| City: | Ruston, Louisiana |
| Parish: | Lincoln Parish |
| Timezone: | Central (GMT -06:00) |
| Local Time: | 9:27:31 PM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Code: | 318 |
| Classification: | PO Box |
| Coordinates: | 32.5233, -92.6376 |
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ZIP Code 71273 serves as a PO Box facility for Ruston, Louisiana, located in Lincoln Parish. This ZIP doesn't have residential population within its boundaries. Instead, it functions as a dedicated postal service point with 425 PO Boxes and 372 business delivery addresses.
The facility operates at 201 E Georgia Ave, which appears in postal records with 136 unit designations. This is an example of PO Box Street Addressing (PBSA), where PO Box customers can use the post office's physical street address instead of a traditional PO Box format. The single street listing with multiple units indicates these are PO Boxes formatted as street addresses, not traditional carrier delivery routes.
Ruston's standard mail delivery happens through the companion ZIP Code 71270, which covers the residential and commercial areas of the city. The separation between the two ZIPs follows an older USPS organizational pattern where PO Box services received their own ZIP classification. Despite the PO Box classification, street delivery is available throughout Ruston via the standard ZIP.
The facility serves 18 business establishments that collectively employ 476 workers, suggesting these are larger businesses or organizations that maintain mail receiving operations at this location. The relatively high business count compared to PO Box count indicates this ZIP primarily serves commercial and organizational mail needs rather than individual residential customers.
The single street represents the post office's physical address used for PO Box Street Addressing (PBSA).
ZIP Code 71273 supports both business and residential activity. According to the Business Census (2024), there are 19 business establishments, employing about 417 people with an annual payroll of $30,962,000.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 788Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 19Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $7,839,000Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $30,962,000Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 417Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 71273 is located in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, within the Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA ) and Louisiana's 5th Congressional District. This area has a population of 63,009 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 71273. It covers 0 sq mi of land and a water area of 0 sq mi.
| CBSA Name: | --Source: Census |
| CBSA Number: | --Source: Census |
| CBSA Type: | --Source: Census |
| CBSA Division: | --Source: Census |
| CBSA Population: | 63,009Source: Census |
| MSA: | Source: Census |
| Land Area: | --Source: Census |
| Water Area: | --Source: Census |
| Congressional District: | 05Source: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | 14452.88 sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | Source: Census |
| Intro Date: | < 2004-10Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | 2266655Source: Census |
| Place Name: | Ruston city; LouisianaSource: Census |
We could not locate which school district 71273 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.