ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 30294
DeKalb County, Georgia: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 42,594
- Population (ZIP)
- 3
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 30294 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 30294 sits within DeKalb County, GA, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.
ZIP 30294 carries a Census-reported population of 42,594, ranking #6 of 29 ZIPs in DeKalb County, spread across 32.74 square miles (about 1,301 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of DeKalb County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the DeKalb County crime page linked below.
ZIP 30294 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the DeKalb County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 30294 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
- $73,608
- Median age
- 39.2 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 76%
- Occupied homes
- 15,055
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 30294 settlement vs DeKalb County
ZIP 30294 itself is about 1,301 people per Census sq mi across 32.7 sq mi (42,594 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 30294 accounts for roughly 5.6% of the county reporting population (42,594 of 764,382).
DeKalb County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (95% of 20 offenses; mix index 9,075). ZIP 30294 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 30294
Similar county violent rate (~3/100K)
- ZIP 44102, OH · 2.6/100K · Cuyahoga County
- ZIP 36420, AL · 2.7/100K · Covington County
- ZIP 12203, NY · 2.5/100K · Albany County
- ZIP 68516, NE · 2.8/100K · Lancaster County
Similar Census population (~42,594)
- ZIP 60659, IL · 42,621 pop · Δ27
- ZIP 70056, LA · 42,627 pop · Δ33
- ZIP 87112, NM · 42,632 pop · Δ38
- ZIP 52402, IA · 42,648 pop · Δ54
County detail: DeKalb 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.