Norwalk Community School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Norwalk 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 boundary5,954
• Residents15,489
• ZIP Code areas it reaches7
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district4
• Where it holds under half a percent3
• Land area45 square miles
• Homes per square mile133

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 50211 this district holds 92% of the homes; in 50321 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 50211 · Norwalk, Iowa92% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50061 · West Des Moines, Iowa42% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50229 · Bevington, Iowa3.4% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50125 · Indianola, Iowa1.7% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50265 · West Des Moines, Iowa62 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 50320 · Des Moines, Iowano homes at all
• ZIP Code 50321 · Des Moines, Iowano homes at all

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Norwalk Community is the largest district in 2 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 914 of the 6,652 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.

Norwalk Community is one of 4 districts the file names for ZIP Code 50211 · Norwalk, Iowa at that level. It holds 5,425 of the 5,907 homes there; the rest is 482 homes with Martensdale-St. Marys Community, Indianola Community and Des Moines Independent Community. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 482 of the homes in it.

Norwalk Community is the largest name in ZIP Code 50061 · West Des Moines, Iowa and still holds a minority of it: 313 of 745 homes. The other 432 homes are 431 with West Des Moines Community, Martensdale-St. Marys Community and Winterset Community; 1 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.

Norwalk Community is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 50125 · Indianola, Iowa — Indianola Community leads it — and Norwalk Community holds 140 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 50229 · Bevington, Iowa is another area where Norwalk Community is present without being the answer: 14 of its 416 homes, behind Martensdale-St. Marys Community.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Norwalk 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 — West Des Moines Community, Des Moines Independent Community and Indianola Community. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• West Des Moines Community School District14,690 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Des Moines Independent Community School District11,886 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Indianola Community School District8,168 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Carlisle Community School District699 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Martensdale-St. Marys Community School District691 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Winterset Community School District144 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Norwalk Community shares ZIP Code areas with 7 different districts. The most frequent are Martensdale-St. Marys Community, Indianola Community, Winterset Community and Des Moines Independent Community. 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.

• Martensdale-St. Marys Community School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Indianola Community School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Winterset Community School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Des Moines Independent Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Interstate 35 Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Southeast Warren Community School District1 shared ZIP area

Norwalk Community and Martensdale-St. Marys Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50061 · West Des Moines, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50211 · Norwalk, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50229 · Bevington, Iowa

Norwalk Community and Indianola Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50125 · Indianola, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50211 · Norwalk, Iowa

Norwalk Community and Winterset Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50061 · West Des Moines, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50229 · Bevington, 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 1921240

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 4 of the 7 ZIP Code areas Norwalk 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.