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Independent city — not a county. Nantucket 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.
25019 County FIPS Code

Nantucket County

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

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FIPS code 25019 is Nantucket County, Massachusetts. With a population of 14,065 (2022 ACS estimate), it ranks #14 in Massachusetts and #2212 nationally. Nantucket County is part of the Nantucket, 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

25019

State FIPS

25

MA

Population

14,065

2022 ACS · #2212 nationally

Density

312.8/mi²

people per sq mile

Land Area

45

sq miles

Urban/Rural

Nonmetro — urban 2.5K–19.9K, not adjacent to metro

RUCC 7

How This FIPS Code Works

25 019
25 = State FIPS (Massachusetts)
019 = County FIPS

The 5-digit FIPS code 25019 is formed by combining the 2-digit state identifier 25 (Massachusetts) with the 3-digit county identifier 019. Together they uniquely identify Nantucket County in every US federal dataset. No two counties share the same 5-digit FIPS code.

Census ACS Data for FIPS 25019

From the 2022 ACS 5-year estimates — the same values you'd retrieve by querying the Census API with county FIPS 25019.

Median Household Income

$135,590

ACS B19013_001E

Poverty Rate

4.9%

ACS B17001 (below poverty level)

Median Age

40.5

ACS B01002_001E

Metropolitan Area

Adjacent Counties (1)

Counties that share a border with Nantucket County. Useful for regional analysis — these are the geographies you'd typically include when studying labor markets, commuting zones, or environmental spillovers around FIPS 25019.

Federal Datasets Using Code 25019

FIPS code 25019 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 25019 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 25019
import requests

url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
    "get":  "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
    "for":  "county:019",
    "in":   "state:25",
    "key":  "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json()  # [[header...], [Nantucket County, Massachusetts, income, pop, ...]
SQL — filtering by county FIPS 25019
-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '25019';

-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '25'
  AND county_fips = '019';

-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 25019 is WRONG for this county
R — tidycensus 25019
library(tidycensus)

get_acs(
  geography = "county",
  variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
  state     = "25",
  county    = "019",
  year      = 2022
)
Zero-padding reminder: FIPS codes must always be stored and compared as zero-padded strings. 25 (not 25) and 019 (not 19) — losing the leading zeros is one of the most common data-join bugs in federal datasets. Full guide →

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

ZIP Code % in county
02554 100.0%
02564 100.0%
02584 100.0%

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