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What's in your backyard?

How helpful would it be to know how common it is, in a given neighborhood, for students to be enrolled somewhere other than a public school? Census data can answer that.

Enter your ZIP. You will see what families have already chosen in your Census neighborhood area — and in the areas around it.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B14002 · Analysis: Linda Haitani LLC

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All are shown below, at the same size, because the answer genuinely differs between them. The split between them is estimated from Census tract data — the Census does not publish these counts by ZIP.

How does your percentage compare to the neighborhoods around you?

Point at any area for its name and figures; click or tap it to open a street map of its boundary. These are the Census Bureau’s Public Use Microdata Areas: neighborhoods of at least 100,000 people, drawn from census tracts by each state and redrawn after every census. Google Maps does not show them, but Census Reporter maps every one on real streets; search its name there.

For context

No other neighborhood area shares a county or an adjacent county with this one, so there is no local list to show. Here is the same reading for the state and for the country.

Three things you should know about these numbers

Home school is counted here too. The Census form puts private school and home school in a single checkbox, so the two cannot be separated at any geography.
Charter schools count as public. In a market with many charter schools, more families have chosen a school other than their assigned one than this number shows.
“Private” is not “independent.” It includes parochial schools and every tuition level.

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Source: the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, table B14002 (school enrollment by level and type), five-year estimates. Every figure here is a survey estimate, not a head count: the ACS asks a sample of households and publishes each result with a margin of error, which is why one sits beside every estimate on this page. The strip and the map are drawn from the point estimates alone, so read them for shape rather than for the exact position of any one area. The people counted are those enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12; preschool, college, and young people not enrolled at all are outside the figures. All ACS margins of error are published at a 90 percent confidence level. A federal statistical product, refreshed annually.

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