ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 30720

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

751
Property rate /100K (county)
26,530
Population (ZIP)
269
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 30720 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 30720 sits within Whitfield County, GA. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.

Whitfield County reported a violent-crime rate of 269 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 751 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 30720 carries a Census-reported population of 26,530, ranking #2 of 6 ZIPs in Whitfield County, spread across 48.65 square miles (about 545 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Whitfield County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Whitfield County crime page linked below.

ZIP 30720 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Whitfield County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 30720 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
$64,034
Median age
37.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
57%
Occupied homes
9,256

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 30720?

Within the participating-agency records for Whitfield County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 24% below and property crime is 56% 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 30720. 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 30720 sits near the middle of Whitfield County's ZIP population ordering (#2 of 6). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Whitfield County UCR book ZIP 30720 inherits

ZIP 30720 itself is about 545 people per Census sq mi across 48.7 sq mi (26,530 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 30720's 26,530 residents are about 25.8% of the 2024 county reporting population (102,864), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Whitfield County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 2,995). ZIP 30720 has no separate FBI offense book.

Whitfield County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -14% vs 2023; property counts +4% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Whitfield 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 30720

Similar county violent rate (~269/100K)

Similar Census population (~26,530)

County detail: Whitfield 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.