ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 35903
Etowah County, Alabama: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 53
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 17,717
- Population (ZIP)
- 13
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 35903 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 35903 sits within Etowah 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.
Etowah County reported a violent-crime rate of 13 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 53 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.
Based on just 13 reported violent incidents across a county population of 103,436, 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 35903 carries a Census-reported population of 17,717, ranking #2 of 11 ZIPs in Etowah County, spread across 68.22 square miles (about 260 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Etowah County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Etowah County crime page linked below.
ZIP 35903 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Etowah County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 35903 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
- $51,119
- Median age
- 41.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 64%
- Occupied homes
- 6,777
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
Etowah County UCR book ZIP 35903 inherits
ZIP 35903 itself is about 260 people per Census sq mi across 68.2 sq mi (17,717 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 35903's 17,717 residents are about 17.1% of the 2024 county reporting population (103,436), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.
Etowah County leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses (mix index 3,222). ZIP 35903 has no separate FBI offense book.
Etowah County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -13% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Etowah 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 35903
Similar county violent rate (~13/100K)
- ZIP 40342, KY · 12.6/100K · Anderson County
- ZIP 55912, MN · 12.5/100K · Mower County
- ZIP 68803, NE · 12.7/100K · Hall County
- ZIP 40019, KY · 12.8/100K · Henry County
Similar Census population (~17,717)
- ZIP 55444, MN · 17,716 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 78584, TX · 17,721 pop · Δ4
- ZIP 83001, WY · 17,721 pop · Δ4
- ZIP 63025, MO · 17,708 pop · Δ9
County detail: Etowah 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.