Cedar Falls Community School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Cedar Falls Community, 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 boundary17,622
• Residents42,322
• ZIP Code areas it reaches4
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district3
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area59 square miles
• Homes per square mile297

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 50613 this district holds 93% of the homes; in 50670 it holds no homes at all. 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 50613 · Cedar Falls, Iowa93% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50647 · Janesville, Iowa7.4% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50701 · Waterloo, Iowa4.3% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50670 · Shell Rock, Iowano homes at all

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Cedar Falls Community is the largest district in 1 ZIP Code area, and that area is not wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 1,219 of the 18,168 homes that area holds. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.

Cedar Falls Community is one of 7 districts the file names for ZIP Code 50613 · Cedar Falls, Iowa at that level. It holds 16,949 of the 18,168 homes there; the rest is 1,186 homes with Hudson Community, Dike-New Hartford Community, Janesville Consolidated and one more district; 33 homes in districts too small to name here. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 1,219 of the homes in it.

Cedar Falls Community is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 50701 · Waterloo, Iowa — Waterloo Community leads it — and Cedar Falls Community holds 611 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 50647 · Janesville, Iowa is another area where Cedar Falls Community is present without being the answer: 62 of its 840 homes, behind Janesville Consolidated.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Cedar Falls Community 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 — Waterloo Community, Janesville Consolidated and Waverly-Shell Rock Community. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Waterloo Community School District13,804 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Janesville Consolidated School District969 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District918 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Hudson Community School District451 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Dike-New Hartford Community School District307 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Cedar Falls Community in the same ZIP Code areas: Janesville Consolidated, Waterloo Community, Dike-New Hartford Community and Hudson Community. 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.

• Janesville Consolidated School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Waterloo Community School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Dike-New Hartford Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Hudson Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District1 shared ZIP area

Cedar Falls Community and Janesville Consolidated school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50613 · Cedar Falls, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50647 · Janesville, Iowa

Cedar Falls Community and Waterloo Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50613 · Cedar Falls, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50701 · Waterloo, Iowa

Cedar Falls Community and Dike-New Hartford Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50613 · Cedar Falls, Iowa

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 Iowa678 of 969 ZIP areas split
• How to find your school district numberNCES ID 1906510

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 3 of the 4 ZIP Code areas Cedar Falls Community 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.