ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 32603
Alachua County, Florida: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 433
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 6,855
- Population (ZIP)
- 79
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 32603 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 32603 sits within Alachua 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: 79 violent incidents and 433 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 32603 carries a Census-reported population of 6,855, ranking #15 of 21 ZIPs in Alachua County, spread across 0.87 square miles (about 7,879 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Alachua County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Alachua County crime page linked below.
ZIP 32603 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Alachua County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 32603 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
- $12,894
- Median age
- 20.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 8%
- Occupied homes
- 2,043
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 32603?
Within the participating-agency records for Alachua County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 78% below and property crime is 75% 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 32603. 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.
32603 is a densely settled part of the county at about 7,879 people per square mile. Density is not a crime predictor on its own; it only shows why a county-wide average can conceal a very different local setting inside this ZIP.
Alachua County UCR book ZIP 32603 inherits
ZIP 32603 itself is about 7,879 people per Census sq mi across 0.9 sq mi (6,855 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 32603 accounts for roughly 2.5% of the county reporting population (6,855 of 278,468).
Alachua County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 1,424 offenses; mix index 4,012). ZIP 32603 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Alachua County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -11% vs 2023; property counts +21% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Alachua 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 32603
Similar county violent rate (~79/100K)
- ZIP 71245, LA · 78.5/100K · Lincoln County
- ZIP 28768, NC · 78.8/100K · Transylvania County
- ZIP 54768, WI · 78.4/100K · Chippewa County
- ZIP 50543, IA · 78.4/100K · Webster County
Similar Census population (~6,855)
- ZIP 65648, MO · 6,855 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 28719, NC · 6,854 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 55013, MN · 6,854 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 27572, NC · 6,857 pop · Δ2
County detail: Alachua 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.