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27710

ZIP 27710 is in Durham, North Carolina, in Durham County; area codes 919 and 984; Eastern time. Durham has 16 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Durham
Coordinates
36.0512, -78.8577

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 27704, 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 27710
  • 🔢 Type 27710 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: OILLZ — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 27,710 = 2 × 5 × 17 × 163. Its digits add up to 17, a total 2,133 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 110110000111110
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 27709 (Durham, NC, 9 mi away) and 27711 (Durham, NC, 0 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 27710 becomes 01772 — and that is a real ZIP code: Southborough, MA, 583 miles away.
  • 👥 37 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (01772, 02717, 02771, 07712, 07721, 10277, …). The farthest-flung twin is 77021 in Houston, TX, 1,051 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 69% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 77%.
  • 🎯1,103 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 27710 and you would come out at 36.05°S, 101.14°E — 888 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 37m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 42m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments24This ZIP24
Employees12,859This ZIP12,859
Annual payroll$1,037,673,000This ZIP$1,037,673,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 27710

ZIPCityDistance
27702 Durham, NC 0.0 mi
27711 Durham, NC 0.0 mi
27715 Durham, NC 0.0 mi
27717 Durham, NC 0.0 mi
27704 Durham, NC 1.7 mi
27712 Durham, NC 4.0 mi
27701 Durham, NC 4.2 mi
27722 Durham, NC 4.6 mi
27708 Durham, NC 5.9 mi
27706 Durham, NC 6.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 27710?

27710 is in Durham, North Carolina, in Durham County, part of the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metropolitan area. Its published point location is 36.0512, -78.8577.

What county is 27710 in?

27710 lies in Durham County.

What area code is 27710?

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

What time zone is 27710 in?

27710 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 27710?

The closest are 27702 (0 mi), 27711 (0 mi), 27715 (0 mi), 27717 (0 mi) and 27704 (1.7 mi).

Is 27710 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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