| City: | Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
| City Alias: | E Lancaster, East Lancaster |
| County: | Lancaster County |
| Timezone: | Eastern (GMT -05:00) |
| Local Time: | 1:20:43 AM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Codes: | 223 / 717 |
| Classification: | PO Box |
| Coordinates: | 40.0388, -76.3074 |
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ZIP code 17605 serves a commercial mail services location in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It isn't a town or neighborhood. Instead, it's a single-building PO Box ZIP operating from Olde Homestead Lane on the eastern side of Lancaster. The location provides 79 PO Boxes and handles mail for 134 registered businesses.
The ZIP has no residential population and no geographic territory of its own. It exists as a point location within the larger 17601 ZIP code. This pattern is common for commercial mail receiving agencies and business mail centers that need their own ZIP code to process high volumes of business correspondence.
Three mailing names work for this ZIP:
The "East Lancaster" alias has been recognized since before 2004, suggesting this location has served the eastern Lancaster business community for decades.
Despite the PO Box classification, USPS data shows one city carrier route serves the address, likely for package and business delivery to the facility itself.
Single street address indicating a commercial mail receiving facility.
ZIP Code 17605 supports both business and residential activity. According to the Business Census (2024), there are 12 business establishments, employing about 316 people with an annual payroll of $25,408,000.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 213Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 12Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $6,039,000Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $25,408,000Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 316Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 17605 is located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, within the Lancaster, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 29540) and Pennsylvania's 11st Congressional District. This Metro area has a population of 555,151 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 17605. It covers 0 sq mi of land and a water area of 0 sq mi.
| CBSA Name: | Lancaster, PASource: Census |
| CBSA Number: | 29540Source: Census |
| CBSA Type: | MetroSource: Census |
| CBSA Division: | --Source: Census |
| CBSA Population: | 555,151Source: Census |
| MSA: | Lancaster, PA MSASource: Census |
| Land Area: | --Source: Census |
| Water Area: | --Source: Census |
| Congressional District: | 11Source: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | 3356.48 sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | --Source: Census |
| Intro Date: | < 2004-10Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | 4241216Source: Census |
| Place Name: | Lancaster city; PennsylvaniaSource: Census |
We could not locate which school district 17605 belongs to, but we will update this once new district data is released. There are no public schools nor private schools with a mailing address in this ZIP Code. Listing Nearby schools instead. It also has 6 colleges, universities or post secondary education institutions nearby which would be a short commute to.
Our sources include trusted federal and licensed data from the United States Postal Service, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Geological Survey, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Center for Education Statistics, along with proprietary datasets created by ZIP-Codes.com. Data last updated on January 1, 2026.