ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 32461

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

530
Property rate /100K (county)
2,589
Population (ZIP)
159
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 32461 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 32461 sits within Walton County, FL, 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: 159 violent incidents and 530 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 2,589 residents, ZIP 32461 is among the smaller ZIPs in Walton County (#7 of 7 by population), spread across 14.87 square miles (174/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Walton County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Walton County crime page linked below.

ZIP 32461 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Walton County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 32461 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
$154,750
Median age
58.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
84%
Occupied homes
1,152

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 32461?

Within the participating-agency records for Walton County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 55% below and property crime is 69% 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 32461. 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, 32461 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#7 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.

Walton County UCR book ZIP 32461 inherits

ZIP 32461 itself is about 174 people per Census sq mi across 14.9 sq mi (2,589 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 32461 accounts for roughly 3.4% of the county reporting population (2,589 of 75,305).

Walton County leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses (mix index 3,939). ZIP 32461 has no separate FBI offense book.

Walton County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +4% vs 2023; property counts +10% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Walton 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 32461

Similar county violent rate (~159/100K)

Similar Census population (~2,589)

County detail: Walton 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.