Glendale, CA

ZIP code 91208 is assigned to Glendale, CA, and falls within Los Angeles 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 15,467 people live inside it.

At 2,093 residents per square mile spread over 7.391 square miles, 91208 reads as a suburban area. It is a mid-sized postal code by population, 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 here sit well above the national picture. The median household income of $131,229 places 91208 in the upper reaches of American postal codes, ahead of 94% 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 91208 costs far above the national median. A typical home is valued at $1,276,300 against a US median of $207,500, and median gross rent runs $2,361 a month. The split between owning and renting is fairly even at 65.0% owner-occupied, which tends to indicate a mix of housing types rather than one dominant form.

The building stock is dominated by detached single-family houses, which account for 69.3% of housing units here. The median construction year is 1963, making the housing here mid-century.

The population skews older than the national median, with a median age of 47.5 against 42 nationally. The average household holds 2.57 people, and 70.5% are family households.

Getting to work takes 29.8 minutes on average one way. The dominant mode is drove alone at 70.9% of workers, while 21.7% work from home. Commute patterns are one of the better proxies for how a place actually functions day to day.

Beyond addressing mail, 91208 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, 91208 offers a compact profile of Glendale: 15,467 residents, a median household income of $131,229, 62.0% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher, and an unemployment rate of 10.0%. 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. 91208 may cover parts of several distinct areas, and a single neighbourhood in Glendale 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.