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50001 County FIPS Code

Addison County

Vermont · County seat: Middlebury · Active county or equivalent

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FIPS code 50001 is Addison County, Vermont. With a population of 37,434 (2022 ACS estimate), it ranks #7 in Vermont and #1258 nationally. The state FIPS code for Vermont is 50. This code is used in Census Bureau, BLS, EPA, HUD, and USDA federal datasets to identify this county.

County FIPS

50001

State FIPS

50

VT

Population

37,434

2022 ACS · #1258 nationally

Density

48.9/mi²

people per sq mile

Land Area

766

sq miles

Urban/Rural

Nonmetro — urban 2.5K–19.9K, adjacent to metro

RUCC 6

How This FIPS Code Works

50 001
50 = State FIPS (Vermont)
001 = County FIPS

The 5-digit FIPS code 50001 is formed by combining the 2-digit state identifier 50 (Vermont) with the 3-digit county identifier 001. Together they uniquely identify Addison County in every US federal dataset. No two counties share the same 5-digit FIPS code.

Census ACS Data for FIPS 50001

From the 2022 ACS 5-year estimates — the same values you'd retrieve by querying the Census API with county FIPS 50001.

Median Household Income

$85,870

ACS B19013_001E

Poverty Rate

7.5%

ACS B17001 (below poverty level)

Median Age

43.9

ACS B01002_001E

Adjacent Counties (7)

Counties that share a border with Addison County. Useful for regional analysis — these are the geographies you'd typically include when studying labor markets, commuting zones, or environmental spillovers around FIPS 50001.

Federal Datasets Using Code 50001

FIPS code 50001 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 50001 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 50001
import requests

url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
    "get":  "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
    "for":  "county:001",
    "in":   "state:50",
    "key":  "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json()  # [[header...], [Addison County, Vermont, income, pop, ...]
SQL — filtering by county FIPS 50001
-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '50001';

-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '50'
  AND county_fips = '001';

-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 50001 is WRONG for this county
R — tidycensus 50001
library(tidycensus)

get_acs(
  geography = "county",
  variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
  state     = "50",
  county    = "001",
  year      = 2022
)
Zero-padding reminder: FIPS codes must always be stored and compared as zero-padded strings. 50 (not 50) and 001 (not 1) — losing the leading zeros is one of the most common data-join bugs in federal datasets. Full guide →

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

ZIP Code % in county
05443 100.0%
05456 100.0%
05491 100.0%
05734 100.0%
05747 100.0%
05748 100.0%
05753 100.0%
05766 100.0%
05769 100.0%
05770 100.0%
05472 100.0%
05473 100.0%
05760 99.5%
05778 92.3%
05487 89.3%
05733 39.3%
05669 22.9%
05461 6.3%
05462 0.1%
05767 0.1%

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