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Columbus City School District

Ohio · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 3904380 · ccsoh.us · (614) 365-5000

Columbus City spreads across 44 ZIP Code areas — enough that no single postal code describes it. It is the only district in 11 of them and shares 30 more; in the remaining 3 it holds under half a percent of the homes. In total it covers 283,038 homes over 134 square miles.

A district wide enough to cross many ZIP Codes

At 2,110 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Columbus City covers 134 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 boundary283,038
  • Residents586,812
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches44
  • Where it is the only district11
  • Where it shares with another district30
  • Where it holds under half a percent3
  • Land area134 square miles
  • Homes per square mile2,110

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 43201 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 43218 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 43201 · Columbus, Ohio100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43214 · Columbus, Ohio100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43206 · Columbus, Ohio100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43202 · Columbus, Ohio100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43211 · Columbus, Ohio100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43205 · Columbus, Ohio100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43203 · Columbus, Ohio100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43222 · Columbus, Ohio100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43002 · Columbus, Ohio100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43210 · Columbus, Ohio100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43215 · Columbus, Ohio100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43224 · Columbus, Ohio98% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43219 · Columbus, Ohio97% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43227 · Columbus, Ohio94% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43229 · Columbus, Ohio87% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43204 · Columbus, Ohio80% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43232 · Columbus, Ohio68% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43207 · Columbus, Ohio67% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43212 · Columbus, Ohio62% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43209 · Columbus, Ohio60% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43223 · Columbus, Ohio57% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43220 · Upper Arlington, Ohio51% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43213 · Columbus, Ohio43% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43054 · New Albany, Ohio39% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43231 · Columbus, Ohio35% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43016 · Dublin, Ohio34% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43110 · Columbus, Ohio24% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43228 · Columbus, Ohio20% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43230 · Gahanna, Ohio20% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43081 · Westerville, Ohio19% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43119 · Columbus, Ohio17% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43221 · Upper Arlington, Ohio17% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43125 · Groveport, Ohio16% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43137 · Columbus, Ohio16% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43235 · Columbus, Ohio14% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43004 · Columbus, Ohio14% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43123 · Grove City, Ohio8.6% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43217 · Columbus, Ohio6.1% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43026 · Hilliard, Ohio4.0% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43068 · Reynoldsburg, Ohio3.1% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43017 · Dublin, Ohio1.9% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 43065 · Powell, Ohio8 homes, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 43085 · Worthington, Ohiono homes at all
  • ZIP Code 43218 · Columbus, Ohiono homes at all

What an answer of one district name misses here

Columbus City is the largest district in 22 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 42,371 of the 270,194 homes those areas hold — though in 10 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Columbus City holds 13,327 of the 19,888 homes in ZIP Code 43207 · Columbus, Ohio, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 6,561 homes with Hamilton Local and Groveport Madison Local.

In ZIP Code 43220 · Upper Arlington, Ohio the split runs 6,749 to 6,542 and the larger part is Columbus City's: the rest is 6,542 homes with Upper Arlington City and Dublin City.

ZIP Code 43209 · Columbus, Ohio is a two-district area: 7,428 of its 12,370 homes are inside Columbus City, and the other 4,942 homes are with Bexley City. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 43223 · Columbus, Ohio the split runs 6,258 to 4,789 and the larger part is Columbus City's: the rest is 4,789 homes with South-Western City.

In ZIP Code 43002 · Columbus, Ohio the single-name answer is the true one: Columbus City holds all 1,087 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

In ZIP Code 43213 · Columbus, Ohio this district is one name among 4. Whitehall City leads with the largest share and Columbus City holds 6,853 of the 15,942 homes counted there; no single name describes that area at all.

ZIP Code 43016 · Dublin, Ohio repeats the pattern with 4 names holding a real share: 6,645 of its 19,546 homes are Columbus City's, and the other 12,901 are not.

Columbus City reaches into ZIP Code 43228 · Columbus, Ohio with 5,060 of its 25,182 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and South-Western City leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 5,060 homes.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Columbus 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 — South-Western City, Hilliard City and Dublin City. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • South-Western City School District55,976 homes in 6 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Hilliard City School District37,417 homes in 6 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Dublin City School District36,886 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Westerville City School District31,042 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Worthington City School District27,775 homes in 6 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Gahanna-Jefferson City School District19,657 homes in 6 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Columbus City shares ZIP Code areas with 21 different districts. The most frequent are South-Western City, Gahanna-Jefferson City, Hilliard City and Westerville 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.

  • South-Western City School District6 shared ZIP areas
  • Gahanna-Jefferson City School District6 shared ZIP areas
  • Hilliard City School District6 shared ZIP areas
  • Westerville City School District5 shared ZIP areas
  • Groveport Madison Local School District5 shared ZIP areas
  • Worthington City School District4 shared ZIP areas

Columbus City and South-Western City school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 43119 · Columbus, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43123 · Grove City, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43137 · Columbus, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43204 · Columbus, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43223 · Columbus, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43228 · Columbus, Ohio

Columbus City and Gahanna-Jefferson City school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 43004 · Columbus, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43054 · New Albany, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43068 · Reynoldsburg, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43213 · Columbus, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43219 · Columbus, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43230 · Gahanna, Ohio

Columbus City and Hilliard City school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 43016 · Dublin, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43026 · Hilliard, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43119 · Columbus, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43204 · Columbus, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43221 · Upper Arlington, Ohio
  • ZIP Code 43228 · Columbus, Ohio

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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 30 of the 44 ZIP Code areas Columbus 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.

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.