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/33809

33809

ZIP 33809 is in Lakeland, Florida, mostly in Polk County; area code 863; Eastern time. Lakeland has 13 ZIP codes in all.

Type
Standard
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Polk +1 more
Population
30,797
Coordinates
28.2024, -81.9556
☼ Live from 33809 — Lakeland, FL

Weather right now

Asking the National Weather Service…

NEXRAD radar
Finding the nearest radar…
Local time: —

Where 33809 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 33809
  • 🔢 Type 33809 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: GOBEE — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ 33809 is a prime number. It cannot be divided by anything except 1 and itself. Its digits add up to 23, a total 2,533 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1000010000010001
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 33807 (Lakeland, FL, 11 mi away) and 33810 (Lakeland, FL, 7 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 33809 becomes 90833 — and that is a real ZIP code: Long Beach, CA, 2,170 miles away.
  • 👥 20 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (03839, 08933, 09833, 30398, 33890, 33908, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09833 in APO AE, a military post office, 6,709 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 96% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 67%.
  • 🎯1,242 miles southeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 33809 and you would come out at 28.20°S, 98.04°E — 1,095 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 13h 56m of daylight. Shortest: 10h 21m.
  • 📏 At 65.9 square miles of land, 33809 is bigger than 67% of ZIP codes — room for about 50 Central Parks.
🌙 The sky over 33809 today
  • Working out the sun…
🌋 Shake report
  • Checking the USGS…

Source: USGS.

People and housing

Population30,797This ZIP30,797
Households11,684This ZIP11,684
Housing units12,823This ZIP12,823
Median age42.3This ZIP42.3Florida42.6US 38.9
Median household income$70,066This ZIP$70,066Florida$74,568US $80,734
Median home value$292,000This ZIP$292,000Florida$359,000US $332,700
Median gross rent$1,510This ZIP$1,510Florida$1,669US $1,413
Bachelor's degree or higher27.3%This ZIP27.3%
Mean commute27.1 minThis ZIP27.1 min
Population density467.6 / sq miThis ZIP467.6 / sq mi

Business and tax activity

Business establishments706This ZIP706
Employees10,318This ZIP10,318
Annual payroll$346,442,000This ZIP$346,442,000
Tax returns filed14,900This ZIP14,900
Total adjusted gross income$955,335,000This ZIP$955,335,000

Land area

Land area65.86 sq miThis ZIP65.86 sq mi
Water area1.40 sq miThis ZIP1.40 sq mi

Counties 33809 spans

A ZIP code is a mail route and ignores county lines. Shares are by overlapping land area.

CountyShare of this ZIP
Polk County 99.8%
Pasco County 0.2%

Other place names in 33809

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

ZIP codes near 33809

ZIPCityDistance
33849 Kathleen, FL 7.1 mi
33810 Lakeland, FL 7.1 mi
33868 Polk City, FL 7.7 mi
33805 Lakeland, FL 7.7 mi
33804 Lakeland, FL 11.3 mi
33806 Lakeland, FL 11.3 mi
33807 Lakeland, FL 11.3 mi
33815 Lakeland, FL 11.4 mi
33540 Zephyrhills, FL 11.6 mi
33823 Auburndale, FL 11.8 mi

Find every ZIP code within 10 miles of 33809 →

Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 33809?

33809 is in Lakeland, Florida, in Polk County, part of the Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL metropolitan area. Its published point location is 28.2024, -81.9556.

What county is 33809 in?

33809 spans 2 counties: Polk County and Pasco County. Most of it falls in Polk County, measured by overlapping land area — the county holding the most land in a ZIP code is not always the one holding the most residents.

What area code is 33809?

Lakeland uses area code 863, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 33809 in?

33809 uses America/New_York.

How many people live in 33809?

About 30,797 people live in ZIP code 33809, in 11,684 households, at 467.6 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 33809?

$70,066 a year, against $74,568 across Florida.

What ZIP codes are near 33809?

The closest are 33849 (7.1 mi), 33810 (7.1 mi), 33868 (7.7 mi), 33805 (7.7 mi) and 33804 (11.3 mi).

Is 33809 a PO Box ZIP code?

33809 is a standard ZIP code. A normal ZIP code with street delivery.

Download or cite

Cite this page

zipcodes.pro. “33809 ZIP Code — Lakeland, Florida (Polk County).” Data release 2026-10-12. Retrieved 2026-10-20. https://zipcodes.pro/zip/33809

Machine-readable version of these facts:

curl https://zipcodes.pro/zip/33809.json

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