Which ZIP code in the San Antonio area has the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year?

78236 (Jbsa Lackland), at 68.3%, among 104 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 the San Antonio Area

These are the 25 ZIP codes in the San Antonio area with the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year, out of 104 with at least 1,000 residents. 78236 (Jbsa Lackland, 68.3%), 78234 (Jbsa Ft Sam Houston, 62.9%) and 78215 (San Antonio, 48.1%) lead the list. There is no single "best" ZIP code in the San Antonio area; 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 the San Antonio area

Rank	ZIP	Mailing city	Moved in the past year	Residents	Households	Residential mailboxes
1	78236	Jbsa Lackland	68.3%	7,635	443	564
2	78234	Jbsa Ft Sam Houston	62.9%	7,149	1,035	931
3	78215	San Antonio	48.1%	3,506	2,641	3,555
4	78235	San Antonio	40.6%	2,304	1,134	1,847
5	78257	San Antonio	34.9%	10,992	5,716	7,778
6	78205	San Antonio	33.9%	1,538	1,237	1,716
7	78229	San Antonio	30.1%	35,664	16,401	17,282
8	78256	San Antonio	30.0%	13,453	6,038	8,556
9	78249	San Antonio	28.0%	63,439	23,432	26,774
10	78217	San Antonio	24.6%	34,055	14,829	15,799
11	78226	San Antonio	24.3%	6,554	2,305	2,859
12	78240	San Antonio	23.7%	57,921	24,991	28,813
13	78207	San Antonio	23.7%	55,474	16,574	17,682
14	78204	San Antonio	22.5%	11,983	5,103	6,572
15	78216	San Antonio	22.2%	41,180	19,458	20,312
16	78209	San Antonio	21.9%	43,400	20,328	21,801
17	78861	Hondo	21.8%	14,008	4,586	5,173
18	78152	Saint Hedwig	20.9%	4,521	1,606	3,422
19	78230	San Antonio	20.7%	41,387	19,134	21,113
20	78208	San Antonio	19.6%	3,861	1,777	2,621
21	78026	Jourdanton	19.3%	7,031	2,553	2,513
22	78148	Universal City	19.1%	22,187	8,767	9,068
23	78220	San Antonio	18.5%	19,423	6,626	8,299
24	78259	San Antonio	18.3%	29,826	11,263	12,507
25	78266	San Antonio	18.2%	7,338	2,651	3,698

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; 104 of 121 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 10,969 households, on 19 carrier routes with 14,675 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 the San Antonio area has the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year?: 78236 (Jbsa Lackland), at 68.3%, among 104 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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