ZIP Code 59105 · Billings, Montana
Yellowstone County · 13,696 counted · 6 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 13,696 homes counted in ZIP Code 59105, 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 59105, Billings, Montana 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 13,696 homes counted here between them, and Billings Elementary is the largest by homes. The largest share is high enough that one name is right for most of the homes counted and wrong for the other 640: 1,720 homes with Independent Elementary, Pioneer Elementary and Shepherd Elementary.
The early grades are divided four ways
4 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 59105 at this level. Billings Elementary is the largest with 11,976 homes; the smallest of them holds 200 homes. Billings Elementary, Independent Elementary and Pioneer Elementary are named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 13,696 homes counted in ZIP Code 59105, so one cell is 391 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.
- Billings Elementary School District11,976 of 13,696 homes87%
- Independent Elementary School District1,080 of 13,696 homes7.9%
- Pioneer Elementary School District440 of 13,696 homes3.2%
- Shepherd Elementary School District200 of 13,696 homes1.5%
Huntley Project K-12 Schools and Lockwood K-12 reach into ZIP Code 59105 at the grade school level and hold no home counted in it: the boundary crosses the postal area without picking up a single one.
High school is split between two districts
2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 59105 at this level. Billings High is the largest with 13,056 homes; the smallest of them holds 640 homes. Billings High and Shepherd High are named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Billings High School District13,056 of 13,696 homes95%
- Shepherd High School District640 of 13,696 homes4.7%
Huntley Project K-12 Schools and Lockwood K-12 reach into ZIP Code 59105 at the high school level and hold no home counted in it: the boundary crosses the postal area without picking up a single one.
The set of names changes in both directions
Billings High and Shepherd High are named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Billings Elementary, Independent Elementary and Pioneer Elementary 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 59105
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 59105 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 13,696 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 1,720 homes and for high school it is wrong for 640 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 59105
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Billings High touches 8 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 13,056 homes inside this one; Independent Elementary touches 2 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. 1 of them has a page here listing every ZIP Code area it reaches.
- Billings High School District13,056 of 13,696 here · 8 ZIP areas in all
- Billings Elementary School District11,976 of 13,696 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
- Independent Elementary School District1,080 of 13,696 here · 2 ZIP areas in all
- Shepherd High School District640 of 13,696 here · 6 ZIP areas in all
- Pioneer Elementary School District440 of 13,696 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
- Shepherd Elementary School District200 of 13,696 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
Where Billings Elementary goes from here
Billings Elementary School District runs pre-K through grade 8, 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 52,480 homes over 92 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 59105 is 11,976 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Billings High School District, across 4 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 59101 it holds 12,623 of 18,725 homes, or 67% of them.
How 59105 compares in Montana
Across Montana the boundary file names more than one district in 313 of the 368 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 85% of them, and 1 area in the state has no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 28 areas in Montana name more than this ZIP Code does and 326 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: 640 of the 13,696 homes counted in 59105 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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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.
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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.