Bremen Community High School District 228

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

At 1,166 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Bremen Community High School District 228 covers 31 square miles in all — small enough that a single ZIP Code area can hold most of it, and several ZIP Codes can cut across it.

• Homes inside the boundary35,997
• Residents90,973
• ZIP Code areas it reaches12
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district11
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area31 square miles
• Homes per square mile1,166

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 60445 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 60472 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 60445 · Midlothian, Illinois100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 60469 · Posen, Illinois93% of the homes
• ZIP Code 60452 · Oak Forest, Illinois87% of the homes
• ZIP Code 60428 · Markham, Illinois72% of the homes
• ZIP Code 60429 · Hazel Crest, Illinois58% of the homes
• ZIP Code 60478 · Country Club Hills, Illinois56% of the homes
• ZIP Code 60477 · Tinley Park, Illinois45% of the homes
• ZIP Code 60418 · Crestwood, Illinois24% of the homes
• ZIP Code 60426 · Harvey, Illinois5.8% of the homes
• ZIP Code 60430 · Homewood, Illinois0.8% of the homes
• ZIP Code 60406 · Blue Island, Illinois0.6% of the homes
• ZIP Code 60472 · Robbins, Illinoisno homes at all

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Bremen Community High School District 228 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 14,046 of the 44,607 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.

Bremen Community High School District 228 is the largest name in ZIP Code 60477 · Tinley Park, Illinois and still holds a minority of it: 7,414 of 16,310 homes. The other 8,896 homes are 8,891 with Consolidated High School District 230 and Rich Township High School District 227; 5 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.

Bremen Community High School District 228 holds 3,430 of the 5,942 homes in ZIP Code 60429 · Hazel Crest, Illinois, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 2,512 homes with Thornton Township High School District 205 and Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School District 233.

ZIP Code 60452 · Oak Forest, Illinois is a two-district area: 9,345 of its 10,690 homes are inside Bremen Community High School District 228, and the other 1,345 homes are with Consolidated High School District 230. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 60428 · Markham, Illinois the split runs 2,995 to 1,162 and the larger part is Bremen Community High School District 228's: the rest is 1,162 homes with Thornton Township High School District 205.

In ZIP Code 60478 · Country Club Hills, Illinois this district is one name among 4. Country Club Hills School District 160 leads with the largest share and Bremen Community High School District 228 holds 3,493 of the 6,204 homes counted there; no single name describes that area at all.

ZIP Code 60418 · Crestwood, Illinois repeats the pattern with 6 names holding a real share: 1,227 of its 5,196 homes are Bremen Community High School District 228's, and the other 3,969 are not.

Bremen Community High School District 228 is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 60426 · Harvey, Illinois — Thornton Township High School District 205 leads it — and Bremen Community High School District 228 holds 592 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 60430 · Homewood, Illinois is another area where Bremen Community High School District 228 is present without being the answer: 66 of its 8,283 homes, behind Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School District 233.

The elementary districts that feed it

Students arrive at Bremen Community High School District 228 from 6 districts that run the lower grades on the same ground — Forest Ridge School District 142, which sends 15%, Community Consolidated School District 146, which sends 14% and Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144, which sends 14%. Each of those addresses therefore belongs to two districts at once, one for grade school and this one for high school, and neither name is the whole answer.

• Forest Ridge School District 14215% of Bremen Community High School District 228's homes come from here
• Community Consolidated School District 14614% of Bremen Community High School District 228's homes come from here
• Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 14414% of Bremen Community High School District 228's homes come from here
• Midlothian School District 14313% of Bremen Community High School District 228's homes come from here
• Arbor Park School District 14512% of Bremen Community High School District 228's homes come from here
• Kirby School District 1408.1% of Bremen Community High School District 228's homes come from here

The names in this list are exact: the federal file gives the district of each band for every census block. The percentages are not. They spread each shared ZIP Code area's homes across the other band in proportion to the share each district holds there, because the file names the two districts of a block and not how a household moves between them. Read them as the size of the crossing, not as a count of houses.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Bremen Community High School District 228 shares ZIP Code areas with 24 different districts. The most frequent are Thornton Township High School District 205, Hazel Crest School District 152-5, Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 144 and Posen-Robbins Elementary School District 143-5. 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.

• Thornton Township High School District 2056 shared ZIP areas
• Hazel Crest School District 152-54 shared ZIP areas
• Prairie-Hills Elementary School District 1444 shared ZIP areas
• Posen-Robbins Elementary School District 143-54 shared ZIP areas
• Forest Ridge School District 1423 shared ZIP areas
• West Harvey-Dixmoor Public School District 1473 shared ZIP areas

Where this district sits

• School districts in Illinois1,034 of 1,394 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 11 of the 12 ZIP Code areas Bremen Community High School District 228 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.