Amherst County ZIP Codes

Amherst County is a county of Virginia.

ZIP codes: 5
Cities & towns: 5
Area codes: 1
Land area: 474 sq mi

Every ZIP code in Amherst County

245xx

The complete list of Amherst County, VA ZIP codes with the city each one delivers to.
ZIP code	City
24521	Amherst
24533	Clifford
24572	Madison Heights
24574	Monroe
24595	Sweet Briar

We do not publish a delivery type (standard, PO box, unique) or a neighbourhood for each ZIP. USPS delivery-type products are licensed, and no clean-rights source maps ZIP codes to neighbourhoods — so the Amherst County codes above are listed without a column we would have to invent.

Cities and towns in Amherst County

A further 4 places in Amherst County appear in the postal source without a page of its own; their codes are in the table above and each one links to its own page.

Area codes covering Amherst County

Telephone and postal boundaries are drawn by different bodies, so these codes overlap the county without matching its edges.

434 Area code 434

Where Amherst County's ZIP codes sit

Each point is the reference point of one Amherst County ZIP code, plotted from its record coordinates. The outline is the convex envelope of those points — a footprint, not a boundary.

Reference points and footprint
Not an official NANPA boundary
Not a USPS delivery area

Scope every ZIP code recorded in Amherst County. Source GeoNames US postal codes (2026-07 postal dump), Census 2024 county Gazetteer (2024 Gazetteer) and geoinfo-dataset (full_dataset) ZIP→NPA (2018 snapshot). Updated 16 July 2026. The outline is a convex envelope of ZIP reference points, not a jurisdiction boundary.