| City: | Mountain View, California |
| County: | Santa Clara County |
| Timezone: | Pacific (GMT -08:00) |
| Local Time: | 10:54:01 PM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Code: | 650 |
| Classification: | PO Box |
| Coordinates: | 37.3862, -122.0826 |
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ZIP code 94042 serves a single address on Hope Street in Mountain View, California. This isn't a residential community. It's a business mail facility serving 207 commercial delivery points and 544 PO Boxes, all concentrated at one location in the Old Mountain View neighborhood.
The post office maintains both PO Box services and street delivery to Hope Street, where 118 ZIP+4 records identify individual units within what appears to be a large commercial building or business complex. This pattern is typical of Large Volume Receivers in Silicon Valley, where a single facility houses multiple businesses or a corporate campus operation.
Mountain View has multiple ZIP codes. Standard street delivery operates throughout the city via neighboring ZIP codes like 94041, which geographically contains this location. The PO Box classification for 94042 dates to before October 2004 and designates this as a specialized mail facility rather than a residential service area.
Only one street serves this ZIP: Hope Street with 118 unit-based addresses indicating a multi-tenant commercial facility.
ZIP Code 94042 supports both business and residential activity. According to the Business Census (2024), there are 10 business establishments, employing about 61 people with an annual payroll of $4,196,000.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 2,250Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 10Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $1,096,000Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $4,196,000Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 61Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 94042 is located in Santa Clara County, California, within the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 41940) and California's 16th Congressional District. This Metro area has a population of 1,969,353 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 94042. It covers 0 sq mi of land and a water area of 0 sq mi.
| CBSA Name: | San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CASource: Census |
| CBSA Number: | 41940Source: Census |
| CBSA Type: | MetroSource: Census |
| CBSA Division: | --Source: Census |
| CBSA Population: | 1,969,353Source: Census |
| MSA: | San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA CMSASource: Census |
| Land Area: | --Source: Census |
| Water Area: | --Source: Census |
| Congressional District: | 16Source: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | 2839.51 sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | San Jose, CA PMSASource: Census |
| Intro Date: | < 2004-10Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | 0649651Source: Census |
| Place Name: | Mountain View CDP; CaliforniaSource: Census |
We could not locate which school district 94042 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.