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47903

ZIP 47903 is in Lafayette, Indiana, in Tippecanoe County; area code 765; Eastern time. Lafayette has 6 ZIP codes; the others are 47901, 47902, 47904, 47905 and 47909.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
County
Tippecanoe
Coordinates
40.3044, -86.8245

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 47909, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 47903 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 47903
  • 🔢 Type 47903 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: EOGLh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ 47903 is a prime number. It cannot be divided by anything except 1 and itself. Its digits add up to 23, a total 2,533 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1011101100011111
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 47902 (Lafayette, IN, 7 mi away) and 47904 (Lafayette, IN, 10 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 47903 becomes 30974, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 45 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (03749, 04739, 04937, 04973, 07439, 07934, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09734 in APO AE, a military post office, 7,068 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 59% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 52%.
  • 🎯622 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 47903 and you would come out at 40.30°S, 93.18°E — 1,280 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 03m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 18m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments24This ZIP24
Employees1,229This ZIP1,229
Annual payroll$63,156,000This ZIP$63,156,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 47903

ZIPCityDistance
47983 Stockwell, IN 3.0 mi
47909 Lafayette, IN 4.0 mi
47941 Dayton, IN 5.6 mi
47930 Clarks Hill, IN 6.4 mi
47902 Lafayette, IN 6.9 mi
47996 West Lafayette, IN 6.9 mi
47981 Romney, IN 7.3 mi
47955 Linden, IN 8.0 mi
47901 Lafayette, IN 8.6 mi
47905 Lafayette, IN 8.7 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 47903?

47903 is in Lafayette, Indiana, in Tippecanoe County, part of the Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metropolitan area. Its published point location is 40.3044, -86.8245.

What county is 47903 in?

47903 lies in Tippecanoe County.

What area code is 47903?

Lafayette uses area code 765, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 47903 in?

47903 uses America/Indiana/Indianapolis.

What ZIP codes are near 47903?

The closest are 47983 (3 mi), 47909 (4 mi), 47941 (5.6 mi), 47930 (6.4 mi) and 47902 (6.9 mi).

Is 47903 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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