ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 35217

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

404
Property rate /100K (county)
12,630
Population (ZIP)
96
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 35217 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 35217 sits within Jefferson 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: 96 violent incidents and 404 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 35217 carries a Census-reported population of 12,630, ranking #23 of 54 ZIPs in Jefferson County, spread across 17.69 square miles (about 714 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Jefferson County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Jefferson County crime page linked below.

ZIP 35217 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Jefferson County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 35217 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
$37,220
Median age
40.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
47%
Occupied homes
5,213

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 35217?

Within the participating-agency records for Jefferson County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 73% below and property crime is 76% 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 35217. 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 35217 sits near the middle of Jefferson County's ZIP population ordering (#23 of 54). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Jefferson County UCR book ZIP 35217 inherits

ZIP 35217 itself is about 714 people per Census sq mi across 17.7 sq mi (12,630 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 35217 is about 1.9% of the county reporting population (12,630 of 674,721), so most of the denominator and submitted incidents sit outside this postal code.

Jefferson County leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses (mix index 3,212). ZIP 35217 has no separate FBI offense book.

Jefferson County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -9% vs 2023; property counts -7% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Jefferson 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 35217

Similar county violent rate (~96/100K)

Similar Census population (~12,630)

County detail: Jefferson 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.