{"id":40,"date":"2026-10-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/05\/this-is-the-most-desired-zip-code-in-the-u-s-and-its-not-where-you-think\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:00:00","slug":"this-is-the-most-desired-zip-code-in-the-u-s-and-its-not-where-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/05\/this-is-the-most-desired-zip-code-in-the-u-s-and-its-not-where-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is the Most Desired ZIP Code in the U.S\u2014And It&#8217;s Not Where You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>The most desired ZIP codes in the U.S. include Peabody, MA, known for its history, water access, and $600K average home price. Montclair, NJ, offers proximity to NYC and an international airport with homes around $1M. Other notable areas are Wheaton, IL; New Berlin, WI; North Haven, CT; Lititz, PA; Livonia, MI; Westfield, MA; Fairport, NY; and Sewell, NJ, featuring affordable homes, good schools, parks, and convenient commutes.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodhousekeeping.com\/home\/a73572456\/realtor-hottest-zip-codes-2026\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most desired ZIP codes in the U.S. include Peabody, MA, known for its history, water access, and $600K average home price. Montclair, NJ, offers proximity to NYC and an international airport with homes around $1M. Other notable areas are Wheaton, IL; New Berlin, WI; North Haven, CT; Lititz, PA; Livonia, MI; Westfield, MA; Fairport, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}