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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/90608

90608

ZIP 90608 is in Whittier, California, in Los Angeles County; area code 562; Pacific time. Whittier has 10 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles
County
Los Angeles
Coordinates
33.9792, -118.0328

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 90601, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 90608 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 90608
  • 🔢 Type 90608 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: BOgOG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 90,608 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 7 × 809. Its digits add up to 23, a total 2,533 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10110000111110000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 90607 (Whittier, CA, 0 mi away) and 90609 (Whittier, CA, 0 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 90608 becomes 80609, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 29 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (00698, 00968, 00986, 06089, 06098, 06890, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09680 in APO AE, a military post office, 8,201 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 79% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 91%.
  • 🎯1,145 miles west of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 90608 and you would come out at 33.98°S, 61.97°E — 989 miles from Saint-Denis, Reunion, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 25m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 53m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments8This ZIP8
Employees49This ZIP49
Annual payroll$2,289,000This ZIP$2,289,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 90608

ZIPCityDistance
90607 Whittier, CA 0.0 mi
90609 Whittier, CA 0.0 mi
90610 Whittier, CA 0.0 mi
90602 Whittier, CA 0.7 mi
90606 Whittier, CA 1.9 mi
90605 Whittier, CA 2.0 mi
90601 Whittier, CA 2.0 mi
90660 Pico Rivera, CA 3.3 mi
90603 Whittier, CA 3.3 mi
90670 Santa Fe Springs, CA 3.6 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 90608?

90608 is in Whittier, California, in Los Angeles County, part of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 33.9792, -118.0328.

What county is 90608 in?

90608 lies in Los Angeles County.

What area code is 90608?

Whittier uses area code 562, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 90608 in?

90608 uses America/Los_Angeles.

What ZIP codes are near 90608?

The closest are 90607 (0 mi), 90609 (0 mi), 90610 (0 mi), 90602 (0.7 mi) and 90606 (1.9 mi).

Is 90608 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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