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Sioux Falls School District 49-5

South Dakota · runs pre-K through grade 12

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 is the only school district serving 3 of the 10 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 6 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 1. It covers 70,572 homes and 162,525 residents. By homes covered it ranks 1st of the 147 districts in South Dakota.

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

At 935 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Sioux Falls School District 49-5 covers 75 square miles in all — small enough that a single ZIP Code area can hold most of it, and several ZIP Codes can cut across it.

  • Homes inside the boundary70,572
  • Residents162,525
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches10
  • Where it is the only district3
  • Where it shares with another district6
  • Where it holds under half a percent1
  • Land area75 square miles
  • Homes per square mile935

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 57103 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 57117 it holds no homes at all. 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 57103 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57105 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57197 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota7 of 7 homes
  • ZIP Code 57104 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota96% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57106 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota93% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57107 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota75% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57110 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota72% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57055 · Renner Corner, South Dakota42% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57108 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota28% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 57117 · Sioux Falls, South Dakotano homes at all

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 is the largest district in 8 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 6,018 of the 72,763 homes those areas hold — though in 3 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 holds 6,513 of the 9,028 homes in ZIP Code 57110 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 2,515 homes with Brandon Valley School District 49-2.

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 is one of 5 districts the file names for ZIP Code 57106 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota at that level. It holds 18,859 of the 20,314 homes there; the rest is 1,405 homes with Tea Area School District 41-5, Harrisburg School District 41-2 and Lennox School District 41-4 and 50 homes in a district too small to name here. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 1,455 of the homes in it.

In ZIP Code 57107 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota the split runs 3,589 to 1,208 and the larger part is Sioux Falls School District 49-5's: the rest is 1,208 homes with Tri-Valley School District 49-6 and West Central School District 49-7.

ZIP Code 57104 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota is a two-district area: 12,674 of its 13,238 homes are inside Sioux Falls School District 49-5, and the other 564 homes are with Brandon Valley School District 49-2. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 is the largest name in ZIP Code 57055 · Renner Corner, South Dakota and still holds a minority of it: 198 of 474 homes. The other 276 homes are with Baltic School District 49-1, Brandon Valley School District 49-2, Dell Rapids School District 49-3 and 1 more district. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 reaches into ZIP Code 57108 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota with 3,827 of its 13,884 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Harrisburg School District 41-2 leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 3,827 homes.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 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 — Harrisburg School District 41-2, Brandon Valley School District 49-2 and Tri-Valley School District 49-6. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Harrisburg School District 41-210,159 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Brandon Valley School District 49-23,169 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Tri-Valley School District 49-61,041 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Tea Area School District 41-51,020 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • West Central School District 49-7175 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Canton School District 41-1162 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Sioux Falls School District 49-5 shares ZIP Code areas with 9 different districts. The most frequent are Brandon Valley School District 49-2, Harrisburg School District 41-2, Tri-Valley School District 49-6 and Tea Area School District 41-5. 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.

  • Brandon Valley School District 49-23 shared ZIP areas
  • Harrisburg School District 41-22 shared ZIP areas
  • Tri-Valley School District 49-62 shared ZIP areas
  • Tea Area School District 41-51 shared ZIP area
  • Baltic School District 49-11 shared ZIP area
  • Canton School District 41-11 shared ZIP area

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 6 of the 10 ZIP Code areas Sioux Falls School District 49-5 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.