Código postal 02122 — Dorchester, MA

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El código postal 02122 cubre Dorchester, Massachusetts, con una población de unos 23,471 y un ingreso medio del hogar de $82,945.

Población: 23,47113,828 per square mile
Edad media: 36.62.1 points below the US average
Ingreso medio del hogar: $82,94518% below the Massachusetts median
Tasa de pobreza: 14.7%2.3 points above the US average
Valor típico de la vivienda: $679,713up 11.5% in five years
Alquiler medio: $2,0521.2× the Massachusetts median
Título universitario o superior: 37.5%2.5 points above the US average
Vivienda en propiedad: 43.7%21.3 points below the US average
Zona horaria: Eastern UTC-05:00observes daylight saving time
Empresas: 557

Dónde está 02122

Dorchester, Massachusetts — el área que la Oficina del Censo delimita para este código postal. Los códigos postales son conjuntos de rutas de reparto y no áreas, así que esto es la aproximación del Censo, no un límite del Servicio Postal.

Población y hogares

American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

Población	23,471
Edad media	36.6
Hogares familiares	57%
Nacidos fuera de EE. UU.	30.4%
Habla un idioma distinto del inglés en casa	35.2%
Blanca (no hispana)	34.6%
Negra (no hispana)	25.7%
Asiática (no hispana)	13.7%
Hispana o latina	13.8%
Veteranos	2.7%

Población por edad

Ingresos y pobreza

American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

Ingreso medio del hogar	$82,945
Ingreso por persona	$45,583
Tasa de pobreza	14.7%
Hogares con SNAP o ayudas en efectivo	23.4%

Household income distribution

Under $10k	7.9%
$10–15k	2.3%
$15–20k	5.3%
$20–25k	5.3%
$25–30k	2.1%
$30–35k	3.1%
$35–40k	2.7%
$40–45k	2.4%
$45–50k	1.4%
$50–60k	5.6%
$60–75k	8.0%
$75–100k	12.0%
$100–125k	8.4%
$125–150k	7.4%
$150–200k	9.6%
$200k or more	16.6%

Income as declared to the IRS

Filed returns rather than survey responses, so this counts tax units and not households.

Declaraciones presentadas	12,360
Ingreso bruto ajustado medio	$69,145
Declaraciones de $200,000 o más	5.2%
Returns, under $25k	28.2%
Returns, $25k–$50k	23.9%
Returns, $50k–$75k	17.3%
Returns, $75k–$100k	10.8%
Returns, $100k–$200k	14.6%
Returns, $200k or more	5.2%

Vivienda

American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

Valor medio de la vivienda	$656,400
Alquiler bruto medio	$2,052
Alquiler como porcentaje del ingreso del hogar	31.4%
Ocupada por su propietario	43.7%
Viviendas vacías	8.8%
Año medio de construcción	1938

What the homes are

Casa unifamiliar aislada	13.6%
Casa adosada	5.1%
De 2 a 4 viviendas	66.1%
De 5 a 19 viviendas	7.9%
20 o más viviendas	6.9%
Casa móvil	0.3%

Precios y alquileres actuales

Zillow Home Value Index and Zillow Observed Rent Index, courtesy of Zillow. Monthly and current, where the Census figures above are a five-year average and are capped at $2,000,000.

Valor típico de la vivienda	$679,713as of 2026-07
Typical home value, 1 year	up 0.5%
Typical home value, 5 years	up 11.5%
Typical home value, 10 years	up 63.9%
Alquiler típico solicitado	$3,133as of 2026-07
Typical asking rent, 1 year	up 4.1%
Typical asking rent, 5 years	up 27.4%

Valor típico de la vivienda desde 2000

$143,960 in 2000 to $679,713 in 2026.

Alquiler típico solicitado

$2,114 in 2018 to $3,133 in 2026.

Trabajo, desplazamientos y educación

American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

Tasa de desempleo	8%
Licenciatura o superior	37.5%
Bachillerato o superior	80.8%
Trabaja desde casa	10.1%
Conduce solo al trabajo	49.9%
Usa el transporte público	23.5%
Se desplaza 45 minutos o más	27.8%

Salud

CDC PLACES 2025 release, model-based estimates. These are modelled small-area estimates for adults, not counts of diagnosed cases.

