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70170

ZIP 70170 is in New Orleans, Louisiana, in Orleans Parish; area code 504; Central time. New Orleans has 61 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Orleans
Coordinates
29.9546, -90.0751

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 70112, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 70170 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 70170
  • 🔢 Type 70170 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: OLIOL — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 70,170 = 2 × 3 × 5 × 2339. Its digits add up to 15, a total 1,657 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10001001000011010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 70167 (New Orleans, LA, 0 mi away) and 70172 (New Orleans, LA, 0 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 70170 becomes 07107 — and that is a real ZIP code: Newark, NJ, 1,163 miles away.
  • 👥 18 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (00717, 00771, 01077, 01770, 07017, 07071, …). The farthest-flung twin is 00771 in Las Piedras, PR, 1,724 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 93% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 56%.
  • 🎯834 miles southeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 70170 and you would come out at 29.95°S, 89.92°E — 1,307 miles from West Island, Cocos Islands, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 04m of daylight. Shortest: 10h 13m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments107This ZIP107
Employees1,404This ZIP1,404
Annual payroll$197,700,000This ZIP$197,700,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 70170

ZIPCityDistance
70141 New Orleans, LA 0.0 mi
70142 New Orleans, LA 0.0 mi
70143 New Orleans, LA 0.0 mi
70145 New Orleans, LA 0.0 mi
70146 New Orleans, LA 0.0 mi
70150 New Orleans, LA 0.0 mi
70151 New Orleans, LA 0.0 mi
70152 New Orleans, LA 0.0 mi
70153 New Orleans, LA 0.0 mi
70154 New Orleans, LA 0.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 70170?

70170 is in New Orleans, Louisiana, in Orleans Parish, part of the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 29.9546, -90.0751.

What county is 70170 in?

70170 lies in Orleans Parish.

What area code is 70170?

New Orleans uses area code 504, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 70170 in?

70170 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 70170?

The closest are 70141 (0 mi), 70142 (0 mi), 70143 (0 mi), 70145 (0 mi) and 70146 (0 mi).

Is 70170 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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