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Independent city — not a county. Hampden County has its own 5-digit FIPS code and appears as a county equivalent in federal datasets. It is administratively separate from any surrounding county.
25013 County FIPS Code

Hampden County

Massachusetts · County seat: Springfield · Independent city (not a county)

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FIPS code 25013 is Hampden County, Massachusetts. With a population of 464,575 (2022 ACS estimate), it ranks #8 in Massachusetts and #151 nationally. Hampden County is part of the Springfield, MA. The state FIPS code for Massachusetts is 25. This code is used in Census Bureau, BLS, EPA, HUD, and USDA federal datasets to identify this county.

County FIPS

25013

State FIPS

25

MA

Population

464,575

2022 ACS · #151 nationally

Density

752.8/mi²

people per sq mile

Land Area

617

sq miles

Urban/Rural

Metro — 250K–1M population

RUCC 2

How This FIPS Code Works

25 013
25 = State FIPS (Massachusetts)
013 = County FIPS

The 5-digit FIPS code 25013 is formed by combining the 2-digit state identifier 25 (Massachusetts) with the 3-digit county identifier 013. Together they uniquely identify Hampden County in every US federal dataset. No two counties share the same 5-digit FIPS code.

Census ACS Data for FIPS 25013

From the 2022 ACS 5-year estimates — the same values you'd retrieve by querying the Census API with county FIPS 25013.

Median Household Income

$66,619

ACS B19013_001E

Poverty Rate

15.8%

ACS B17001 (below poverty level)

Median Age

39.5

ACS B01002_001E

Metropolitan Area

Adjacent Counties (6)

Counties that share a border with Hampden County. Useful for regional analysis — these are the geographies you'd typically include when studying labor markets, commuting zones, or environmental spillovers around FIPS 25013.

Federal Datasets Using Code 25013

FIPS code 25013 appears as the county identifier in the following federal datasets. Analysts joining data across these sources use this code as the common geographic key.

Using FIPS Code 25013 in Code

Common patterns for querying federal datasets by this county's FIPS code. The leading zeros are significant — always treat FIPS codes as strings, not integers.

Census ACS API — Python 25013
import requests

url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
    "get":  "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
    "for":  "county:013",
    "in":   "state:25",
    "key":  "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json()  # [[header...], [Hampden County, Massachusetts, income, pop, ...]
SQL — filtering by county FIPS 25013
-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '25013';

-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '25'
  AND county_fips = '013';

-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 25013 is WRONG for this county
R — tidycensus 25013
library(tidycensus)

get_acs(
  geography = "county",
  variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
  state     = "25",
  county    = "013",
  year      = 2022
)
Zero-padding reminder: FIPS codes must always be stored and compared as zero-padded strings. 25 (not 25) and 013 (not 13) — losing the leading zeros is one of the most common data-join bugs in federal datasets. Full guide →

ZIP Codes in Hampden County

ZIP codes do not align perfectly with county boundaries — a single ZIP code can span multiple counties, and a county can contain parts of many ZIP codes. The ratios below (from the Census 2020 ZCTA relationship file) show the land area share of each ZCTA that falls within Hampden County. Why FIPS ≠ ZIP →

ZIP Code % in county
01521 100.0%
01118 100.0%
01119 100.0%
01128 100.0%
01129 100.0%
01144 100.0%
01151 100.0%
01001 100.0%
01009 100.0%
01013 100.0%
01020 100.0%
01022 100.0%
01028 100.0%
01030 100.0%
01034 100.0%
01036 100.0%
01040 100.0%
01056 100.0%
01057 100.0%
01071 100.0%
01077 100.0%
01079 100.0%
01080 100.0%
01081 100.0%
01085 100.0%
01089 100.0%
01095 100.0%
01097 100.0%
01103 100.0%
01104 100.0%

Showing top 30 of 42 ZIP codes by residential address share.

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