Carroll County School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Carroll County, 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 boundary36,001
• Residents92,583
• ZIP Code areas it reaches10
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district9
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area473 square miles
• Homes per square mile76

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 30108 this district holds 98% of the homes; in 30187 it holds 9 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 30108 · Bowdon, Georgia98% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30185 · Whitesburg, Georgia94% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30116 · Carrollton, Georgia87% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30180 · Villa Rica, Georgia70% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30179 · Temple, Georgia69% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30170 · Ephesus, Georgia63% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30182 · Mount Zion, Georgia49% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30117 · Carrollton, Georgia42% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30110 · Bremen, Georgia3.8% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30187 · Fairplay, Georgia9 homes, under half a percent

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Carroll County is the largest district in 6 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 8,385 of the 37,238 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.

Carroll County holds 10,490 of the 14,904 homes in ZIP Code 30180 · Villa Rica, Georgia, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 4,414 homes with Douglas County and Paulding County.

In ZIP Code 30179 · Temple, Georgia the split runs 4,669 to 2,104 and the larger part is Carroll County's: the rest is 2,104 homes with Paulding County and Haralson County.

ZIP Code 30116 · Carrollton, Georgia is a two-district area: 8,043 of its 9,291 homes are inside Carroll County, and the other 1,248 homes are with Carrollton City. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 30170 · Ephesus, Georgia the split runs 769 to 449 and the larger part is Carroll County's: the rest is 449 homes with Heard County.

ZIP Code 30117 · Carrollton, Georgia is close to being two districts in equal parts: Carroll County holds 6,403 of its 15,345 homes and Carrollton City leads the rest. A lookup that picks the larger name is making a coin-toss look like a fact.

Carroll County reaches into ZIP Code 30182 · Mount Zion, Georgia with 516 of its 1,057 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Haralson County leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 516 homes.

Carroll County is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 30110 · Bremen, Georgia — Bremen City leads it — and Carroll County holds 220 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

Carroll County 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 — Carrollton City, Douglas County and Haralson County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Carrollton City School District10,189 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Douglas County School District6,911 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Haralson County School District3,882 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Bremen City School District2,894 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Paulding County School District2,286 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Heard County School District528 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Carroll County shares ZIP Code areas with 6 different districts. The most frequent are Haralson County, Bremen City, Carrollton City and Douglas County. 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.

• Haralson County School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Bremen City School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Carrollton City School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Douglas County School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Heard County School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Paulding County School District2 shared ZIP areas

Where this district sits

• School districts in Georgia390 of 744 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 9 of the 10 ZIP Code areas Carroll County 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.