02343Holbrook, Massachusetts

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 02343.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 25% of 6,210 ZIP areas measured67
SchoolsTop 43% of 4,422 ZIP areas measured56
Housing affordabilityTop 36% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured88
Climate5039th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured62
Physical resilienceTop 8% of 6,709 ZIP areas measured92
AccessTop 37% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured96
Economic stabilityTop 13% of 6,742 ZIP areas measured79
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.9% and median household income $115,032, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 02343 in the top 8% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 15 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
11,346
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$115,032
Top 11% nationally
Density
1,619/sq mi
7.0 sq mi of land
Median age
42.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Holbrook
Massachusetts
Metro area
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
Nearest major airport
BOS
15 mi · General Edward Lawrence Logan Intl
Median home value
$464,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.9% is lower than 71% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.5% over the past year, to 401,640 employed residents.

34% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 73% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 89% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$14,060$115,032Top 11%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$5,304$50,553Top 19%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate7.7%Bottom 35%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute40.8 minTop 7%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher34.3%Top 27%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment401,640Top 14%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.4%Top 32%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.5%Bottom 35%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force417,830Top 14%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation69.6%Top 16%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$89,620Top 8%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$66,620Top 8%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.3%Bottom 30%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate3.9%Bottom 29%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024115k90k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $115,032 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides72,420$40,910
General and Operations Managers70,950$133,800
Registered Nurses64,240$106,180
Retail Salespersons64,150$36,850
Fast Food and Counter Workers60,130$36,290
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners43,160$46,550

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Holbrook, MA, the city containing this ZIP code.

26% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 45% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 13.9 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
2
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
13.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
26.1%
Bottom 49% in Massachusetts
Reading proficiency
45.3%
Top 42% in Massachusetts
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
John F KennedyHolbrook68513.425%44%
Holbrook Middle High SchoolHolbrook66514.527%47%

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Massachusetts’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,094 takes 11% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.0 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
11.4%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.0×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,094
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$464,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income4.04Top 28%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate83.9%Top 35%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3374,381Top 30%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$423$1,094Top 43%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$21,155$464,700Top 15%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income11.4%Bottom 9%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate0.3%Bottom 6%of 33,0282024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 82°F and January a low of 19°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 53.3 inches, including 69.3 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 39, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station BLUE HILL, 7.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index54.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation53.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall69.3"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low19°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high82°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index39.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
39
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
54
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

92 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, earthquake and coastal flooding.

HurricaneElevated
EarthquakeModerate
Coastal floodingElevated
LandslideModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: inland flooding, ice storm, heat wave, lightning, cold wave, tornado, strong wind, wildfire, winter weather, hail.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Norfolk County records 1.1 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 1.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 11.1 per 100,000 residents in Norfolk County.

Homicide
1.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
1.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
11.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
7.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Norfolk County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 02343 rather than 02343 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 15 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
General Edward Lawrence Logan IntlBOS15 mi10,083 ft
Rhode Island TF Green IntlPVD36 mi8,700 ft
Manchester Boston RgnlMHT59 mi9,250 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

02343 vs Holbrook

How this ZIP area compares with Holbrook as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

02343
Holbrook
Median household income
$115,032
vs
$115,210
Per capita income
$50,553
vs
$50,915
Population density
1,619/sq mi
vs
1,569/sq mi
Median home value
$464,700
vs
$465,400
Median gross rent
$1,094
vs
$1,094
Homeownership rate
83.9%
vs
84.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher
34.3%
vs
34.6%
Poverty rate
7.7%
vs
7.7%
Median age
42.8
vs
42.8

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.