Crete Public Schools

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Crete, 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 boundary3,981
• Residents10,644
• ZIP Code areas it reaches12
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district10
• Where it holds under half a percent2
• Land area188 square miles
• Homes per square mile21

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 68333 this district holds 98% of the homes; in 68331 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 68333 · Crete, Nebraska98% of the homes
• ZIP Code 68438 · Sprague, Nebraska91% of the homes
• ZIP Code 68368 · Hallam, Nebraska87% of the homes
• ZIP Code 68404 · Princeton, Nebraska62% of the homes
• ZIP Code 68339 · Denton, Nebraska56% of the homes
• ZIP Code 68423 · Pleasant Dale, Nebraska9.1% of the homes
• ZIP Code 68430 · Lincoln, Nebraska4.9% of the homes
• ZIP Code 68523 · Yankee Hill, Nebraska2.2% of the homes
• ZIP Code 68405 · Milford, Nebraska1.0% of the homes
• ZIP Code 68465 · Wilber, Nebraska0.6% of the homes
• ZIP Code 68343 · Dorchester, Nebraska2 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 68331 · Cortland, Nebraska1 home, under half a percent

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Crete is the largest district in 5 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 520 of the 4,390 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.

Crete is one of 4 districts the file names for ZIP Code 68339 · Denton, Nebraska at that level. It holds 341 of the 610 homes there; the rest is 269 homes with Lincoln, Milford and Malcolm. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 269 of the homes in it.

Crete holds 254 of the 412 homes in ZIP Code 68404 · Princeton, Nebraska, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 156 homes with Norris School District 160 and 2 homes in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 68333 · Crete, Nebraska the split runs 3,026 to 58 and the larger part is Crete's: the rest is 57 homes with Wilber-Clatonia and Dorchester and 1 home in districts too small to name here.

ZIP Code 68438 · Sprague, Nebraska is a two-district area: 58 of its 64 homes are inside Crete, and the other 6 homes are with Norris School District 160. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Crete is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 68423 · Pleasant Dale, Nebraska — Milford leads it — and Crete holds 40 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 68430 · Lincoln, Nebraska is another area where Crete is present without being the answer: 35 of its 712 homes, behind Norris School District 160.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Crete 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 — Milford, Norris School District 160 and Wilber-Clatonia. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Milford Public Schools1,561 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Norris School District 1601,187 homes in 6 shared ZIP Code areas
• Wilber-Clatonia Public Schools1,079 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
• Lincoln Public Schools841 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Dorchester Public Schools476 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Seward Public Schools114 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Crete shares ZIP Code areas with 8 different districts. The most frequent are Norris School District 160, Lincoln, Milford and Wilber-Clatonia. 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.

• Norris School District 1605 shared ZIP areas
• Lincoln Public Schools3 shared ZIP areas
• Milford Public Schools3 shared ZIP areas
• Wilber-Clatonia Public Schools3 shared ZIP areas
• Malcolm Public Schools2 shared ZIP areas
• Seward Public Schools2 shared ZIP areas

Where this district sits

• School districts in Nebraska473 of 583 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 10 of the 12 ZIP Code areas Crete 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.