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90224

ZIP 90224 is in Compton, California, in Los Angeles County; area codes 310, 424 and 562; Pacific time. Compton has 5 ZIP codes; the others are 90220, 90221, 90222 and 90223.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles
County
Los Angeles
Coordinates
33.7866, -118.2987

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 90710, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 90224 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 90224
  • 🔢 Type 90224 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: hZZOG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 90,224 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 5639. Its digits add up to 17, a total 2,133 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10110000001110000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 90223 (Compton, CA, 9 mi away) and 90230 (Culver City, CA, 16 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 90224 becomes 42209, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 30 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02492, 04292, 04922, 09242, 09422, 20429, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09242 in APO AE, a military post office, 5,798 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 80% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 92%.
  • 🎯1,165 miles west of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 90224 and you would come out at 33.79°S, 61.70°E — 970 miles from Saint-Denis, Reunion, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 24m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 54m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments4This ZIP4
Employees160This ZIP160
Annual payroll$15,038,000This ZIP$15,038,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 90224

ZIPCityDistance
90267 Manhattan Beach, CA 0.0 mi
90295 Marina Del Rey, CA 0.0 mi
90296 Playa Del Rey, CA 0.0 mi
90307 Inglewood, CA 0.0 mi
90309 Inglewood, CA 0.0 mi
90310 Inglewood, CA 0.0 mi
90507 Torrance, CA 0.0 mi
90508 Torrance, CA 0.0 mi
90509 Torrance, CA 0.0 mi
90510 Torrance, CA 0.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 90224?

90224 is in Compton, California, in Los Angeles County, part of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 33.7866, -118.2987.

What county is 90224 in?

90224 lies in Los Angeles County.

What area code is 90224?

Compton uses area codes 310, 424 and 562, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 90224 in?

90224 uses America/Los_Angeles.

What ZIP codes are near 90224?

The closest are 90267 (0 mi), 90295 (0 mi), 90296 (0 mi), 90307 (0 mi) and 90309 (0 mi).

Is 90224 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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