Rocky Mount North Carolina ZIP Codes

Rocky Mount holds 5 ZIP codes, spread across 2 counties.

We do not publish a delivery type (standard, PO box, unique) or a neighbourhood for each ZIP.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

Scope every ZIP code recorded for Rocky Mount. 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 Rocky Mount ZIP code begins 278. Those first three digits identify the sectional center facility that processes mail for this part of North Carolina. Statewide that range covers 93 ZIP codes, so Rocky Mount accounts for 5% of it.

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

• 252 Area code 252

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