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18502

ZIP 18502 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
Coordinates
41.4092, -75.6649

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 18503, 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 18502
  • 🔢 Type 18502 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZOSBI — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 18,502 = 2 × 11 × 29 × 29. Its digits add up to 16, a total 1,922 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 100100001000110
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 18501 (Scranton, PA, 2 mi away) and 18503 (Scranton, PA, 0 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 18502 becomes 20581 — and that is a real ZIP code: Washington, DC, 188 miles away.
  • 👥 65 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (01258, 01825, 01852, 02185, 02815, 05821, …). The farthest-flung twin is 85012 in Phoenix, AZ, 2,053 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 70% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 86%.
  • 🎯1,203 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 18502 and you would come out at 41.41°S, 104.34°E — 912 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 and tax activity

Business establishments5This ZIP5
Employees13This ZIP13
Annual payroll$253,000This ZIP$253,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 18502

ZIPCityDistance
18503 Scranton, PA 0.2 mi
18510 Scranton, PA 1.1 mi
18501 Scranton, PA 1.5 mi
18540 Scranton, PA 1.5 mi
18577 Scranton, PA 1.5 mi
18505 Scranton, PA 1.7 mi
18509 Scranton, PA 1.9 mi
18515 Scranton, PA 2.2 mi
18504 Scranton, PA 2.3 mi
18517 Taylor, PA 2.8 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 18502?

18502 is in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in Lackawanna County, part of the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 41.4092, -75.6649.

What county is 18502 in?

18502 lies in Lackawanna County.

What area code is 18502?

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

What time zone is 18502 in?

18502 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 18502?

The closest are 18503 (0.2 mi), 18510 (1.1 mi), 18501 (1.5 mi), 18540 (1.5 mi) and 18577 (1.5 mi).

Is 18502 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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