ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 63703

Cape Girardeau County, Missouri: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

146
Property rate /100K (county)
8,855
Population (ZIP)
61
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 63703 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 63703 sits within Cape Girardeau County, MO, 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: 61 violent incidents and 146 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 63703 carries a Census-reported population of 8,855, ranking #3 of 11 ZIPs in Cape Girardeau County, spread across 12.92 square miles (about 685 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Cape Girardeau County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Cape Girardeau County crime page linked below.

ZIP 63703 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Cape Girardeau County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 63703 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
$36,992
Median age
40.7 years
Owner-occupied homes
39%
Occupied homes
3,688

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 63703?

Within the participating-agency records for Cape Girardeau County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 83% below and property crime is 91% 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 63703. 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 63703 sits near the middle of Cape Girardeau County's ZIP population ordering (#3 of 11). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Cape Girardeau County UCR book ZIP 63703 inherits

ZIP 63703 itself is about 685 people per Census sq mi across 12.9 sq mi (8,855 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 63703 accounts for roughly 10.8% of the county reporting population (8,855 of 81,710).

Cape Girardeau County leans on larceny-theft at 40% of reported offenses (mix index 2,935). ZIP 63703 has no separate FBI offense book.

Cape Girardeau County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts +47% vs 2023; property counts +1% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Cape Girardeau 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 63703

Similar county violent rate (~61/100K)

Similar Census population (~8,855)

County detail: Cape Girardeau County · State atlas: Missouri

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.