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93456

ZIP 93456 is in Santa Maria, California, in Santa Barbara County; area codes 805 and 820; Pacific time. Santa Maria has 5 ZIP codes; the others are 93454, 93455, 93457 and 93458.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles
County
Santa Barbara
Coordinates
34.9530, -120.4357

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 93454, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 93456 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 93456
  • 🔢 Type 93456 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: gShEG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 93,456 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 × 11 × 59. Its digits add up to 27, a total 1,806 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10110110100010000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 93455 (Santa Maria, CA, 8 mi away) and 93457 (Santa Maria, CA, 0 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 93456 becomes 65439 — and that is a real ZIP code: Bixby, MO, 1,638 miles away.
  • 👥 52 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (34695, 34956, 35469, 35649, 35964, 36549, …). The farthest-flung twin is 96534 in FPO AA, a military post office, 8,637 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 74% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 94%.
  • 🎯1,243 miles west of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 93456 and you would come out at 34.95°S, 59.56°E — 1,004 miles from Saint-Denis, Reunion, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 30m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 48m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments31This ZIP31
Employees450This ZIP450
Annual payroll$30,194,000This ZIP$30,194,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 93456

ZIPCityDistance
93457 Santa Maria, CA 0.0 mi
93458 Santa Maria, CA 3.2 mi
93444 Nipomo, CA 6.9 mi
93455 Santa Maria, CA 7.7 mi
93429 Casmalia, CA 8.3 mi
93454 Santa Maria, CA 10.2 mi
93434 Guadalupe, CA 10.5 mi
93445 Oceano, CA 12.2 mi
93437 Lompoc, CA 13.9 mi
93475 Oceano, CA 14.2 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 93456?

93456 is in Santa Maria, California, in Santa Barbara County, part of the Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 34.9530, -120.4357.

What county is 93456 in?

93456 lies in Santa Barbara County.

What area code is 93456?

Santa Maria uses area codes 805 and 820, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 93456 in?

93456 uses America/Los_Angeles.

What ZIP codes are near 93456?

The closest are 93457 (0 mi), 93458 (3.2 mi), 93444 (6.9 mi), 93455 (7.7 mi) and 93429 (8.3 mi).

Is 93456 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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