18501

ZIP 18501 is in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in Lackawanna County; area codes 570 and 272; Eastern time. Scranton has 13 ZIP codes in all.

Type: No street area
Time zone: America/New_York
County: Lackawanna
Metro area: Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA
Coordinates: 41.4019, -75.6376

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 18510, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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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 18501

🔢 Type 18501 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: IOSBI — not quite a word, sorry.
➕ As a number, 18,501 = 3 × 7 × 881. Its digits add up to 15, a total 1,657 other ZIP codes share.
💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 100100001000101
🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 18473 (White Mills, PA, 24 mi away) and 18502 (Scranton, PA, 2 mi away).
🔄 Backwards, 18501 becomes 10581, which is not a ZIP code at all.
👥 25 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (01518, 01581, 01815, 01851, 08511, 10158, …). The farthest-flung twin is 85011 in Phoenix, AZ, 2,057 miles away.
🧭 Farther north than 70% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 86%.
🎯1,205 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 18501 and you would come out at 41.40°S, 104.36°E — 911 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
☀Longest day of the year: 15h 10m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 11m.

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Business establishments	16This ZIP16
Employees	707This ZIP707
Annual payroll	$37,023,000This ZIP$37,023,000

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ZIP codes near 18501

ZIP	City	Distance
`18540`	Scranton, PA	0.0 mi
`18577`	Scranton, PA	0.0 mi
`18510`	Scranton, PA	0.5 mi
`18505`	Scranton, PA	1.1 mi
`18502`	Scranton, PA	1.5 mi
`18503`	Scranton, PA	1.7 mi
`18509`	Scranton, PA	2.0 mi
`18512`	Scranton, PA	2.9 mi
`18515`	Scranton, PA	3.6 mi
`18507`	Moosic, PA	3.7 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 18501?

18501 is in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in Lackawanna County, part of the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 41.4019, -75.6376.

What county is 18501 in?

18501 lies in Lackawanna County.

What area code is 18501?

Scranton uses area codes 570 and 272, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 18501 in?

18501 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 18501?

The closest are 18540 (0 mi), 18577 (0 mi), 18510 (0.5 mi), 18505 (1.1 mi) and 18502 (1.5 mi).

Is 18501 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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