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40353

ZIP 40353 is Mount Sterling, Kentucky, mostly in Montgomery County; area code 859; Eastern time.

Type
Standard
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Montgomery +3 more
Metro area
Mount Sterling, KY
Population
22,725
Coordinates
38.0655, -83.9488
☼ Live from 40353 — Mount Sterling, KY

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Where 40353 is

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★ Weird and wonderful facts about 40353
  • 🔢 Type 40353 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ESEOh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 40,353 = 3 × 13451. Its digits add up to 15, a total 1,657 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1001110110100001
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 40351 (Morehead, KY, 30 mi away) and 40355 (New Liberty, KY, 62 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 40353 becomes 35304, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 29 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (03435, 04353, 05343, 30345, 30354, 30453, …). The farthest-flung twin is 34035 in APO AA, a military post office, 5,346 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 58% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 60%.
  • 🎯795 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 40353 and you would come out at 38.07°S, 96.05°E — 1,195 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 49m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 31m.
  • 📏 At 141.3 square miles of land, 40353 is bigger than 85% of ZIP codes — room for about 107 Central Parks.
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People and housing

Population22,725This ZIP22,725
Households9,118This ZIP9,118
Housing units9,901This ZIP9,901
Median age41.7This ZIP41.7Kentucky39.1US 38.9
Median household income$57,329This ZIP$57,329Kentucky$63,726US $80,734
Median home value$184,000This ZIP$184,000Kentucky$205,600US $332,700
Median gross rent$836This ZIP$836Kentucky$967US $1,413
Bachelor's degree or higher22.5%This ZIP22.5%
Mean commute24.4 minThis ZIP24.4 min
Population density160.8 / sq miThis ZIP160.8 / sq mi

Business and tax activity

Business establishments528This ZIP528
Employees9,582This ZIP9,582
Annual payroll$419,679,000This ZIP$419,679,000
Tax returns filed9,610This ZIP9,610
Total adjusted gross income$616,426,000This ZIP$616,426,000

Land area

Land area141.33 sq miThis ZIP141.33 sq mi
Water area1.19 sq miThis ZIP1.19 sq mi

Counties 40353 spans

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CountyShare of this ZIP
Montgomery County 93.4%
Clark County 5.9%
Bath County 0.6%
Bourbon County 0.1%

Other place names in 40353

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ZIP codes near 40353

ZIPCityDistance
40337 Jeffersonville, KY 9.9 mi
40357 North Middletown, KY 10.3 mi
40366 Preston, KY 10.5 mi
40374 Sharpsburg, KY 10.6 mi
40334 Hope, KY 11.4 mi
40360 Owingsville, KY 12.1 mi
40346 Means, KY 12.4 mi
40391 Winchester, KY 12.5 mi
40392 Winchester, KY 13.6 mi
40358 Olympia, KY 14.4 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 40353?

40353 is in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, in Montgomery County, part of the Mount Sterling, KY micropolitan area. Its published point location is 38.0655, -83.9488.

What county is 40353 in?

40353 spans 4 counties: Montgomery County, Clark County, Bath County and Bourbon County. Most of it falls in Montgomery 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 40353?

Mount Sterling uses area code 859, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 40353 in?

40353 uses America/New_York.

How many people live in 40353?

About 22,725 people live in ZIP code 40353, in 9,118 households, at 160.8 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 40353?

$57,329 a year, against $63,726 across Kentucky.

What ZIP codes are near 40353?

The closest are 40337 (9.9 mi), 40357 (10.3 mi), 40366 (10.5 mi), 40374 (10.6 mi) and 40334 (11.4 mi).

Is 40353 a PO Box ZIP code?

40353 is a standard ZIP code. A normal ZIP code with street delivery.

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