What county is ZIP code 31727 in?

ZIP code 31727 is located in Tift County, GA.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 31727

Q: What is the crime rate for ZIP code 31727?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 31727 is located in Tift County, GA, which reported a violent-crime rate of 414 per 100,000 residents in 2024. This is the county's rate, the closest official FBI UCR figure available for this ZIP code.

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-09-05

1,171
Property rate /100K (county): 414
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 31727 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 31727 sits within Tift 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.

Tift County reported a violent-crime rate of 414 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 1,171 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 31727 shows a Census-reported population of zero, consistent with a non-residential ZIP (a PO-box-only, business-only, or otherwise unpopulated postal code). For a full breakdown of Tift County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Tift County crime page linked below.

ZIP 31727 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Tift County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 31727?

Participating agencies give Tift County a split reported profile: violent crime is 18% above the U.S. benchmark while property crime is 32% below it. A single "high" or "low" label would hide that difference; the submissions neither establish complete county coverage nor identify conditions within ZIP 31727. 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, 31727 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#3 of 3). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Tift County UCR book ZIP 31727 inherits

ZIP 31727 itself is about 0 people per Census sq mi across 0 sq mi (0 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 31727 is about 0% of the county reporting population (0 of 41,344), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Tift County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,146). ZIP 31727 has no separate FBI offense book.

Tift County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +12% vs 2023; property counts +5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Tift County offense mix (2024)

Larceny-Theft 313 offenses (48%) Aggravated Assault 146 offenses (22%) Burglary 105 offenses (16%) Motor Vehicle Theft 66 offenses (10%) Robbery 13 offenses (2%) Rape 10 offenses (2%) Murder 2 offenses (0%)

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.

Read with ZIP 31727

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.