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18515

ZIP 18515 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
41.4035, -75.7065

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 18517, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 18515 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 18515
  • 🔢 Type 18515 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: SISBI — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 18,515 = 5 × 7 × 23 × 23. Its digits add up to 20, a total 2,586 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 100100001010011
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 18512 (Scranton, PA, 6 mi away) and 18517 (Taylor, PA, 1 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 18515 becomes 51581, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 5 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (11558, 15851, 55118, 55811, 81155). The farthest-flung twin is 81155 in Villa Grove, CO, 1,616 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 70% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 86%.
  • 🎯1,201 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 18515 and you would come out at 41.40°S, 104.29°E — 913 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 establishments3This ZIP3
Employees734This ZIP734
Annual payroll$37,602,000This ZIP$37,602,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 18515

ZIPCityDistance
18517 Taylor, PA 0.7 mi
18504 Scranton, PA 1.4 mi
18503 Scranton, PA 2.1 mi
18502 Scranton, PA 2.2 mi
18518 Old Forge, PA 2.6 mi
18505 Scranton, PA 3.2 mi
18510 Scranton, PA 3.3 mi
18507 Moosic, PA 3.3 mi
18501 Scranton, PA 3.6 mi
18540 Scranton, PA 3.6 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 18515?

18515 is in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in Lackawanna County, part of the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 41.4035, -75.7065.

What county is 18515 in?

18515 lies in Lackawanna County.

What area code is 18515?

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

What time zone is 18515 in?

18515 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 18515?

The closest are 18517 (0.7 mi), 18504 (1.4 mi), 18503 (2.1 mi), 18502 (2.2 mi) and 18518 (2.6 mi).

Is 18515 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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