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60209

ZIP 60209 is in Evanston, Illinois, in Cook County; area codes 847 and 224; Central time. Evanston has 6 ZIP codes; the others are 60201, 60202, 60203, 60204 and 60208.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Cook
Coordinates
42.0497, -87.6794

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 60201, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 60209 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 60209
  • 🔢 Type 60209 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: GOZOg — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ 60209 is a prime number. It cannot be divided by anything except 1 and itself. Its digits add up to 17, a total 2,133 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1110101100110001
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 60208 (Evanston, IL, 1 mi away) and 60301 (Oak Park, IL, 13 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 60209 becomes 90206, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 29 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (00692, 00926, 00962, 02906, 06029, 06092, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09602 in APO AE, a military post office, 6,985 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 76% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 50%.
  • 🎯589 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 60209 and you would come out at 42.05°S, 92.32°E — 1,174 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 15m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 06m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 60209

ZIPCityDistance
60208 Evanston, IL 0.5 mi
60201 Evanston, IL 0.8 mi
60204 Evanston, IL 0.8 mi
60202 Evanston, IL 1.4 mi
60203 Evanston, IL 2.0 mi
60076 Skokie, IL 2.8 mi
60091 Wilmette, IL 2.9 mi
60626 Chicago, IL 2.9 mi
60645 Chicago, IL 2.9 mi
60043 Kenilworth, IL 3.2 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 60209?

60209 is in Evanston, Illinois, in Cook County, part of the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metropolitan area. Its published point location is 42.0497, -87.6794.

What county is 60209 in?

60209 lies in Cook County.

What area code is 60209?

Evanston uses area codes 847 and 224, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 60209 in?

60209 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 60209?

The closest are 60208 (0.5 mi), 60201 (0.8 mi), 60204 (0.8 mi), 60202 (1.4 mi) and 60203 (2 mi).

Is 60209 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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