Fort Lee, NJ

ZIP code 07024 is assigned to Fort Lee, NJ, and falls within Bergen County. Like every US postal code, it began as a mail-routing device rather than a geographic boundary — the US Postal Service groups delivery routes under a single code so carriers and sorting equipment can process mail efficiently. Today it also serves as a practical shorthand for the area itself: roughly 39,785 people live inside it.

At 15,832 residents per square mile spread over 2.513 square miles, 07024 reads as a dense urban area. It is a populous postal code, and density shapes almost everything else on this page — how people get to work, whether they own or rent, and what housing costs.

Household earnings run above the national median. At $105,594, 07024 sits comfortably in the upper half, ahead of 86% of them. The US median for comparison is $70,109. Bear in mind that median income describes the midpoint household, not the average — it is not pulled upward by a handful of very high earners the way a mean would be.

Housing in 07024 costs well above the national median. A typical home is valued at $422,200 against a US median of $207,500, and median gross rent runs $2,257 a month. The split between owning and renting is fairly even at 57.5% owner-occupied, which tends to indicate a mix of housing types rather than one dominant form.

The building stock is dominated by larger apartment buildings of twenty units or more, which account for 48.4% of housing units here. The median construction year is 1970, making the housing here from the later twentieth century.

The population skews older than the national median, with a median age of 47.2 against 42 nationally. The average household holds 2.15 people, and 56.0% are family households.

Getting to work takes 36.6 minutes on average one way. The dominant mode is drove alone at 47.0% of workers, while 20.7% take public transit, 19.6% work from home. Commute patterns are one of the better proxies for how a place actually functions day to day.

Beyond addressing mail, 07024 does a lot of quiet administrative work. Retailers use it to calculate shipping and sales tax at checkout. Insurers use it to set premiums, since risk profiles vary geographically. Employers and marketers use it to define service areas. Government agencies use it to route benefits and organise reporting. If you have ever been asked for a postal code by a form that clearly does not intend to send you anything, this is why.

For anyone weighing a move, 07024 offers a compact profile of Fort Lee: 39,785 residents, a median household income of $105,594, 64.8% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher, and an unemployment rate of 5.0%. A handful of figures like these answer more relocation questions than most neighbourhood guides do.

One caution worth repeating: a postal code is not a neighbourhood. 07024 may cover parts of several distinct areas, and a single neighbourhood in Fort Lee may be split across more than one code. Boundaries also shift as USPS adjusts delivery routes. Treat the figures here as describing a delivery area, which is what they actually measure.