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07979

ZIP 07979 is Pottersville, New Jersey, mostly in Hunterdon County; area code 908; Eastern time.

Type
Standard
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Hunterdon +1 more
Population
214
Coordinates
40.7112, -74.7306
☼ Live from 07979 — Pottersville, NJ

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Where 07979 is

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★ Weird and wonderful facts about 07979
  • 🔢 Type 07979 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: GLGLO — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 7,979 = 79 × 101. Its digits add up to 32, a total 644 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1111100101011
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 07978 (Pluckemin, NJ, 7 mi away) and 07980 (Stirling, NJ, 13 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 07979 becomes 97970, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 11 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (07799, 77099, 77990, 79079, 79097, 79907, …). The farthest-flung twin is 99770 in Selawik, AK, 3,556 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 63% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 88%.
  • 🎯1,255 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 07979 and you would come out at 40.71°S, 105.27°E — 844 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 06m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 15m.
  • 📏 At 0.886 square miles of land, 07979 is bigger than 7% of ZIP codes — about 429 football fields.
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People and housing

Population214This ZIP214
Households77This ZIP77
Housing units77This ZIP77
Median age56.2This ZIP56.2New Jersey40.1US 38.9
Bachelor's degree or higher95.8%This ZIP95.8%
Population density241.5 / sq miThis ZIP241.5 / sq mi

Business and tax activity

Business establishments14This ZIP14
Employees255This ZIP255
Annual payroll$6,015,000This ZIP$6,015,000

Land area

Land area0.89 sq miThis ZIP0.89 sq mi
Water area0.01 sq miThis ZIP0.01 sq mi

Counties 07979 spans

A ZIP code is a mail route and ignores county lines. Shares are by overlapping land area.

CountyShare of this ZIP
Hunterdon County 81.2%
Somerset County 18.8%

Other place names in 07979

Census places whose land this ZIP code overlaps. The Postal Service may accept other city names in an address, too.

ZIP codes near 07979

ZIPCityDistance
08858 Oldwick, NJ 2.0 mi
07830 Califon, NJ 3.4 mi
07934 Gladstone, NJ 3.6 mi
07977 Peapack, NJ 4.1 mi
07921 Bedminster, NJ 4.7 mi
07930 Chester, NJ 5.4 mi
07853 Long Valley, NJ 5.9 mi
07931 Far Hills, NJ 6.3 mi
08888 Whitehouse, NJ 6.4 mi
08833 Lebanon, NJ 6.4 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 07979?

07979 is in Pottersville, New Jersey, in Hunterdon County, part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metropolitan area. Its published point location is 40.7112, -74.7306.

What county is 07979 in?

07979 spans 2 counties: Hunterdon County and Somerset County. Most of it falls in Hunterdon County, measured by overlapping land area — the county holding the most land in a ZIP code is not always the one holding the most residents.

What area code is 07979?

Pottersville uses area code 908, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 07979 in?

07979 uses America/New_York.

How many people live in 07979?

About 214 people live in ZIP code 07979, in 77 households, at 241.5 people per square mile. These are American Community Survey 5-year estimates for the ZIP Code Tabulation Area, not a headcount.

What ZIP codes are near 07979?

The closest are 08858 (2 mi), 07830 (3.4 mi), 07934 (3.6 mi), 07977 (4.1 mi) and 07921 (4.7 mi).

Is 07979 a PO Box ZIP code?

07979 is a standard ZIP code. A normal ZIP code with street delivery.

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