{
  "zip": "20879",
  "type": "standard",
  "type_source": "inferred",
  "city": "Gaithersburg",
  "other_place_names": [
    "Flower Hill",
    "Germantown",
    "Montgomery Village",
    "Redland"
  ],
  "state": "MD",
  "state_name": "Maryland",
  "county": {
    "fips": "24031",
    "name": "Montgomery County",
    "short_name": "Montgomery"
  },
  "counties": [
    {
      "county_fips": "24031",
      "name": "Montgomery County",
      "short_name": "Montgomery",
      "weight": 1,
      "basis": "land_area"
    }
  ],
  "location": {
    "lat": 39.167298,
    "lng": -77.164147,
    "source": "gazetteer_internal_point",
    "timezone": "America/New_York"
  },
  "is_zcta": true,
  "parent_zcta": null,
  "metro": {
    "cbsa_code": "47900",
    "name": "Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV",
    "type": "metro",
    "csa_code": "548",
    "csa_name": "Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA"
  },
  "demographics": {
    "population": 25264,
    "households": 8651,
    "housing_units": 8818,
    "median_age": 36.4,
    "median_household_income": 112104,
    "median_home_value": 468100,
    "median_rent": 1942,
    "pct_bachelors_plus": 44.8,
    "mean_commute_min": 31.3,
    "density_per_sqmi": 2931.5
  },
  "business": {
    "establishments": 961,
    "employees": 16628,
    "annual_payroll_thousands": 1208263
  },
  "tax": {
    "irs_returns": 14110,
    "irs_agi_thousands": 1004243
  },
  "area": {
    "land_sqmi": 8.618,
    "water_sqmi": 0.046
  },
  "nearest_zips": [
    {
      "zip": "20880",
      "miles": 1.9,
      "city": "Washington Grove",
      "state": "MD"
    },
    {
      "zip": "20877",
      "miles": 2.4,
      "city": "Gaithersburg",
      "state": "MD"
    },
    {
      "zip": "20885",
      "miles": 2.5,
      "city": "Gaithersburg",
      "state": "MD"
    },
    {
      "zip": "20886",
      "miles": 2.6,
      "city": "Montgomery Village",
      "state": "MD"
    },
    {
      "zip": "20855",
      "miles": 2.7,
      "city": "Derwood",
      "state": "MD"
    },
    {
      "zip": "20813",
      "miles": 2.8,
      "city": "Bethesda",
      "state": "MD"
    },
    {
      "zip": "20827",
      "miles": 2.8,
      "city": "Bethesda",
      "state": "MD"
    },
    {
      "zip": "20848",
      "miles": 2.8,
      "city": "Rockville",
      "state": "MD"
    },
    {
      "zip": "20859",
      "miles": 2.8,
      "city": "Potomac",
      "state": "MD"
    },
    {
      "zip": "20875",
      "miles": 2.8,
      "city": "Germantown",
      "state": "MD"
    }
  ],
  "release": "2026-10-12",
  "attribution": {
    "source": "zipcodes.pro",
    "url": "https://zipcodes.pro/zip/20879",
    "sources_url": "https://zipcodes.pro/sources",
    "license": "Facts derived from US public-domain data (Census, IRS) and GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Attribution appreciated: zipcodes.pro",
    "note": "A null value means the source did not publish that figure for this ZIP code. It does not mean zero."
  }
}