What is the crime rate for ZIP code 36538?

The FBI does not publish crime data by ZIP code. ZIP 36538 is located in Washington County, AL, which reported a violent-crime rate of 156 per 100,000 residents in 2024. This is the county's rate, the closest official FBI UCR figure available for this ZIP code. That figure is based on a small reported count and should be treated as a data point, not a precise ranking.

What county is ZIP code 36538 in?

ZIP code 36538 is located in Washington County, AL.

ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 36538

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

Compiled by PlainCrime

Data updated 2026-08-24

507
Property rate /100K (county): 406
Population (ZIP): 156
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 36538 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 36538 sits within Washington 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.

Washington County reported a violent-crime rate of 156 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 507 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 24 reported violent incidents across a county population of 15,388, 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 36538 carries a Census-reported population of 406, ranking #11 of 14 ZIPs in Washington County, spread across 37.36 square miles (about 11 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Washington County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Washington County crime page linked below.

ZIP 36538 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Washington County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 36538 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: $37,865
Median age: 29.7 years
Owner-occupied homes: 46%
Occupied homes: 185

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

Washington County UCR book ZIP 36538 inherits

ZIP 36538 itself is about 11 people per Census sq mi across 37.4 sq mi (406 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 36538 accounts for roughly 2.6% of the county reporting population (406 of 15,388).

Washington County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 3,070). ZIP 36538 has no separate FBI offense book.

Washington County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +5% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Washington County offense mix (2024)

Larceny-Theft 46 offenses (45%) Aggravated Assault 23 offenses (22%) Burglary 20 offenses (19%) Motor Vehicle Theft 12 offenses (12%) Arson 2 offenses (2%)

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.

Read with ZIP 36538

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.