Warren County School District

Where this district is the answer, and where it is not

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Warren 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 boundary44,795
• Residents106,190
• ZIP Code areas it reaches9
• Where it is the only district1
• Where it shares with another district7
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area534 square miles
• Homes per square mile84

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 42159 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 42206 it holds 7 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 42159 · Oakland, Kentucky100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42122 · Bowling Green, Kentucky98% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42274 · Warren County, Kentucky91% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42103 · Bowling Green, Kentucky87% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42104 · Bowling Green, Kentucky85% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42101 · Bowling Green, Kentucky66% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42170 · Woodburn, Kentucky64% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42171 · Smiths Grove, Kentucky40% of the homes
• ZIP Code 42206 · Auburn, Kentucky7 homes, under half a percent

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Warren County is the largest district in 8 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 15,033 of the 59,821 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.

Warren County holds 17,398 of the 26,460 homes in ZIP Code 42101 · Bowling Green, Kentucky, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 8,982 homes with Bowling Green Independent and Edmonson County and 80 homes in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 42104 · Bowling Green, Kentucky the split runs 13,564 to 2,482 and the larger part is Warren County's: the rest is 2,482 homes with Bowling Green Independent and Simpson County.

Warren County is the largest name in ZIP Code 42171 · Smiths Grove, Kentucky and still holds a minority of it: 1,258 of 3,110 homes. The other 1,852 homes are with Edmonson County and Barren 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 42103 · Bowling Green, Kentucky is a two-district area: 8,864 of its 10,152 homes are inside Warren County, and the other 1,288 homes are with Bowling Green Independent. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 42170 · Woodburn, Kentucky the split runs 378 to 213 and the larger part is Warren County's: the rest is 213 homes with Simpson County.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Warren 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 — Bowling Green Independent, Logan County and Edmonson County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Bowling Green Independent School District12,086 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Logan County School District2,347 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Edmonson County School District1,697 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Barren County School District740 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Simpson County School District427 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Allen County School District46 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Warren County shares ZIP Code areas with 6 different districts. The most frequent are Bowling Green Independent, Edmonson County, Simpson County and Allen 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.

• Bowling Green Independent School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Edmonson County School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Simpson County School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Allen County School District1 shared ZIP area
• Barren County School District1 shared ZIP area
• Logan County School District1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Kentucky300 of 775 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 7 of the 9 ZIP Code areas Warren 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.