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40440

ZIP 40440 is Junction City, Kentucky, mostly in Boyle County; area code 859; Eastern time.

Type
Standard
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Boyle +1 more
Metro area
Danville, KY
Population
2,428
Coordinates
37.5792, -84.8404
☼ Live from 40440 — Junction City, KY

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Where 40440 is

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★ Weird and wonderful facts about 40440
  • 🔢 Type 40440 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: OhhOh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 40,440 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 5 × 337. Its digits add up to 12, a total 940 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1001110111111000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 40437 (Hustonville, KY, 8 mi away) and 40442 (Kings Mountain, KY, 17 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 40440 becomes 04404, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 3 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (40404, 44004, 44040). The farthest-flung twin is 44004 in Ashtabula, OH, 365 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 61% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 57%.
  • 🎯756 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 40440 and you would come out at 37.58°S, 95.16°E — 1,235 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 46m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 34m.
  • 📏 At 13.2 square miles of land, 40440 is bigger than 31% of ZIP codes — room for about 10 Central Parks.
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People and housing

Population2,428This ZIP2,428
Households950This ZIP950
Housing units1,065This ZIP1,065
Median age37.9This ZIP37.9Kentucky39.1US 38.9
Median household income$54,500This ZIP$54,500Kentucky$63,726US $80,734
Median home value$134,700This ZIP$134,700Kentucky$205,600US $332,700
Median gross rent$983This ZIP$983Kentucky$967US $1,413
Bachelor's degree or higher19.5%This ZIP19.5%
Mean commute30.3 minThis ZIP30.3 min
Population density183.8 / sq miThis ZIP183.8 / sq mi

Business and tax activity

Business establishments24This ZIP24
Employees139This ZIP139
Annual payroll$4,236,000This ZIP$4,236,000
Tax returns filed980This ZIP980
Total adjusted gross income$48,890,000This ZIP$48,890,000

Land area

Land area13.21 sq miThis ZIP13.21 sq mi
Water area0.05 sq miThis ZIP0.05 sq mi

Counties 40440 spans

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

CountyShare of this ZIP
Boyle County 99.9%
Lincoln County 0.1%

Other place names in 40440

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

ZIP codes near 40440

ZIPCityDistance
40464 Parksville, KY 4.7 mi
40422 Danville, KY 4.9 mi
40423 Danville, KY 5.9 mi
40452 Mitchellsburg, KY 6.2 mi
40437 Hustonville, KY 8.4 mi
40468 Perryville, KY 9.2 mi
40328 Gravel Switch, KY 9.4 mi
40448 Mc Kinney, KY 9.6 mi
40484 Stanford, KY 10.0 mi
40310 Burgin, KY 12.4 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 40440?

40440 is in Junction City, Kentucky, in Boyle County, part of the Danville, KY micropolitan area. Its published point location is 37.5792, -84.8404.

What county is 40440 in?

40440 spans 2 counties: Boyle County and Lincoln County. Most of it falls in Boyle 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 40440?

Junction City uses area code 859, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 40440 in?

40440 uses America/New_York.

How many people live in 40440?

About 2,428 people live in ZIP code 40440, in 950 households, at 183.8 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 40440?

$54,500 a year, against $63,726 across Kentucky.

What ZIP codes are near 40440?

The closest are 40464 (4.7 mi), 40422 (4.9 mi), 40423 (5.9 mi), 40452 (6.2 mi) and 40437 (8.4 mi).

Is 40440 a PO Box ZIP code?

40440 is a standard ZIP code. A normal ZIP code with street delivery.

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