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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/17072

17072

ZIP 17072 is New Kingstown, Pennsylvania, in Cumberland County; area codes 717 and 223; Eastern time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Cumberland
Coordinates
40.2306, -77.0794

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 17050, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 17072 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 17072
  • 🔢 Type 17072 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZLOLI — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 17,072 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 11 × 97. Its digits add up to 17, a total 2,133 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 100001010110000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 17071 (New Germantown, PA, 29 mi away) and 17073 (Newmanstown, PA, 44 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 17072 becomes 27071, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 37 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (01772, 02717, 02771, 07712, 07721, 10277, …). The farthest-flung twin is 77021 in Houston, TX, 1,261 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 58% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 81%.
  • 🎯1,135 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 17072 and you would come out at 40.23°S, 102.92°E — 920 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 02m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 18m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments18This ZIP18
Employees2,060This ZIP2,060
Annual payroll$138,284,000This ZIP$138,284,000
Tax returns filed130This ZIP130
Total adjusted gross income$6,327,000This ZIP$6,327,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 17072

ZIPCityDistance
17050 Mechanicsburg, PA 2.8 mi
17013 Carlisle, PA 5.6 mi
17055 Mechanicsburg, PA 5.7 mi
17007 Boiling Springs, PA 6.7 mi
17025 Enola, PA 7.1 mi
17053 Marysville, PA 7.1 mi
17027 Grantham, PA 7.2 mi
17011 Camp Hill, PA 7.9 mi
17089 Camp Hill, PA 8.0 mi
17090 Shermans Dale, PA 8.1 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 17072?

17072 is in New Kingstown, Pennsylvania, in Cumberland County, part of the Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 40.2306, -77.0794.

What county is 17072 in?

17072 lies in Cumberland County.

What area code is 17072?

New Kingstown uses area codes 717 and 223, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 17072 in?

17072 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 17072?

The closest are 17050 (2.8 mi), 17013 (5.6 mi), 17055 (5.7 mi), 17007 (6.7 mi) and 17025 (7.1 mi).

Is 17072 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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