28603 ZIP Code
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ZIP code 28603 covers Hickory, North Carolina. It has no Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area, which is how the Census Bureau treats ZIP codes that are not residential neighbourhoods — PO box-only ranges, military addresses, and codes assigned to a single large organisation. There are no population or income figures for it because nobody is counted as living there.
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC-05:00observes daylight saving time
- Businesses
- 68
Where 28603 is
Hickory, North Carolina — the point the Postal Service gives for this ZIP code. A ZIP code is a set of delivery routes rather than an area, so this marks its centre, not its boundary.
Business and employment
Census ZIP Code Business Patterns 2022
| Business establishments | 68 |
|---|---|
| People employed | 3,085 |
| Annual payroll | $187,640,000 |
Climate
NOAA US Climate Normals 1991-2020, from the nearest weather station with a full year of records. The station and its distance are named above, because a station forty kilometres away describes somewhere else.
| Weather station | HICKORY FAA AP, NC US11 km away |
|---|---|
| Rain in a year | 47 in |
Average high and low by month
| January | 49.1°F / 30.2°F3.81 in rain |
|---|---|
| February | 53.2°F / 32.8°F3.21 in rain |
| March | 60.7°F / 39.5°F4.08 in rain |
| April | 70°F / 47.7°F4.08 in rain |
| May | 77.4°F / 56.2°F3.86 in rain |
| June | 84.3°F / 64.4°F4.35 in rain |
| July | 87.4°F / 68.1°F4.29 in rain |
| August | 85.7°F / 67°F4.58 in rain |
| September | 79.8°F / 60.9°F3.93 in rain |
| October | 70.2°F / 48.9°F3.49 in rain |
| November | 59.9°F / 38.7°F3.62 in rain |
| December | 51.5°F / 32.8°F3.85 in rain |
Nearby ZIP codes
The closest ZIP codes by centre point, which is not the same as sharing a border.
| 28658 Newton, NC | 5.2 km away |
|---|---|
| 28602 Hickory, NC | 6.7 km away |
| 28613 Conover, NC | 8.6 km away |
| 28601 Hickory, NC | 9.4 km away |
| 28637 Hildebran, NC | 12.7 km away |
| 28610 Claremont, NC | 14.9 km away |
| 28650 Maiden, NC | 15.4 km away |
| 28667 Rhodhiss, NC | 16.8 km away |
Location, counties and time zone
County shares from Census 2020 ZCTA relationship files. Time zone from the USDOT National Transportation Atlas, which renders the boundaries written into 49 CFR Part 71.
| Time zone | Eastern (UTC-05:00 standard) |
|---|---|
| Daylight saving time | Observed |
| Latitude, longitude | 35.6799, -81.2872 |
Figures are published for this ZIP code or its Census tabulation area unless a section says otherwise. Estimates whose margin of error made them unreliable are omitted rather than shown. Sources: US Census Bureau, CDC, IRS.