ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 36263
Randolph County, Alabama: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 678
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 520
- Population (ZIP)
- 223
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 36263 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 36263 sits within Randolph County, AL, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Randolph County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 223 violent and 678 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
With 520 residents, ZIP 36263 is among the smaller ZIPs in Randolph County (#5 of 5 by population), spread across 24.04 square miles (22/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Randolph County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Randolph County crime page linked below.
ZIP 36263 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Randolph County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 36263 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 age
- 38.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 78%
- Occupied homes
- 172
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 36263?
Within the participating-agency records for Randolph County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 37% below and property crime is 60% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 36263. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.
Within the county, 36263 is among the smaller ZIPs by population (#5 of 5). County-wide counts are especially coarse context for a smaller postal area because most of the denominator and reported incidents may sit elsewhere in the county.
Randolph County UCR book ZIP 36263 inherits
ZIP 36263 itself is about 22 people per Census sq mi across 24 sq mi (520 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 36263 accounts for roughly 2.4% of the county reporting population (520 of 21,967).
Randolph County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 198 offenses; mix index 5,267). ZIP 36263 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Randolph County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +7% vs 2023; property counts -10% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Randolph 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.
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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.