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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/98496

98496

ZIP 98496 is in Lakewood, Washington, in Pierce County; area code 253; Pacific time. Lakewood has 5 ZIP codes; the others are 98439, 98497, 98498 and 98499.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles
County
Pierce
Coordinates
47.1666, -122.5089

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 98499, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 98496 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 98496
  • 🔢 Type 98496 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: gGhBG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 98,496 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 19. Its digits add up to 36, a total 149 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 11000000011000000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 98493 (Tacoma, WA, 7 mi away) and 98497 (Lakewood, WA, 1 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 98496 becomes 69489, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 14 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (46899, 46989, 46998, 49689, 49896, 49968, …). The farthest-flung twin is 96498 in APO AA, a military post office, 6,643 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 96% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 97%.
  • 🎯1,295 miles northwest of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 98496 and you would come out at 47.17°S, 57.49°E — 604 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 55m of daylight. Shortest: 8h 29m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments17This ZIP17
Employees160This ZIP160
Annual payroll$7,903,000This ZIP$7,903,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 98496

ZIPCityDistance
98499 Lakewood, WA 0.1 mi
98497 Lakewood, WA 0.6 mi
98438 Mcchord Afb, WA 2.3 mi
98498 Lakewood, WA 2.4 mi
98439 Lakewood, WA 2.5 mi
98444 Tacoma, WA 3.0 mi
98417 Tacoma, WA 3.0 mi
98419 Tacoma, WA 3.0 mi
98448 Tacoma, WA 3.0 mi
98490 Tacoma, WA 3.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 98496?

98496 is in Lakewood, Washington, in Pierce County, part of the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 47.1666, -122.5089.

What county is 98496 in?

98496 lies in Pierce County.

What area code is 98496?

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

What time zone is 98496 in?

98496 uses America/Los_Angeles.

What ZIP codes are near 98496?

The closest are 98499 (0.1 mi), 98497 (0.6 mi), 98438 (2.3 mi), 98498 (2.4 mi) and 98439 (2.5 mi).

Is 98496 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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