ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 35594
Fayette County, Alabama: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 104
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 7,094
- Population (ZIP)
- 61
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 35594 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 35594 sits within Fayette County, AL. The figures below are the county's own FBI UCR numbers for 2024, the most accurate available statistic for this location, not a ZIP-specific calculation.
Fayette County reported a violent-crime rate of 61 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 104 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 10 reported violent incidents across a county population of 16,321, this count is too low to support a reliable per-100K rate comparison. It may reflect a genuinely low-crime county, or it may reflect incomplete agency-level reporting to the FBI UCR Program for this county and year, small county-level counts are common in FBI Table 10 and should be treated as a data point, not a precise safety ranking.
ZIP 35594 carries a Census-reported population of 7,094, ranking #2 of 7 ZIPs in Fayette County, spread across 147.08 square miles (about 48 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Fayette County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Fayette County crime page linked below.
ZIP 35594 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Fayette County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 35594 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
- $53,651
- Median age
- 45.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 76%
- Occupied homes
- 2,696
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
Fayette County UCR book ZIP 35594 inherits
ZIP 35594 itself is about 48 people per Census sq mi across 147.1 sq mi (7,094 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 35594's 7,094 residents are about 43.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (16,321), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Fayette County keeps 5 active offense types diversified (mix index 2,373); larceny-theft still leads at 30%. ZIP 35594 inherits the county book.
Fayette County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -56% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Fayette 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 35594
Similar county violent rate (~61/100K)
- ZIP 46507, IN · 61.3/100K · Elkhart County
- ZIP 30217, GA · 61.3/100K · Heard County
- ZIP 31643, GA · 61.3/100K · Brooks County
- ZIP 38849, MS · 61.2/100K · Lee County
Similar Census population (~7,094)
- ZIP 49841, MI · 7,093 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 61270, IL · 7,096 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 64158, MO · 7,091 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 72031, AR · 7,097 pop · Δ3
County detail: Fayette 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.