| City: | Watertown, Massachusetts |
| County: | Middlesex County |
| Timezone: | Eastern (GMT -05:00) |
| Local Time: | 7:52:36 PM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Codes: | 617 / 857 |
| Classification: | PO Box |
| Coordinates: | 42.3708, -71.1833 |
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While the facility primarily manages PO Box service, it also processes 83 delivery records along Main Street, indicating a mixed-use postal function. This arrangement is common in established suburbs where both PO Box and street delivery coexist. The 141 business addresses suggest commercial adoption of PO Boxes for mail consistency and package security.
The single street listing reflects this ZIP's focused service area along Main Street, with most surrounding addresses served by the neighboring 02472 ZIP code.
ZIP Code 02471 supports both business and residential activity. According to the Business Census (2024), there are 13 business establishments, employing about 772 people with an annual payroll of $60,478,000.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 244Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 13Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $12,764,000Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $60,478,000Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 772Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 02471 is located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, within the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 14460) and Massachusetts's 5th Congressional District. This Metro area has a population of 4,552,402 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 02471, and is subdivided into the Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, 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: | Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA (CBSA Div 15764)Source: Census |
| CBSA Population: | 4,552,402Source: Census |
| MSA: | Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT CMSASource: Census |
| Land Area: | --Source: Census |
| Water Area: | --Source: Census |
| Congressional District: | 05Source: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | 265.08 sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | Boston, MA-NH PMSASource: Census |
| Intro Date: | < 2004-10Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | 2573440Source: Census |
| Place Name: | Watertown Town city; MassachusettsSource: Census |
We could not locate which school district 02471 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 February 1, 2026.