West Bloomfield School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

At 1,034 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. West Bloomfield covers 13 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 boundary13,498
• Residents32,308
• ZIP Code areas it reaches5
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district4
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area13 square miles
• Homes per square mile1,034

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

Every one of the 4 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 48320 at 70% of the homes; the thinnest is 48328, where it holds 10 homes, under half a percent.

• ZIP Code 48320 · Keego Harbor, Michigan70% of the homes
• ZIP Code 48324 · Orchard Lake Village, Michigan54% of the homes
• ZIP Code 48322 · Farmington Hills, Michigan48% of the homes
• ZIP Code 48323 · Orchard Lake Village, Michigan26% of the homes
• ZIP Code 48328 · Waterford, Michigan10 homes, under half a percent

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

West Bloomfield is the largest district in 3 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 10,886 of the 22,544 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.

West Bloomfield is the largest name in ZIP Code 48322 · Farmington Hills, Michigan and still holds a minority of it: 6,438 of 13,517 homes. The other 7,079 homes are with Walled Lake Consolidated Schools, Farmington Public and Birmingham City. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

West Bloomfield is one of 5 districts the file names for ZIP Code 48324 · Orchard Lake Village, Michigan at that level. It holds 3,622 of the 6,753 homes there; the rest is 3,131 homes with Walled Lake Consolidated Schools, Waterford, Pontiac City and 1 more district. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 3,131 of the homes in it.

West Bloomfield holds 1,598 of the 2,274 homes in ZIP Code 48320 · Keego Harbor, Michigan, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 676 homes with Pontiac City.

ZIP Code 48323 · Orchard Lake Village, Michigan repeats the pattern with 4 names holding a real share: 1,830 of its 6,950 homes are West Bloomfield's, and the other 5,120 are not.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

West Bloomfield runs kindergarten 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 — Waterford, Walled Lake Consolidated Schools and Bloomfield Hills. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Waterford School District12,412 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Walled Lake Consolidated Schools9,290 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Bloomfield Hills School District2,301 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Pontiac City School District1,743 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Birmingham City School District1,154 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Farmington Public School District891 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

West Bloomfield shares ZIP Code areas with 6 different districts. The most frequent are Walled Lake Consolidated Schools, Birmingham City, Bloomfield Hills and Pontiac City. 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.

• Walled Lake Consolidated Schools3 shared ZIP areas
• Birmingham City School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Bloomfield Hills School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Pontiac City School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Farmington Public School District1 shared ZIP area
• Waterford School District1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Michigan746 of 987 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 4 of the 5 ZIP Code areas West Bloomfield 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.