ZIP Code 60126 · Elmhurst, Illinois
DuPage County · 18,145 counted · 6 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 18,145 homes counted in ZIP Code 60126, 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 60126, Elmhurst, 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 18,145 homes counted here between them, and Elmhurst School District 205 is the largest by homes. The largest share leaves 2,050 homes elsewhere: 2,050 homes with Salt Creek School District 48, SD 45 DuPage County and Hillside School District 93. Districts holding under half a percent of the homes named at their own level are listed separately below and are not counted in that number.
The early grades are divided four ways
4 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 60126 at this level. Elmhurst School District 205 is the largest with 16,095 homes; the smallest of them holds 138 homes. Salt Creek School District 48, SD 45 DuPage County and Hillside School District 93 are named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 18,145 homes counted in ZIP Code 60126, so one cell is 518 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.
- Elmhurst School District 20516,095 of 18,145 homes89%
- Salt Creek School District 481,625 of 18,145 homes9.0%
- SD 45 DuPage County287 of 18,145 homes1.6%
- Hillside School District 93138 of 18,145 homes0.8%
Addison School District 4 reaches into ZIP Code 60126 at the grade school level and holds no home counted in it: the boundary crosses the postal area without picking up a single one.
Three districts share high school
3 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 60126 at this level. Elmhurst School District 205 is the largest with 16,095 homes; the smallest of them holds 138 homes. DuPage High School District 88 and Proviso Township High School District 209 are named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Elmhurst School District 20516,095 of 18,145 homes89%
- DuPage High School District 881,912 of 18,145 homes11%
- Proviso Township High School District 209138 of 18,145 homes0.8%
The set of names changes in both directions
DuPage High School District 88 and Proviso Township High School District 209 are named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Hillside School District 93, Salt Creek School District 48 and SD 45 DuPage County 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 60126
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 60126 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 18,145 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 2,050 homes and for high school it is wrong for 2,050 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 60126
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Proviso Township High School District 209 touches 15 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 138 homes inside this one; Salt Creek School District 48 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.
- Elmhurst School District 20516,095 of 18,145 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
- DuPage High School District 881,912 of 18,145 here · 8 ZIP areas in all
- Salt Creek School District 481,625 of 18,145 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
- SD 45 DuPage County287 of 18,145 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
- Hillside School District 93138 of 18,145 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
- Proviso Township High School District 209138 of 18,145 here · 15 ZIP areas in all
Where Elmhurst School District 205 goes from here
Elmhurst School District 205 runs pre-K through grade 12, and it is the only school district serving 0 of the 5 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 4 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 1. Inside its own boundary it holds 17,473 homes over 12 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 60126 is 16,095 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is DuPage High School District 88, across 3 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 60101 it holds 130 of 13,380 homes, or 1.0% of them.
How 60126 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: 2,050 of the 18,145 homes counted in 60126 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.