ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 71854

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

Data updated 2026-08-24

270
Property rate /100K (county)
36,148
Population (ZIP)
103
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 71854 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 71854 sits within Miller County, AR, 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: 103 violent incidents and 270 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 71854 carries a Census-reported population of 36,148, ranking #1 of 4 ZIPs in Miller County, spread across 269.7 square miles (about 134 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Miller County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Miller County crime page linked below.

ZIP 71854 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Miller County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 71854 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
$46,207
Median age
39.8 years
Owner-occupied homes
63%
Occupied homes
13,596

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 71854?

Within the participating-agency records for Miller County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 71% below and property crime is 84% 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 71854. 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.

71854 is comparatively spread out at about 134 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Miller County UCR book ZIP 71854 inherits

ZIP 71854 itself is about 134 people per Census sq mi across 269.7 sq mi (36,148 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 71854's 36,148 residents are about 84.9% of the 2024 county reporting population (42,600), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Miller County leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses (mix index 2,827). ZIP 71854 has no separate FBI offense book.

Miller County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -10% vs 2023; property counts -7% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Miller 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 71854

Similar county violent rate (~103/100K)

Similar Census population (~36,148)

County detail: Miller 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.