ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 71742

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

355
Property rate /100K (county)
4,799
Population (ZIP)
231
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 71742 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 71742 sits within Dallas County, AR. 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.

Dallas County reported a violent-crime rate of 231 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 355 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 15 reported violent incidents across a county population of 6,482, 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 71742 carries a Census-reported population of 4,799, ranking #1 of 5 ZIPs in Dallas County, spread across 169.39 square miles (about 28 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Dallas County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Dallas County crime page linked below.

ZIP 71742 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Dallas County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 71742 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
$36,900
Median age
42.0 years
Owner-occupied homes
68%
Occupied homes
1,536

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

Dallas County UCR book ZIP 71742 inherits

ZIP 71742 itself is about 28 people per Census sq mi across 169.4 sq mi (4,799 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 71742's 4,799 residents are about 74% of the 2024 county reporting population (6,482), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Dallas County leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses (mix index 2,825). ZIP 71742 has no separate FBI offense book.

Dallas 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 71742

Similar Census population (~4,799)

County detail: Dallas County · State atlas: Arkansas

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.