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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/53596

53596

ZIP 53596 is in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, in Dane County; area code 608; Central time. Sun Prairie has 2 ZIP codes; the other is 53590.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Dane
Metro area
Madison, WI
Coordinates
43.1924, -89.2629

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 53590, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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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 53596
  • 🔢 Type 53596 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: gGSES — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 53,596 = 2 × 2 × 13399. Its digits add up to 28, a total 1,520 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1101000101011100
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 53595 (Dodgeville, WI, 47 mi away) and 53597 (Waunakee, WI, 10 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 53596 becomes 69535, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 26 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (35956, 36559, 39556, 39565, 53569, 53956, …). The farthest-flung twin is 96553 in APO AA, a military post office, 9,178 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 84% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 54%.
  • 🎯535 miles northeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 53596 and you would come out at 43.19°S, 90.74°E — 1,064 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 23m of daylight. Shortest: 8h 59m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments5This ZIP5
Employees1,987This ZIP1,987
Annual payroll$202,061,000This ZIP$202,061,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 53596

ZIPCityDistance
53783 Madison, WI 2.5 mi
53590 Sun Prairie, WI 2.9 mi
53598 Windsor, WI 3.9 mi
53532 Deforest, WI 5.1 mi
53704 Madison, WI 5.8 mi
53718 Madison, WI 6.6 mi
53714 Madison, WI 6.8 mi
53779 Madison, WI 7.2 mi
53571 Morrisonville, WI 7.5 mi
53716 Madison, WI 9.2 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 53596?

53596 is in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, in Dane County, part of the Madison, WI metropolitan area. Its published point location is 43.1924, -89.2629.

What county is 53596 in?

53596 lies in Dane County.

What area code is 53596?

Sun Prairie uses area code 608, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 53596 in?

53596 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 53596?

The closest are 53783 (2.5 mi), 53590 (2.9 mi), 53598 (3.9 mi), 53532 (5.1 mi) and 53704 (5.8 mi).

Is 53596 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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