Lamar County School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Lamar 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 boundary26,912
• Residents63,527
• ZIP Code areas it reaches6
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district5
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area556 square miles
• Homes per square mile48

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 39475 this district holds 97% of the homes; in 39470 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 39475 · Purvis, Mississippi97% of the homes
• ZIP Code 39482 · Sumrall, Mississippi85% of the homes
• ZIP Code 39455 · Lumberton, Mississippi80% of the homes
• ZIP Code 39402 · Hattiesburg, Mississippi73% of the homes
• ZIP Code 39429 · Columbia, Mississippi0.9% of the homes
• ZIP Code 39470 · Poplarville, Mississippino homes at all

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Lamar County is the largest district in 4 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 6,888 of the 33,733 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.

Lamar County holds 14,399 of the 19,622 homes in ZIP Code 39402 · Hattiesburg, Mississippi, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 5,199 homes with Hattiesburg Public and Forrest County Schools; 24 homes in a district too small to name here.

Lamar County is one of 5 districts the file names for ZIP Code 39455 · Lumberton, Mississippi at that level. It holds 3,440 of the 4,300 homes there; the rest is 842 homes with Forrest County Schools, Poplarville Separate and Stone County; 18 homes in a district too small to name here. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 860 of the homes in it.

ZIP Code 39482 · Sumrall, Mississippi repeats the pattern with 4 names holding a real share: 3,802 of its 4,454 homes are Lamar County's, and the other 652 are not.

ZIP Code 39475 · Purvis, Mississippi is a two-district area: 5,204 of its 5,357 homes are inside Lamar County, and the other 153 homes are with Forrest County Schools. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Lamar County is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 39429 · Columbia, Mississippi — Columbia leads it — and Lamar County holds 67 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Lamar 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 — Poplarville Separate, Columbia and Hattiesburg Public. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Poplarville Separate School District5,608 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Columbia School District4,424 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Hattiesburg Public School District3,551 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Marion County School District2,997 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Forrest County Schools2,134 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Covington County School District263 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Lamar County shares ZIP Code areas with 8 different districts. The most frequent are Forrest County Schools, Marion County, Columbia and Covington County. 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.

• Forrest County Schools3 shared ZIP areas
• Marion County School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Columbia School District1 shared ZIP area
• Covington County School District1 shared ZIP area
• Hattiesburg Public School District1 shared ZIP area
• Jefferson Davis County School District1 shared ZIP area

Lamar County and Forrest County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 39402 · Hattiesburg, Mississippi
• ZIP Code 39455 · Lumberton, Mississippi
• ZIP Code 39475 · Purvis, Mississippi

Lamar County and Marion County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 39429 · Columbia, Mississippi
• ZIP Code 39482 · Sumrall, Mississippi

Lamar County and Columbia school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 39429 · Columbia, Mississippi

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 Mississippi258 of 423 ZIP areas split
• How to find your school district numberNCES ID 2802400

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 5 of the 6 ZIP Code areas Lamar 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.