Jackson County School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Jackson 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 boundary19,932
• Residents54,635
• ZIP Code areas it reaches16
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district13
• Where it holds under half a percent3
• Land area303 square miles
• Homes per square mile66

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 30567 this district holds 99% of the homes; in 30646 it holds 6 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 30567 · Pendergrass, Georgia99% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30565 · Nicholson, Georgia89% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30575 · Talmo, Georgia71% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30549 · Jefferson, Georgia55% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30558 · Maysville, Georgia54% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30517 · Braselton, Georgia44% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30548 · Hoschton, Georgia41% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30607 · Athens-Clarke County, Georgia28% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30530 · Commerce, Georgia27% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30529 · Commerce, Georgia23% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30543 · Gillsville, Georgia8.3% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30622 · Athens-Clarke County, Georgia7.7% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30666 · Statham, Georgia1.8% of the homes
• ZIP Code 30680 · Winder, Georgia42 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 30601 · Athens-Clarke County, Georgia26 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 30646 · Hull, Georgia6 homes, under half a percent

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Jackson County is the largest district in 7 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 14,236 of the 30,552 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.

Jackson County is the largest name in ZIP Code 30548 · Hoschton, Georgia and still holds a minority of it: 3,459 of 8,501 homes. The other 5,042 homes are with Hall County, Gwinnett County and Barrow County. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

ZIP Code 30549 · Jefferson, Georgia is a two-district area: 5,472 of its 9,988 homes are inside Jackson County, and the other 4,516 homes are with Jefferson City. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

ZIP Code 30517 · Braselton, Georgia repeats the pattern with 4 names holding a real share: 2,637 of its 5,960 homes are Jackson County's, and the other 3,323 are not.

Jackson County holds 1,165 of the 2,151 homes in ZIP Code 30558 · Maysville, Georgia, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 978 homes with Banks County and 8 homes in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 30565 · Nicholson, Georgia the split runs 1,642 to 196 and the larger part is Jackson County's: the rest is 196 homes with Madison County.

Jackson County reaches into ZIP Code 30607 · Athens-Clarke County, Georgia with 1,206 of its 4,361 homes, behind Clarke County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 1,206 homes.

Jackson County reaches into ZIP Code 30529 · Commerce, Georgia with 1,103 of its 4,814 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Commerce City leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 1,103 homes.

In ZIP Code 30530 · Commerce, Georgia this district is one name among 4. Banks County leads with the largest share and Jackson County holds 706 of the 2,662 homes counted there; no single name describes that area at all.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Jackson 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 — Barrow County, Clarke County and Hall County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Barrow County School District20,837 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
• Clarke County School District15,219 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
• Hall County School District5,099 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
• Jefferson City School District4,516 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Madison County School District3,959 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
• Oconee County School District3,710 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Jackson County shares ZIP Code areas with 10 different districts. The most frequent are Hall County, Banks County, Barrow County and Clarke 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.

• Hall County School District5 shared ZIP areas
• Banks County School District4 shared ZIP areas
• Barrow County School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Clarke County School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Gwinnett County School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Madison County School District2 shared ZIP areas

Jackson County and Hall County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 30517 · Braselton, Georgia
• ZIP Code 30543 · Gillsville, Georgia
• ZIP Code 30548 · Hoschton, Georgia
• ZIP Code 30567 · Pendergrass, Georgia
• ZIP Code 30575 · Talmo, Georgia

Jackson County and Banks County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 30529 · Commerce, Georgia
• ZIP Code 30530 · Commerce, Georgia
• ZIP Code 30543 · Gillsville, Georgia
• ZIP Code 30558 · Maysville, Georgia

Jackson County and Barrow County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 30517 · Braselton, Georgia
• ZIP Code 30548 · Hoschton, Georgia
• ZIP Code 30666 · Statham, Georgia

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 Georgia390 of 744 ZIP areas split
• How to find your school district numberNCES ID 1302940

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 13 of the 16 ZIP Code areas Jackson 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.

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.