Obesidad	24.9% 8.5 pts below the national average of 33.4%
Diabetes diagnosticada	11.2% 0.8 pts below the national average of 12%
Fuma actualmente	15% 1.8 pts above the national average of 13.2%
Hipertensión arterial	29.8% 4.3 pts below the national average of 34.1%
Salud general regular o mala	21.7% 1.4 pts above the national average of 20.3%
Sin seguro médico (18 a 64 años)	7.8% 3.5 pts below the national average of 11.3%
Depresión	23.3% 1.4 pts above the national average of 21.9%
Sin actividad física en el tiempo libre	29% 3.6 pts above the national average of 25.4%
Artritis	20.6% 4.5 pts below the national average of 25.1%
Consumo excesivo de alcohol	18.3% 2.3 pts above the national average of 16%
Toma medicación para la tensión	73% 1.7 pts below the national average of 74.7%
Cáncer (excepto de piel)	5.3% 2.4 pts below the national average of 7.7%
Asma actual	12.1% 1.7 pts above the national average of 10.4%
Cardiopatía coronaria	5.6% 0.6 pts below the national average of 6.2%
Revisión médica en el último año	78.2% 1.5 pts above the national average of 76.7%
Prueba de colesterol	85.8% same as the national average of 85.9%
Discapacidad cognitiva	17.3% 2.5 pts above the national average of 14.8%
Cribado colorrectal	59.6% 4.7 pts below the national average of 64.3%
EPOC	6.6% same as the national average of 6.6%
Visitó al dentista	57.2% 4.1 pts below the national average of 61.3%
Alguna discapacidad	29.9% 0.8 pts below the national average of 30.7%
Falta de apoyo emocional	29.5% 4.7 pts above the national average of 24.8%
Inseguridad alimentaria	24% 6.9 pts above the national average of 17.1%
Recibió cupones de alimentos	27.1% 12.8 pts above the national average of 14.3%
Discapacidad auditiva	5.4% 1.3 pts below the national average of 6.7%
Colesterol alto	34.1% 2.1 pts below the national average of 36.2%
Inseguridad habitacional	19.5% 5.7 pts above the national average of 13.8%
Discapacidad para la vida independiente	9.8% 1.4 pts above the national average of 8.4%
Falta de transporte	13.6% 4.4 pts above the national average of 9.2%
Soledad	40.9% 6.5 pts above the national average of 34.4%
Mamografía	80.8% 4.9 pts above the national average of 75.9%
Mala salud mental (14 días o más)	18.9% 2.1 pts above the national average of 16.8%
Discapacidad de movilidad	13.6% same as the national average of 14%
Mala salud física (14 días o más)	13.5% same as the national average of 13.5%
Discapacidad para el autocuidado	4.5% 0.5 pts above the national average of 4%
Riesgo de corte de suministros	12.8% 4 pts above the national average of 8.8%
Duerme menos de 7 horas	36.7% same as the national average of 36.4%
Ictus	3.4% same as the national average of 3.4%
Pérdida de todos los dientes naturales	19.4% 6.4 pts above the national average of 13%
Discapacidad visual	6.4% 0.8 pts above the national average of 5.6%

Empresas y empleo

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns 2022

Establecimientos comerciales	557
Personas empleadas	7,974
Nómina anual	$478,536,000

Riesgo de desastres naturales

FEMA National Risk Index, estimated for this ZIP code from census tract data — the NRI is not published per ZIP.

Riesgo general	Mayor que el 13.2% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Calificación de FEMA	Very Low to Relatively Low en los 12 sectores censales que cubre este código postal
Pérdida anual esperada	10.8 sobre 100
Resiliencia comunitaria	92.7 sobre 100

By hazard

Score is out of 100 and is the area-weighted average across the census tracts this ZIP code covers. The rating beside it is the highest any one of those tracts carries.

