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28082

ZIP 28082 is in Kannapolis, North Carolina, in Cabarrus County; area codes 704 and 980; Eastern time. Kannapolis has 3 ZIP codes; the others are 28081 and 28083.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Cabarrus
Coordinates
35.3463, -80.5411

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 28025, 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 28082
  • 🔢 Type 28082 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZBOBZ — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ⇆28082 reads the same backwards. It is one of only 412 palindromic ZIP codes.
  • ➕ As a number, 28,082 = 2 × 19 × 739. Its digits add up to 20, a total 2,586 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 110110110110010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 28081 (Kannapolis, NC, 13 mi away) and 28083 (Kannapolis, NC, 10 mi away).
  • 👥 13 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02828, 02882, 08822, 20882, 28208, 28280, …). The farthest-flung twin is 88022 in Arenas Valley, NM, 1,587 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 72% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 72%.
  • 🎯1,033 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 28082 and you would come out at 35.35°S, 99.46°E — 971 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 33m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 46m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments14This ZIP14
Employees109This ZIP109
Annual payroll$6,514,000This ZIP$6,514,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 28082

ZIPCityDistance
28026 Concord, NC 0.0 mi
28025 Concord, NC 2.7 mi
28075 Harrisburg, NC 6.3 mi
28107 Midland, NC 6.6 mi
28124 Mount Pleasant, NC 8.4 mi
28027 Concord, NC 8.9 mi
28097 Locust, NC 9.0 mi
28083 Kannapolis, NC 10.3 mi
28126 Newell, NC 11.0 mi
28223 Charlotte, NC 11.1 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 28082?

28082 is in Kannapolis, North Carolina, in Cabarrus County, part of the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metropolitan area. Its published point location is 35.3463, -80.5411.

What county is 28082 in?

28082 lies in Cabarrus County.

What area code is 28082?

Kannapolis uses area codes 704 and 980, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 28082 in?

28082 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 28082?

The closest are 28026 (0 mi), 28025 (2.7 mi), 28075 (6.3 mi), 28107 (6.6 mi) and 28124 (8.4 mi).

Is 28082 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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