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Boston, MA 02124
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Dorchester, MA 02124
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The 02124 ZIP Code is centered1 in Suffolk County at latitude 42.286 and longitude -71.071 (Panoramio Photos). It is a standard type ZIP Code. Suffolk County is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours) and observes daylight savings time.

The population in ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) 02124 was 50,781 with 18,212 housing units; a land area land area of 3.14 sq. miles; a water area of 0.05 sq. miles; and a population density of 16,173.45 people per sq. mile for Census 2000. Demographic Profile

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Nearby Cities, Towns & Census Designated Places

Lower Mills, MA (< 0.1 mile)
Dorchester, MA (< 0.1 mile)
Dorchester Center, MA (< 0.1 mile)
Ashmont, MA (< 0.1 mile)
Cedar Grove, MA (< 0.1 mile)
 Fields Corner, MA (1.4 miles NE)
Meeting House Hill, MA (1.4 miles NNE)
Mount Bowdoin, MA (1.4 miles N)
Neponset, MA (1.4 miles E)
Milton Village, MA (1.4 miles S)

Nearby Neighborhoods, Subdivisions & Other Small Populated Places

Mattapan, MA (1.4 miles SW)
Forest Hills, MA (2.4 miles WNW)
New Squantum, MA (2.4 miles ENE)
Clarendon Hills, MA (2.7 miles WSW)
Dock Square, MA (4.5 miles N)
Bay Village, MA (4.5 miles N)
Downtown Crossing, MA (4.7 miles N)
Beacon Hill, MA (4.9 miles N)
North End, MA (5.5 miles N)
Coolidge Hill, MA (7 miles NNW)

ZIP Codes - Key Concepts

  1. ZIP Codes are categories for grouping mailing addresses and are not exact geographic regions.
  2. The centroid of a ZIP Code may be in one County and the associated city/town in another.
  3. In rural areas, a single ZIP Code may be used for cities and towns in several different Counties.
  4. ZIP Code "areas" can overlap, be subsets of each other, or be artificial constructs with no geographic area.
  5. ZIP Codes are only loosely tied to cities.

1 Keeping the above key concepts in mind, what we informally refer to as the "center" of a ZIP Code is most often actually the centroid of a polygon.