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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/77496

77496

ZIP 77496 is in Sugar Land, Texas, in Fort Bend County; area codes 281, 346, 832 and 713; Central time. Sugar Land has 5 ZIP codes; the others are 77478, 77479, 77487 and 77498.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Fort Bend
Coordinates
29.5255, -95.7565

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 77469, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 77496 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 77496
  • 🔢 Type 77496 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: gGhLL — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 77,496 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 3229. Its digits add up to 33, a total 456 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10010111010111000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 77494 (Katy, TX, 16 mi away) and 77497 (Stafford, TX, 13 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 77496 becomes 69477, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 15 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (46779, 46797, 46977, 47967, 49677, 49776, …). The farthest-flung twin is 96747 in Kaumakani, HI, 3,963 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 94% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 71%.
  • 🎯730 miles south of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 77496 and you would come out at 29.53°S, 84.24°E — 1,446 miles from West Island, Cocos Islands, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 02m of daylight. Shortest: 10h 15m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments26This ZIP26
Employees87This ZIP87
Annual payroll$4,150,000This ZIP$4,150,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 77496

ZIPCityDistance
77469 Richmond, TX 4.0 mi
77471 Rosenberg, TX 6.5 mi
77479 Sugar Land, TX 7.8 mi
77406 Richmond, TX 8.6 mi
77461 Needville, TX 9.2 mi
77487 Sugar Land, TX 9.8 mi
77498 Sugar Land, TX 10.0 mi
77407 Richmond, TX 10.4 mi
77478 Sugar Land, TX 10.9 mi
77481 Thompsons, TX 11.8 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 77496?

77496 is in Sugar Land, Texas, in Fort Bend County, part of the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metropolitan area. Its published point location is 29.5255, -95.7565.

What county is 77496 in?

77496 lies in Fort Bend County.

What area code is 77496?

Sugar Land uses area codes 281, 346, 832 and 713, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 77496 in?

77496 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 77496?

The closest are 77469 (4 mi), 77471 (6.5 mi), 77479 (7.8 mi), 77406 (8.6 mi) and 77461 (9.2 mi).

Is 77496 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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