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Asheville, NC ZIP Codes

11 ZIP codes use the postal name Asheville, North Carolina (Census 2020 ZCTAs and GeoNames postal codes, October 2026): 5 residential and 6 for PO boxes or a single organization. Median household income runs from $58,438 in 28801 to $88,312 in 28804, 1.5 times as much (Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024). Asheville's most populous ZIP code is 28806, with 43,433 people (ACS 2020-2024); 30% of its land is in the city of Asheville.

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Where are Asheville's ZIP codes?

28801: $58k median household income28803: $77k median household income28804: $88k median household income28805: $75k median household income28806: $63k median household income288062880428805288032880128801: $58k median household income28803: $77k median household income28804: $88k median household income28805: $75k median household income28806: $63k median household income288062880428805288032880128801: $58k median household income28803: $77k median household income28804: $88k median household income28805: $75k median household income28806: $63k median household income2880628804288052880328801
The 5 residential ZIP codes named Asheville, shaded by median household income in national fifths (ACS 2020-2024). Select a ZIP to open it. <$54.1k$98.1k+no figure

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 ZCTA cartographic boundaries; ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates (B19013).

How different are Asheville's ZIP codes?

The highest median household income is in 28804 ($88,312), the lowest in 28801 ($58,438). Home values run from $359,200 in 28806 to $566,000 in 28804.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates (B19013, B25077, B01003).

All 5 residential ZIP codes of Asheville

Residential ZIP codes with the postal name Asheville, NC, largest first (ACS 2020-2024); sort by any column
County
28806 Buncombe County 43,433 1,139 $63k $359k
28803 Buncombe County 33,718 879 $77k $453k
28804 Buncombe County 25,776 899 $88k $566k
28805 Buncombe County 19,993 755 $75k $413k
28801 Buncombe County 14,691 2,876 $58k $548k

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates; 2023 Gazetteer land areas (2020 ZCTAs); town names from simplemaps US ZIP Codes (CC BY 4.0) and GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).

PO Box and single-organization ZIP codes in Asheville

6 ZIP codes named Asheville have no residential delivery area: post office boxes, or one organization (a large employer, an agency, a university) with its own code. The Census Bureau publishes no figures for them.

Asheville, NC: ZIP codes without a residential area, for PO boxes or one organization (GeoNames postal codes; USPS does not publish openly which is which)
ZIPCounty
28802Buncombe County
28810Buncombe County
28813Buncombe County
28814Buncombe County
28815Buncombe County
28816Buncombe County

Source: GeoNames postal codes (CC BY 4.0); a ZIP code with no Census ZCTA has no residential delivery area.

Which counties do Asheville's ZIP codes reach?

Asheville's residential ZIP codes lie in Buncombe County.

Which places do Asheville's ZIP codes cover?

A postal name is not a city limit. By the Census Bureau's places, Asheville's residential ZIP codes cover Asheville itself and 4 other places, each listed with the ZIP codes that have at least 5% of their land in it or hold most of the place:

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file (shares of land).

Which first three digits do Asheville's ZIP codes use?

The first three digits of a ZIP code name the sectional center, the mail processing plant that sorts it. Every ZIP code of Asheville starts with 288.

Three-digit prefixes of Asheville's ZIP codes, the sectional center for each (USPS labeling list L005, effective October 1, 2026) and how many of the prefix's codes are Asheville's
PrefixSectional centerHereAll codes
288 Greenville, SC (SCF 296) 11 11

All 11 ZIP codes that start with 288 are Asheville's: 5 residential codes and 6 PO Box or unique codes, sorted at Greenville, SC (SCF 296).

Source: U.S. Postal Service, labeling list L005 (3-digit ZIP Code prefix groups, SCF sortation), effective October 1, 2026.