Every ZIP code in the United States, with weather, radar, trivia and the numbers behind it. Five digits since 1963!

ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The codes went live on July 1, 1963.The lowest ZIP code is 00501 — the IRS in Holtsville, New York.The highest ZIP code is 99950, in Ketchikan, Alaska.Type 07734 into a calculator and turn it upside down: hELLO. It is Keansburg, New Jersey.12345 belongs to one company: General Electric in Schenectady, New York.The first digit is a region: 0 is New England and New Jersey, 9 is the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii.Mr. ZIP, the cartoon mailman, was the mascot that sold the idea to America.ZIP+4 arrived in 1983 and can narrow a ZIP down to one side of one block.A ZIP code is a mail route, not a place: plenty of them cross county and even state lines.Play ZIP Hunt: guess the secret ZIP code of the day in six tries.
zipcodes.pro — ZIP/78597

78597

ZIP 78597 is South Padre Island, Texas, in Cameron County; area code 956; Central time.

Type
Standard
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Cameron
Population
2,935
Coordinates
26.2732, -97.2764
☼ Live from 78597 — South Padre Island, TX

Weather right now

Asking the National Weather Service…

NEXRAD radar
Finding the nearest radar…
Local time: —

Where 78597 is

Approximate ZIP boundary (Census ZCTA 2020). ZIP codes are mail routes, not areas, so the shape shown is the Census tabulation area that approximates it.

★ Weird and wonderful facts about 78597
  • 🔢 Type 78597 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: LGSBL — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 78,597 = 3 × 3 × 3 × 41 × 71. Its digits add up to 36, a total 149 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10011001100000101
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 78596 (Weslaco, TX, 46 mi away) and 78598 (Port Mansfield, TX, 21 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 78597 becomes 79587, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 16 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (58779, 75789, 75798, 75978, 77598, 77859, …). The farthest-flung twin is 98577 in Raymond, WA, 2,012 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 98% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 75%.
  • 🎯940 miles south of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 78597 and you would come out at 26.27°S, 82.72°E — 1,338 miles from West Island, Cocos Islands, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 13h 47m of daylight. Shortest: 10h 29m.
  • 📏 At 8.8 square miles of land, 78597 is bigger than 25% of ZIP codes — room for about 6.7 Central Parks.
🌙 The sky over 78597 today
  • Working out the sun…
🌋 Shake report
  • Checking the USGS…

Source: USGS.

People and housing

Population2,935This ZIP2,935
Households1,642This ZIP1,642
Housing units5,603This ZIP5,603
Median age61.0This ZIP61.0Texas35.6US 38.9
Median household income$68,421This ZIP$68,421Texas$78,476US $80,734
Median home value$527,200This ZIP$527,200Texas$283,800US $332,700
Median gross rent$1,521This ZIP$1,521Texas$1,403US $1,413
Bachelor's degree or higher53.6%This ZIP53.6%
Mean commute12.7 minThis ZIP12.7 min
Population density332.1 / sq miThis ZIP332.1 / sq mi

Business and tax activity

Business establishments334This ZIP334
Employees4,045This ZIP4,045
Annual payroll$103,916,000This ZIP$103,916,000
Tax returns filed1,310This ZIP1,310
Total adjusted gross income$163,482,000This ZIP$163,482,000

Land area

Land area8.84 sq miThis ZIP8.84 sq mi
Water area124.47 sq miThis ZIP124.47 sq mi

Other place names in 78597

Census places whose land this ZIP code overlaps. The Postal Service may accept other city names in an address, too.

ZIP codes near 78597

ZIPCityDistance
78566 Los Fresnos, TX 11.7 mi
78583 Rio Hondo, TX 12.1 mi
78578 Port Isabel, TX 16.0 mi
78568 Lozano, TX 17.4 mi
78598 Port Mansfield, TX 20.6 mi
78526 Brownsville, TX 22.0 mi
78521 Brownsville, TX 22.9 mi
78575 Olmito, TX 23.7 mi
78550 Harlingen, TX 24.0 mi
78523 Brownsville, TX 25.3 mi

Find every ZIP code within 10 miles of 78597 →

Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 78597?

78597 is in South Padre Island, Texas, in Cameron County, part of the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metropolitan area. Its published point location is 26.2732, -97.2764.

What county is 78597 in?

78597 lies in Cameron County.

What area code is 78597?

South Padre Island uses area code 956, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 78597 in?

78597 uses America/Chicago.

How many people live in 78597?

About 2,935 people live in ZIP code 78597, in 1,642 households, at 332.1 people per square mile. These are American Community Survey 5-year estimates for the ZIP Code Tabulation Area, not a headcount.

What is the median household income in 78597?

$68,421 a year, against $78,476 across Texas.

What ZIP codes are near 78597?

The closest are 78566 (11.7 mi), 78583 (12.1 mi), 78578 (16 mi), 78568 (17.4 mi) and 78598 (20.6 mi).

Is 78597 a PO Box ZIP code?

78597 is a standard ZIP code. A normal ZIP code with street delivery.

Download or cite

Cite this page

zipcodes.pro. “78597 ZIP Code — South Padre Island, Texas (Cameron County).” Data release 2026-10-12. Retrieved 2026-10-20. https://zipcodes.pro/zip/78597

Machine-readable version of these facts:

curl https://zipcodes.pro/zip/78597.json

Underlying data is public domain or openly licensed — sources, vintages and licences.