How to get number of Affected rows from wordpress dbDelta() function

dbDelta() is for creating new tables or change the structure (not the data) of existing ones.

You need $wpdb->insert( $tablename, $zips ); when you want to insert data. Hence the name. 🙂

And this method returns the number of affected rows, exactly as you need it. If it returns false, look at $wpdb->last_error to see what exactly went wrong.