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ZIP Code Statistics

Statistics about people, households, personal income, labor force, housing:

Census 2010 data may be retrieved at http://factfinder2.census.gov.

Statistics about business establishments:

2007 Economic Census ZIP Code Statistics -- counts of establishments by detailed NAICS industry by receipt size--are available on American FactFinder. 2007 ZIP code data include only 8 of the 18 sectors covered by the Economic Census.
2002 Economic Census ZIP Code Statistics -- counts of establishments by detailed NAICS industry by receipt size--are available on American FactFinder and on 2002 Economic Census DVD-ROM Volume 2. 2002 ZIP code data include only 8 of the 18 sectors covered by the Economic Census.
1997 Economic Census ZIP Code Statistics include a simple display on-line. More extensive statistics--counts of establishments by detailed NAICS industry by employment size and receipt size--are available on 1997 Economic Census CD-ROM Volume 3. 1997 ZIP code data include only 9 of the 18 sectors covered by the Economic Census.
1992 Economic Census ZIP Code Statistics are available only on 1992 Economic Census CD-ROM, Volume 2, but, since they are classified by SIC, they are not entirely comparable to the 1997 NAICS-based data.
ZIP Business Patterns (ZBP) provides counts of establishments by industry by employment size for a broader range of industries than are included in the Economic Census ZIP Code Statistics. ZBP is published generally 2 to 3 years after the end of the reference year, starting 1994. Data are available in an on-line lookup system at http://www.census.gov/econ/cbp/. Starting in 1998, the data are classified by NAICS. 1994 to 1997 data were classified by SIC.Data are also in American FactFinder starting with 2004 data.

General issues:

ZIP codes are defined at the convenience of the U.S. Postal Service and may changefrom time to time.

ZIP codes in the Economic Census and ZBP are those reported by the businesses or on administrative address lists. ZIP Code tabulation areas (ZCTAs) in Census 2000 are statistical geographic entities that approximates the delivery area for a U.S. Postal Service five-digit and three-digit ZIP Codes. ZCTAs are aggregations of census blocks that had the same predominant ZIP Code associated wth the residential mailing addresses in the Census Bureau's master address file for Census 2000.

Maps: To obtain a map of a single ZIP Code tabulation area, follow steps 1 through 4.3. below, then select a single 5-digit code and click the "Map It" button. Census 2000 ZCTA maps are also accessible from the 1997 Economic Census ZIP Code Statistics.

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