Huracán	69.3Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Inundación costera	61.6Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Ola de calor	56Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Terremoto	53.1Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Rayos	50.1Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Ola de frío	48.4Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Deslizamiento de tierra	37.8Very Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Granizo	34.3Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Tormenta de hielo	23.9Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Tornado	23.6Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Temporal invernal	19.3Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Inundación fluvial	17.3Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Viento fuerte	15.7Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Incendio forestal	0.3Very Low at its worst in this ZIP code

Comparado con Massachusetts y Estados Unidos

State and national columns are figures for those areas, not for this ZIP code. American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

	This ZIP	Massachusetts	United States
Ingreso medio del hogar	$82,945	$101,341	$78,538
Ingreso por persona	$45,583	$56,284	$43,289
Tasa de pobreza	14.7%	10%	12.4%
Valor medio de la vivienda	$656,400	$525,800	$303,400
Alquiler bruto medio	$2,052	$1,687	$1,348
Vivienda en propiedad	43.7%	62.6%	65%
Licenciatura o superior	37.5%	46.6%	35%
Tasa de desempleo	8%	5.1%	5.2%
Trabaja desde casa	10.1%	16.7%	13.5%
Nacidos fuera de EE. UU.	30.4%	17.7%	13.9%
Edad media	36.6	40	38.7

Clima

NOAA US Climate Normals 1991-2020, from the nearest weather station with a full year of records. The station and its distance are named above, because a station forty kilometres away describes somewhere else.

Estación meteorológica	JAMAICA PLAIN, MA US4.1 km away
Lluvia al año	49 in

Average high and low by month

enero	37°F / 19.4°F3.87 in rain
febrero	39.6°F / 21°F3.59 in rain
marzo	46.6°F / 28.4°F4.49 in rain
abril	58.8°F / 38.1°F4.32 in rain
mayo	69.4°F / 48.2°F3.64 in rain
junio	78.8°F / 57.9°F4.18 in rain
julio	84.7°F / 64°F3.49 in rain
agosto	83.1°F / 62.5°F3.72 in rain
septiembre	75.5°F / 54.9°F3.96 in rain
octubre	63.7°F / 43°F5.03 in rain
noviembre	52.6°F / 34.2°F3.99 in rain
diciembre	42.4°F / 25.7°F5.08 in rain

Acceso a alimentos

USDA Food Access Research Atlas, estimated for this ZIP code from census tract data. Each figure is the share of the ZIP code's land area that falls in a tract carrying that flag.

Bajos ingresos y lejos de un supermercado	None of this ZIP code
Lejos de un supermercado	None of this ZIP code
Sin vehículo y lejos de un supermercado	19% of this ZIP code's area

Distritos escolares

NCES Geographic Relationship File 2025, which states the association between each district and each ZIP code tabulation area directly. Elementary and secondary districts can cover the same ground, so shares need not total 100%.

Boston School District	100% de la superficie de este código postal

Comunidad y caminabilidad

CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index 2022 and the EPA National Walkability Index, both estimated for this ZIP code from census tract data. Vulnerability figures are national percentile ranks, not measurements.

Vulnerabilidad social general	60más vulnerable que el 60% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Nivel socioeconómico	54más vulnerable que el 54% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Características del hogar	58más vulnerable que el 58% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Minorías raciales y étnicas	61más vulnerable que el 61% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Tipo de vivienda y transporte	61más vulnerable que el 61% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Caminabilidad	16.3 out of 20Most walkable

Códigos postales cercanos

The closest ZIP codes by centre point, which is not the same as sharing a border.

02121 Dorchester, MA	a 0 km
02125 Dorchester, MA	a 0 km
02124 Dorchester Center, MA	a 0.7 km
02126 Mattapan, MA	a 3.1 km
02187 Milton Village, MA	a 3.4 km
02130 Jamaica Plain, MA	a 3.5 km
02119 Roxbury, MA	a 3.5 km
02120 Roxbury Crossing, MA	a 4 km

Ubicación, condados y zona horaria

County shares from Census 2020 ZCTA relationship files. Time zone from the USDOT National Transportation Atlas, which renders the boundaries written into 49 CFR Part 71.

Suffolk County	100% of this ZIP code's land area
Zona horaria	Eastern (UTC-05:00 standard)
Horario de verano	Observed
Superficie terrestre	1.7 sq mi
Superficie de agua	0.21 sq mi
Densidad de población	13,828 people per sq mi
Latitud, longitud	42.2973, -71.0745

Las cifras corresponden a este código postal o a su área de tabulación censal salvo que la sección indique otra cosa. Las estimaciones cuyo margen de error las hacía poco fiables se omiten en lugar de mostrarse. Fuentes: Oficina del Censo de EE. UU., CDC, IRS.