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40071

ZIP 40071 is Taylorsville, Kentucky, mostly in Spencer County; area code 502; Eastern time.

Type
Standard
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Spencer +2 more
Population
17,239
Coordinates
38.0429, -85.3788
☼ Live from 40071 — Taylorsville, KY

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Where 40071 is

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★ Weird and wonderful facts about 40071
  • 🔢 Type 40071 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ILOOh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 40,071 = 3 × 19 × 19 × 37. Its digits add up to 12, a total 940 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1001110010000111
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 40070 (Sulphur, KY, 31 mi away) and 40075 (Turners Station, KY, 39 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 40071 becomes 17004 — and that is a real ZIP code: Belleville, PA, 445 miles away.
  • 👥 31 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (00714, 00741, 01074, 01470, 01704, 01740, …). The farthest-flung twin is 00741 in Punta Santiago, PR, 1,813 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 58% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 56%.
  • 🎯719 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 40071 and you would come out at 38.04°S, 94.62°E — 1,270 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 48m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 31m.
  • 📏 At 121.3 square miles of land, 40071 is bigger than 82% of ZIP codes — room for about 92 Central Parks.
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People and housing

Population17,239This ZIP17,239
Households6,029This ZIP6,029
Housing units6,340This ZIP6,340
Median age40.7This ZIP40.7Kentucky39.1US 38.9
Median household income$98,528This ZIP$98,528Kentucky$63,726US $80,734
Median home value$329,000This ZIP$329,000Kentucky$205,600US $332,700
Median gross rent$960This ZIP$960Kentucky$967US $1,413
Bachelor's degree or higher22.8%This ZIP22.8%
Mean commute32.1 minThis ZIP32.1 min
Population density142.1 / sq miThis ZIP142.1 / sq mi

Business and tax activity

Business establishments234This ZIP234
Employees1,270This ZIP1,270
Annual payroll$45,896,000This ZIP$45,896,000
Tax returns filed7,700This ZIP7,700
Total adjusted gross income$628,348,000This ZIP$628,348,000

Land area

Land area121.28 sq miThis ZIP121.28 sq mi
Water area1.43 sq miThis ZIP1.43 sq mi

Counties 40071 spans

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CountyShare of this ZIP
Spencer County 93.9%
Bullitt County 5.0%
Shelby County 1.1%

Other place names in 40071

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ZIP codes near 40071

ZIPCityDistance
40020 Fairfield, KY 7.5 mi
40022 Finchville, KY 7.7 mi
40023 Fisherville, KY 8.7 mi
40013 Coxs Creek, KY 9.0 mi
40047 Mount Washington, KY 9.6 mi
40299 Louisville, KY 10.6 mi
40008 Bloomfield, KY 10.8 mi
40046 Mount Eden, KY 11.4 mi
40291 Louisville, KY 12.3 mi
40067 Simpsonville, KY 12.8 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 40071?

40071 is in Taylorsville, Kentucky, in Spencer County, part of the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metropolitan area. Its published point location is 38.0429, -85.3788.

What county is 40071 in?

40071 spans 3 counties: Spencer County, Bullitt County and Shelby County. Most of it falls in Spencer 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 40071?

Taylorsville uses area code 502, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 40071 in?

40071 uses America/New_York.

How many people live in 40071?

About 17,239 people live in ZIP code 40071, in 6,029 households, at 142.1 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 40071?

$98,528 a year, against $63,726 across Kentucky.

What ZIP codes are near 40071?

The closest are 40020 (7.5 mi), 40022 (7.7 mi), 40023 (8.7 mi), 40013 (9 mi) and 40047 (9.6 mi).

Is 40071 a PO Box ZIP code?

40071 is a standard ZIP code. A normal ZIP code with street delivery.

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