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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/92609

92609

ZIP 92609 is El Toro, California, in Orange County; area code 949; Pacific time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles
County
Orange
Coordinates
33.6240, -117.6908

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 92630, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 92609 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 92609
  • 🔢 Type 92609 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: GOgZG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 92,609 = 11 × 8419. Its digits add up to 26, a total 2,038 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10110100111000001
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 92607 (Laguna Niguel, CA, 7 mi away) and 92610 (Foothill Ranch, CA, 5 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 92609 becomes 90629, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 20 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (09629, 29069, 29609, 29690, 29906, 60929, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09629 in APO AE, a military post office, 6,114 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 81% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 90%.
  • 🎯1,139 miles west of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 92609 and you would come out at 33.62°S, 62.31°E — 975 miles from Saint-Denis, Reunion, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 23m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 55m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments7This ZIP7
Employees56This ZIP56
Annual payroll$3,422,000This ZIP$3,422,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 92609

ZIPCityDistance
92630 Lake Forest, CA 1.5 mi
92691 Mission Viejo, CA 1.7 mi
92654 Laguna Hills, CA 2.0 mi
92653 Laguna Hills, CA 2.1 mi
92637 Laguna Woods, CA 2.3 mi
92690 Mission Viejo, CA 2.9 mi
92692 Mission Viejo, CA 3.0 mi
92618 Irvine, CA 3.9 mi
92656 Aliso Viejo, CA 4.1 mi
92610 Foothill Ranch, CA 4.6 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 92609?

92609 is in El Toro, California, in Orange County, part of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 33.6240, -117.6908.

What county is 92609 in?

92609 lies in Orange County.

What area code is 92609?

El Toro uses area code 949, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 92609 in?

92609 uses America/Los_Angeles.

What ZIP codes are near 92609?

The closest are 92630 (1.5 mi), 92691 (1.7 mi), 92654 (2 mi), 92653 (2.1 mi) and 92637 (2.3 mi).

Is 92609 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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