERRI MCDONOUGH (72 ELLIOT AVENUE in QUINCY, MA; small business)
$40,800 with Navy for Dentistry Services. Taking place in CA. Signed on 2001-01-30. Completion date: 2001-09-30.
- GARWETH CORPORATION (144 QUINCY SHORE DRIVE SUI in QUINCY, MA; small business)
$7,500 with Army for Construction of Structures and Facilities -- Electronic and Communications Facilities. Signed on 2001-09-21. Completion date: 2001-11-09.
Top industries in this zip code by the number of employees in 2005:
- Finance and Insurance: Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers (500-999 employees: 2 establishments, 20-49 employees: 1 establishment)
- Finance and Insurance: Trust, Fiduciary, and Custody Activities (over 1000: 1)
- Health Care and Social Assistance: Vocational Rehabilitation Services (500-999: 1)
- Accommodation and Food Services: Full-Service Restaurants (50-99: 3, 20-49: 4, 10-19: 4, 5-9: 2, 1-4: 2)
- Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services: All Other Business Support Services (250-499: 1, 1-4: 1)
- Finance and Insurance: Direct Life Insurance Carriers (250-499: 1)
- Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services: Payroll Services (250-499: 1)
- Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services: All Other Legal Services (250-499: 1)
Age and Sex of Sensory-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)
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Age and Sex of Physically-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)
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Age and Sex of Mentally-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)
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Age and Sex of Self-Care Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)
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Age and Sex of Go-Outside-Home Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)
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Age and Sex of Residents with Employment Disability (Noninstitutionalized)
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69 people in nursing homes
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
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