Código postal 02494 — Needham Heights, MA

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El código postal 02494 cubre Needham Heights, Massachusetts, con una población de unos 10,578 y un ingreso medio del hogar de $173,750.

Población: 10,5783,777 per square mile
Edad media: 43.54.8 points above the US average
Ingreso medio del hogar: $173,7501.7× the Massachusetts median
Tasa de pobreza: 2.9%9.5 points below the US average
Valor típico de la vivienda: $1,373,313up 34.7% in five years
Alquiler medio: $2,4521.5× the Massachusetts median
Título universitario o superior: 74.6%39.6 points above the US average
Vivienda en propiedad: 72.7%7.7 points above the US average
Zona horaria: Eastern UTC-05:00observes daylight saving time
Empresas: 712

Dónde está 02494

Needham Heights, 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	10,578
Edad media	43.5
Hogares familiares	76.2%
Nacidos fuera de EE. UU.	25%
Habla un idioma distinto del inglés en casa	31%
Blanca (no hispana)	70.9%
Negra (no hispana)	2.2%
Asiática (no hispana)	16.2%
Hispana o latina	5.7%
Veteranos	3.2%

Población por edad

Ingresos y pobreza

American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

Ingreso medio del hogar	$173,750
Ingreso por persona	$102,290
Tasa de pobreza	2.9%
Hogares con SNAP o ayudas en efectivo	5.9%

Household income distribution

Under $10k	3.0%
$10–15k	0.2%
$15–20k	0.8%
$20–25k	0.6%
$25–30k	0.7%
$30–35k	3.4%
$35–40k	4.7%
$40–45k	0.7%
$45–50k	3.5%
$50–60k	1.5%
$60–75k	4.3%
$75–100k	5.7%
$100–125k	9.7%
$125–150k	4.8%
$150–200k	9.3%
$200k or more	47.0%

Income as declared to the IRS

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

Declaraciones presentadas	5,180
Ingreso bruto ajustado medio	$228,095
Declaraciones de $200,000 o más	33.2%
Returns, under $25k	20.7%
Returns, $25k–$50k	10.6%
Returns, $50k–$75k	9.5%
Returns, $75k–$100k	7.9%
Returns, $100k–$200k	18.1%
Returns, $200k or more	33.2%

Vivienda

American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

Valor medio de la vivienda	$1,052,400
Alquiler bruto medio	$2,452
Ocupada por su propietario	72.7%
Viviendas vacías	4.5%
Año medio de construcción	1969

What the homes are

Casa unifamiliar aislada	63%
Casa adosada	7.1%
De 2 a 4 viviendas	6.1%
De 5 a 19 viviendas	5.2%
20 o más viviendas	18.4%
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	$1,373,313as of 2026-07
Typical home value, 1 year	up 6.7%
Typical home value, 5 years	up 34.7%
Typical home value, 10 years	up 79.6%
Alquiler típico solicitado	$3,284as of 2026-07
Typical asking rent, 1 year	up 1.4%

Valor típico de la vivienda desde 2000

$499,483 in 2000 to $1,373,313 in 2026.

Alquiler típico solicitado

$2,953 in 2022 to $3,284 in 2026.

Trabajo, desplazamientos y educación

American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates

Tasa de desempleo	1.3%
Licenciatura o superior	74.6%
Bachillerato o superior	94.9%
Trabaja desde casa	28.2%
Conduce solo al trabajo	58.4%
Usa el transporte público	6.3%
Se desplaza 45 minutos o más	23%

