ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 34474

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

631
Property rate /100K (county)
19,380
Population (ZIP)
177
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 34474 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 34474 sits within Marion County, FL, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Marion County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 177 violent and 631 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 34474 carries a Census-reported population of 19,380, ranking #10 of 29 ZIPs in Marion County, spread across 20.96 square miles (about 925 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Marion County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Marion County crime page linked below.

ZIP 34474 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Marion County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 34474 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
$58,678
Median age
41.1 years
Owner-occupied homes
45%
Occupied homes
7,823

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 34474?

Within the participating-agency records for Marion County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 50% below and property crime is 63% 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 34474. 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 34474 sits near the middle of Marion County's ZIP population ordering (#10 of 29). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Marion County UCR book ZIP 34474 inherits

ZIP 34474 itself is about 925 people per Census sq mi across 21 sq mi (19,380 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 34474 accounts for roughly 5.2% of the county reporting population (19,380 of 375,908).

Marion County leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses (mix index 3,786). ZIP 34474 has no separate FBI offense book.

Marion County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -16% vs 2023; property counts -5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Marion 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 34474

Similar county violent rate (~177/100K)

Similar Census population (~19,380)

County detail: Marion 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.