This annual publication focuses on the Social Security beneficiary population—people receiving Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) benefits—at the ZIP Code level. It presents basic program data on the number and type of beneficiaries and the amount of benefits paid in each state, Social Security Administration field office, and ZIP Code. It also shows the number of men and women aged 65 or older receiving benefits.

Your suggestions and comments on this report are welcome and should be directed to statistics@ssa.gov.

Brian Peltier
Head of Technology, Customer Data, and AI
March 2026

The statistics in this report are derived from the Master Beneficiary Record, the principal administrative file of Social Security beneficiaries. The Social Security Detailed Office Organization Resource System (DOORS) file was used to associate the field office data with the ZIP Codes. Statistics for field offices in each state include only beneficiaries in that state. However, some Social Security field offices serve residents of more than one state. To obtain field office totals in these situations, it is necessary to combine data for each state served by the field office.

The statistics include only persons whose benefits are currently payable. The monthly benefit reported is the amount Social Security beneficiaries were paid for the month of December. The monthly benefit is the amount payable after any reductions.

Some Social Security beneficiaries have a representative payee—a person designated by the Social Security Administration to receive their monthly benefit when such action is in the beneficiary's best interest. About 2 percent of all adult beneficiaries and virtually all child beneficiaries under age 18 have representative payees. For most children, the representative payee is the parent with whom the child resides. For beneficiaries with representative payees, the state and field office designations are those of the representative payees, not those of the beneficiaries.

To avoid disclosing the reason for Social Security eligibility of small groups and the amount of benefits received, a controlled rounding procedure was used for field office and ZIP Code data. Statistics are not shown for ZIP Codes if the number of beneficiaries in the ZIP Code is smaller than a predetermined threshold.

Under the controlled rounding procedure, ZIP Code statistics on the number of beneficiaries shown in the table are changed according to the following formula:

1. If the number is evenly divisible by 5 (ends in 0 or 5), then the numbers are not changed.
2. Otherwise, the number is rounded either to the next higher multiple of 5 or the next lower multiple of 5, in such a way that the difference between each rounded and unrounded cell value, each rounded and unrounded row total, and each rounded and unrounded column total is less than 5.

The state totals are true totals. The dollar amounts in the tables are rounded to the nearest thousand.