ZIP 01949 vs ZIP 01937

This side-by-side compares ZIP 01949 (Middleton, MA) and ZIP 01937 (Hathorne, MA) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 01949 has a population of 8,987 at 258 people per square mile, while ZIP 01937 has 151 at 798 per square mile. That difference in population size and density alone reshapes how every other metric should be interpreted — a higher-income ZIP with 1,200 residents behaves very differently from one with 45,000.

On income and education, ZIP 01949 reports a median household income of $167,402 against — in ZIP 01937, with per-capita income of $64,840 vs $6,908. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 41.7% in 01949 and 41.1% in 01937. Poverty rate reads 3.4% vs 74.8%, and unemployment 3.8% vs — — these four fields alone drive most of the difference in the scorecard grades you will see for each ZIP.

Housing separates these two ZIPs further: median home value sits at $742,700 in 01949 versus — in 01937, with median rent of $1,407 and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 92.7% vs —. When reading the comparison table below, focus on paired metrics rather than single winners — a ZIP with lower home values and lower income is not strictly "worse" if rent-to-income ratios and commute times land in the same zone. Every value is pulled from the exact same ACS table so the two columns are genuinely comparable.