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43050

ZIP 43050 is Mount Vernon, Ohio, mostly in Knox County; area code 740; Eastern time.

Type
Standard
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Knox +1 more
Metro area
Mount Vernon, OH
Population
31,074
Coordinates
40.3740, -82.4927
☼ Live from 43050 — Mount Vernon, OH

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Where 43050 is

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★ Weird and wonderful facts about 43050
  • 🔢 Type 43050 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: OSOEh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 43,050 = 2 × 3 × 5 × 5 × 7 × 41. Its digits add up to 12, a total 940 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1010100000101010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 43048 (Mount Liberty, OH, 7 mi away) and 43054 (New Albany, OH, 27 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 43050 becomes 05034 — and that is a real ZIP code: Bridgewater, VT, 553 miles away.
  • 👥 32 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (03045, 03054, 03450, 04350, 04530, 05034, …). The farthest-flung twin is 34005 in APO AA, a military post office, 2,153 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 60% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 65%.
  • 🎯850 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 43050 and you would come out at 40.37°S, 97.51°E — 1,174 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 03m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 17m.
  • 📏 At 154.1 square miles of land, 43050 is bigger than 87% of ZIP codes — room for about 117 Central Parks.
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People and housing

Population31,074This ZIP31,074
Households12,335This ZIP12,335
Housing units13,471This ZIP13,471
Median age41.3This ZIP41.3Ohio39.7US 38.9
Median household income$64,108This ZIP$64,108Ohio$71,389US $80,734
Median home value$220,300This ZIP$220,300Ohio$214,800US $332,700
Median gross rent$967This ZIP$967Ohio$1,034US $1,413
Bachelor's degree or higher24.1%This ZIP24.1%
Mean commute22.1 minThis ZIP22.1 min
Population density201.7 / sq miThis ZIP201.7 / sq mi

Business and tax activity

Business establishments686This ZIP686
Employees12,527This ZIP12,527
Annual payroll$639,871,000This ZIP$639,871,000
Tax returns filed13,380This ZIP13,380
Total adjusted gross income$1,001,655,000This ZIP$1,001,655,000

Land area

Land area154.05 sq miThis ZIP154.05 sq mi
Water area0.69 sq miThis ZIP0.69 sq mi

Counties 43050 spans

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

CountyShare of this ZIP
Knox County 99.4%
Morrow County 0.6%

Other place names in 43050

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ZIP codes near 43050

ZIPCityDistance
43048 Mount Liberty, OH 7.5 mi
43022 Gambier, OH 8.3 mi
43027 Homer, OH 8.5 mi
43080 Utica, OH 9.8 mi
43019 Fredericktown, OH 10.3 mi
43028 Howard, OH 10.5 mi
43037 Martinsburg, OH 10.9 mi
43011 Centerburg, OH 11.0 mi
43350 Sparta, OH 11.0 mi
43317 Chesterville, OH 12.1 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 43050?

43050 is in Mount Vernon, Ohio, in Knox County, part of the Mount Vernon, OH micropolitan area. Its published point location is 40.3740, -82.4927.

What county is 43050 in?

43050 spans 2 counties: Knox County and Morrow County. Most of it falls in Knox 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 43050?

Mount Vernon uses area code 740, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 43050 in?

43050 uses America/New_York.

How many people live in 43050?

About 31,074 people live in ZIP code 43050, in 12,335 households, at 201.7 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 43050?

$64,108 a year, against $71,389 across Ohio.

What ZIP codes are near 43050?

The closest are 43048 (7.5 mi), 43022 (8.3 mi), 43027 (8.5 mi), 43080 (9.8 mi) and 43019 (10.3 mi).

Is 43050 a PO Box ZIP code?

43050 is a standard ZIP code. A normal ZIP code with street delivery.

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