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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/98401

98401

ZIP 98401 is in Tacoma, Washington, in Pierce County; area code 253; Pacific time. Tacoma has 35 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles
County
Pierce
Coordinates
47.2537, -122.4443

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 98402, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 98401 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 98401
  • 🔢 Type 98401 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: IOhBG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 98,401 = 19 × 5179. Its digits add up to 22, a total 2,607 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 11000000001100001
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 98398 (Paradise Inn, WA, 20 mi away) and 98402 (Tacoma, WA, 0 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 98401 becomes 10489, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 48 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (01984, 04918, 04981, 09184, 09418, 09814, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09814 in APO AE, a military post office, 7,419 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 96% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 97%.
  • 🎯1,294 miles northwest of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 98401 and you would come out at 47.25°S, 57.56°E — 599 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 56m of daylight. Shortest: 8h 28m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments25This ZIP25
Employees640This ZIP640
Annual payroll$133,956,000This ZIP$133,956,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 98401

ZIPCityDistance
98402 Tacoma, WA 0.0 mi
98411 Tacoma, WA 0.1 mi
98412 Tacoma, WA 0.1 mi
98413 Tacoma, WA 0.1 mi
98415 Tacoma, WA 0.1 mi
98431 Tacoma, WA 0.1 mi
98464 Tacoma, WA 0.1 mi
98471 Tacoma, WA 0.1 mi
98481 Tacoma, WA 0.1 mi
98493 Tacoma, WA 0.1 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 98401?

98401 is in Tacoma, Washington, in Pierce County, part of the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 47.2537, -122.4443.

What county is 98401 in?

98401 lies in Pierce County.

What area code is 98401?

Tacoma uses area code 253, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 98401 in?

98401 uses America/Los_Angeles.

What ZIP codes are near 98401?

The closest are 98402 (0 mi), 98411 (0.1 mi), 98412 (0.1 mi), 98413 (0.1 mi) and 98415 (0.1 mi).

Is 98401 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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