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49817

ZIP 49817 is Cooks, Michigan, mostly in Delta County; area code 906; Eastern time.

Type
Standard
Time zone
America/Detroit
County
Delta +1 more
Metro area
Escanaba, MI
Population
580
Coordinates
45.9493, -86.5045
☼ Live from 49817 — Cooks, MI

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Where 49817 is

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★ Weird and wonderful facts about 49817
  • 🔢 Type 49817 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: LIBGh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 49,817 = 31 × 1607. Its digits add up to 29, a total 1,296 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1100001010011001
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 49816 (Chatham, MI, 30 mi away) and 49818 (Cornell, MI, 41 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 49817 becomes 71894, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 32 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (14879, 14897, 17948, 18947, 18974, 19478, …). The farthest-flung twin is 91748 in Rowland Heights, CA, 1,841 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 94% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 52%.
  • 🎯742 miles northeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 49817 and you would come out at 45.95°S, 93.50°E — 1,104 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 45m of daylight. Shortest: 8h 39m.
  • 📏 At 82.2 square miles of land, 49817 is bigger than 73% of ZIP codes — room for about 62 Central Parks.
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People and housing

Population580This ZIP580
Households241This ZIP241
Housing units322This ZIP322
Median age41.8This ZIP41.8Michigan40.2US 38.9
Median household income$63,984This ZIP$63,984Michigan$72,875US $80,734
Median home value$211,900This ZIP$211,900Michigan$231,600US $332,700
Bachelor's degree or higher21.5%This ZIP21.5%
Mean commute18.7 minThis ZIP18.7 min
Population density7.1 / sq miThis ZIP7.1 / sq mi

Business and tax activity

Business establishments12This ZIP12
Employees30This ZIP30
Annual payroll$686,000This ZIP$686,000
Tax returns filed270This ZIP270
Total adjusted gross income$14,688,000This ZIP$14,688,000

Land area

Land area82.15 sq miThis ZIP82.15 sq mi
Water area0.27 sq miThis ZIP0.27 sq mi

Counties 49817 spans

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

CountyShare of this ZIP
Delta County 60.1%
Schoolcraft County 39.9%

ZIP codes near 49817

ZIPCityDistance
49864 Nahma, MI 10.2 mi
49854 Manistique, MI 11.6 mi
96508 APO AA, AA 14.8 mi
49835 Garden, MI 15.0 mi
49895 Wetmore, MI 17.1 mi
49878 Rapid River, MI 17.9 mi
49840 Gulliver, MI 26.6 mi
49872 Perkins, MI 28.1 mi
49837 Gladstone, MI 28.2 mi
49894 Wells, MI 29.8 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 49817?

49817 is in Cooks, Michigan, in Delta County, part of the Escanaba, MI micropolitan area. Its published point location is 45.9493, -86.5045.

What county is 49817 in?

49817 spans 2 counties: Delta County and Schoolcraft County. Most of it falls in Delta 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 49817?

Cooks uses area code 906, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 49817 in?

49817 uses America/Detroit.

How many people live in 49817?

About 580 people live in ZIP code 49817, in 241 households, at 7.1 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 49817?

$63,984 a year, against $72,875 across Michigan.

What ZIP codes are near 49817?

The closest are 49864 (10.2 mi), 49854 (11.6 mi), 96508 (14.8 mi), 49835 (15 mi) and 49895 (17.1 mi).

Is 49817 a PO Box ZIP code?

49817 is a standard ZIP code. A normal ZIP code with street delivery.

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