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40506

ZIP 40506 is in Lexington, Kentucky, in Fayette County; area code 859; Eastern time. Lexington has 39 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Fayette
Coordinates
38.0287, -84.5075

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 40536, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 40506 is

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 40506
  • 🔢 Type 40506 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: gOSOh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 40,506 = 2 × 3 × 43 × 157. Its digits add up to 15, a total 1,657 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1001111000111010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 40505 (Lexington, KY, 4 mi away) and 40507 (Lexington, KY, 1 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 40506 becomes 60504 — and that is a real ZIP code: Aurora, IL, 324 miles away.
  • 👥 27 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (04056, 04605, 04650, 05046, 05406, 05460, …). The farthest-flung twin is 04605 in Ellsworth, ME, 951 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 58% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 58%.
  • 🎯766 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 40506 and you would come out at 38.03°S, 95.49°E — 1,224 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 48m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 31m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments20This ZIP20
Employees288This ZIP288
Annual payroll$8,511,000This ZIP$8,511,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 40506

ZIPCityDistance
40536 Lexington, KY 0.1 mi
40526 Lexington, KY 0.3 mi
40507 Lexington, KY 1.4 mi
40502 Lexington, KY 1.8 mi
40512 Lexington, KY 2.0 mi
40522 Lexington, KY 2.0 mi
40523 Lexington, KY 2.0 mi
40524 Lexington, KY 2.0 mi
40533 Lexington, KY 2.0 mi
40544 Lexington, KY 2.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 40506?

40506 is in Lexington, Kentucky, in Fayette County, part of the Lexington-Fayette, KY metropolitan area. Its published point location is 38.0287, -84.5075.

What county is 40506 in?

40506 lies in Fayette County.

What area code is 40506?

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

What time zone is 40506 in?

40506 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 40506?

The closest are 40536 (0.1 mi), 40526 (0.3 mi), 40507 (1.4 mi), 40502 (1.8 mi) and 40512 (2 mi).

Is 40506 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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