ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 35501
Walker County, Alabama: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 10,126
- Population (ZIP)
- 0
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 35501 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 35501 sits within Walker County, AL, in which law-enforcement agencies did not report complete 2024 data to the FBI UCR Program. The county figures below cover only the agencies that submitted, so they are not a measure of crime in this area and no comparison to the national average is drawn from them.
ZIP 35501 carries a Census-reported population of 10,126, ranking #2 of 13 ZIPs in Walker County, spread across 47.84 square miles (about 212 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Walker County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Walker County crime page linked below.
ZIP 35501 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). Figures above use the Walker County proxy where reported; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 35501 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
- $52,927
- Median age
- 34.0 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 63%
- Occupied homes
- 3,471
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 35501 settlement vs Walker County
ZIP 35501 itself is about 212 people per Census sq mi across 47.8 sq mi (10,126 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 35501's 10,126 residents are about 15.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (65,342), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Settlement lines use Census ZCTA figures only; incomplete county agency coverage blocks any UCR mix or rate desk for this ZIP.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 35501
Similar Census population (~10,126)
- ZIP 07642, NJ · 10,125 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 30666, GA · 10,133 pop · Δ7
- ZIP 64109, MO · 10,133 pop · Δ7
- ZIP 14502, NY · 10,135 pop · Δ9
County detail: Walker 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.