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; 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

Dothan City and Houston County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 36301 · Dothan, Alabama
• ZIP Code 36303 · Dothan, Alabama
• ZIP Code 36305 · Dothan, Alabama
• ZIP Code 36312 · Ashford, Alabama
• ZIP Code 36321 · Cowarts, Alabama
• ZIP Code 36345 · Headland, Alabama

Dothan City and Dale County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 36303 · Dothan, Alabama
• ZIP Code 36345 · Headland, Alabama
• ZIP Code 36350 · Midland City, Alabama

Dothan City and Geneva County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 36305 · Dothan, Alabama

Have a street address?

A ZIP Code names every district that can serve the area; a street address settles which one serves a home. The Census Bureau geocoder takes an exact address and returns its school districts from the current boundary files, free and with no account.

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Where this district sits

• School districts in Alabama332 of 648 ZIP areas split
• How to find your school district numberNCES ID 0101230

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address: look on its site for a school locator, a find my school tool or an attendance zone map, or call the office.

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.

District websites and phone numbers here come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory, 2024-25 school year, filed under the same district ID as the Census boundary files. Where it lists no usable website, none is printed rather than guessed.

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.

Where these numbers come from

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file, so a fast-growing area may have changed since; ZIP Codes here are the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; a share is a share of homes, not the chance that one address is in a district; and a district is not a school attendance zone. Every source, file and caveat is on the method page.