Charleston West Virginia ZIP Codes

Charleston holds 45 ZIP codes, all inside one county and one postal prefix.

We do not publish a delivery type (standard, PO box, unique) or a neighbourhood for each ZIP.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

Scope every ZIP code recorded for Charleston. Source GeoNames US postal codes (2026-07 postal dump) and Census 2024 county Gazetteer (2024 Gazetteer). Updated 15 July 2026. ZIP codes are delivery-route groupings, not areas; the boundaries implied by any ZIP map are approximations.

Every Charleston ZIP code begins 253. Those first three digits identify the sectional center facility that processes mail for this part of West Virginia. Statewide that range covers 47 ZIP codes, so Charleston accounts for 96% of it.

Every West Virginia ZIP prefix and the region it covers →

ZIP codes and area codes are separate systems — one routes mail, the other routes calls — and they do not share boundaries. The codes below serve the same ground Charleston occupies.

• 304 Area code 304
• 681 Area code 681

Charleston West Virginia area codes in full →

Straight-line distance between place reference points, not driving distance.