| City: | Boston, Massachusetts |
| County: | Suffolk County |
| Timezone: | Eastern (GMT -05:00) |
| Local Time: | 8:29:47 PM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Code: | 857 |
| Classification: | PO Box |
| Coordinates: | 42.3586, -71.0603 |
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ZIP code 02196 serves a single address in Boston's Financial District: Milk Street. This isn't a neighborhood ZIP or a residential area. It's a dedicated postal code for what USPS calls a Large Volume Receiver, a single building or business complex that generates enough mail to warrant its own ZIP.
The data tells the story. There are 180 PO Boxes and 161 business delivery points, but zero residents. All 147 street delivery records point to units on Milk Street. The ZIP has no geographic territory of its own. It exists as a point within ZIP 02108, which covers the surrounding Downtown and Beacon Hill areas.
Milk Street sits at the heart of Boston's original commercial district. The street dates to the 1600s and takes its name from the milk market once held there. Today it's home to office buildings, financial services firms, and professional offices. Businesses here use 02196 as their mailing address, routing high volumes of correspondence through a dedicated postal operation.
For anyone mailing to 02196, include the specific unit number. The format is:
[Business Name]
[Unit Number]
[Street Address]
Boston, MA 02196
Without the unit designation, mail can't be sorted to the correct recipient within the building.
All delivery points are units within a single building on Milk Street.
ZIP Code 02196 supports both business and residential activity. According to the Business Census (2024), there are 4 business establishments, employing about 16 people with an annual payroll of $1,701,000.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 410Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 4Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $408,000Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $1,701,000Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 16Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 02196 is located in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, within the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 14460) and Massachusetts's 8th Congressional District. This Metro area has a population of 4,917,661 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 02196, and is subdivided into the Boston, MA division. It covers 0 sq mi of land and a water area of 0 sq mi.
| CBSA Name: | Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NHSource: Census |
| CBSA Number: | 14460Source: Census |
| CBSA Type: | MetroSource: Census |
| CBSA Division: | Boston, MA (CBSA Div 14454)Source: Census |
| CBSA Population: | 4,917,661Source: Census |
| MSA: | Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT CMSASource: Census |
| Land Area: | --Source: Census |
| Water Area: | --Source: Census |
| Congressional District: | 08Source: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | 326.37 sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | Boston, MA-NH PMSASource: Census |
| Intro Date: | < 2004-10Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | 2507000Source: Census |
| Place Name: | Boston city; MassachusettsSource: Census |
We could not locate which school district 02196 belongs to, but we will update this once new district data is released. There are no public schools nor private schools with a mailing address in this ZIP Code. Listing Nearby schools instead. It also has 6 colleges, universities or post secondary education institutions nearby which would be a short commute to.
Our sources include trusted federal and licensed data from the United States Postal Service, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Geological Survey, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Center for Education Statistics, along with proprietary datasets created by ZIP-Codes.com. Data last updated on January 1, 2026.