Best Places20064, DC Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 20064, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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20064 ranks 15,715th of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state infrastructure by a wide margin, and thin health care access ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in 20064

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 20064 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

20064's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%State infrastructure
Top 1%Short commutes
Top 3%Cell coverage
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 20064 with other zip codes.

Where 20064 ranks high

  • State infrastructureBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • Short commute10.0 minutes each way, better than 99% of zip codes
  • Cell coverageBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • WalkabilityBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • Disaster safetyBetter than 98% of zip codes

Where 20064 ranks low

  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 1% of zip codes
  • Cheap childcare$2,143 a month, better than only 1% of zip codes
  • Local economyBetter than only 1% of zip codes
  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 3% of zip codes
  • QuietBetter than only 9% of zip codes

Who lives in 20064

20064 runs younger than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
20
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
3%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.0
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1831%
18 to 3458%
35 to 494%
50 to 644%
65 and older3%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 20064.


Who works in 20064, and how

Work in 20064 centers on education and arts & entertainment. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
38%
above the national average
Unemployment
6.0%
above the national average
Job growth
−57.4%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Education53%
Arts & entertainment14%
Hospitality & food13%
Other services7%
Professional & technical6%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 5%
  • Work from home 38%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 57%

Life in 20064

The coast is about 30 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across 20064, which the map shows.

Living on campus
1,848
students living in college or university housing
To the coast
30 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in 20064, month by month

20064 sees roughly 71 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 45, with lows near 28. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January45°36°28°
April68°57°46°
July90°80°70°
October70°59°50°

Flying in and out of 20064

Ronald Reagan Washington Ntl sits about 6 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 12.0 million passengers in 2025, with 128 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
DCA
Ronald Reagan Washington Ntl, about 6 miles
Airport size
Large hub
28th-busiest in the US, 128 nonstop destinations
Average drive
9 min
from the area, with no traffic

20064 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 20064 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 20064

Is 20064 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 20064 ranks 15,715th of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on state infrastructure, short commutes, and cell coverage, and lowest on thin health care access and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 20064 safe?

20064 is safer than 11% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $863 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in 20064?

July highs average about 90 degrees, and January highs near 45 with lows near 28. That works out to about 71 pleasant days a year, more than 28% of zip codes.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 20064. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 20064 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

20064 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 20064: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 20064: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 20064: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 20064: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

20064 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  5. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  6. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  7. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  8. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  9. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  10. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  11. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.