ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 32096

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

608
Property rate /100K (county)
2,875
Population (ZIP)
267
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 32096 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 32096 sits within Columbia County, FL. 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.

Columbia County reported a violent-crime rate of 267 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 608 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 32096 carries a Census-reported population of 2,875, ranking #5 of 6 ZIPs in Columbia County, spread across 171.68 square miles (about 17 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Columbia County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Columbia County crime page linked below.

ZIP 32096 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Columbia County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 32096 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
$46,875
Median age
40.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
83%
Occupied homes
1,169

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 32096?

Within the participating-agency records for Columbia County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 24% below and property crime is 64% 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 32096. 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.

32096 is comparatively spread out at about 17 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.

Columbia County UCR book ZIP 32096 inherits

ZIP 32096 itself is about 17 people per Census sq mi across 171.7 sq mi (2,875 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 32096 accounts for roughly 4.1% of the county reporting population (2,875 of 69,698).

Columbia County leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses (mix index 3,568). ZIP 32096 has no separate FBI offense book.

Columbia County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts flat vs 2023; property counts -27% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Columbia 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 32096

Similar county violent rate (~267/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,875)

County detail: Columbia County · State atlas: Florida

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.