ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 71842

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

139
Violent rate /100K (county)
1,962
Population (ZIP)
126
Property rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 71842 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 71842 sits within Sevier 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.

Sevier County reported a violent-crime rate of 139 per 100,000 residents and a property-crime rate of 126 per 100,000 in 2024, drawing on county-level agency submissions.

Based on just 22 reported violent incidents across a county population of 15,839, 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 71842 carries a Census-reported population of 1,962, ranking #3 of 5 ZIPs in Sevier County, spread across 68.15 square miles (about 29 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Sevier County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Sevier County crime page linked below.

ZIP 71842 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The violent-led county proxy above is from Sevier County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 71842 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
$53,288
Median age
39.3 years
Owner-occupied homes
72%
Occupied homes
738

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

Sevier County UCR book ZIP 71842 inherits

ZIP 71842 itself is about 29 people per Census sq mi across 68.2 sq mi (1,962 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 71842 accounts for roughly 12.4% of the county reporting population (1,962 of 15,839).

Sevier County leans on aggravated assault at 33% of reported offenses (mix index 2,517). ZIP 71842 has no separate FBI offense book.

Sevier County 2024 vs 2023: property counts -37% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Sevier 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 71842

Similar county violent rate (~139/100K)

Similar Census population (~1,962)

County detail: Sevier 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.