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Jackson County School District

Georgia · runs pre-K through grade 12

There is no ZIP Code area where Jackson County is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 13 of them and shares every one, with 10 different districts in total. A lookup that returns a single district name for any of those ZIP Codes is guessing which side of a line an address falls on.

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Jackson County, 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 boundary19,932
  • Residents54,635
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches16
  • Where it is the only district0
  • Where it shares with another district13
  • Where it holds under half a percent3
  • Land area303 square miles
  • Homes per square mile66

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 30567 this district holds 99% of the homes; in 30646 it holds 6 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 30567 · Pendergrass, Georgia99% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30565 · Nicholson, Georgia89% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30575 · Talmo, Georgia71% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30549 · Jefferson, Georgia55% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30558 · Maysville, Georgia54% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30517 · Braselton, Georgia44% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30548 · Hoschton, Georgia41% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30607 · Athens-Clarke County, Georgia28% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30530 · Commerce, Georgia27% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30529 · Commerce, Georgia23% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30543 · Gillsville, Georgia8.3% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30622 · Athens-Clarke County, Georgia7.7% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30666 · Statham, Georgia1.8% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30680 · Winder, Georgia42 homes, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 30601 · Athens-Clarke County, Georgia26 homes, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 30646 · Hull, Georgia6 homes, under half a percent

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Jackson County is the largest district in 7 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 14,236 of the 30,552 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.

Jackson County is the largest name in ZIP Code 30548 · Hoschton, Georgia and still holds a minority of it: 3,459 of 8,501 homes. The other 5,042 homes are with Hall County, Gwinnett County and Barrow County. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

ZIP Code 30549 · Jefferson, Georgia is a two-district area: 5,472 of its 9,988 homes are inside Jackson County, and the other 4,516 homes are with Jefferson City. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

ZIP Code 30517 · Braselton, Georgia repeats the pattern with 4 names holding a real share: 2,637 of its 5,960 homes are Jackson County's, and the other 3,323 are not.

Jackson County holds 1,165 of the 2,151 homes in ZIP Code 30558 · Maysville, Georgia, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 978 homes with Banks County and 8 homes in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 30565 · Nicholson, Georgia the split runs 1,642 to 196 and the larger part is Jackson County's: the rest is 196 homes with Madison County.

Jackson County reaches into ZIP Code 30607 · Athens-Clarke County, Georgia with 1,206 of its 4,361 homes, behind Clarke County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 1,206 homes.

Jackson County reaches into ZIP Code 30529 · Commerce, Georgia with 1,103 of its 4,814 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Commerce City leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 1,103 homes.

In ZIP Code 30530 · Commerce, Georgia this district is one name among 4. Banks County leads with the largest share and Jackson County holds 706 of the 2,662 homes counted there; no single name describes that area at all.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Jackson County 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 — Barrow County, Clarke County and Hall County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Barrow County School District20,837 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Clarke County School District15,219 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Hall County School District5,099 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Jefferson City School District4,516 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Madison County School District3,959 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Oconee County School District3,710 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Jackson County shares ZIP Code areas with 10 different districts. The most frequent are Hall County, Banks County, Barrow County and Clarke County. 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.

Where this district sits

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 13 of the 16 ZIP Code areas Jackson County 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.