Hardin County School District

A few homes at the edge of someone else's ZIP Code

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Hardin 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 boundary39,526
• Residents92,929
• ZIP Code areas it reaches17
• Where it is the only district6
• Where it shares with another district9
• Where it holds under half a percent2
• Land area528 square miles
• Homes per square mile75

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 40162 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 40121 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 40162 · Rineyville, Kentucky100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42724 · Elizabethtown, Kentucky100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42740 · Hardin County, Kentucky100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42732 · Hardin County, Kentucky100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42788 · Hardin County, Kentucky100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 40160 · Radcliff, Kentucky100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42701 · Elizabethtown, Kentucky76% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42776 · Sonora, Kentucky74% of the homes
• ZIP Code 40177 · West Point, Kentucky63% of the homes
• ZIP Code 40175 · Vine Grove, Kentucky57% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42784 · Upton, Kentucky36% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42712 · Big Clifty, Kentucky35% of the homes
• ZIP Code 40140 · Breckinridge County, Kentucky1.6% of the homes
• ZIP Code 40150 · Lebanon Junction, Kentucky1.6% of the homes
• ZIP Code 40051 · New Haven, Kentucky0.7% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42748 · Hodgenville, Kentucky7 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 40121 · Fort Knox, Kentuckyno homes at all

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Hardin County is the largest district in 11 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 9,557 of the 48,729 homes those areas hold — though in 5 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Hardin County holds 17,205 of the 22,743 homes in ZIP Code 42701 · Elizabethtown, Kentucky, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 5,538 homes with Elizabethtown Independent.

In ZIP Code 40175 · Vine Grove, Kentucky the split runs 3,449 to 2,635 and the larger part is Hardin County's: the rest is 2,635 homes with Meade County and Breckinridge County.

Hardin County is the largest name in ZIP Code 42784 · Upton, Kentucky and still holds a minority of it: 453 of 1,256 homes. The other 803 homes are with Larue County and Hart 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 42776 · Sonora, Kentucky is a two-district area: 802 of its 1,091 homes are inside Hardin County, and the other 289 homes are with Larue County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 40160 · Radcliff, Kentucky the split runs 10,493 to 2 and the larger part is Hardin County's: the rest is 2 homes in a district too small to name here.

Hardin County reaches into ZIP Code 42712 · Big Clifty, Kentucky with 299 of its 854 homes, behind Grayson County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 299 homes.

Hardin County is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 40150 · Lebanon Junction, Kentucky — Bullitt County leads it — and Hardin County holds 28 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 40051 · New Haven, Kentucky is another area where Hardin County is present without being the answer: 14 of its 1,954 homes, behind Nelson County.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Hardin 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 — Elizabethtown Independent, Larue County and Meade County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Elizabethtown Independent School District5,538 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Larue County School District5,041 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
• Meade County School District2,411 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Fort Knox Dependent Schools2,292 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Bullitt County School District1,982 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Nelson County School District1,575 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Hardin County shares ZIP Code areas with 9 different districts. The most frequent are Larue County, Breckinridge County, Bullitt County and Elizabethtown Independent. 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.

• Larue County School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Breckinridge County School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Bullitt County School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Elizabethtown Independent School District1 shared ZIP area
• Grayson County School District1 shared ZIP area
• Hart County School District1 shared ZIP area

Hardin County and Larue County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 40051 · New Haven, Kentucky
• ZIP Code 42776 · Sonora, Kentucky
• ZIP Code 42784 · Upton, Kentucky

Hardin County and Breckinridge County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 40140 · Breckinridge County, Kentucky
• ZIP Code 40175 · Vine Grove, Kentucky

Hardin County and Bullitt County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 40150 · Lebanon Junction, Kentucky
• ZIP Code 40177 · West Point, Kentucky

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.

Check an exact address with the Census Geocoder

Where this district sits

• School districts in Kentucky300 of 775 ZIP areas split
• How to find your school district numberNCES ID 2102490

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 9 of the 17 ZIP Code areas Hardin 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.