Hoover City School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Hoover 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 boundary38,711
• Residents91,602
• ZIP Code areas it reaches9
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district7
• Where it holds under half a percent2
• Land area48 square miles
• Homes per square mile807

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 35244 at 83% of the homes; the thinnest is 35243, where it holds no homes at all.

• ZIP Code 35244 · Hoover, Alabama83% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35226 · Hoover, Alabama82% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35216 · Vestavia Hills, Alabama44% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35242 · Hoover, Alabama22% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35080 · Helena, Alabama2.7% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35124 · Pelham, Alabama2.4% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35022 · Bessemer, Alabama0.6% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35211 · Birmingham, Alabamano homes at all
• ZIP Code 35243 · Vestavia Hills, Alabamano homes at all

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Hoover 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 15,022 of the 47,881 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.

Hoover City is the largest name in ZIP Code 35216 · Vestavia Hills, Alabama and still holds a minority of it: 7,582 of 17,391 homes. The other 9,809 homes are 9,737 with Vestavia Hills City, Jefferson County, Homewood City and 1 more district; 72 in a district too small to name here. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

Hoover City is one of 6 districts the file names for ZIP Code 35226 · Hoover, Alabama at that level. It holds 12,442 of the 15,118 homes there; the rest is 2,676 homes with Vestavia Hills City, Jefferson County, Homewood City and 1 more district. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 2,676 of the homes in it.

Hoover City holds 12,835 of the 15,372 homes in ZIP Code 35244 · Hoover, Alabama, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 2,497 homes with Shelby County and Jefferson County and 40 homes in districts too small to name here.

ZIP Code 35242 · Hoover, Alabama repeats the pattern with 5 names holding a real share: 5,349 of its 24,215 homes are Hoover City's, and the other 18,866 are not.

Hoover City is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 35124 · Pelham, Alabama — Pelham City leads it — and Hoover City holds 253 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 35080 · Helena, Alabama is another area where Hoover City is present without being the answer: 190 of its 6,994 homes, behind Shelby County.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Hoover City runs kindergarten 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 — Shelby County, Birmingham City and Vestavia Hills City. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Shelby County School District24,128 homes in 7 shared ZIP Code areas
• Birmingham City School District17,300 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
• Vestavia Hills City School District15,506 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
• Jefferson County School District12,969 homes in 6 shared ZIP Code areas
• Pelham City School District8,992 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Bessemer City School District3,965 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Hoover City shares ZIP Code areas with 8 different districts. The most frequent are Shelby County, Jefferson County, Birmingham City and Vestavia Hills City. In a neighborhood this crowded the question is not which district serves the ZIP Code but which side of which street an address is on.

• Shelby County School District6 shared ZIP areas
• Jefferson County School District5 shared ZIP areas
• Birmingham City School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Vestavia Hills City School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Alabaster City School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Homewood 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 7 of the 9 ZIP Code areas Hoover 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.