Dorchester School District 2

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Dorchester School District 2, 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 boundary58,060
• Residents146,459
• ZIP Code areas it reaches9
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district8
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area231 square miles
• Homes per square mile251

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 29485 this district holds 92% of the homes; in 29414 it holds 21 homes, under half a percent. 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 29485 · North Charleston, South Carolina92% of the homes
• ZIP Code 29483 · Summerville, South Carolina88% of the homes
• ZIP Code 29420 · North Charleston, South Carolina74% of the homes
• ZIP Code 29456 · North Charleston, South Carolina41% of the homes
• ZIP Code 29472 · Ridgeville, South Carolina36% of the homes
• ZIP Code 29418 · North Charleston, South Carolina23% of the homes
• ZIP Code 29426 · Adams Run, South Carolina11% of the homes
• ZIP Code 29470 · Ravenel, South Carolina7.7% of the homes
• ZIP Code 29414 · Charleston, South Carolina21 homes, under half a percent

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Dorchester School District 2 is the largest district in 5 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 18,444 of the 73,772 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.

Dorchester School District 2 is the largest name in ZIP Code 29456 · North Charleston, South Carolina and still holds a minority of it: 6,291 of 15,367 homes. The other 9,076 homes are with Charleston County and Berkeley County. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

Dorchester School District 2 holds 19,964 of the 22,812 homes in ZIP Code 29483 · Summerville, South Carolina, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 2,848 homes with Berkeley County and Charleston County.

ZIP Code 29472 · Ridgeville, South Carolina repeats the pattern with 4 names holding a real share: 1,314 of its 3,686 homes are Dorchester School District 2's, and the other 2,372 are not.

ZIP Code 29420 · North Charleston, South Carolina is a two-district area: 6,742 of its 9,100 homes are inside Dorchester School District 2, and the other 2,358 homes are with Charleston County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 29485 · North Charleston, South Carolina the split runs 21,017 to 1,790 and the larger part is Dorchester School District 2's: the rest is 1,790 homes with Charleston County.

Dorchester School District 2 reaches into ZIP Code 29418 · North Charleston, South Carolina with 2,472 of its 10,947 homes, behind Charleston County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 2,472 homes.

Dorchester School District 2 is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 29470 · Ravenel, South Carolina — Charleston County leads it — and Dorchester School District 2 holds 154 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 29426 · Adams Run, South Carolina is another area where Dorchester School District 2 is present without being the answer: 85 of its 769 homes, behind Charleston County.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Dorchester School District 2 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 — Charleston County, Berkeley County and Dorchester School District 4. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Charleston County School District41,662 homes in 8 shared ZIP Code areas
• Berkeley County School District7,822 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Dorchester School District 41,034 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Colleton County School District418 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Dorchester School District 2 in the same ZIP Code areas: Charleston County, Berkeley County, Dorchester School District 4 and Colleton County. A single-name lookup for one of those areas has to choose between them, and the choice is right for some addresses and wrong for others.

• Charleston County School District7 shared ZIP areas
• Berkeley County School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Dorchester School District 41 shared ZIP area
• Colleton County School District1 shared ZIP area

Dorchester School District 2 and Charleston County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 29418 · North Charleston, South Carolina
• ZIP Code 29420 · North Charleston, South Carolina
• ZIP Code 29426 · Adams Run, South Carolina
• ZIP Code 29456 · North Charleston, South Carolina
• ZIP Code 29470 · Ravenel, South Carolina
• ZIP Code 29483 · Summerville, South Carolina
• ZIP Code 29485 · North Charleston, South Carolina

Dorchester School District 2 and Berkeley County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 29456 · North Charleston, South Carolina
• ZIP Code 29472 · Ridgeville, South Carolina
• ZIP Code 29483 · Summerville, South Carolina

Dorchester School District 2 and Dorchester School District 4 school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 29472 · Ridgeville, South Carolina

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 South Carolina177 of 421 ZIP areas split
• How to find your school district numberNCES ID 4502010

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 8 of the 9 ZIP Code areas Dorchester School District 2 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.