ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 33834

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

699
Property rate /100K (county)
6,371
Population (ZIP)
201
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 33834 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 33834 sits within Hardee County, FL, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Hardee County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 201 violent and 699 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 33834 carries a Census-reported population of 6,371, ranking #2 of 4 ZIPs in Hardee County, spread across 134.23 square miles (about 47 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Hardee County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Hardee County crime page linked below.

ZIP 33834 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Hardee County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 33834 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
$51,154
Median age
35.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
65%
Occupied homes
1,544

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 33834?

Within the participating-agency records for Hardee County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 43% below and property crime is 59% 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 33834. 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.

33834 is comparatively spread out at about 47 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.

Hardee County UCR book ZIP 33834 inherits

ZIP 33834 itself is about 47 people per Census sq mi across 134.2 sq mi (6,371 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 33834's 6,371 residents are about 25.2% of the 2024 county reporting population (25,327), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Hardee County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 228 offenses; mix index 4,206). ZIP 33834 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Hardee County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +50% vs 2023; property counts -5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Hardee 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 33834

Similar county violent rate (~201/100K)

Similar Census population (~6,371)

County detail: Hardee 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.