Every ZIP code in the United States, with weather, radar, trivia and the numbers behind it. Five digits since 1963!

ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The codes went live on July 1, 1963.The lowest ZIP code is 00501 — the IRS in Holtsville, New York.The highest ZIP code is 99950, in Ketchikan, Alaska.Type 07734 into a calculator and turn it upside down: hELLO. It is Keansburg, New Jersey.12345 belongs to one company: General Electric in Schenectady, New York.The first digit is a region: 0 is New England and New Jersey, 9 is the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii.Mr. ZIP, the cartoon mailman, was the mascot that sold the idea to America.ZIP+4 arrived in 1983 and can narrow a ZIP down to one side of one block.A ZIP code is a mail route, not a place: plenty of them cross county and even state lines.Play ZIP Hunt: guess the secret ZIP code of the day in six tries.
zipcodes.pro — ZIP/29608

29608

ZIP 29608 is in Greenville, South Carolina, in Greenville County; area codes 864 and 821; Eastern time. Greenville has 17 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Greenville
Coordinates
34.8497, -82.4538

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 29611, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

☼ Live from 29608 — Greenville, SC

Weather right now

Asking the National Weather Service…

NEXRAD radar
Finding the nearest radar…
Local time: —

Where 29608 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 29608
  • 🔢 Type 29608 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: BOgGZ — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 29,608 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3701. Its digits add up to 25, a total 2,242 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 111001110101000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 29607 (Greenville, SC, 8 mi away) and 29609 (Greenville, SC, 6 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 29608 becomes 80692, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 42 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02896, 06829, 08629, 09628, 09682, 09826, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09682 in APO AE, a military post office, 7,197 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 75% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 65%.
  • 🎯949 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 29608 and you would come out at 34.85°S, 97.55°E — 1,074 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 30m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 49m.
🌙 The sky over 29608 today
  • Working out the sun…
🌋 Shake report
  • Checking the USGS…

Source: USGS.

Business and tax activity

Business establishments19This ZIP19
Employees74This ZIP74
Annual payroll$2,983,000This ZIP$2,983,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 29608

ZIPCityDistance
29604 Greenville, SC 0.0 mi
29606 Greenville, SC 0.0 mi
29610 Greenville, SC 0.0 mi
29612 Greenville, SC 0.0 mi
29611 Greenville, SC 1.3 mi
29601 Greenville, SC 2.9 mi
29616 Greenville, SC 3.4 mi
29617 Greenville, SC 4.5 mi
29602 Greenville, SC 4.7 mi
29603 Greenville, SC 4.7 mi

Find every ZIP code within 10 miles of 29608 →

Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 29608?

29608 is in Greenville, South Carolina, in Greenville County, part of the Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC metropolitan area. Its published point location is 34.8497, -82.4538.

What county is 29608 in?

29608 lies in Greenville County.

What area code is 29608?

Greenville uses area codes 864 and 821, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 29608 in?

29608 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 29608?

The closest are 29604 (0 mi), 29606 (0 mi), 29610 (0 mi), 29612 (0 mi) and 29611 (1.3 mi).

Is 29608 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.

Download or cite

Cite this page

zipcodes.pro. “29608 ZIP Code — Greenville, South Carolina (Greenville County).” Data release 2026-10-12. Retrieved 2026-10-20. https://zipcodes.pro/zip/29608

Machine-readable version of these facts:

curl https://zipcodes.pro/zip/29608.json

Underlying data is public domain or openly licensed — sources, vintages and licences.