ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 33976

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

601
Property rate /100K (county)
17,874
Population (ZIP)
158
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 33976 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 33976 sits within Lee 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: 158 violent incidents and 601 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 33976 carries a Census-reported population of 17,874, ranking #22 of 34 ZIPs in Lee County, spread across 9.28 square miles (about 1,926 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Lee County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Lee County crime page linked below.

ZIP 33976 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Lee County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 33976 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
$63,992
Median age
34.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
72%
Occupied homes
4,977

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 33976?

Within the participating-agency records for Lee County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 55% below and property crime is 65% 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 33976. 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.

ZIP 33976 sits near the middle of Lee County's ZIP population ordering (#22 of 34). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Lee County UCR book ZIP 33976 inherits

ZIP 33976 itself is about 1,926 people per Census sq mi across 9.3 sq mi (17,874 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 33976 accounts for roughly 2.3% of the county reporting population (17,874 of 760,822).

Lee County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 5,776 offenses; mix index 4,106). ZIP 33976 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Lee County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -13% vs 2023; property counts -8% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Lee 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 33976

Similar county violent rate (~158/100K)

Similar Census population (~17,874)

County detail: Lee 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.