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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/27515

27515

ZIP 27515 is in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in Orange County; area codes 919 and 984; Eastern time. Chapel Hill has 5 ZIP codes; the others are 27514, 27516, 27517 and 27599.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Orange
Coordinates
35.9132, -79.0558

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 27514, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 27515 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 27515
  • 🔢 Type 27515 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: SISLZ — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 27,515 = 5 × 5503. Its digits add up to 20, a total 2,586 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 110101101111011
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 27514 (Chapel Hill, NC, 4 mi away) and 27516 (Chapel Hill, NC, 6 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 27515 becomes 51572 — and that is a real ZIP code: Soldier, IA, 991 miles away.
  • 👥 31 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (12575, 15257, 15275, 15725, 15752, 17255, …). The farthest-flung twin is 57521 in Belvidere, SD, 1,288 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 70% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 76%.
  • 🎯1,096 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 27515 and you would come out at 35.91°S, 100.94°E — 897 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 36m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 43m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments16This ZIP16
Employees171This ZIP171
Annual payroll$7,907,000This ZIP$7,907,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 27515

ZIPCityDistance
27599 Chapel Hill, NC 0.7 mi
27510 Carrboro, NC 1.4 mi
27514 Chapel Hill, NC 3.7 mi
27517 Chapel Hill, NC 5.1 mi
27516 Chapel Hill, NC 5.6 mi
27707 Durham, NC 6.4 mi
27713 Durham, NC 7.0 mi
27706 Durham, NC 8.6 mi
27708 Durham, NC 8.7 mi
27705 Durham, NC 8.8 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 27515?

27515 is in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in Orange County, part of the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metropolitan area. Its published point location is 35.9132, -79.0558.

What county is 27515 in?

27515 lies in Orange County.

What area code is 27515?

Chapel Hill uses area codes 919 and 984, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 27515 in?

27515 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 27515?

The closest are 27599 (0.7 mi), 27510 (1.4 mi), 27514 (3.7 mi), 27517 (5.1 mi) and 27516 (5.6 mi).

Is 27515 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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