Gordon County School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Gordon 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 boundary16,622
• Residents42,536
• ZIP Code areas it reaches8
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district8
• Where it holds under half a percent0
• Land area339 square miles
• Homes per square mile49

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

Every one of the 8 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 30746 at 98% of the homes; the thinnest is 30171, where it holds 13% of the homes.

• ZIP Code 30746 · Gordon County, Georgia98% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30733 · Plainville, Georgia96% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30734 · Ranger, Georgia85% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30139 · Fairmount, Georgia65% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30701 · Calhoun, Georgia61% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30735 · Resaca, Georgia57% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30103 · Adairsville, Georgia19% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30171 · Bartow County, Georgia13% of the homes

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Gordon 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 8,280 of the 23,574 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.

Gordon County holds 9,949 of the 16,215 homes in ZIP Code 30701 · Calhoun, Georgia, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 6,266 homes with Calhoun City and Floyd County.

In ZIP Code 30735 · Resaca, Georgia the split runs 1,403 to 1,057 and the larger part is Gordon County's: the rest is 1,057 homes with Whitfield County and Murray County.

ZIP Code 30734 · Ranger, Georgia is a two-district area: 1,394 of its 1,647 homes are inside Gordon County, and the other 253 homes are with Pickens County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 30733 · Plainville, Georgia the split runs 814 to 36 and the larger part is Gordon County's: the rest is 36 homes with Floyd County.

Gordon County reaches into ZIP Code 30103 · Adairsville, Georgia with 1,163 of its 6,042 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Bartow County leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 1,163 homes.

Gordon County reaches into ZIP Code 30171 · Bartow County, Georgia with 165 of its 1,306 homes, behind Bartow County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 165 homes.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Gordon 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 — Calhoun City, Bartow County and Pickens County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Calhoun City School District6,113 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Bartow County School District5,912 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Pickens County School District691 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Whitfield County School District594 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Floyd County School District508 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Murray County School District463 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Gordon County shares ZIP Code areas with 7 different districts. The most frequent are Bartow County, Floyd County, Pickens County and Calhoun 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.

• Bartow County School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Floyd County School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Pickens County School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Calhoun City School District1 shared ZIP area
• Murray County School District1 shared ZIP area
• Walker County School District1 shared ZIP area

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 8 of the 8 ZIP Code areas Gordon 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.