ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 31602

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

702
Property rate /100K (county)
36,019
Population (ZIP)
105
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 31602 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 31602 sits within Lowndes 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: 105 violent incidents and 702 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 31602 is the largest ZIP in Lowndes County by population, 36,019 residents (#1 of 8 county ZIPs), across 39.9 square miles (903/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Lowndes County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lowndes County crime page linked below.

ZIP 31602 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Lowndes County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 31602 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
$50,502
Median age
29.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
47%
Occupied homes
13,475

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 31602?

Within the participating-agency records for Lowndes County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 70% below and property crime is 59% 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 31602. 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, 31602 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#1 of 8). Its 36,019 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Lowndes County UCR book ZIP 31602 inherits

ZIP 31602 itself is about 903 people per Census sq mi across 39.9 sq mi (36,019 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 31602's 36,019 residents are about 30.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (118,251), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Lowndes County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 954 offenses; mix index 4,427). ZIP 31602 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Lowndes County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +13% vs 2023; property counts -5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Lowndes 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 31602

Similar county violent rate (~105/100K)

Similar Census population (~36,019)

County detail: Lowndes 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.