ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 36256

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

148
Property rate /100K (county)
1,376
Population (ZIP)
19
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 36256 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 36256 sits within Tallapoosa 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.

Tallapoosa County reported a violent-crime rate of 19 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 148 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 8 reported violent incidents across a county population of 41,311, 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.

With 1,376 residents, ZIP 36256 is among the smaller ZIPs in Tallapoosa County (#5 of 5 by population), spread across 94.86 square miles (15/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Tallapoosa County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Tallapoosa County crime page linked below.

ZIP 36256 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Tallapoosa County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 36256 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
$55,500
Median age
43.6 years
Owner-occupied homes
89%
Occupied homes
588

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

Tallapoosa County UCR book ZIP 36256 inherits

ZIP 36256 itself is about 15 people per Census sq mi across 94.9 sq mi (1,376 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 36256 accounts for roughly 3.3% of the county reporting population (1,376 of 41,311).

Tallapoosa County leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses (mix index 3,688). ZIP 36256 has no separate FBI offense book.

Tallapoosa County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -16% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Tallapoosa 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 36256

Similar county violent rate (~19/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,376)

County detail: Tallapoosa 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.