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70505

ZIP 70505 is in Lafayette, Louisiana, in Lafayette Parish; area code 337; Central time. Lafayette has 12 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Lafayette
Metro area
Lafayette, LA
Coordinates
30.2023, -92.0188

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 70503, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 70505 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 70505
  • 🔢 Type 70505 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: SOSOL — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 70,505 = 5 × 59 × 239. Its digits add up to 17, a total 2,133 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10001001101101001
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 70504 (Lafayette, LA, 1 mi away) and 70506 (Lafayette, LA, 4 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 70505 becomes 50507, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 14 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (05075, 05750, 07055, 07505, 50057, 50075, …). The farthest-flung twin is 05075 in Thetford Center, VT, 1,433 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 93% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 61%.
  • 🎯761 miles southeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 70505 and you would come out at 30.20°S, 87.98°E — 1,369 miles from West Island, Cocos Islands, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 06m of daylight. Shortest: 10h 12m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments35This ZIP35
Employees206This ZIP206
Annual payroll$11,304,000This ZIP$11,304,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 70505

ZIPCityDistance
70504 Lafayette, LA 0.8 mi
70502 Lafayette, LA 1.5 mi
70596 Lafayette, LA 1.5 mi
70501 Lafayette, LA 3.0 mi
70503 Lafayette, LA 3.0 mi
70508 Lafayette, LA 3.3 mi
70509 Lafayette, LA 3.4 mi
70506 Lafayette, LA 3.7 mi
70593 Lafayette, LA 4.6 mi
70598 Lafayette, LA 4.6 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 70505?

70505 is in Lafayette, Louisiana, in Lafayette Parish, part of the Lafayette, LA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 30.2023, -92.0188.

What county is 70505 in?

70505 lies in Lafayette Parish.

What area code is 70505?

Lafayette uses area code 337, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 70505 in?

70505 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 70505?

The closest are 70504 (0.8 mi), 70502 (1.5 mi), 70596 (1.5 mi), 70501 (3 mi) and 70503 (3 mi).

Is 70505 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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