| City: | Winston Salem, North Carolina |
| Names to Avoid: | Winston Salem Brm |
| County: | Forsyth County |
| Timezone: | Eastern (GMT -05:00) |
| Local Time: | 7:50:51 PM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Codes: | 336 / 743 |
| Classification: | Unique [Company/Government] |
| Coordinates: | 36.0987, -80.2508 |
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ZIP code 27199 functions as the Business Reply Mail designation for the Winston-Salem postal district in Forsyth County, North Carolina. Business Reply Mail (BRM) allows companies to include pre-printed return envelopes where the business pays postage upon receipt rather than the customer. This service encourages higher response rates for surveys, payment returns, and customer correspondence. The USPS assigned this BRM designation in August 2012 to support automated mail processing in the region.
Winston-Salem, a city of approximately 400,000 residents in the Piedmont Triad region, generates substantial commercial mail volume from its diverse business community. The BRM system uses unique ZIP codes like 27199 to route prepaid reply mail directly to processing facilities equipped with automated weighing and sorting equipment. This allows businesses to pay exact postage based on actual returns. Census demographic data is not available for this ZIP, consistent with its function as an operational mail processing designation. Winston Salem is the valid mailing city for this designation.
ZIP Code 27199 is assigned to a single organization or institution. Detailed business demographics are not published for unique ZIP Codes.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 0Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 0Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $0Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $0Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 0Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 27199 is located in Forsyth County, North Carolina, within the Winston-Salem, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 49180) and North Carolina's 5th Congressional District. This Metro area has a population of 477,717 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 27199. It covers 0 sq mi of land and a water area of 0 sq mi.
| CBSA Name: | Winston-Salem, NCSource: Census |
| CBSA Number: | 49180Source: Census |
| CBSA Type: | MetroSource: Census |
| CBSA Division: | --Source: Census |
| CBSA Population: | 477,717Source: Census |
| MSA: | Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC MSASource: Census |
| Land Area: | --Source: Census |
| Water Area: | --Source: Census |
| Congressional District: | 05Source: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | 3571.86 sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | --Source: Census |
| Intro Date: | < 2004-10Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | --Source: Census |
| Place Name: | --Source: Census |
We could not locate which school district 27199 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 February 1, 2026.