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77512

ZIP 77512 is in Alvin, Texas, in Brazoria County; area codes 346, 281 and 832; Central time. Alvin has 2 ZIP codes; the other is 77511.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Brazoria
Coordinates
29.4238, -95.2441

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 77511, 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 77512
  • 🔢 Type 77512 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZISLL — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 77,512 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 9689. Its digits add up to 22, a total 2,607 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10010111011001000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 77511 (Alvin, TX, 3 mi away) and 77514 (Anahuac, TX, 41 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 77512 becomes 21577, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 37 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (12577, 12775, 15277, 15727, 15772, 17257, …). The farthest-flung twin is 12577 in Salisbury Mills, NY, 1,444 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 95% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 69%.
  • 🎯743 miles south of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 77512 and you would come out at 29.42°S, 84.76°E — 1,423 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 establishments23This ZIP23
Employees243This ZIP243
Annual payroll$28,357,000This ZIP$28,357,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 77512

ZIPCityDistance
77511 Alvin, TX 3.0 mi
77588 Pearland, TX 6.2 mi
77546 Friendswood, TX 6.8 mi
77517 Santa Fe, TX 7.6 mi
77549 Friendswood, TX 7.7 mi
77578 Manvel, TX 8.3 mi
77581 Pearland, TX 9.8 mi
77598 Webster, TX 10.3 mi
77510 Santa Fe, TX 10.5 mi
77584 Pearland, TX 10.5 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 77512?

77512 is in Alvin, Texas, in Brazoria County, part of the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metropolitan area. Its published point location is 29.4238, -95.2441.

What county is 77512 in?

77512 lies in Brazoria County.

What area code is 77512?

Alvin uses area codes 346, 281 and 832, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 77512 in?

77512 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 77512?

The closest are 77511 (3 mi), 77588 (6.2 mi), 77546 (6.8 mi), 77517 (7.6 mi) and 77549 (7.7 mi).

Is 77512 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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