| City: | Orange, California |
| County: | Orange County |
| Timezone: | Pacific (GMT -08:00) |
| Local Time: | 9:44:34 AM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Codes: | 657 / 714 |
| Classification: | PO Box |
| Coordinates: | 33.7878, -117.8523 |
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ZIP code 92856 is a PO Box-only designation for the Orange, California main post office. It isn't a place where people live. Instead, it's a facility ZIP containing 303 PO Boxes and serving 242 businesses along W Chapman Avenue in Old Town Orange.
The post office sits within ZIP code 92866, which handles street delivery for the surrounding area. Residents and businesses who want a PO Box get the 92856 code, while their home addresses use 92866 or other neighboring ZIPs. This split explains why 92856 has zero population but hundreds of active boxes.
Old Town Orange is a historic downtown district in Orange County, part of the greater Los Angeles metro area. The post office location on W Chapman Avenue places it near Santa Ana (0.7 miles away) and established neighborhoods like Park Santiago and Fairhaven. For mail purposes, 92856 exists solely to organize PO Box customers separate from street delivery routes.
All addresses are on W Chapman Avenue at the post office facility.
ZIP Code 92856 supports both business and residential activity. According to the Business Census (2024), there are 7 business establishments, employing about 22 people with an annual payroll of $922,000.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 535Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 7Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $233,000Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $922,000Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 22Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 92856 is located in Orange County, California, within the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 31080) and California's 46th Congressional District. This Metro area has a population of 0 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 92856, and is subdivided into the Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, CA division. It covers 0 sq mi of land and a water area of 0 sq mi.
| CBSA Name: | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CASource: Census |
| CBSA Number: | 31080Source: Census |
| CBSA Type: | MetroSource: Census |
| CBSA Division: | Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, CA (CBSA Div 11244)Source: Census |
| CBSA Population: | 0Source: Census |
| MSA: | Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CASource: Census |
| Land Area: | --Source: Census |
| Water Area: | --Source: Census |
| Congressional District: | 46Source: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | 71.72 sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | Orange County, CA PMSASource: Census |
| Intro Date: | < 2004-10Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | 0653980Source: Census |
| Place Name: | Orange city; CaliforniaSource: Census |
We could not locate which school district 92856 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.