ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 36532

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

73
Property rate /100K (county)
35,824
Population (ZIP)
59
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 36532 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 36532 sits within Baldwin County, AL, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 59 violent incidents and 73 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 36532 is the largest ZIP in Baldwin County by population, 35,824 residents (#2 of 23 county ZIPs), across 73.17 square miles (490/sq mi). For a full breakdown of Baldwin County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Baldwin County crime page linked below.

ZIP 36532 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Baldwin County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 36532 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
$84,886
Median age
47.2 years
Owner-occupied homes
84%
Occupied homes
14,309

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 36532?

Within the participating-agency records for Baldwin County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 83% below and property crime is 96% 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 36532. 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, 36532 is one of the most populous ZIPs (#2 of 23). Its 35,824 residents therefore represent a comparatively large share of the local population, but the county total still combines reports from places outside this ZIP.

Baldwin County UCR book ZIP 36532 inherits

ZIP 36532 itself is about 490 people per Census sq mi across 73.2 sq mi (35,824 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 36532's 35,824 residents are about 15.5% of the 2024 county reporting population (231,767), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Baldwin County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (46% of 307 offenses; mix index 4,077). ZIP 36532 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Baldwin County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +27% vs 2023; property counts -13% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Baldwin 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 36532

Similar county violent rate (~59/100K)

Similar Census population (~35,824)

County detail: Baldwin 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.