Which ZIP code in Middlesex County has the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year?

01434 (Devens), at 54.5%, among 82 ZIP codes with at least 1,000 residents.

Why are some ZIP codes missing?

ZIP codes with fewer than 1,000 residents are left out because their survey estimates swing too much to rank, and so are ZIP codes where the Census Bureau did not publish this figure.

ZIP codes with the most new movers in Middlesex County, MA

These are the 25 ZIP codes in Middlesex County with the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year, out of 82 with at least 1,000 residents. 01434 (Devens, 54.5%), 02142 (Cambridge, 37.7%) and 01731 (Hanscom Afb, 32.2%) lead the list. There is no single "best" ZIP code in Middlesex County; the right one depends on who you want to reach, so the same ZIP codes are ranked several ways below.

ZIP codes with the most new movers in Middlesex County

Rank	ZIP	Mailing city	Moved in the past year	Residents	Households	Residential mailboxes
1	01434	Devens	54.5%	1,564	260	277
2	02142	Cambridge	37.7%	4,737	2,153	3,296
3	01731	Hanscom Afb	32.2%	2,110	680	729
4	02141	Cambridge	29.6%	14,517	7,270	8,115
5	02143	Somerville	28.6%	25,513	12,283	12,595
6	02138	Cambridge	26.2%	38,509	14,169	16,017
7	02144	Somerville	25.4%	25,448	11,357	10,806
8	02139	Cambridge	23.7%	40,033	16,012	15,488
9	02140	Cambridge	21.8%	21,204	9,944	10,608
10	02452	Waltham	19.0%	15,808	5,362	5,358
11	02145	Somerville	18.7%	27,495	11,940	12,071
12	01702	Framingham	18.4%	39,789	14,289	15,746
13	02453	Waltham	17.3%	31,591	12,610	12,835
14	02155	Medford	17.1%	61,730	24,370	25,052
15	01464	Shirley	16.3%	6,976	2,277	2,250
16	02472	Watertown	16.2%	35,620	16,399	17,099
17	01854	Lowell	15.2%	30,081	10,602	10,323
18	02474	Arlington	15.1%	28,642	12,182	12,394
19	01752	Marlborough	14.6%	41,647	16,665	18,512
20	02451	Waltham	14.5%	17,393	7,481	8,280
21	02148	Malden	14.1%	65,906	26,042	26,642
22	02467	Chestnut Hill	13.8%	23,001	6,852	7,378
23	01852	Lowell	13.3%	37,144	15,071	15,339
24	02458	Newton	13.0%	13,050	5,149	5,490
25	01801	Woburn	12.9%	41,939	16,432	18,695

How we ranked them

Ranked by the share of residents (age 1 and over) who lived in a different home a year earlier (ACS Data Profile, 2020–2024). No margin of error is published for this share in our files. ZIP codes need at least 1,000 residents to be ranked; 82 of 83 qualify.

Which of these to mail, and why

New residents are still choosing a dentist, a gym, a pizza place and a lawn service. ZIP codes with high turnover give a welcome offer more people to work on each year.

The top five ZIP codes on this list hold 22,646 households, on 36 carrier routes with 25,012 residential mailboxes. Open any of them on the route map to see each carrier route's own figures before you choose.

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Frequently asked questions

Which ZIP code in Middlesex County has the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year?: 01434 (Devens), at 54.5%, among 82 ZIP codes with at least 1,000 residents.
How is this ranking calculated?: Ranked by the share of residents (age 1 and over) who lived in a different home a year earlier (ACS Data Profile, 2020–2024). No margin of error is published for this share in our files.
Why are some ZIP codes missing?: ZIP codes with fewer than 1,000 residents are left out because their survey estimates swing too much to rank, and so are ZIP codes where the Census Bureau did not publish this figure.

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