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78279

ZIP 78279 is in San Antonio, Texas, in Bexar County; area codes 210 and 726; Central time. San Antonio has 83 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Bexar
Coordinates
29.4375, -98.4616

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 78208, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 78279 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 78279
  • 🔢 Type 78279 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: GLZBL — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 78,279 = 3 × 97 × 269. Its digits add up to 33, a total 456 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10011000111000111
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 78278 (San Antonio, TX, 0 mi away) and 78280 (San Antonio, TX, 0 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 78279 becomes 97287, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 13 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (27879, 27897, 27978, 28779, 77289, 77982, …). The farthest-flung twin is 98277 in Oak Harbor, WA, 1,827 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 95% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 78%.
  • 🎯718 miles south of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 78279 and you would come out at 29.44°S, 81.54°E — 1,499 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, 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 establishments12This ZIP12
Employees675This ZIP675
Annual payroll$53,666,000This ZIP$53,666,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 78279

ZIPCityDistance
78206 San Antonio, TX 0.0 mi
78241 San Antonio, TX 0.0 mi
78246 San Antonio, TX 0.0 mi
78265 San Antonio, TX 0.0 mi
78268 San Antonio, TX 0.0 mi
78269 San Antonio, TX 0.0 mi
78270 San Antonio, TX 0.0 mi
78278 San Antonio, TX 0.0 mi
78280 San Antonio, TX 0.0 mi
78283 San Antonio, TX 0.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 78279?

78279 is in San Antonio, Texas, in Bexar County, part of the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metropolitan area. Its published point location is 29.4375, -98.4616.

What county is 78279 in?

78279 lies in Bexar County.

What area code is 78279?

San Antonio uses area codes 210 and 726, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 78279 in?

78279 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 78279?

The closest are 78206 (0 mi), 78241 (0 mi), 78246 (0 mi), 78265 (0 mi) and 78268 (0 mi).

Is 78279 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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