Buncombe County ZIP Codes

Buncombe County is a county of North Carolina.

ZIP codes
25
Cities & towns
15
Area codes
1
Land area
656 sq mi

Every ZIP code in Buncombe County

287xx–288xx
The complete list of Buncombe County, NC ZIP codes with the city each one delivers to.
ZIP codeCity
28701Alexander
28704Arden
28709Barnardsville
28711Black Mountain
28715Candler
28728Enka
28730Fairview
28748Leicester
28757Montreat
28759Mills River
28770Ridgecrest
28776Skyland
28778Swannanoa
28787Weaverville
28801Asheville
28802Asheville
28803Asheville
28804Asheville
28805Asheville
28806Asheville
28810Asheville
28813Asheville
28814Asheville
28815Asheville
28816Asheville

We do not publish a delivery type (standard, PO box, unique) or a neighbourhood for each ZIP.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 Buncombe County codes above are listed without a column we would have to invent.

Cities and towns in Buncombe County

A further 8 places in Buncombe 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 Buncombe County

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

Where Buncombe County's ZIP codes sit

Each point is the reference point of one Buncombe 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 Buncombe 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 . The outline is a convex envelope of ZIP reference points, not a jurisdiction boundary.