Código postal 02124 — Dorchester Center, MA

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El código postal 02124 cubre Dorchester Center, Massachusetts, con una población de unos 55,897 y un ingreso medio del hogar de $79,168.

Población: 55,89718,834 per square mile
Edad media: 36.91.8 points below the US average
Ingreso medio del hogar: $79,16822% below the Massachusetts median
Tasa de pobreza: 16.9%4.5 points above the US average
Valor típico de la vivienda: $698,161up 10.7% in five years
Alquiler medio: $1,7831.1× the Massachusetts median
Título universitario o superior: 31.1%3.9 points below the US average
Vivienda en propiedad: 42%23 points below the US average
Zona horaria: Eastern UTC-05:00observes daylight saving time
Empresas: 594

Dónde está 02124

Dorchester Center, 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	55,897
Edad media	36.9
Hogares familiares	69.6%
Nacidos fuera de EE. UU.	30.9%
Habla un idioma distinto del inglés en casa	35.2%
Blanca (no hispana)	17.7%
Negra (no hispana)	48.4%
Asiática (no hispana)	7.8%
Hispana o latina	17.6%
Veteranos	2.7%

Población por edad

Ingresos y pobreza

American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

Ingreso medio del hogar	$79,168
Ingreso por persona	$39,879
Tasa de pobreza	16.9%
Hogares con SNAP o ayudas en efectivo	33%

Household income distribution

Under $10k	8.5%
$10–15k	5.2%
$15–20k	3.4%
$20–25k	4.3%
$25–30k	3.4%
$30–35k	2.7%
$35–40k	2.9%
$40–45k	3.5%
$45–50k	2.1%
$50–60k	4.9%
$60–75k	7.8%
$75–100k	9.4%
$100–125k	9.5%
$125–150k	6.7%
$150–200k	10.5%
$200k or more	15.4%

Income as declared to the IRS

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

Declaraciones presentadas	24,930
Ingreso bruto ajustado medio	$62,760
Declaraciones de $200,000 o más	4.1%
Returns, under $25k	30.7%
Returns, $25k–$50k	26.5%
Returns, $50k–$75k	17.3%
Returns, $75k–$100k	9.5%
Returns, $100k–$200k	12.0%
Returns, $200k or more	4.1%

Vivienda

American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

Valor medio de la vivienda	$607,200
Alquiler bruto medio	$1,783
Alquiler como porcentaje del ingreso del hogar	33.1%
Ocupada por su propietario	42%
Viviendas vacías	6%
Año medio de construcción	1938

What the homes are

Casa unifamiliar aislada	17.9%
Casa adosada	8.1%
De 2 a 4 viviendas	54.4%
De 5 a 19 viviendas	11.3%
20 o más viviendas	8.3%
Casa móvil	0%

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	$698,161as of 2026-07
Typical home value, 1 year	down 0.1%
Typical home value, 5 years	up 10.7%
Typical home value, 10 years	up 66%
Alquiler típico solicitado	$3,041as of 2026-07
Typical asking rent, 1 year	up 0.2%
Typical asking rent, 5 years	up 26.3%

Valor típico de la vivienda desde 2000

$154,535 in 2000 to $698,161 in 2026.

Alquiler típico solicitado

$2,135 in 2018 to $3,041 in 2026.

Trabajo, desplazamientos y educación

American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

Tasa de desempleo	7.8%
Licenciatura o superior	31.1%
Bachillerato o superior	85.3%
Trabaja desde casa	13.5%
Conduce solo al trabajo	47.6%
Usa el transporte público	23.9%
Se desplaza 45 minutos o más	30.8%

