ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 35097

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

504
Property rate /100K (county)
1,930
Population (ZIP)
139
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 35097 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 35097 sits within Blount 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: 139 violent incidents and 504 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

With 1,930 residents, ZIP 35097 is among the smaller ZIPs in Blount County (#7 of 8 by population), spread across 7.9 square miles (244/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Blount County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Blount County crime page linked below.

ZIP 35097 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Blount County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 35097 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
$72,917
Median age
52.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
92%
Occupied homes
780

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 35097?

Within the participating-agency records for Blount County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 61% below and property crime is 71% 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 35097. 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.

Within the county, 35097 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#7 of 8). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.

Blount County UCR book ZIP 35097 inherits

ZIP 35097 itself is about 244 people per Census sq mi across 7.9 sq mi (1,930 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 35097 accounts for roughly 3.3% of the county reporting population (1,930 of 59,134).

Blount County leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses (mix index 3,013). ZIP 35097 has no separate FBI offense book.

Blount County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -26% vs 2023; property counts -21% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Blount 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 35097

Similar county violent rate (~139/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,930)

County detail: Blount 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.