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27802

ZIP 27802 is in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, in Edgecombe County; area code 252; Eastern time. Rocky Mount has 5 ZIP codes; the others are 27801, 27803, 27804 and 27815.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Edgecombe
Metro area
Rocky Mount, NC
Coordinates
35.9356, -77.7808

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 27801, 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 27802
  • 🔢 Type 27802 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZOBLZ — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 27,802 = 2 × 13901. Its digits add up to 19, a total 2,454 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 110110010011010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 27801 (Rocky Mount, NC, 3 mi away) and 27803 (Rocky Mount, NC, 5 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 27802 becomes 20872 — and that is a real ZIP code: Damascus, MD, 235 miles away.
  • 👥 30 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02827, 02872, 07822, 08722, 20782, 20827, …). The farthest-flung twin is 87022 in Isleta, NM, 1,624 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 70% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 79%.
  • 🎯1,163 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 27802 and you would come out at 35.94°S, 102.22°E — 828 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 establishments35This ZIP35
Employees835This ZIP835
Annual payroll$43,666,000This ZIP$43,666,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 27802

ZIPCityDistance
27801 Rocky Mount, NC 3.4 mi
27803 Rocky Mount, NC 4.9 mi
27815 Rocky Mount, NC 5.0 mi
27804 Rocky Mount, NC 5.1 mi
27878 Sharpsburg, NC 5.6 mi
27809 Battleboro, NC 6.0 mi
27822 Elm City, NC 9.5 mi
27868 Red Oak, NC 11.0 mi
27891 Whitakers, NC 11.4 mi
27864 Pinetops, NC 11.9 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 27802?

27802 is in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, in Edgecombe County, part of the Rocky Mount, NC metropolitan area. Its published point location is 35.9356, -77.7808.

What county is 27802 in?

27802 lies in Edgecombe County.

What area code is 27802?

Rocky Mount uses area code 252, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 27802 in?

27802 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 27802?

The closest are 27801 (3.4 mi), 27803 (4.9 mi), 27815 (5 mi), 27804 (5.1 mi) and 27878 (5.6 mi).

Is 27802 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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