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28288

ZIP 28288 is in Charlotte, North Carolina, in Mecklenburg County; area codes 704 and 980; Eastern time. Charlotte has 74 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Mecklenburg
Coordinates
35.2271, -80.8431

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 28280, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 28288 is

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 28288
  • 🔢 Type 28288 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: BBZBZ — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 28,288 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 13 × 17. Its digits add up to 28, a total 1,520 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 110111010000000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 28287 (Charlotte, NC, 3 mi away) and 28289 (Charlotte, NC, 0 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 28288 becomes 88282, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 73% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 71%.
  • 🎯1,020 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 28288 and you would come out at 35.23°S, 99.16°E — 986 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 32m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 47m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments4This ZIP4
Employees10This ZIP10
Annual payroll$532,000This ZIP$532,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 28288

ZIPCityDistance
28233 Charlotte, NC 0.0 mi
28236 Charlotte, NC 0.0 mi
28241 Charlotte, NC 0.0 mi
28243 Charlotte, NC 0.0 mi
28250 Charlotte, NC 0.0 mi
28260 Charlotte, NC 0.0 mi
28265 Charlotte, NC 0.0 mi
28266 Charlotte, NC 0.0 mi
28272 Charlotte, NC 0.0 mi
28275 Charlotte, NC 0.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 28288?

28288 is in Charlotte, North Carolina, in Mecklenburg County, part of the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metropolitan area. Its published point location is 35.2271, -80.8431.

What county is 28288 in?

28288 lies in Mecklenburg County.

What area code is 28288?

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

What time zone is 28288 in?

28288 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 28288?

The closest are 28233 (0 mi), 28236 (0 mi), 28241 (0 mi), 28243 (0 mi) and 28250 (0 mi).

Is 28288 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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