ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 36863

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

Data updated 2026-09-05

423
Property rate /100K (county)
12,370
Population (ZIP)
75
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 36863 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 36863 sits within Chambers 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.

Chambers County reported a violent-crime rate of 75 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 423 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 26 reported violent incidents across a county population of 34,772, 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 36863 carries a Census-reported population of 12,370, ranking #2 of 6 ZIPs in Chambers County, spread across 95.66 square miles (about 129 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Chambers County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Chambers County crime page linked below.

ZIP 36863 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Chambers County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 36863 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
$46,120
Median age
43.9 years
Owner-occupied homes
71%
Occupied homes
4,458
Median home value
$105,300
Bachelor's degree or higher
10.1%
Poverty rate
19.1%
Unemployment rate
3.7%

ZIP 36863's median home value of $105,300 sits higher than 25% of the 521 AL ZIPs with a reported value, roughly mid-range for the state.

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

Chambers County UCR book ZIP 36863 inherits

ZIP 36863 itself is about 129 people per Census sq mi across 95.7 sq mi (12,370 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 36863's 12,370 residents are about 35.6% of the 2024 county reporting population (34,772), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Chambers County leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses (mix index 3,667). ZIP 36863 has no separate FBI offense book.

Chambers County 2024 vs 2023: property counts +65% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Chambers 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 36863

Similar county violent rate (~75/100K)

Similar Census population (~12,370)

County detail: Chambers 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.