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32549

ZIP 32549 is in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, in Okaloosa County; area codes 850 and 448; Central time. Fort Walton Beach has 3 ZIP codes; the others are 32547 and 32548.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Okaloosa
Coordinates
30.4208, -86.6194

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 32548, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 32549 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 32549
  • 🔢 Type 32549 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: GhSZE — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 32,549 = 11 × 11 × 269. Its digits add up to 23, a total 2,533 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 111111100100101
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 32548 (Fort Walton Beach, FL, 2 mi away) and 32550 (Miramar Beach, FL, 17 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 32549 becomes 94523 — and that is a real ZIP code: Pleasant Hill, CA, 2,079 miles away.
  • 👥 48 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (23459, 23954, 24539, 24593, 24935, 25943, …). The farthest-flung twin is 95432 in Elk, CA, 2,169 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 92% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 52%.
  • 🎯936 miles southeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 32549 and you would come out at 30.42°S, 93.38°E — 1,281 miles from West Island, Cocos Islands, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 07m of daylight. Shortest: 10h 11m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments36This ZIP36
Employees198This ZIP198
Annual payroll$13,710,000This ZIP$13,710,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 32549

ZIPCityDistance
32548 Fort Walton Beach, FL 1.9 mi
32579 Shalimar, FL 3.2 mi
32547 Fort Walton Beach, FL 3.7 mi
32544 Hurlburt Field, FL 6.0 mi
32569 Mary Esther, FL 6.5 mi
32542 Eglin Afb, FL 7.6 mi
32540 Destin, FL 7.6 mi
32541 Destin, FL 8.6 mi
32580 Valparaiso, FL 8.6 mi
32578 Niceville, FL 11.8 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 32549?

32549 is in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, in Okaloosa County, part of the Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL metropolitan area. Its published point location is 30.4208, -86.6194.

What county is 32549 in?

32549 lies in Okaloosa County.

What area code is 32549?

Fort Walton Beach uses area codes 850 and 448, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 32549 in?

32549 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 32549?

The closest are 32548 (1.9 mi), 32579 (3.2 mi), 32547 (3.7 mi), 32544 (6 mi) and 32569 (6.5 mi).

Is 32549 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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