ZIP 20007 vs ZIP 20057

This side-by-side compares ZIP 20007 (Washington, DC) and ZIP 20057 (Washington, DC) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 20007 has a population of 26,866 at 3,455 people per square mile, while ZIP 20057 has 3,888 at 8,832 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 20007 reports a median household income of $140,996 against — in ZIP 20057, with per-capita income of $116,489 vs $3,904. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 87.3% in 20007 and 15.2% in 20057. Poverty rate reads 7.5% vs 100.0%, and unemployment 2.5% vs 9.1% — 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 $1,292,400 in 20007 versus — in 20057, with median rent of $2,106 and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 56.2% 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.