WEALTH & OPPORTUNITYIs your ZIP built
for lasting wealth?
Start with 78209 · San Antonio, Texas
A paycheck is one chapter of a wealth story. Housing, ownership, businesses, steady work, and retirement income help tell the rest. Most Wealthy ZIPs invites you to explore the conditions that help people earn, build, and hold on to economic gains.
In 78209, employment and retirement-income records open two useful windows: participation in the working economy and a source of household income beyond wages. Follow those threads into the fuller story of a place.
4.03%Unemployment rate · 78209
17.25%Households receiving retirement income · 78209
Source & period
U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 ACS five-year estimates (2020–2024), presented in the NDS 78209 economic-context records. Unemployment uses civilian labor-force participants; retirement-income receipt uses households. These measures describe community conditions. Derived-rate margins of error are not included in the source records.
THE STORY TO EXPLOREWhat helps wealth take root—and what helps it last?
Discover your ZIP’s wealth story ↗ENVIRONMENT & DAILY LIFEAir history.
A story around the ZIP.
AirQualityByZIP brings EPA-based environmental evidence into the place-based conversation. The supplied ranking records include Karnes County, Texas.
A+Karnes County grade in the supplied ranking
40 / 1,049Position among scored counties and equivalents
Source: AirQualityByZIP’s supplied rankings, reviewed October 11, 2026. The project’s EPA history spans 2016–2025. These are county-level ranking values associated with ZIP profiles, not direct measurements at every ZIP or address, and not a forecast of current conditions.
WHAT THIS HELPS US ASKHow can environmental history add context to the places where people spend their lives?
Explore AirQualityByZIP ↗Read the Consumer Magazine story ↗BLACK WEALTH INTELLIGENCEWhere can Black wealth
take root and grow?
Ownership. Opportunity. Access to capital. The ability to preserve what you build. Black Wealth Intelligence connects these four dimensions to the places where people live—and examines the pressures that shape the path forward.
The national story has a local doorway: 78266, identified as San Antonio, Texas in the NDS presentation, leads the Black Wealth Capacity ranking. Explore the community conditions behind that result, then discover what the evidence reveals about your own ZIP.
Explore Black Wealth Intelligence ↗ 78266 / NATIONAL CAPACITY LEADER
#1National Black Wealth Capacity rank
90.17Black Wealth Capacity Index score
THE STORY TO EXPLOREWhere are the conditions for building Black wealth strongest—and which barriers still matter?
Source & comparison set
National Data System, Black Wealth Intelligence: Know Your ZIP’s Wealth Story, October 2026 presentation, reporting the 2024 release. National coverage: 33,772 governed ZIP communities, with 8,223 Capacity-qualified ZIPs. The rank and score refer to the Capacity Index. Wealth Friction is a separate index examining economic pressures.
