Every ZIP code in the United States, with weather, radar, trivia and the numbers behind it. Five digits since 1963!

ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The codes went live on July 1, 1963.The lowest ZIP code is 00501 — the IRS in Holtsville, New York.The highest ZIP code is 99950, in Ketchikan, Alaska.Type 07734 into a calculator and turn it upside down: hELLO. It is Keansburg, New Jersey.12345 belongs to one company: General Electric in Schenectady, New York.The first digit is a region: 0 is New England and New Jersey, 9 is the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii.Mr. ZIP, the cartoon mailman, was the mascot that sold the idea to America.ZIP+4 arrived in 1983 and can narrow a ZIP down to one side of one block.A ZIP code is a mail route, not a place: plenty of them cross county and even state lines.Play ZIP Hunt: guess the secret ZIP code of the day in six tries.
zipcodes.pro — ZIP/47904

47904

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

Type
Standard
Time zone
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
County
Tippecanoe
Population
16,257
Coordinates
40.4386, -86.8753
☼ Live from 47904 — Lafayette, IN

Weather right now

Asking the National Weather Service…

NEXRAD radar
Finding the nearest radar…
Local time: —

Where 47904 is

Approximate ZIP boundary (Census ZCTA 2020). ZIP codes are mail routes, not areas, so the shape shown is the Census tabulation area that approximates it.

★ Weird and wonderful facts about 47904
  • 🔢 Type 47904 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: hOGLh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 47,904 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 499. Its digits add up to 24, a total 2,425 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1011101100100000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 47903 (Lafayette, IN, 10 mi away) and 47905 (Lafayette, IN, 6 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 47904 becomes 40974, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 22 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (04479, 04497, 04947, 04974, 09447, 44097, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09447 in APO AE, a military post office, 3,942 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 60% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 52%.
  • 🎯619 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 47904 and you would come out at 40.44°S, 93.12°E — 1,272 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 04m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 17m.
  • 📏 At 5.8 square miles of land, 47904 is bigger than 20% of ZIP codes — room for about 4.4 Central Parks.
🌙 The sky over 47904 today
  • Working out the sun…
🌋 Shake report
  • Checking the USGS…

Source: USGS.

People and housing

Population16,257This ZIP16,257
Households6,941This ZIP6,941
Housing units7,557This ZIP7,557
Median age34.1This ZIP34.1Indiana38.1US 38.9
Median household income$51,687This ZIP$51,687Indiana$71,957US $80,734
Median home value$133,100This ZIP$133,100Indiana$218,200US $332,700
Median gross rent$996This ZIP$996Indiana$1,062US $1,413
Bachelor's degree or higher20.2%This ZIP20.2%
Mean commute16.2 minThis ZIP16.2 min
Population density2,819.5 / sq miThis ZIP2,819.5 / sq mi

Business and tax activity

Business establishments473This ZIP473
Employees8,254This ZIP8,254
Annual payroll$407,869,000This ZIP$407,869,000
Tax returns filed7,440This ZIP7,440
Total adjusted gross income$319,749,000This ZIP$319,749,000

Land area

Land area5.77 sq miThis ZIP5.77 sq mi
Water area0.18 sq miThis ZIP0.18 sq mi

Other place names in 47904

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

ZIP codes near 47904

ZIPCityDistance
47901 Lafayette, IN 1.6 mi
47907 West Lafayette, IN 2.3 mi
47902 Lafayette, IN 3.6 mi
47996 West Lafayette, IN 3.6 mi
47905 Lafayette, IN 6.0 mi
47906 West Lafayette, IN 6.6 mi
47941 Dayton, IN 7.0 mi
47924 Buck Creek, IN 7.1 mi
47920 Battle Ground, IN 7.4 mi
47909 Lafayette, IN 8.0 mi

Find every ZIP code within 10 miles of 47904 →

Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 47904?

47904 is in Lafayette, Indiana, in Tippecanoe County, part of the Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN metropolitan area. Its published point location is 40.4386, -86.8753.

What county is 47904 in?

47904 lies in Tippecanoe County.

What area code is 47904?

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

What time zone is 47904 in?

47904 uses America/Indiana/Indianapolis.

How many people live in 47904?

About 16,257 people live in ZIP code 47904, in 6,941 households, at 2,819.5 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 47904?

$51,687 a year, against $71,957 across Indiana.

What ZIP codes are near 47904?

The closest are 47901 (1.6 mi), 47907 (2.3 mi), 47902 (3.6 mi), 47996 (3.6 mi) and 47905 (6 mi).

Is 47904 a PO Box ZIP code?

47904 is a standard ZIP code. A normal ZIP code with street delivery.

Download or cite

Cite this page

zipcodes.pro. “47904 ZIP Code — Lafayette, Indiana (Tippecanoe County).” Data release 2026-10-12. Retrieved 2026-10-20. https://zipcodes.pro/zip/47904

Machine-readable version of these facts:

curl https://zipcodes.pro/zip/47904.json

Underlying data is public domain or openly licensed — sources, vintages and licences.