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27809

ZIP 27809 is Battleboro, North Carolina, mostly in Edgecombe County; area code 252; Eastern time.

Type
Standard
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Edgecombe +1 more
Metro area
Rocky Mount, NC
Population
3,930
Coordinates
36.0168, -77.7416
☼ Live from 27809 — Battleboro, NC

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Where 27809 is

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★ Weird and wonderful facts about 27809
  • 🔢 Type 27809 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: GOBLZ — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ 27809 is a prime number. It cannot be divided by anything except 1 and itself. Its digits add up to 26, a total 2,038 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 110110010100001
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 27808 (Bath, NC, 67 mi away) and 27810 (Belhaven, NC, 76 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 27809 becomes 90872, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 41 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02879, 07829, 07928, 09728, 09827, 20879, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09827 in APO AE, a military post office, 5,378 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 69% 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 27809 and you would come out at 36.02°S, 102.26°E — 827 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 36m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 42m.
  • 📏 At 76.8 square miles of land, 27809 is bigger than 71% of ZIP codes — room for about 58 Central Parks.
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People and housing

Population3,930This ZIP3,930
Households1,635This ZIP1,635
Housing units1,753This ZIP1,753
Median age47.3This ZIP47.3North Carolina39.1US 38.9
Median household income$88,750This ZIP$88,750North Carolina$72,388US $80,734
Median home value$152,500This ZIP$152,500North Carolina$288,900US $332,700
Median gross rent$686This ZIP$686North Carolina$1,228US $1,413
Bachelor's degree or higher20.0%This ZIP20.0%
Mean commute20.8 minThis ZIP20.8 min
Population density51.2 / sq miThis ZIP51.2 / sq mi

Business and tax activity

Business establishments82This ZIP82
Employees1,881This ZIP1,881
Annual payroll$107,492,000This ZIP$107,492,000
Tax returns filed2,070This ZIP2,070
Total adjusted gross income$146,404,000This ZIP$146,404,000

Land area

Land area76.81 sq miThis ZIP76.81 sq mi
Water area0.24 sq miThis ZIP0.24 sq mi

Counties 27809 spans

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

CountyShare of this ZIP
Edgecombe County 62.9%
Nash County 37.1%

Other place names in 27809

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

ZIP codes near 27809

ZIPCityDistance
27891 Whitakers, NC 5.6 mi
27804 Rocky Mount, NC 6.0 mi
27802 Rocky Mount, NC 6.0 mi
27815 Rocky Mount, NC 6.9 mi
27801 Rocky Mount, NC 7.2 mi
27868 Red Oak, NC 9.9 mi
27803 Rocky Mount, NC 10.6 mi
27878 Sharpsburg, NC 11.5 mi
27856 Nashville, NC 13.4 mi
27823 Enfield, NC 13.4 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 27809?

27809 is in Battleboro, North Carolina, in Edgecombe County, part of the Rocky Mount, NC metropolitan area. Its published point location is 36.0168, -77.7416.

What county is 27809 in?

27809 spans 2 counties: Edgecombe County and Nash County. Most of it falls in Edgecombe 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 27809?

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

What time zone is 27809 in?

27809 uses America/New_York.

How many people live in 27809?

About 3,930 people live in ZIP code 27809, in 1,635 households, at 51.2 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 27809?

$88,750 a year, against $72,388 across North Carolina.

What ZIP codes are near 27809?

The closest are 27891 (5.6 mi), 27804 (6 mi), 27802 (6 mi), 27815 (6.9 mi) and 27801 (7.2 mi).

Is 27809 a PO Box ZIP code?

27809 is a standard ZIP code. A normal ZIP code with street delivery.

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