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/30297

30297

ZIP 30297 is in Forest Park, Georgia, in Clayton County; area codes 404, 770, 678, 470 and 943; Eastern time. Forest Park has 2 ZIP codes; the other is 30298.

Type
Standard
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Clayton
Population
29,210
Coordinates
33.6150, -84.3717
☼ Live from 30297 — Forest Park, GA

Weather right now

Asking the National Weather Service…

NEXRAD radar
Finding the nearest radar…
Local time: —

Where 30297 is

Approximate ZIP boundary (Census ZCTA 2020). ZIP codes are mail routes, not areas, so the shape shown is the Census tabulation area that approximates it.

★ Weird and wonderful facts about 30297
  • 🔢 Type 30297 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: LGZOE — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 30,297 = 3 × 10099. Its digits add up to 21, a total 2,594 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 111011001011001
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 30296 (Riverdale, GA, 5 mi away) and 30298 (Forest Park, GA, 8 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 30297 becomes 79203, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 52 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02379, 02739, 03279, 07932, 09237, 09723, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09723 in APO AE, a military post office, 4,831 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 82% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 59%.
  • 🎯895 miles southeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 30297 and you would come out at 33.61°S, 95.63°E — 1,179 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 23m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 55m.
  • 📏 At 11.0 square miles of land, 30297 is bigger than 28% of ZIP codes — room for about 8.3 Central Parks.
🌙 The sky over 30297 today
  • Working out the sun…
🌋 Shake report
  • Checking the USGS…

Source: USGS.

People and housing

Population29,210This ZIP29,210
Households9,977This ZIP9,977
Housing units11,050This ZIP11,050
Median age31.0This ZIP31.0Georgia37.6US 38.9
Median household income$45,124This ZIP$45,124Georgia$77,353US $80,734
Median home value$152,900This ZIP$152,900Georgia$303,300US $332,700
Median gross rent$1,254This ZIP$1,254Georgia$1,393US $1,413
Bachelor's degree or higher13.3%This ZIP13.3%
Mean commute30.1 minThis ZIP30.1 min
Population density2,666.4 / sq miThis ZIP2,666.4 / sq mi

Business and tax activity

Business establishments710This ZIP710
Employees17,249This ZIP17,249
Annual payroll$1,054,386,000This ZIP$1,054,386,000
Tax returns filed11,530This ZIP11,530
Total adjusted gross income$369,008,000This ZIP$369,008,000

Land area

Land area10.96 sq miThis ZIP10.96 sq mi
Water area0.05 sq miThis ZIP0.05 sq mi

Other place names in 30297

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

ZIP codes near 30297

ZIPCityDistance
30260 Morrow, GA 2.9 mi
30354 Atlanta, GA 3.2 mi
30288 Conley, GA 3.7 mi
30320 Atlanta, GA 4.2 mi
30274 Riverdale, GA 4.3 mi
30337 Atlanta, GA 4.8 mi
30296 Riverdale, GA 5.4 mi
30315 Atlanta, GA 6.1 mi
30273 Rex, GA 6.2 mi
30294 Ellenwood, GA 6.3 mi

Find every ZIP code within 10 miles of 30297 →

Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 30297?

30297 is in Forest Park, Georgia, in Clayton County, part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 33.6150, -84.3717.

What county is 30297 in?

30297 lies in Clayton County.

What area code is 30297?

Forest Park uses area codes 404, 770, 678, 470 and 943, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 30297 in?

30297 uses America/New_York.

How many people live in 30297?

About 29,210 people live in ZIP code 30297, in 9,977 households, at 2,666.4 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 30297?

$45,124 a year, against $77,353 across Georgia.

What ZIP codes are near 30297?

The closest are 30260 (2.9 mi), 30354 (3.2 mi), 30288 (3.7 mi), 30320 (4.2 mi) and 30274 (4.3 mi).

Is 30297 a PO Box ZIP code?

30297 is a standard ZIP code. A normal ZIP code with street delivery.

Download or cite

Cite this page

zipcodes.pro. “30297 ZIP Code — Forest Park, Georgia (Clayton County).” Data release 2026-10-12. Retrieved 2026-10-20. https://zipcodes.pro/zip/30297

Machine-readable version of these facts:

curl https://zipcodes.pro/zip/30297.json

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