Floral Park, NY

ZIP code 11005 is assigned to Floral Park, NY, and falls within Queens 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 2,195 people live inside it.

At 11,995 residents per square mile spread over 0.183 square miles, 11005 reads as a dense urban area. It is a sparsely populated 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 $91,719, 11005 sits comfortably in the upper half, ahead of 77% 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 11005 costs well above the national median. A typical home is valued at $620,200 against a US median of $207,500, and median gross rent runs $2,179 a month. Ownership dominates: 96.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, which usually signals an established residential area with relatively low turnover.

The building stock is dominated by larger apartment buildings of twenty units or more, which account for 93.9% of housing units here. The median construction year is 1974, making the housing here from the later twentieth century. The vacancy rate of 23.7% is high, which in many places reflects seasonal or second-home use rather than abandonment.

The population skews considerably older than the national median, with a median age of 80.6 against 42 nationally. Households average just 1.43 people, and 62.0% consist of one person living alone — a signature of areas with a lot of studio and one-bedroom stock.

Getting to work takes 32.5 minutes on average one way. The dominant mode is drove alone at 69.0% of workers, while 11.9% work from home. Commute patterns are one of the better proxies for how a place actually functions day to day.

Beyond addressing mail, 11005 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, 11005 offers a compact profile of Floral Park: 2,195 residents, a median household income of $91,719, 71.4% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher, and an unemployment rate of 0.0%. 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. 11005 may cover parts of several distinct areas, and a single neighbourhood in Floral Park 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.