ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 30188
Cherokee County, Georgia: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 291
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 64,757
- Population (ZIP)
- 68
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 30188 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 30188 sits within Cherokee County, GA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 68 violent incidents and 291 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 30188 is the largest ZIP in Cherokee County by population, 64,757 residents (#1 of 7 county ZIPs), across 43.68 square miles (1,483/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Cherokee County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cherokee County crime page linked below.
ZIP 30188 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Cherokee County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 30188 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
- $100,467
- Median age
- 39.9 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 80%
- Occupied homes
- 24,707
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 30188?
Within the participating-agency records for Cherokee County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 81% below and property crime is 83% 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 30188. 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.
Within the county, 30188 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 7). Its 64,757 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.
Cherokee County UCR book ZIP 30188 inherits
ZIP 30188 itself is about 1,483 people per Census sq mi across 43.7 sq mi (64,757 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 30188's 64,757 residents are about 24.3% of the 2024 county reporting population (266,620), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Cherokee County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 956 offenses; mix index 4,437). ZIP 30188 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Cherokee County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +4% vs 2023; property counts -9% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Cherokee 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 30188
Similar county violent rate (~68/100K)
- ZIP 29003, SC · 67.6/100K · Bamberg County
- ZIP 21613, MD · 67.6/100K · Dorchester County
- ZIP 21702, MD · 67.7/100K · Frederick County
- ZIP 49735, MI · 67.8/100K · Otsego County
Similar Census population (~64,757)
- ZIP 33178, FL · 64,751 pop · Δ6
- ZIP 43081, OH · 64,746 pop · Δ11
- ZIP 90026, CA · 64,769 pop · Δ12
- ZIP 77373, TX · 64,828 pop · Δ71
County detail: Cherokee 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.