Every ZIP code in the United States, with weather, radar, trivia and the numbers behind it. Five digits since 1963!

ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The codes went live on July 1, 1963.The lowest ZIP code is 00501 — the IRS in Holtsville, New York.The highest ZIP code is 99950, in Ketchikan, Alaska.Type 07734 into a calculator and turn it upside down: hELLO. It is Keansburg, New Jersey.12345 belongs to one company: General Electric in Schenectady, New York.The first digit is a region: 0 is New England and New Jersey, 9 is the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii.Mr. ZIP, the cartoon mailman, was the mascot that sold the idea to America.ZIP+4 arrived in 1983 and can narrow a ZIP down to one side of one block.A ZIP code is a mail route, not a place: plenty of them cross county and even state lines.Play ZIP Hunt: guess the secret ZIP code of the day in six tries.
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ZIP Codes With the Most Tax Returns Filed in New Jersey

What this measures. Number of individual income tax returns filed. A rough proxy for how many households a ZIP code contains, available where census figures are not. Source: IRS Statistics of Income, ZIP code data, data release 2026-10-12.

# ZIP City County Returns filed
1 08701 Lakewood Ocean 36,510
2 07002 Bayonne Hudson 34,830
3 08753 Toms River Ocean 33,380
4 07087 Union City Hudson 32,810
5 07302 Jersey City Hudson 31,290
6 07093 West New York Hudson 31,180
7 07047 North Bergen Hudson 30,980
8 07305 Jersey City Hudson 30,950
9 07055 Passaic Passaic 30,820
10 08831 Monroe Township Middlesex 30,230
11 07083 Union Union 30,140
12 08861 Perth Amboy Middlesex 30,050
13 08873 Somerset Somerset 29,710
14 07030 Hoboken Hudson 28,540
15 07111 Irvington Essex 28,260
16 07728 Freehold Monmouth 27,990
17 07003 Bloomfield Essex 27,420
18 08527 Jackson Ocean 27,140
19 08854 Piscataway Middlesex 26,860
20 07306 Jersey City Hudson 26,530
21 07470 Wayne Passaic 26,410
22 08081 Sicklerville Camden 25,700
23 08053 Marlton Burlington 24,850
24 07601 Hackensack Bergen 24,820
25 08054 Mount Laurel Burlington 24,250
26 07052 West Orange Essex 24,230
27 08234 Egg Harbor Township Atlantic 24,210
28 08816 East Brunswick Middlesex 24,110
29 07036 Linden Union 23,970
30 07960 Morristown Morris 23,660
31 07104 Newark Essex 23,620
32 07304 Jersey City Hudson 23,530
33 08021 Clementon Camden 23,440
34 07060 Plainfield Union 23,080
35 08724 Brick Ocean 22,700
36 08817 Edison Middlesex 22,700
37 07726 Englishtown Monmouth 22,400
38 08902 North Brunswick Middlesex 22,290
39 08540 Princeton Mercer 22,230
40 08844 Hillsborough Somerset 21,730
41 08857 Old Bridge Middlesex 21,310
42 07307 Jersey City Hudson 21,250
43 07011 Clifton Passaic 21,130
44 07202 Elizabeth Union 21,130
45 08094 Williamstown Gloucester 20,750
46 07712 Asbury Park Monmouth 20,680
47 07753 Neptune Monmouth 20,670
48 07666 Teaneck Bergen 20,470
49 08360 Vineland Cumberland 20,390
50 07109 Belleville Essex 20,300

Showing the top 50 of 545 ZIP codes in New Jersey that have this figure . 08701 ranks 1st at 36,510, against 20,300 in 50th place.

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zipcodes.pro. “ZIP Codes With the Most Tax Returns Filed in New Jersey.” Data release 2026-10-12. Retrieved 2026-10-20. https://zipcodes.pro/rankings/nj/most-tax-returns

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