ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 30157

Paulding County, Georgia: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

671
Property rate /100K (county)
50,946
Population (ZIP)
244
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 30157 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 30157 sits within Paulding County, GA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Paulding County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 244 violent and 671 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 30157 carries a Census-reported population of 50,946, ranking #1 of 3 ZIPs in Paulding County, spread across 85.1 square miles (about 599 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Paulding County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Paulding County crime page linked below.

ZIP 30157 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Paulding County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 30157 Census context

These are ZIP/ZCTA demographic estimates, separate from the county-level FBI proxy above. They describe the local settlement, not a crime rate.

Median household income
$84,973
Median age
35.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
83%
Occupied homes
17,225

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 30157?

Within the participating-agency records for Paulding County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 31% below and property crime is 61% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 30157. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.

ZIP 30157 sits near the middle of Paulding County's ZIP population ordering (#1 of 3). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Paulding County UCR book ZIP 30157 inherits

ZIP 30157 itself is about 599 people per Census sq mi across 85.1 sq mi (50,946 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 30157's 50,946 residents are about 30.2% of the 2024 county reporting population (168,661), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Paulding County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 1,544 offenses; mix index 4,071). ZIP 30157 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Paulding County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -29% vs 2023; property counts -9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Paulding County offense mix (2024)

Mix index is HHI × 10,000 on county offense-type shares. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero; still county-agency data, not a ZIP-native FBI table.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 30157

Similar county violent rate (~244/100K)

Similar Census population (~50,946)

County detail: Paulding County · State atlas: Georgia

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (ZIP population, land area, 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file, ACS 5-year estimates) and FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10 (county-level crime, attributed via ZIP-to-county crosswalk).

Verify with Census.gov Geography and FBI.gov UCR.

Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page combines Census ZIP-level figures with a ZIP-to-county crosswalk to attribute FBI UCR crime data honestly, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.