Every ZIP code in the United States, with weather, radar, trivia and the numbers behind it. Five digits since 1963!

ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The codes went live on July 1, 1963.The lowest ZIP code is 00501 — the IRS in Holtsville, New York.The highest ZIP code is 99950, in Ketchikan, Alaska.Type 07734 into a calculator and turn it upside down: hELLO. It is Keansburg, New Jersey.12345 belongs to one company: General Electric in Schenectady, New York.The first digit is a region: 0 is New England and New Jersey, 9 is the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii.Mr. ZIP, the cartoon mailman, was the mascot that sold the idea to America.ZIP+4 arrived in 1983 and can narrow a ZIP down to one side of one block.A ZIP code is a mail route, not a place: plenty of them cross county and even state lines.Play ZIP Hunt: guess the secret ZIP code of the day in six tries.
zipcodes.pro — ZIP/27517

27517

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

Type
Standard
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Chatham +2 more
Population
29,564
Coordinates
35.8427, -79.0320
☼ Live from 27517 — Chapel Hill, NC

Weather right now

Asking the National Weather Service…

NEXRAD radar
Finding the nearest radar…
Local time: —

Where 27517 is

Approximate ZIP boundary (Census ZCTA 2020). ZIP codes are mail routes, not areas, so the shape shown is the Census tabulation area that approximates it.

★ Weird and wonderful facts about 27517
  • 🔢 Type 27517 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: LISLZ — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 27,517 = 7 × 3931. Its digits add up to 22, a total 2,607 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 110101101111101
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 27516 (Chapel Hill, NC, 8 mi away) and 27518 (Cary, NC, 16 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 27517 becomes 71572, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 37 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (12577, 12775, 15277, 15727, 15772, 17257, …). The farthest-flung twin is 57217 in Bradley, SD, 1,165 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 70% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 76%.
  • 🎯1,099 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 27517 and you would come out at 35.84°S, 100.97°E — 894 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 35m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 43m.
  • 📏 At 46.0 square miles of land, 27517 is bigger than 57% of ZIP codes — room for about 35 Central Parks.
🌙 The sky over 27517 today
  • Working out the sun…
🌋 Shake report
  • Checking the USGS…

Source: USGS.

People and housing

Population29,564This ZIP29,564
Households12,608This ZIP12,608
Housing units13,437This ZIP13,437
Median age43.4This ZIP43.4North Carolina39.1US 38.9
Median household income$128,683This ZIP$128,683North Carolina$72,388US $80,734
Median home value$608,100This ZIP$608,100North Carolina$288,900US $332,700
Median gross rent$1,638This ZIP$1,638North Carolina$1,228US $1,413
Bachelor's degree or higher74.1%This ZIP74.1%
Mean commute21.2 minThis ZIP21.2 min
Population density642.5 / sq miThis ZIP642.5 / sq mi

Business and tax activity

Business establishments793This ZIP793
Employees8,767This ZIP8,767
Annual payroll$586,170,000This ZIP$586,170,000
Tax returns filed14,480This ZIP14,480
Total adjusted gross income$2,781,539,000This ZIP$2,781,539,000

Land area

Land area46.01 sq miThis ZIP46.01 sq mi
Water area4.19 sq miThis ZIP4.19 sq mi

Counties 27517 spans

A ZIP code is a mail route and ignores county lines. Shares are by overlapping land area.

CountyShare of this ZIP
Chatham County 57.9%
Orange County 23.3%
Durham County 18.8%

Other place names in 27517

Census places whose land this ZIP code overlaps. The Postal Service may accept other city names in an address, too.

ZIP codes near 27517

ZIPCityDistance
27599 Chapel Hill, NC 4.4 mi
27515 Chapel Hill, NC 5.1 mi
27510 Carrboro, NC 5.4 mi
27713 Durham, NC 6.1 mi
27523 Apex, NC 6.4 mi
27228 Bynum, NC 6.8 mi
27516 Chapel Hill, NC 8.2 mi
27519 Cary, NC 8.5 mi
27514 Chapel Hill, NC 8.6 mi
27707 Durham, NC 8.9 mi

Find every ZIP code within 10 miles of 27517 →

Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 27517?

27517 is in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in Chatham County, part of the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metropolitan area. Its published point location is 35.8427, -79.0320.

What county is 27517 in?

27517 spans 3 counties: Chatham County, Orange County and Durham County. Most of it falls in Chatham County, measured by overlapping land area — the county holding the most land in a ZIP code is not always the one holding the most residents.

What area code is 27517?

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

What time zone is 27517 in?

27517 uses America/New_York.

How many people live in 27517?

About 29,564 people live in ZIP code 27517, in 12,608 households, at 642.5 people per square mile. These are American Community Survey 5-year estimates for the ZIP Code Tabulation Area, not a headcount.

What is the median household income in 27517?

$128,683 a year, against $72,388 across North Carolina.

What ZIP codes are near 27517?

The closest are 27599 (4.4 mi), 27515 (5.1 mi), 27510 (5.4 mi), 27713 (6.1 mi) and 27523 (6.4 mi).

Is 27517 a PO Box ZIP code?

27517 is a standard ZIP code. A normal ZIP code with street delivery.

Download or cite

Cite this page

zipcodes.pro. “27517 ZIP Code — Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Chatham County).” Data release 2026-10-12. Retrieved 2026-10-20. https://zipcodes.pro/zip/27517

Machine-readable version of these facts:

curl https://zipcodes.pro/zip/27517.json

Underlying data is public domain or openly licensed — sources, vintages and licences.