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01936

ZIP 01936 is Hamilton, Massachusetts, in Essex County; area codes 978 and 351; Eastern time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Essex
Coordinates
42.6354, -70.8791

The Census map gives this ZIP code no delivery area of its own, which usually means it serves post office boxes, a single organization or a post office rather than streets of homes.

This ZIP code has no Census tabulation area of its own. Its point falls inside ZCTA 01982, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 01936 is

This ZIP code has no Census tabulation area, so there is no boundary to draw — the marker is its published point location.

★ Weird and wonderful facts about 01936
  • 🔢 Type 01936 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: gEGIO — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 1,936 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 11 × 11. Its digits add up to 19, a total 2,454 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 11110010000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 01931 (Gloucester, MA, 11 mi away) and 01937 (Hathorne, MA, 6 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 01936 becomes 63910, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 53 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (06913, 09136, 09613, 10963, 13069, 13690, …). The farthest-flung twin is 96310 in FPO AA, a military post office, 6,933 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 80% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 96%.
  • 🎯1,446 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 01936 and you would come out at 42.64°S, 109.12°E — 825 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 19m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 02m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments12This ZIP12
Employees65This ZIP65
Annual payroll$3,409,000This ZIP$3,409,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 01936

ZIPCityDistance
01961 Peabody, MA 0.0 mi
01971 Salem, MA 0.0 mi
01982 South Hamilton, MA 1.3 mi
01984 Wenham, MA 2.4 mi
01983 Topsfield, MA 3.3 mi
01938 Ipswich, MA 4.1 mi
01915 Beverly, MA 4.5 mi
01929 Essex, MA 5.5 mi
01923 Danvers, MA 5.6 mi
01965 Prides Crossing, MA 5.6 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 01936?

01936 is in Hamilton, Massachusetts, in Essex County, part of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area. Its published point location is 42.6354, -70.8791.

What county is 01936 in?

01936 lies in Essex County.

What area code is 01936?

Hamilton uses area codes 978 and 351, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 01936 in?

01936 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 01936?

The closest are 01961 (0 mi), 01971 (0 mi), 01982 (1.3 mi), 01984 (2.4 mi) and 01983 (3.3 mi).

Is 01936 a PO Box ZIP code?

Possibly. The Census map gives this ZIP code no delivery area of its own, which usually means it serves post office boxes, a single organization or a post office rather than streets of homes.

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