Salud

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

Obesidad	21.4% 12 pts below the national average of 33.4%
Diabetes diagnosticada	8.2% 3.8 pts below the national average of 12%
Fuma actualmente	7.2% 6 pts below the national average of 13.2%
Hipertensión arterial	29.4% 4.7 pts below the national average of 34.1%
Salud general regular o mala	11.1% 9.2 pts below the national average of 20.3%
Sin seguro médico (18 a 64 años)	2.7% 8.6 pts below the national average of 11.3%
Depresión	20.9% 1 pts below the national average of 21.9%
Sin actividad física en el tiempo libre	14.4% 11 pts below the national average of 25.4%
Artritis	26.3% 1.2 pts above 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	77.4% 2.7 pts above the national average of 74.7%
Cáncer (excepto de piel)	10.4% 2.7 pts above the national average of 7.7%
Asma actual	10.3% same as the national average of 10.4%
Cardiopatía coronaria	5.2% 1 pts below the national average of 6.2%
Revisión médica en el último año	82.9% 6.2 pts above the national average of 76.7%
Prueba de colesterol	93.1% 7.2 pts above the national average of 85.9%
Discapacidad cognitiva	9.8% 5 pts below the national average of 14.8%
Cribado colorrectal	71.8% 7.5 pts above the national average of 64.3%
EPOC	4.3% 2.3 pts below the national average of 6.6%
Visitó al dentista	79.2% 17.9 pts above the national average of 61.3%
Alguna discapacidad	21.7% 9 pts below the national average of 30.7%
Falta de apoyo emocional	20% 4.8 pts below the national average of 24.8%
Inseguridad alimentaria	6.1% 11 pts below the national average of 17.1%
Recibió cupones de alimentos	6.5% 7.8 pts below the national average of 14.3%
Discapacidad auditiva	5.7% 1 pts below the national average of 6.7%
Colesterol alto	37.2% 1 pts above the national average of 36.2%
Inseguridad habitacional	5.7% 8.1 pts below the national average of 13.8%
Discapacidad para la vida independiente	5% 3.4 pts below the national average of 8.4%
Falta de transporte	4.3% 4.9 pts below the national average of 9.2%
Soledad	30.2% 4.2 pts below the national average of 34.4%
Mamografía	86.4% 10.5 pts above the national average of 75.9%
Mala salud mental (14 días o más)	12.6% 4.2 pts below the national average of 16.8%
Discapacidad de movilidad	9% 5 pts below the national average of 14%
Mala salud física (14 días o más)	9.9% 3.6 pts below the national average of 13.5%
Discapacidad para el autocuidado	2.1% 1.9 pts below the national average of 4%
Riesgo de corte de suministros	3.8% 5 pts below the national average of 8.8%
Duerme menos de 7 horas	29.9% 6.5 pts below the national average of 36.4%
Ictus	2.5% 0.9 pts below the national average of 3.4%
Pérdida de todos los dientes naturales	4.7% 8.3 pts below the national average of 13%
Discapacidad visual	2.7% 2.9 pts below the national average of 5.6%

Empresas y empleo

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns 2022

Establecimientos comerciales	712
Personas empleadas	17,537
Nómina anual	$2,284,428,000

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 30.8% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Calificación de FEMA	Very Low to Relatively Moderate en los 4 sectores censales que cubre este código postal
Pérdida anual esperada	45.5 sobre 100
Resiliencia comunitaria	88.9 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	75.7Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Tormenta de hielo	75.6Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Terremoto	67Relatively Moderate at its worst in this ZIP code
Deslizamiento de tierra	65Very Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Inundación fluvial	52.7Relatively High at its worst in this ZIP code
Tornado	36.1Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Rayos	32.8Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Viento fuerte	30.6Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Ola de frío	26.7Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Temporal invernal	25Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Incendio forestal	24.6Very Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Ola de calor	23.4Relatively Low at its worst in this ZIP code
Granizo	10.1Very 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	$173,750	$101,341	$78,538
Ingreso por persona	$102,290	$56,284	$43,289
Tasa de pobreza	2.9%	10%	12.4%
Valor medio de la vivienda	$1,052,400	$525,800	$303,400
Alquiler bruto medio	$2,452	$1,687	$1,348
Vivienda en propiedad	72.7%	62.6%	65%
Licenciatura o superior	74.6%	46.6%	35%
Tasa de desempleo	1.3%	5.1%	5.2%
Trabaja desde casa	28.2%	16.7%	13.5%
Nacidos fuera de EE. UU.	25%	17.7%	13.9%
Edad media	43.5	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 US9 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	1% of this ZIP code's area
Sin vehículo y lejos de un supermercado	None of this ZIP code

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%.

Needham 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	26más vulnerable que el 26% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Nivel socioeconómico	13más vulnerable que el 13% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Características del hogar	41más vulnerable que el 41% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Minorías raciales y étnicas	37más vulnerable que el 37% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Tipo de vivienda y transporte	47más vulnerable que el 47% de los sectores censales de EE. UU.
Caminabilidad	14.7 out of 20Above average

Códigos postales cercanos

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

02492 Needham, MA	a 2.2 km
02457 Babson Park, MA	a 2.2 km
02464 Newton Upper Falls, MA	a 2.3 km
02461 Newton Highlands, MA	a 3.2 km
02468 Waban, MA	a 3.6 km
02481 Wellesley Hills, MA	a 3.9 km
02462 Newton Lower Falls, MA	a 4.4 km
02482 Wellesley, MA	a 5.5 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.

Norfolk County	100% of this ZIP code's land area
Zona horaria	Eastern (UTC-05:00 standard)
Horario de verano	Observed
Superficie terrestre	2.8 sq mi
Superficie de agua	0.02 sq mi
Densidad de población	3,777 people per sq mi
Latitud, longitud	42.2945, -71.2328

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.