ZIP Code Tabulation Areas
This is a subset of ZIP Code Tabulation Areas or ZCTAs (pronounced zik-tahs) that fall within New York City. ZCTAs are a geographic product of the U.S. Census Bureau created to allow mapping, display, and geographic analyses of the United States Postal Service (USPS) Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP) Codes dataset. For more information, see: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/geo-areas/zctas.html
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Freshness
The publisher's promise
How the agency that publishes this data says it keeps the data current.
Fresh
- Says it updates
- Every 10 years
- Actually updates about every
- —
- Publisher last updated the data
- Apr 10, 2026
Our mirror
Whether our copy of this data is current with the source.
In sync
- We last synced
- Apr 10, 2026, 10:10 AM
- Rows in our copy
- 221
- Rows at the source
- 221
- Our copy trails the source by
- under a minute
Columns
Each source column, with the name and type we use to store it.
0 of 8 columns carry a concept; 8 carry a description from the publisher. Read the concept column before you join. A column with no concept carries no claim from us, and a name that looks like a key is not one.
| Source field | Display name | What the publisher says it is | Concept | Source type | Stored as | Stored type | Row identifier | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
the_geom | Geometry | A polygon or multipolygon representation of the area bounded by the outline of one ZCTA. | Not bound | MultiPolygon | the_geom | jsonb | — | |
areawater | Water Area | Water area | Not bound | Text | areawater | text | — | |
arealand | Land Area | Land area | Not bound | Text | arealand | text | — | |
intptlat | Internal Latitude | Latitude of the ZCTA internal point closest to the center in decimal degree notation. Unlike centlat/centlon, for irregular shapes this value is guaranteed to be inside the ZCTA polygon. | Not bound | Text | intptlat | text | — | |
centlon | Center Longitude | Longitude of the ZCTA center in decimal degree notation. For irregular shapes this location may be outside of the ZCTA. | Not bound | Text | centlon | text | — | |
centlat | Center Latitude | Latitude of the ZCTA center in decimal degree notation. For irregular shapes this location may be outside of the ZCTA. | Not bound | Text | centlat | text | — | |
intptlon | Internal Longitude | Longitude of the ZCTA internal point closest to the center in decimal degree notation. Unlike centlat/centlon, for irregular shapes this value is guaranteed to be inside the ZCTA polygon. | Not bound | Text | intptlon | text | — | |
zcta5 | Zip Code | 5 digit ZIP code tabulation area |
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Source and attribution
Where this data comes from, which version we hold, and what we changed.
- Source
- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/35j5-n34v
- Version
- Content hash:
8578366baf0043f3d6a36144311d01b2057d9dfe9d330d79c64f1bc2d555c5b0 - What we changed
- We did not change the data. We stored it as published.
- Publisher
- codenownyc
- We retrieved it
- Apr 10, 2026, 10:10 AM
Update history
| Started | Kind | Result | Rows written | Produced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2026, 2:45 AM | full_replace | success | 221 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.31 |