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2020 Census Data by Zip Code

Apologies for the somewhat off-topic question. Is there a source for PL94-171 redistricting data from the 2020 Census compiled by Zip Code Tabulation Areas?

ZIP Codes are actually not areas with defined boundaries, and there are no official USPS ZIP Code maps. Areas must be derived using address files. The Census Bureau has done this in creating ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs).
The Census Bureau publishes population data by ZCTA and boundary files for them. But ZCTAs are not strictly analogous with ZIP Codes; there isn’t a ZCTA for every ZIP Code, and if you try to associate ZIP data with them some of your records won’t match. You need to crosswalk your ZIP Code data to the ZCTA-level to prevent this.
ZCTAs do not nest or fit within any other census geographies, and the postal city name associated with a ZIP Code does not correlate with actual legal or municipal areas. This can make selecting and downloading ZIP Code data for a given area difficult.
ZIP Codes were designed for delivering mail, not for studying populations. They vary tremendously in size, shape, and population.
Analyzing data at either the ZIP Code or ZCTA level over time is difficult to impossible.
ZIP Code and ZCTA numbers must be saved as text in data files, and not as numbers. Otherwise codes that have leading zeros get truncated, and the code becomes incorrect.