ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 35083

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

733
Property rate /100K (county)
3,922
Population (ZIP)
89
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 35083 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 35083 sits within Cullman County, AL, 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: 89 violent incidents and 733 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 35083 carries a Census-reported population of 3,922, ranking #6 of 12 ZIPs in Cullman County, spread across 32.54 square miles (about 121 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Cullman County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cullman County crime page linked below.

ZIP 35083 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Cullman County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 35083 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
$46,146
Median age
38.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
84%
Occupied homes
1,397

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 35083?

Within the participating-agency records for Cullman County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 75% below and property crime is 57% 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 35083. 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.

35083 is comparatively spread out at about 121 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.

Cullman County UCR book ZIP 35083 inherits

ZIP 35083 itself is about 121 people per Census sq mi across 32.5 sq mi (3,922 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 35083 accounts for roughly 4.5% of the county reporting population (3,922 of 87,866).

Cullman County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 722 offenses; mix index 4,075). ZIP 35083 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Cullman County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -24% vs 2023; property counts -6% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Cullman 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 35083

Similar county violent rate (~89/100K)

Similar Census population (~3,922)

County detail: Cullman County · State atlas: Alabama

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.