ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 36277
Calhoun County, Alabama: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 204
- Violent rate /100K (county)
- 5,531
- Population (ZIP)
- 165
- Property rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 36277 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 36277 sits within Calhoun County, AL, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Calhoun County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 204 violent and 165 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.
ZIP 36277 carries a Census-reported population of 5,531, ranking #7 of 10 ZIPs in Calhoun County, spread across 7.7 square miles (about 718 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Calhoun County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Calhoun County crime page linked below.
ZIP 36277 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Calhoun County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 36277 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
- $67,019
- Median age
- 35.5 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 81%
- Occupied homes
- 1,828
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 36277?
Within the participating-agency records for Calhoun County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 42% below and property crime is 90% 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 36277. 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.
ZIP 36277 sits near the middle of Calhoun County's ZIP population ordering (#7 of 10). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Calhoun County UCR book ZIP 36277 inherits
ZIP 36277 itself is about 718 people per Census sq mi across 7.7 sq mi (5,531 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 36277 accounts for roughly 4.8% of the county reporting population (5,531 of 116,441).
Calhoun County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in aggravated assault (54% of 430 offenses; mix index 4,137). ZIP 36277 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.
Calhoun County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +11% vs 2023; property counts -22% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Calhoun 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 36277
Similar county violent rate (~204/100K)
- ZIP 38824, MS · 203.9/100K · Prentiss County
- ZIP 65556, MO · 203.9/100K · Pulaski County
- ZIP 70776, LA · 205/100K · Iberville County
- ZIP 56633, MN · 202.9/100K · Cass County
Similar Census population (~5,531)
- ZIP 42206, KY · 5,531 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 59201, MT · 5,532 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 07826, NJ · 5,529 pop · Δ2
- ZIP 78234, TX · 5,534 pop · Δ3
County detail: Calhoun 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.