Anniston City School District

A few homes at the edge of someone else's ZIP Code

11,165 homes hold 21,582 residents, about 1.9 people each. Where households are small, a district's share of the homes overstates its share of the children, and this page counts homes.

• Homes inside the boundary11,165
• Residents21,582
• ZIP Code areas it reaches6
• Where it is the only district1
• Where it shares with another district4
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area46 square miles
• Homes per square mile244

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 36205 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 36203 it holds 5 homes, under half a percent. Same district, opposite answers, and a lookup that names it without the share tells the second household the same thing as the first.

• ZIP Code 36205 · Anniston, Alabama100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36207 · White Plains, Alabama60% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36201 · Anniston, Alabama46% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36206 · Saks, Alabama19% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36277 · Weaver, Alabama0.6% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36203 · Oxford, Alabama5 homes, under half a percent

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Anniston City is the largest district in 3 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 8,579 of the 18,750 homes those areas hold — though in 1 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Anniston City is the largest name in ZIP Code 36201 · Anniston, Alabama and still holds a minority of it: 4,071 of 8,882 homes. The other 4,811 homes are with Calhoun County and Oxford City. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

Anniston City holds 5,657 of the 9,425 homes in ZIP Code 36207 · White Plains, Alabama, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 3,768 homes with Calhoun County and Oxford City.

In ZIP Code 36205 · Anniston, Alabama the single-name answer is the true one: Anniston City holds all 443 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

Anniston City reaches into ZIP Code 36206 · Saks, Alabama with 976 of its 5,032 homes, behind Calhoun County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 976 homes.

Anniston City is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 36277 · Weaver, Alabama — Calhoun County leads it — and Anniston City holds 13 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Anniston City runs pre-K through grade 12 itself, so an address it holds sees no change of authority between grade school and high school. The districts listed below are the ones that take the other homes in the ZIP Code areas it shares — Calhoun County, Oxford City and Talladega County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Calhoun County School District13,674 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
• Oxford City School District9,027 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Talladega County School District511 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Anniston City in the same ZIP Code areas: Calhoun County and Oxford City. A single-name lookup for one of those areas has to choose between them, and the choice is right for some addresses and wrong for others.

• Calhoun County School District4 shared ZIP areas
• Oxford City School District2 shared ZIP areas

Where this district sits

• School districts in Alabama332 of 648 ZIP areas split
• Every district with a page here260 districts listed

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address. A district settles that question on its own site: look for a school locator, a find my school tool, or an attendance zone map. Where there is none, ask the office itself.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 4 of the 6 ZIP Code areas Anniston City reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

This site links to no district website. None of the federal files it is built from publishes one, and a guessed address is worse than none. It is the district office, not a search engine, that settles an address.

If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.

What this cannot tell you

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file. Nothing on this page adjusts one to the other. Where houses have been built or cleared since the count, a share here describes the place as it was counted rather than as it stands today, and in the fastest-growing ZIP Code areas that gap is the largest single source of error on this site.

A share on this page is a share of the homes in the ZIP Code area, not a probability for any particular address. Enrollment is decided by street address, and a district may run magnet, charter or choice programs that ignore the boundary entirely. If a decision depends on the answer, the district office is the only authority; this page shows what the federal boundary files say and when they were published.

A district boundary is not a school attendance zone. This site never says which school an address is assigned to: no current national dataset of attendance zones exists, and the district draws them itself. Nor is anything here endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau; we use their published files, and that is the whole of the relationship.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not an area. What is mapped here is the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area, the closest published approximation to it. The two are not identical, and a handful of ZIP Codes used only for post office boxes or single buildings have no tabulation area at all.

Where these numbers come from

School district boundaries come from the Census Bureau's Census Geographic Relationship File, current 2026 vintage, which assigns every census block to a unified district or to an elementary and a secondary district. Homes and residents in each block come from the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), H1_001 and P1_001. The ZIP Code areas come from the same Geographic Relationship File, block to ZIP Code Tabulation Area. District names and grade ranges come from the Census Gazetteer 2025, with 2020 for districts no longer listed.

The place name printed beside a ZIP Code comes from the Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area relationship files: place, county subdivision and county, taken 2026-09-06. It is a label rather than a measurement: the Census Bureau does not publish which post office a ZIP Code belongs to, so the place named is the one covering the most land inside the area, not the city the Postal Service prints on an envelope.

Everything else on this page — the shares, the counts of districts per ZIP, the comparison between the two grade bands, the rankings — is computed here from those files. The source publishes none of it. Snapshot taken 2026-09-03.