| City: | Durham, North Carolina |
| County: | Durham County |
| Timezone: | Eastern (GMT -05:00) |
| Local Time: | 7:54:15 PM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Codes: | 919 / 984 |
| Classification: | PO Box |
| Coordinates: | 35.9939, -78.8986 |
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ZIP 27715 in Durham, North Carolina serves primarily as a business mail facility rather than a residential community. With zero residential population but 648 employees across 14 establishments, this ZIP handles mail for a concentrated commercial area. The post office maintains 353 PO Boxes and delivers to 259 business addresses.
Mail delivery centers on a single location: Kangaroo Drive, which accounts for all 120 street delivery records. The presence of UNIT designators indicates a multi-tenant commercial building or office park. This pattern is typical of Large Volume Receiver ZIPs, where a single facility or complex generates enough mail volume to justify dedicated postal infrastructure.
Despite its PO Box classification, this ZIP isn't a PO Box Only Zone. It has one city carrier route serving business addresses on Kangaroo Drive. The facility sits within the boundaries of ZIP 27705, which provides the surrounding geographic context. Nearby neighborhoods include Watts Hospital-Hillandale and Duke University's West Campus, both less than a mile away.
Business addresses on Kangaroo Drive use standard street addressing with unit numbers. PO Box addresses use the format: PO Box [Number], Durham, NC 27715.
Only one street serves this entire ZIP: Kangaroo Drive with 120 unit-designated business addresses.
ZIP Code 27715 supports both business and residential activity. According to the Business Census (2024), there are 12 business establishments, employing about 712 people with an annual payroll of $22,395,000.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 7,246Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 12Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $4,835,000Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $22,395,000Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 712Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 27715 is located in Durham County, North Carolina, within the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 20500) and North Carolina's 4th Congressional District. This Metro area has a population of 504,357 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 27715. It covers 0 sq mi of land and a water area of 0 sq mi.
| CBSA Name: | Durham-Chapel Hill, NCSource: Census |
| CBSA Number: | 20500Source: Census |
| CBSA Type: | MetroSource: Census |
| CBSA Division: | --Source: Census |
| CBSA Population: | 504,357Source: Census |
| MSA: | Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC MSASource: Census |
| Land Area: | --Source: Census |
| Water Area: | --Source: Census |
| Congressional District: | 04Source: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | 1045.35 sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | --Source: Census |
| Intro Date: | < 2004-10Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | 3719000Source: Census |
| Place Name: | Durham city; North CarolinaSource: Census |
We could not locate which school district 27715 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.