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33846

ZIP 33846 is Highland City, Florida, in Polk County; area code 863; Eastern time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Polk
Coordinates
27.9647, -81.8672

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 33812, 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 33846
  • 🔢 Type 33846 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ghBEE — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 33,846 = 2 × 3 × 5641. Its digits add up to 24, a total 2,425 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1000010000110110
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 33845 (Haines City, FL, 15 mi away) and 33847 (Homeland, FL, 12 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 33846 becomes 64833 — and that is a real ZIP code: Avilla, MO, 956 miles away.
  • 👥 32 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (33468, 33486, 33684, 34638, 34683, 36483, …). The farthest-flung twin is 83643 in Mesa, ID, 2,220 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 96% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 67%.
  • 🎯1,257 miles southeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 33846 and you would come out at 27.96°S, 98.13°E — 1,095 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 13h 55m of daylight. Shortest: 10h 22m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments18This ZIP18
Employees162This ZIP162
Annual payroll$7,144,000This ZIP$7,144,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 33846

ZIPCityDistance
33812 Lakeland, FL 1.7 mi
33813 Lakeland, FL 3.8 mi
33840 Eaton Park, FL 3.8 mi
33831 Bartow, FL 4.9 mi
33803 Lakeland, FL 5.3 mi
33801 Lakeland, FL 5.3 mi
33880 Winter Haven, FL 5.8 mi
33830 Bartow, FL 6.6 mi
33839 Eagle Lake, FL 6.9 mi
33804 Lakeland, FL 7.2 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 33846?

33846 is in Highland City, Florida, in Polk County, part of the Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL metropolitan area. Its published point location is 27.9647, -81.8672.

What county is 33846 in?

33846 lies in Polk County.

What area code is 33846?

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

What time zone is 33846 in?

33846 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 33846?

The closest are 33812 (1.7 mi), 33813 (3.8 mi), 33840 (3.8 mi), 33831 (4.9 mi) and 33803 (5.3 mi).

Is 33846 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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