ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 31796

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

500
Property rate /100K (county)
1,038
Population (ZIP)
250
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 31796 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 31796 sits within Worth County, GA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Worth County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 250 violent and 500 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

With 1,038 residents, ZIP 31796 is among the smaller ZIPs in Worth County (#6 of 7 by population), spread across 70.92 square miles (15/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Worth County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Worth County crime page linked below.

ZIP 31796 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Worth County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 31796 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
$50,216
Median age
44.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
77%
Occupied homes
439

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 31796?

Within the participating-agency records for Worth County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 29% below and property crime is 71% 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 31796. 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, 31796 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#6 of 7). 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.

Worth County UCR book ZIP 31796 inherits

ZIP 31796 itself is about 15 people per Census sq mi across 70.9 sq mi (1,038 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 31796 accounts for roughly 5% of the county reporting population (1,038 of 20,784).

Worth County leans on larceny-theft at 37% of reported offenses (mix index 2,705). ZIP 31796 has no separate FBI offense book.

Worth County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +49% vs 2023; property counts -11% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Worth 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 31796

Similar county violent rate (~250/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,038)

County detail: Worth 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.