A postal code is a five digit code used to help postal services deliver mail and packages. Here's what the numbers mean and how they determine yours.

Wednesday marks the 52nd birthday of the introduction of ZIP codes in the US. Though the explosion of business mail is mostly responsible for the Zoning Improvement Plan (ZIP), the idea started ...

U.S. zip codes were designed in 1963 to tell USPS how to sort your mail — but now they might tell others how you live your life. Software company Esri’s Tapestry Segmentation project has ...

Is your neighborhood full of laptops and lattes? Pleasantville-style domesticity? City strivers? This map will tell you.

Like it or not, where you decide to live often says a lot about you. You're not totally defined by your zip code, but a website spotted by Reddit seeks to show people what zip codes say about the ...

Esri's mapping tool lets you see what Big Data knows about the people who make up your neighborhood, right down to its fondness for lattes and iPads.