Salud

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

Obesidad	29.3% 4.1 pts below the national average of 33.4%
Diabetes diagnosticada	12.8% 0.8 pts above the national average of 12%
Fuma actualmente	14.4% 1.2 pts above the national average of 13.2%
Hipertensión arterial	34.4% same as the national average of 34.1%
Salud general regular o mala	22.9% 2.6 pts above the national average of 20.3%
Sin seguro médico (18 a 64 años)	7.9% 3.4 pts below the national average of 11.3%
Depresión	22% same as the national average of 21.9%
Sin actividad física en el tiempo libre	30% 4.6 pts above the national average of 25.4%
Artritis	23% 2.1 pts below the national average of 25.1%
Consumo excesivo de alcohol	16.7% 0.7 pts above the national average of 16%
Toma medicación para la tensión	76.1% 1.4 pts above the national average of 74.7%
Cáncer (excepto de piel)	5.5% 2.2 pts below the national average of 7.7%
Asma actual	13.1% 2.7 pts above the national average of 10.4%
Cardiopatía coronaria	5.8% same as the national average of 6.2%
Revisión médica en el último año	81% 4.3 pts above the national average of 76.7%
Prueba de colesterol	87.9% 2 pts above the national average of 85.9%
Discapacidad cognitiva	17% 2.2 pts above the national average of 14.8%
Cribado colorrectal	63.7% 0.6 pts below the national average of 64.3%
EPOC	6.6% same as the national average of 6.6%
Visitó al dentista	58% 3.3 pts below the national average of 61.3%
Alguna discapacidad	31% same as the national average of 30.7%
Falta de apoyo emocional	30% 5.2 pts above the national average of 24.8%
Inseguridad alimentaria	26.4% 9.3 pts above the national average of 17.1%
Recibió cupones de alimentos	31.3% 17 pts above the national average of 14.3%
Discapacidad auditiva	5% 1.7 pts below the national average of 6.7%
Colesterol alto	34.4% 1.8 pts below the national average of 36.2%
Inseguridad habitacional	23.1% 9.3 pts above the national average of 13.8%
Discapacidad para la vida independiente	10.3% 1.9 pts above the national average of 8.4%
Falta de transporte	15% 5.8 pts above the national average of 9.2%
Soledad	40.9% 6.5 pts above the national average of 34.4%
Mamografía	84.2% 8.3 pts above the national average of 75.9%
Mala salud mental (14 días o más)	18.7% 1.9 pts above the national average of 16.8%
Discapacidad de movilidad	15.3% 1.3 pts above the national average of 14%
Mala salud física (14 días o más)	13.9% same as the national average of 13.5%
Discapacidad para el autocuidado	5.1% 1.1 pts above the national average of 4%
Riesgo de corte de suministros	15.8% 7 pts above the national average of 8.8%
Duerme menos de 7 horas	38.8% 2.4 pts above the national average of 36.4%
Ictus	4% 0.6 pts above the national average of 3.4%
Pérdida de todos los dientes naturales	18.7% 5.7 pts above the national average of 13%
Discapacidad visual	6.9% 1.3 pts above the national average of 5.6%

Empresas y empleo

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns 2022

Establecimientos comerciales	594
Personas empleadas	6,239
Nómina anual	$265,887,000

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 13.8% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Calificación de FEMA	Very Low to Relatively Low en los 15 sectores censales que cubre este código postal
Pérdida anual esperada	13.8 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	70.2Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Ola de calor	63.9Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Rayos	54.5Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Terremoto	53Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Ola de frío	52.1Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Granizo	33.9Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Deslizamiento de tierra	32.7Very Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Inundación costera	28.1Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Tormenta de hielo	25.3Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Tornado	24.7Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Inundación fluvial	23.2Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Temporal invernal	19.1Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Viento fuerte	15.9Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Incendio forestal	5Very 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	$79,168	$101,341	$78,538
Ingreso por persona	$39,879	$56,284	$43,289
Tasa de pobreza	16.9%	10%	12.4%
Valor medio de la vivienda	$607,200	$525,800	$303,400
Alquiler bruto medio	$1,783	$1,687	$1,348
Vivienda en propiedad	42%	62.6%	65%
Licenciatura o superior	31.1%	46.6%	35%
Tasa de desempleo	7.8%	5.1%	5.2%
Trabaja desde casa	13.5%	16.7%	13.5%
Nacidos fuera de EE. UU.	30.9%	17.7%	13.9%
Edad media	36.9	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 US4.5 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	52% 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	74más vulnerable que el 74% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Nivel socioeconómico	63más vulnerable que el 63% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Características del hogar	81más vulnerable que el 81% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Minorías raciales y étnicas	80más vulnerable que el 80% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Tipo de vivienda y transporte	64más vulnerable que el 64% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Caminabilidad	14.8 out of 20Above average

Códigos postales cercanos

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

02121 Dorchester, MA	a 0.7 km
02122 Dorchester, MA	a 0.7 km
02125 Dorchester, MA	a 0.7 km
02126 Mattapan, MA	a 2.7 km
02187 Milton Village, MA	a 2.8 km
02130 Jamaica Plain, MA	a 4 km
02171 Quincy, MA	a 4 km
02119 Roxbury, MA	a 4.2 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	2.97 sq mi
Superficie de agua	0.07 sq mi
Densidad de población	18,834 people per sq mi
Latitud, longitud	42.2918, -71.0717

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.