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17576

ZIP 17576 is Smoketown, Pennsylvania, in Lancaster County; area codes 717 and 223; Eastern time.

Type
Standard
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Lancaster
Metro area
Lancaster, PA
Population
103
Coordinates
40.0371, -76.1978
☼ Live from 17576 — Smoketown, PA

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Where 17576 is

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★ Weird and wonderful facts about 17576
  • 🔢 Type 17576 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: gLSLI — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 17,576 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 13 × 13 × 13. Its digits add up to 26, a total 2,038 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 100010010101000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 17575 (Silver Spring, PA, 13 mi away) and 17578 (Stevens, PA, 13 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 17576 becomes 67571, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 23 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (15677, 15767, 15776, 17567, 17756, 17765, …). The farthest-flung twin is 57761 in New Underwood, SD, 1,386 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 57% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 84%.
  • 🎯1,183 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 17576 and you would come out at 40.04°S, 103.80°E — 874 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 01m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 19m.
  • 📏 At 0.095 square miles of land, 17576 is bigger than 1% of ZIP codes — about 46 football fields.
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People and housing

Population103This ZIP103
Households41This ZIP41
Housing units41This ZIP41
Median age51.5This ZIP51.5Pennsylvania40.9US 38.9
Bachelor's degree or higher100.0%This ZIP100.0%
Population density1,084.2 / sq miThis ZIP1,084.2 / sq mi

Business and tax activity

Business establishments14This ZIP14
Employees339This ZIP339
Annual payroll$23,747,000This ZIP$23,747,000
Tax returns filed110This ZIP110
Total adjusted gross income$6,024,000This ZIP$6,024,000

Land area

Land area0.10 sq miThis ZIP0.10 sq mi
Water area0.00 sq miThis ZIP0.00 sq mi

Other place names in 17576

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

ZIP codes near 17576

ZIPCityDistance
17585 Witmer, PA 1.1 mi
17573 Ronks, PA 1.7 mi
17505 Bird In Hand, PA 1.8 mi
17602 Lancaster, PA 3.0 mi
17572 Ronks, PA 3.3 mi
17537 Lampeter, PA 4.0 mi
17540 Leola, PA 4.2 mi
17534 Intercourse, PA 4.5 mi
17529 Gordonville, PA 5.3 mi
17579 Strasburg, PA 5.4 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 17576?

17576 is in Smoketown, Pennsylvania, in Lancaster County, part of the Lancaster, PA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 40.0371, -76.1978.

What county is 17576 in?

17576 lies in Lancaster County.

What area code is 17576?

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

What time zone is 17576 in?

17576 uses America/New_York.

How many people live in 17576?

About 103 people live in ZIP code 17576, in 41 households, at 1,084.2 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 17576?

The closest are 17585 (1.1 mi), 17573 (1.7 mi), 17505 (1.8 mi), 17602 (3 mi) and 17572 (3.3 mi).

Is 17576 a PO Box ZIP code?

17576 is a standard ZIP code. A normal ZIP code with street delivery.

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