ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 35550
Walker County, Alabama: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 5,288
- Population (ZIP)
- 0
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 0
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 35550 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 35550 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 35550 carries a Census-reported population of 5,288, ranking #4 of 13 ZIPs in Walker County, spread across 67.37 square miles (about 78 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 35550 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 35550 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
- $44,516
- Median age
- 46.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 79%
- Occupied homes
- 1,974
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
ZIP 35550 settlement vs Walker County
ZIP 35550 itself is about 78 people per Census sq mi across 67.4 sq mi (5,288 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 35550 accounts for roughly 8.1% of the county reporting population (5,288 of 65,342).
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 35550
Similar Census population (~5,288)
- ZIP 45252, OH · 5,287 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 52772, IA · 5,289 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 54201, WI · 5,290 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 48416, MI · 5,291 pop · Δ3
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.