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19896

ZIP 19896 is in Wilmington, Delaware, in New Castle County; area code 302; Eastern time. Wilmington has 25 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
New Castle
Coordinates
39.5645, -75.5970

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 19706, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 19896 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 19896
  • 🔢 Type 19896 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: gGBGI — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 19,896 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 829. Its digits add up to 33, a total 456 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 100110110111000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 19895 (Wilmington, DE, 13 mi away) and 19897 (Wilmington, DE, 0 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 19896 becomes 69891, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 8 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (18969, 19968, 89169, 91896, 96819, 96918, …). The farthest-flung twin is 96918 in Umatac, GU, 7,948 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 53% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 86%.
  • 🎯1,219 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 19896 and you would come out at 39.56°S, 104.40°E — 829 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 58m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 22m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 19896

ZIPCityDistance
19712 Newark, DE 0.0 mi
19714 Newark, DE 0.0 mi
19715 Newark, DE 0.0 mi
19718 Newark, DE 0.0 mi
19721 New Castle, DE 0.0 mi
19725 Newark, DE 0.0 mi
19850 Wilmington, DE 0.0 mi
19880 Wilmington, DE 0.0 mi
19890 Wilmington, DE 0.0 mi
19891 Wilmington, DE 0.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 19896?

19896 is in Wilmington, Delaware, in New Castle County, part of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metropolitan area. Its published point location is 39.5645, -75.5970.

What county is 19896 in?

19896 lies in New Castle County.

What area code is 19896?

Wilmington uses area code 302, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 19896 in?

19896 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 19896?

The closest are 19712 (0 mi), 19714 (0 mi), 19715 (0 mi), 19718 (0 mi) and 19721 (0 mi).

Is 19896 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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