Canton City School District

Where this district is the answer, and where it is not

At 1,739 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Canton City covers 17 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 boundary28,958
• Residents60,575
• ZIP Code areas it reaches12
• Where it is the only district2
• Where it shares with another district8
• Where it holds under half a percent2
• Land area17 square miles
• Homes per square mile1,739

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 44703 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 44730 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 44703 · Canton, Ohio100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 44702 · Canton, Ohio100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 44704 · Canton, Ohio90% of the homes
• ZIP Code 44710 · Canton, Ohio69% of the homes
• ZIP Code 44707 · Canton, Ohio58% of the homes
• ZIP Code 44705 · Canton, Ohio57% of the homes
• ZIP Code 44714 · Canton, Ohio54% of the homes
• ZIP Code 44708 · Canton, Ohio38% of the homes
• ZIP Code 44706 · Canton, Ohio37% of the homes
• ZIP Code 44709 · Canton, Ohio30% of the homes
• ZIP Code 44718 · Canton, Ohiono homes at all
• ZIP Code 44730 · Canton, Ohiono homes at all

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Canton City is the largest district in 9 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 21,048 of the 47,244 homes those areas hold — though in 2 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Canton City is the largest name in ZIP Code 44708 · Canton, Ohio and still holds a minority of it: 4,545 of 12,075 homes. The other 7,530 homes are with Plain Local, Perry Local and Jackson Local. 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 44706 · Canton, Ohio repeats the pattern with 4 names holding a real share: 2,802 of its 7,565 homes are Canton City's, and the other 4,763 are not.

ZIP Code 44705 · Canton, Ohio is a two-district area: 4,448 of its 7,853 homes are inside Canton City, and the other 3,405 homes are with Plain Local. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 44714 · Canton, Ohio the split runs 2,324 to 1,984 and the larger part is Canton City's: the rest is 1,984 homes with Plain Local.

Canton City holds 2,920 of the 4,244 homes in ZIP Code 44710 · Canton, Ohio, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 1,318 homes with Perry Local and 6 homes in a district too small to name here.

Canton City reaches into ZIP Code 44709 · Canton, Ohio with 2,762 of its 9,145 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Plain Local leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 2,762 homes.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Canton City 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 — Plain Local, Jackson Local and Perry Local. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Plain Local School District15,471 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
• Jackson Local School District6,243 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Perry Local School District6,236 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Canton Local School District4,942 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
• Osnaburg Local School District2,154 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• North Canton City School District685 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Canton City shares ZIP Code areas with 6 different districts. The most frequent are Plain Local, Canton Local, Perry Local and North Canton 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.

• Plain Local School District4 shared ZIP areas
• Canton Local School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Perry Local School District3 shared ZIP areas
• North Canton City School District1 shared ZIP area
• Fairless Local School District1 shared ZIP area
• Jackson Local School District1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Ohio802 of 1,228 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 8 of the 12 ZIP Code areas Canton City 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.