ZIP Code 60016 · Des Plaines, Illinois
Cook County · 26,365 counted · 6 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 26,365 homes counted in ZIP Code 60016, not the chance that any one address is in that district. Enrollment follows the street: two houses on opposite sides of the same road can be in different districts, and only the district office can say which.
The districts named for the early grades in ZIP Code 60016, Des Plaines, Illinois are not the districts named for high school, and the set changes in both directions: one district arrives for high school that no elementary answer names, and another runs the early grades and stops. 6 districts hold the 26,365 homes counted here between them, and Des Plaines Community Consolidated School District 62 is the largest by homes. The largest share leaves 3,369 homes elsewhere: 10,904 homes with East Maine School District 63, Community Consolidated School District 59 and River Trails School District 26 and 87 homes in districts too small to name here.
The early grades are divided four ways
4 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 60016 at this level. Des Plaines Community Consolidated School District 62 is the largest with 15,374 homes; the smallest of them holds 400 homes. Des Plaines Community Consolidated School District 62, East Maine School District 63 and Community Consolidated School District 59 are named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 26,365 homes counted in ZIP Code 60016, so one cell is 753 homes, rounded to the nearest whole cell. Cells lit solid are the homes one district holds, and the unlit cells are the homes held by the other districts in the same list.
- Des Plaines Community Consolidated School District 6215,374 of 26,365 homes58%
- East Maine School District 637,224 of 26,365 homes27%
- Community Consolidated School District 593,280 of 26,365 homes12%
- River Trails School District 26400 of 26,365 homes1.5%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: Mount Prospect School District 57, Glenview Community Consolidated School District 34 and Park Ridge Consolidated Community School District 64 hold 87 homes between them, which is why they are counted under the list rather than inside it. A lookup that named them alongside the districts above would be listing a boundary crossing rather than an answer.
High school is split between two districts
2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 60016 at this level. Maine Township High School District 207 is the largest with 22,996 homes; the smallest of them holds 3,369 homes. Maine Township High School District 207 and Township High School District 214 are named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Maine Township High School District 20722,996 of 26,365 homes87%
- Township High School District 2143,369 of 26,365 homes13%
Northfield Township High School District 225 reaches into ZIP Code 60016 at the high school level and holds no home counted in it: the boundary crosses the postal area without picking up a single one.
The set of names changes in both directions
Township High School District 214 and Maine Township High School District 207 are named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Des Plaines Community Consolidated School District 62, East Maine School District 63 and Community Consolidated School District 59 run the early grades and no more. An address on the wrong street can therefore change district at the change of grade and land in a district that was never part of its elementary answer, while a neighbor two blocks away keeps one name the whole way through.
What one district name costs in 60016
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 60016 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 26,365 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 10,991 homes and for high school it is wrong for 3,369 homes. That is the whole difference between this page and a one-line answer: the same federal file, read to the end instead of to the first row.
The districts that reach into 60016
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Township High School District 214 touches 12 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 3,369 homes inside this one; River Trails School District 26 touches 3 areas. Not one of them is ever the only district in a ZIP Code area anywhere in the country: every postal area they touch, they share with somebody.
- Maine Township High School District 20722,996 of 26,365 here · 10 ZIP areas in all
- Des Plaines Community Consolidated School District 6215,374 of 26,365 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
- East Maine School District 637,224 of 26,365 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
- Township High School District 2143,369 of 26,365 here · 12 ZIP areas in all
- Community Consolidated School District 593,280 of 26,365 here · 6 ZIP areas in all
- River Trails School District 26400 of 26,365 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
Where Des Plaines Community Consolidated School District 62 goes from here
Des Plaines Community Consolidated School District 62 runs pre-K through grade 8, and it is the only school district serving 0 of the 4 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 2 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 2. Inside its own boundary it holds 22,615 homes over 13 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 60016 is 15,374 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Township High School District 214, across 2 ZIP Code areas.
How 60016 compares in Illinois
Across Illinois the boundary file names more than one district in 1,034 of the 1,394 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 74% of them, and 2 areas in the state have no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 68 areas in Illinois name more than this ZIP Code does and 1,271 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.
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What to do next
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A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: 3,369 of the 26,365 homes counted in 60016 sit outside the district holding the most of them, and the line between the two runs along streets rather than around the postal area.
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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.