Calgary, Alberta Postal Code Forward Sortation Areas Map

Get this Calgary area postal code map featuring postal code forward sortation areas overlaid on a road map. This detailed map is ideal for the planning of deliveries, home services, sales territories, real estate and much more. The base map marks all roads, neighborhood names, railways, and high-level land use. You can get this map delivered to your doorsteps in your choice of finishing material that can be paper, canvas, or lamination.
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Calgary Postal Code Map

This Calgary postal code (Calgary ZIP code) map shows postal code forward sortation areas overlaid on a road map. Ideal for planning of deliveries, home services, sales territories, real estate and much more. Base map features include all roads with major roads and highways labeled; Calgary neighborhoods names; railways; and high-level land use such as parks and recreation areas, industrial areas and hospital campuses.

About Calgary Postal Codes

Calgary city has over a million people, covering an area of over eight hundred square kilometers. No single postal code could serve such a large area. This city of Canada uses all postal codes beginning with T1Y through those beginning with T3S - a total of 35 prefixes. Each prefix corresponds to up to 1840 individual codes.

For example, a Postal Code (Zip Code) of Calgary, Canada will be T1X 0L3.

If you need to look for the postal code for a particular address in Calgary, you can use Canada Post postal - code lookup page to find the correct code. Postal codes differ so much that they change within short radii and sometimes even serve as one of the items to identify you when you call in for some services.

Each Canadian province and administrative division maintains its own postal code for mail delivery purposes. Having a correct code is important for easy and efficient shipping of mails.

Alberta Postal Codes

Alberta has more than 600 cities, towns, and villages in the province and all of them have postal codes. All Alberta postal codes begin with T. As an instance, MEDICINE HAT, Alberta Canada has several codes, depending on the streets or sections of town, but one of them is T1A 0A1. One will require to have a specific address to drill down to the exact postal code for the intended address. All these individual addresses have different postal codes.

When writing out the postal address for a location within Canada, the postal code follows the abbreviation for the province or territory. The structure of Alberta postal codes is therefore like T1A 0A1, T1A 0A2, T1A 0A3 and so on. The initial three alphanumeric characters before space (here T1A) represent forward sortation area whereas the final three characters (0A1) describe a local delivery unit.

How postal coding system works in the Canadian city?

With all the essential postal code and address information, one can easily determine the spatial location of the street address and postal code and the difference in distance between two paired points. The major discovery of the present is that the postal code location closely approximates the location of a residence for a large majority of residents with over 80 percent of the postal codes being within 200 meters of the address, and approximately 95 percent of postal codes being within 500 meters of the street address.

How can one track Alberta postal code zones?

There are postal code maps of all the major Canada districts like Alberta, Ontario, Toronto, Vancouver, and many others. When it comes to tracking postal code zones in Alberta, you can get a map of Alberta postal codes that will have all the major postal zones and districts that are associated with mail and shipping. An interactive Alberta postal code map will show the forward sortation areas and local delivery units at one place. You can zoom in and out to locate postal codes in the list above by clicking the destination region you are sending mails to. This address lookup feature helps you to identify postal codes of specific towns and cities. These maps also help to track centers and zones and also assist in planning home deliveries and other services of sales territories, real estate and much more.

The Calgary Alberta postal code base map features include all roads with major roads and highways labeled; neighborhood names; railways; and high levels land use such as parks and recreation areas, industrial areas and hospital campuses.

This unique code has two primary objectives:

  • To establish a framework articulating the relationship between postal codes and geographic areas, and
  • To subsequently, establish rules for linking postal codes to standard geographic areas.

The Canadian Postal Code for any city is structured in a 6 characters long alphanumeric combination. So, when it comes to sending a mail to Alberta, the postal address would read like T5T 4M2. Here, the initial section identifies a major urban or rural area known as the ‘FSA’ or Forward Sortation Area, whereas the last three characters identify the smallest delivery unit, also known as the ‘LDU’ or ‘Local Delivery Unit’. This local delivery unit usually indicates a specific block, a single building, or a large volume mail receiver.

The characters that form the postal code are generally representative of the intended service (delivery) of the postal code. These postal codes form an integral part of every postal address in Canada and assist in the mechanized process of mailing.


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Map Scale 1:50,000
Flat Size 36 x 48 in
Publication Date 2018
Publisher Name MapSherpa
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