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28802

ZIP 28802 is in Asheville, North Carolina, in Buncombe County; area code 828; Eastern time. Asheville has 11 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Buncombe
Metro area
Asheville, NC
Coordinates
35.6237, -82.6671

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 28748, 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 28802
  • 🔢 Type 28802 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZOBBZ — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 28,802 = 2 × 14401. Its digits add up to 20, a total 2,586 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 111000010000010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 28801 (Asheville, NC, 6 mi away) and 28803 (Asheville, NC, 10 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 28802 becomes 20882 — and that is a real ZIP code: Gaithersburg, MD, 391 miles away.
  • 👥 13 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02828, 02882, 08822, 20882, 28082, 28208, …). The farthest-flung twin is 88022 in Arenas Valley, NM, 1,467 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 71% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 64%.
  • 🎯915 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 28802 and you would come out at 35.62°S, 97.33°E — 1,092 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 34m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 45m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments33This ZIP33
Employees171This ZIP171
Annual payroll$16,628,000This ZIP$16,628,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 28802

ZIPCityDistance
28806 Asheville, NC 4.7 mi
28748 Leicester, NC 5.7 mi
28701 Alexander, NC 5.9 mi
28804 Asheville, NC 6.3 mi
28801 Asheville, NC 6.5 mi
28810 Asheville, NC 7.8 mi
28815 Asheville, NC 7.8 mi
28816 Asheville, NC 7.8 mi
28715 Candler, NC 8.1 mi
28728 Enka, NC 8.9 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 28802?

28802 is in Asheville, North Carolina, in Buncombe County, part of the Asheville, NC metropolitan area. Its published point location is 35.6237, -82.6671.

What county is 28802 in?

28802 lies in Buncombe County.

What area code is 28802?

Asheville uses area code 828, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 28802 in?

28802 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 28802?

The closest are 28806 (4.7 mi), 28748 (5.7 mi), 28701 (5.9 mi), 28804 (6.3 mi) and 28801 (6.5 mi).

Is 28802 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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