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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/90609

90609

ZIP 90609 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 90609 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 90609
  • 🔢 Type 90609 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: GOgOG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ⇆90609 reads the same backwards. It is one of only 412 palindromic ZIP codes.
  • ➕ As a number, 90,609 = 3 × 30203. Its digits add up to 24, a total 2,425 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10110000111110001
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 90608 (Whittier, CA, 0 mi away) and 90610 (Whittier, CA, 0 mi away).
  • 👥 10 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (00969, 09069, 09096, 09609, 60099, 90069, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09609 in FPO AE, a military post office, 6,400 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 90609 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 establishments5This ZIP5
Employees11This ZIP11
Annual payroll$793,000This ZIP$793,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 90609

ZIPCityDistance
90607 Whittier, CA 0.0 mi
90608 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 90609?

90609 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 90609 in?

90609 lies in Los Angeles County.

What area code is 90609?

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

What time zone is 90609 in?

90609 uses America/Los_Angeles.

What ZIP codes are near 90609?

The closest are 90607 (0 mi), 90608 (0 mi), 90610 (0 mi), 90602 (0.7 mi) and 90606 (1.9 mi).

Is 90609 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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