ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 31793

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,171
Property rate /100K (county)
9,370
Population (ZIP)
414
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 31793 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 31793 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 31793 carries a Census-reported population of 9,370, ranking #2 of 3 ZIPs in Tift County, spread across 93.52 square miles (about 100 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Tift County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Tift County crime page linked below.

ZIP 31793 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.

ZIP 31793 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
$73,070
Median age
37.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
77%
Occupied homes
3,362

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 31793?

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 31793. 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.

31793 is comparatively spread out at about 100 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Tift County UCR book ZIP 31793 inherits

ZIP 31793 itself is about 100 people per Census sq mi across 93.5 sq mi (9,370 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 31793's 9,370 residents are about 22.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (41,344), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Tift County leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses (mix index 3,146). ZIP 31793 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)

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 31793

Similar county violent rate (~414/100K)

Similar Census population (~9,370)

County detail: Tift 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.