35223 and 35213 rated as “super zips”

According to a recent analysis by The Washington Post, Mountain Brook’s zip codes are among the top in the country. 35213 and 35223 were the only two “super zips,” or top five percent, in Alabama to make the recent list of rankings based on income and education level from census data.

35223, the top zip code in the state, ranked in the 99 percentile, with a median household income of $133,328 and 79 percent of the population as college graduates. 35213 was in the 96 percentile, with a median household income of $94,302 and 76 percent college graduates.

The 650 super zips on average have a median household income of $120,000, and seven in ten adults have college degrees.

The Post also reported that a recent analysis of census data by sociologists Sean Reardon of Stanford and Kendra Bischoff of Cornell showed that middle-income neighborhoods have faded as more people live in areas that are either poor or affluent. In 1970, 65 percent of families lived in middle-income neighborhoods; four decades later, 42 percent did.