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Independent city — not a county. Hampshire 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.
25015 County FIPS Code

Hampshire County

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

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FIPS code 25015 is Hampshire County, Massachusetts. With a population of 153,931 (2022 ACS estimate), it ranks #10 in Massachusetts and #438 nationally. Hampshire County is part of the Amherst Town-Northampton, 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

25015

State FIPS

25

MA

Population

153,931

2022 ACS · #438 nationally

Density

292.0/mi²

people per sq mile

Land Area

527

sq miles

Urban/Rural

Metro — under 250K population

RUCC 3

How This FIPS Code Works

25 015
25 = State FIPS (Massachusetts)
015 = County FIPS

The 5-digit FIPS code 25015 is formed by combining the 2-digit state identifier 25 (Massachusetts) with the 3-digit county identifier 015. Together they uniquely identify Hampshire County in every US federal dataset. No two counties share the same 5-digit FIPS code.

Census ACS Data for FIPS 25015

From the 2022 ACS 5-year estimates — the same values you'd retrieve by querying the Census API with county FIPS 25015.

Median Household Income

$84,025

ACS B19013_001E

Poverty Rate

10.6%

ACS B17001 (below poverty level)

Median Age

39.3

ACS B01002_001E

Metropolitan Area

Adjacent Counties (4)

Counties that share a border with Hampshire County. Useful for regional analysis — these are the geographies you'd typically include when studying labor markets, commuting zones, or environmental spillovers around FIPS 25015.

Federal Datasets Using Code 25015

FIPS code 25015 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 25015 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 25015
import requests

url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
    "get":  "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
    "for":  "county:015",
    "in":   "state:25",
    "key":  "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json()  # [[header...], [Hampshire County, Massachusetts, income, pop, ...]
SQL — filtering by county FIPS 25015
-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '25015';

-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '25'
  AND county_fips = '015';

-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 25015 is WRONG for this county
R — tidycensus 25015
library(tidycensus)

get_acs(
  geography = "county",
  variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
  state     = "25",
  county    = "015",
  year      = 2022
)
Zero-padding reminder: FIPS codes must always be stored and compared as zero-padded strings. 25 (not 25) and 015 (not 15) — losing the leading zeros is one of the most common data-join bugs in federal datasets. Full guide →

ZIP Codes in Hampshire 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 Hampshire County. Why FIPS ≠ ZIP →

ZIP Code % in county
01243 100.0%
01003 100.0%
01007 100.0%
01060 100.0%
01062 100.0%
01063 100.0%
01066 100.0%
01073 100.0%
01075 100.0%
01084 100.0%
01088 100.0%
01098 100.0%
01012 100.0%
01027 100.0%
01032 100.0%
01033 100.0%
01035 100.0%
01038 100.0%
01053 100.0%
01070 99.4%
01002 93.2%
01096 92.1%
01026 90.7%
01082 73.1%
01050 69.5%
01039 59.0%
01011 22.5%
01069 0.0%

Other Counties in Massachusetts