Murfreesboro City School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

At 981 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Murfreesboro City covers 64 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 boundary63,194
• Residents153,749
• 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 area64 square miles
• Homes per square mile981

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 37132 this district holds 15 of 15 homes; in 37153 it holds 1 home, 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 37132 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee15 of 15 homes
• ZIP Code 37130 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee87% of the homes
• ZIP Code 37128 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee81% of the homes
• ZIP Code 37129 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee61% of the homes
• ZIP Code 37127 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee50% of the homes
• ZIP Code 37153 · Rockvale, Tennessee1 home, under half a percent

What one name misses, and what changes later

Murfreesboro City is the largest district in 5 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 21,718 of the 84,911 homes those areas hold — though in 1 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Murfreesboro City holds 14,623 of the 23,914 homes in ZIP Code 37129 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 9,290 homes with Rutherford County School District and 1 home in a district too small to name here.

ZIP Code 37128 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee is a two-district area: 22,208 of its 27,463 homes are inside Murfreesboro City, and the other 5,255 homes are with Rutherford County School District. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 37127 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee the split runs 3,921 to 3,876 and the larger part is Murfreesboro City's: the rest is 3,876 homes with Rutherford County School District.

In ZIP Code 37132 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee the single-name answer is the true one: Murfreesboro City holds all 15 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

Most of it goes on to a single high school district

Most of the territory Murfreesboro City covers — 77% of it by homes — goes on to Rutherford County School District in Murfreesboro for high school, with Rutherford County School District taking the remainder. The elementary boundary and the high school boundary were drawn by different bodies and do not have to agree.

• Rutherford County School District in Murfreesboro77% of Murfreesboro City's homes go here
• Rutherford County School District23% of Murfreesboro City's homes go here
• Bedford County School Districtunder 0.1% of Murfreesboro City's homes go here

The names in this list are exact: the federal file gives the district of each band for every census block. The percentages are not. They spread each shared ZIP Code area's homes across the other band in proportion to the share each district holds there, because the file names the two districts of a block and not how a household moves between them. Read them as the size of the crossing, not as a count of houses.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Murfreesboro City appears alongside a mix of district kinds — Rutherford County School District in Murfreesboro and Rutherford County School District. Where the kinds differ, the two are not competing for the same address: one takes the lower grades and the other takes high school, and a household may be served by both.

• Rutherford County School District in Murfreesboro5 shared ZIP areas
• Rutherford County School District4 shared ZIP areas

Where this district sits

• School districts in Tennessee331 of 631 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 5 of the 6 ZIP Code areas Murfreesboro 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.