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ZCTA[0] can (roughly) be used for this purpose

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g...

And census tools like Geocorr can translate between zip/zcta and other geographies, weighted by population or land area, without doing any spatial calculations.

https://mcdc.missouri.edu/applications/geocorr2022.html

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