Dothan City School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Dothan City, grouped by the ZIP Code area each block falls in. The Census Bureau publishes the blocks; the grouping is computed here, and it is the only place these particular numbers exist.

• Homes inside the boundary33,234
• Residents71,099
• ZIP Code areas it reaches7
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district7
• Where it holds under half a percent0
• Land area90 square miles
• Homes per square mile368

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

Every one of the 7 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 36303 at 89% of the homes; the thinnest is 36312, where it holds 0.7% of the homes.

• ZIP Code 36303 · Dothan, Alabama89% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36305 · Dothan, Alabama83% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36301 · Dothan, Alabama74% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36350 · Midland City, Alabama27% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36321 · Cowarts, Alabama4.3% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36345 · Headland, Alabama2.0% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36312 · Ashford, Alabama0.7% of the homes

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Dothan City is the largest district in 3 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 7,333 of the 39,538 homes those areas hold. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.

Dothan City holds 12,904 of the 17,363 homes in ZIP Code 36301 · Dothan, Alabama, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 4,379 homes with Houston County and 80 homes in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 36303 · Dothan, Alabama the split runs 13,130 to 1,575 and the larger part is Dothan City's: the rest is 1,566 homes with Houston County and Dale County and 9 homes in a district too small to name here.

Dothan City reaches into ZIP Code 36350 · Midland City, Alabama with 904 of its 3,306 homes, behind Dale County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 904 homes.

Dothan City is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 36345 · Headland, Alabama — Henry County leads it — and Dothan City holds 74 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 36321 · Cowarts, Alabama is another area where Dothan City is present without being the answer: 33 of its 768 homes, behind Houston County.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Dothan 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 — Houston County, Henry County and Dale County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Houston County School District10,170 homes in 6 shared ZIP Code areas
• Henry County School District3,306 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Dale County School District2,901 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Geneva County School District333 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Dothan City in the same ZIP Code areas: Houston County, Dale County, Geneva County and Henry County. 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.

• Houston County School District6 shared ZIP areas
• Dale County School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Geneva County School District1 shared ZIP area
• Henry County School District1 shared ZIP area

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 7 of the 7 ZIP Code areas Dothan 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.