| City: | Palo Alto, California |
| County: | Santa Clara County |
| Timezone: | Pacific (GMT -08:00) |
| Local Time: | 10:58:31 PM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Code: | 650 |
| Classification: | PO Box |
| Coordinates: | 37.4417, -122.1417 |
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ZIP code 94302 serves a business district on Hamilton Avenue in Palo Alto, California. This isn't a residential community. The ZIP has zero population and no households, operating instead as a specialized postal zone for commercial activity in the heart of Silicon Valley.
The post office maintains 587 PO Boxes and serves 323 business delivery points, all concentrated on a single street. Hamilton Avenue hosts the entire ZIP's delivery infrastructure, with 61 address records marked with UNIT designators. This pattern indicates multi-tenant commercial buildings or office complexes rather than traditional street addressing.
Despite its classification as a PO Box ZIP, 94302 does include one city carrier route serving Hamilton Avenue. The ZIP exists as a point location within the larger 94301 ZIP code area. This setup is typical for business districts that warrant their own postal identity while remaining geographically nested within a neighboring residential ZIP.
Palo Alto residents and businesses in other parts of the city use the standard 94301 ZIP code. The 94302 designation specifically serves this Hamilton Avenue business corridor, providing dedicated postal services for the commercial establishments located there.
The entire ZIP consists of Hamilton Avenue with multi-unit commercial addressing.
ZIP Code 94302 supports both business and residential activity. According to the Business Census (2024), there are 9 business establishments, employing about 50 people with an annual payroll of $3,724,000.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 1,049Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 9Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $976,000Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $3,724,000Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 50Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 94302 is located in Santa Clara County, California, within the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 41940) and California's 16th and 18th Congressional Districts. This Metro area has a population of 1,969,353 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 94302. 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: | 16,18Source: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | 2839.51, 696.12 sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | San Jose, CA PMSASource: Census |
| Intro Date: | < 2004-10Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | 0655282Source: Census |
| Place Name: | Palo Alto city; CaliforniaSource: Census |
We could not locate which school district 94302 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.